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150KTubs - future career in Virgin Radio and other soulful pursuits **Mod: Read OP**

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,916 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,756 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    A drop of 0.1% while 11% of virgin listens TSA is well within the margin of error for such a study. Nothing can be reliably concluded from just one set of numbers when such small percentages are involved. Many more sets of results are needed to identify a trend.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,246 ✭✭✭yagan


    As long as his slot is sponsored by Paddy Power I can't anything changing, unless he gives up voluntarily.

    The public mood seems increasingly to be moving against the gambling industry for targeting vulnerable users via internet, so tubs risks being further exposed for his historical preferential treatment of the industry when he was an rte host.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭nonetheless


    Hope this answers some of your questions or at least provides some clarity as to how Tubridy fits into the figures.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭nonetheless


    Regardless of what one's opinion of Digital Spy may be, other folks are noticing a trend as to where the slot is being broadcast from come end of week.

    Post edited by nonetheless on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭hawley


    Within five minutes I was on stage with Noel as he captivated a vast audience with his inspiring tales of kindness and hope. There were tears! After that, it was back to London and pretty much straight to bed. A new experience for this 51-year-old and all part of my adventures in London. Who knows where the autumn will take me…

    Watching the Republican and Democratic conventions recently left me bedazzled by the sheer show business of it all (Hulk Hogan for one crowd, Stevie Wonder for the other). But I was also reminded of the nearly lost craft of oratory.

    My first festival at 51. But it was straight to bed when I got home It’s been a while since I heard a quality speech being delivered by a politician anywhere in the world, let alone Ireland where the standard of public speechmaking by politicians is hardly golden!

    America-wise, in my lifetime, former Presidents Obama and Clinton stand out as gifted speakers who held vast crowds in the palms of their hands. At the recent DNC, my faith in political speechmaking and delivery was strengthened with tour-de-force turns from Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Hillary Clinton and both Obamas who set the auditorium alight with soaring rhetoric that only comes along once in a generation.

    Add to that the star power of the guests on stage and the Hollywood-level quality of stage production and here was proof that politics doesn’t have to be dull and exclusive to those who would love to be involved but feel it’s for other (not much craic) people.

    https://extra.ie/2024/09/01/entertainment/celebrity/ryan-tubridy-festival

    Before I got to see who were the brilliant orators, I guessed that they'd all be Democrats. Who cares about policies, when you can have soaring oratory and emotive speeches? Apparently this is what we need in Ireland, plus more celebrities and Hollywood star power. He has managed to become even more detached from reality since moving away.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭GSF


    second childhood. But at least he’s not missing his bedtimes



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 743 ✭✭✭Mr Disco


    genuinely thought that was a pisstake until I saw the link…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,521 ✭✭✭jmcc


    This was interesting:

    "A new experience for this 51-year-old and all part of my adventures in London. Who knows where the autumn will take me…"

    Perhaps plans are afoot to dump him from Virgin Radio on to Q102/etc. Given the way that FF is recruiting celebrities to run for the Dail, would they even bother with Tubridy?

    Regards…jmcc



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,246 ✭✭✭yagan


    Arent fianna Fail targeting former TV personalities to stand for them in the next election after the Cynthia nihoullahainwin?

    Does Bryan realize that slating who the public elects is derision towards the public?



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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,733 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    If my diction was as bad as Tubridy's - considering that this is a man who has worked on radio and tv for a long number of years - I don't think I'd criticise others for their speech-making skills, or lack of same.

    I don't think we have any great orators in government or opposition at present, but people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, in my opinion.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,923 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    he’s really trying to push his own narrative that he’s some sort of intellectual, when in reality he himself has the oratory skills of a walrus that’s high on meth,



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    Just to update you on Tubs podcast on You Tube

    C. Ahern gained between 0 and 99 views

    Horowitz gained 55 views

    Welsh gained 179 views

    Walliams, Williams, Howard, Keyes, Cox and Garrihy got between 100 - 199 views over the course of the last month

    Boyne gained between 200 and 299 views

    Noel Fitz gained between 300 and 399 views

    But the star of the podcast is Andrea Corr who gained between 900 and 999 views over the course of august, and she is nearing ever closer to Walliams on 5200, with a total of 4900 views to date.

    It will be interesting to see how these go with the launch of the second part of this series.


    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,923 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    the literary world eagerly awaits with bated breadth..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,881 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭Bellbottoms


    What an odd thing.

    It is bonkers. So bizzare. It just an odd collection of humble brags and projection. With no solid throughline.

    For contrast look at someone like Moncreif. A solid column every week, which are usually thought provoking and relevant. Tubs is more akin to "I did this, I did that, then everyone told me I was the nerdist, bestest boy. And ya know what they were right"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55 ✭✭top floor


    Just to check. Who is the Noel he is referring to?

    Kelly? Gallagher? someone else? ……

    Post edited by top floor on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭nonetheless




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭Hyperbollix


    As the person who brought up Magan in this thread, I have to ask why it is you are making the false assertion that my problem with Tubridy is that he's some elitist snob and Magan is the perfect antidote to this because he is just 'a man of the people'. I never implied anything of the sort…

    It's obvious that Magan and Tubs are from the same gene pool. The point I was making is that Magan is the real deal. He is the €50 note with the watermark while Tubs is the monopoly money. I've no problem if Magan has never swallowed a belly of pints, dominated a doner kebab at 3am or never graced a GAA pitch of any description. He is who he is and he's very comfortable in his own skin. This rubs off on all manner of people he meets on his travels. He is worldly, well read, curious, engaged and not obsequious or insincere. The polar opposite of the main man himself.

