Ray D'arcy on RTE Radio 1 **Mod Warning post 1** 27th Jan Forward

jenny only briefly worked on the show when Ray moved to RTE, a for year or 2 I would estimate.

Dublin Jim: Yar Only Man!

Jim finds he's constantly in luck even though everything goes wrong for him, he's now end up as the Dublin GAA Team and as luck would have he leads them to victory but now that he's in Leitrim things take a turn for the worst. Comedy On One

Forbes Family

The fall and rise of a Cork Dynasty. Fresh from UCC young Dee escapes to London and into advertising industry. Set in the Irish community of the 1980s London, the series shows the building up of a pub and shop in a West cork town, juxtaposing her Grandmother's struggle during the Civil War with her struggle during the recession of the early 1980s, by the 2010 Dee is at the top only for ruin due to rival forces at the patriarchal House of Coveney. Drama on One

Tubs and Tiles

A tiles sales man ads are the sparking the imagination of Dublin. Tubridy Tiles was suffering until the announcement of a new podcast, soon the hilarious and often poignant series leads to a massive spike in sales. But can the dream last as Granddad Andrews is furious at some of the deals being made. Drama on One

They hate Ray D'Arcy in RTÉ they will never have him back. Probably won't even have a cup of tea with him :(

how many listeners/subscribers will he need to equate to the 250k RTE were paying him?

Your telling me you wouldn't have agree to that kind of money that RTÉ was handing out :)

A few times over the last 3 or so years Ive thought about doing a weekly youtube channel thingy. Research in the area has suggested you should do a minimum of ten, ideally at least twenty episodes before your first episode, so that if something comes up and can't do a show on a given week, like Bridies Christening is in 3 weeks and I know I'll not be in a suitable state for your viewing pleasure 4 days after it, you have an episode to release.

A daily podcast is a different kettle of fish. Some days there will be massive earth shattering global phenomena, and other days there will be nothing to report. He'll have to ramble on for an hour about whatever pops into his head. On the one hand, there is no-one more suited to that kind of format. On the other hand, a podcast is not the same as just flicking on the radio to whatever station it's usually tuned to and listening to Ray ramble. A podcast has to be sought out, looked for, found, subscribed to. How many people are going to put in that effort to listen to Ray ramble?

I'm a 25 stone, 6'10" truck driver and I had to pull over to cry about this news. I'm now dancing in the cab and don't care who sees me.

These so called superstar broadcasters who Rte paid vast sums of money for over the years are suddenly finding out that without the teat of Rte to suckle at, they are not in demand.

Instead they look around for jobs, and find the only thing open to them is doing a podcast or YT show. To add to the millions of podcasts out there already, what do they believe they bring new to the genre that is going to make people make the effort to tune in?

Ray is a bit of a bore. Hes a 61yr old grumpy white man, so unless he uses that as an angle for his show, I feel this could be an embarrassing thing for him to try.

Its already been shown that his much more famous 52yr old ex Rte giant cant bring in any more than a few thousand views. Ray would be better looking at early retirement. Hes done well with his limited ability, move over and let the younger ones at it.

The boy got lucky early on…..wise council is always…..don’t push your luck.

Uhmmm…. I was a Daithi Lacha dude myself.

I’m sure he could in theory do both - maybe the €50k a year from Rte doesn’t seem so bad now ?

Is there any particular production company or distributor behind it ?

The Jenny and Mairead shows seem to be a Bauer Media distributed…

Ray D'Arcy seems to live off the "fame" from The Den 35 years ago.

He's out in the open now.

Obviously no UK or other Irish broadcaster wanted him. Again underlining the ridiculousness of the salary he was getting.