    I vaguely remember Tub's Full Irish radio show back in the day. I even kind of liked him back then. Probably because this was in the days before Noel told him to assume the persona of the pseudo intellectual, old fogey. He was more himself back then. A vapid, celebrity and fame obsessed disk jockey who's level was talking inoffensive shíte and spinning disks while telling people the time 6 times an hour. Sadly for us all, Tub's believed himself better than that.

    He wasn't.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    @Hyperbollix

    I vaguely remember Tub's Full Irish radio show back in the day. I even kind of liked him back then. Probably because this was in the days before Noel told him to assume the persona of the pseudo intellectual, old fogey. He was more himself back then. A vapid, celebrity and fame obsessed disk jockey who's level was talking inoffensive shíte and spinning disks while telling people the time 6 times an hour. Sadly for us all, Tub's believed himself better than that.

    As I have said before in fairness to Tubs he gained an audience for 2FM's breakfast show after the show had declined following the departure of Dempsey, that decline was only really stopped by him and Breakfast Republic, nothing else seemed to stick.

    Even Tubs Tonight wasn't a bad saturday night show and was slightly different to Kenny Live.

    No idea what happened him after those shows, he always seemed bored on TLLS as soon as he started presenting it.


    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭Hyperbollix


    Agree completely. I don't have any bad memories of Tubridy Tonight. It seemed to be a suitable light entertainment only affair which contrasted well with Pat Kenny's Late Late Show. I seem to remember Tubs as a decent host of that show and have no recollection of watching it thru my fingers from behind the sofa, which was the norm once he started playing Senior Hurling at 9.30 on Friday nights. It was like a switch flipped and he went from a capable if limited presenter to this awful mawkish, insincere Alan Partridge tribute act.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,675 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    That state-of-the-art home recording studio was really worth it…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 743 ✭✭✭Mr Disco


    Ah I’m sure he’ll be soon crawling back to Eire like a greasy weasel….



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Sunny Disposition


    Strong rumours this week that Ryan will be back in Dublin post Christmas, with a major national radio station. Great news if true, will be a serious blow to RTE.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,728 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Newstalk?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,726 ✭✭✭mountain


    great news, as long as it’s a commercial station, let them employ and pay him what ever they want.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,521 ✭✭✭jmcc


    No links. No sources. Forgive us if we find your claim somewhat difficult to believe.

    Regards…jmcc



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,521 ✭✭✭jmcc


    There was one show with Brendan O'Connor bawling about how his property "investments" went pear-shaped. He got a TV show with RTE afterwards and was better than Tubridy. He's a bit of a gobshite but there is a sincerity about him and he displayed a genuine interest in his guests. Since it was getting more viewers than Tubridy's LLS, RTE cancelled it. Apart from that, Tubridy is strictly light entertainment compared to Pat Kenny. Kenny really is much smarter than Tubridy and was able to hold an audience when he moved to Newstalk after RTE refused to renew his contract.

    The figures on Kenny's old slot on RTE radio didn't change significantly. That may indicate two things. The first is that the time slot is the real star. The second is that many "listeners" are passive listeners who don't actively select the programme to which they listen. Callan has done well on RTE in Tubridy's old slot and has, I think, increased the number of listeners.

    No national Irish radio station or TV station wanted Tubridy after RTE dumped him. That toxicity of his brand due to the 150K ensured that he has been off national radio in Ireland for over a year. Commercial radio is quite different from the bailed out monstrosity of Montrose. If a presenter isn't bringing in listeners and advertising, they generally get replaced. There are probably people in RTE wondering why RTE hadn't dumped Tubridy sooner. Kielty seems to have brought the LLS back to life.

    Regards…jmcc

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,307 ✭✭✭Tow


    When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,246 ✭✭✭yagan




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,955 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Any links ?

    Or did you magic up these “strong rumours”?

    usual Duck egg Kelly BS generator?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,454 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    I don't think boc was cancelled for surpassing the lls. It was to give their new high value signing Ray darcy a job.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭Terence Rattigan




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,521 ✭✭✭jmcc


    O'Connor's show was edging out the LLS in viewer figures (from what I remember). The LLS was RTE's flagship programme at the time. I think that D'Arcy's show was later. Either way, both were RTE mistakes.

    Regards…jmcc

    Post edited by jmcc on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,119 ✭✭✭Expunge


    Good move by Noel to move him on before the stink of failure at Virgin sticks to him for good.

    Ireland AM co-presenter for fifteen grand a year, like the rest of them, probably.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,474 ✭✭✭jippo nolan




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,916 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    Go awn Sunny, strong rumours where?

    The sniff of 150k will follow him forever.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭Bellbottoms


    Do you means Virgins The Bookman and host of the world renowed Book Podcast. Professional nerd and "young" old foggy.

    What is this about 150k.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,454 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Ah I'd believe it, he could be a bargain for someone



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,521 ✭✭✭jmcc


    And he can work from home because he's got a state of the art studio. :)

    Regards…jmcc



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,273 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭fplfan12345


    My heart always sinks when I see a flurry of activity on the thread and it’s not about Tubridy paying the money back.

    He said he would pay it back. Why hasn’t he paid it back ? Was he just lying ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭RoTelly


    Have the confirmed that he will be hosting from Dublin on Fridays from now on?


    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭hawley


    Tubridy's daughter works for a company owned by someone on the board of RTE. All these people are just laughing at the public. Think that we're all beneath them. Tubridy will be back on RTE within the next two years, probably on Lyric.

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    ______

    Just one more thing .... when did they return that car

    Yesterday



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,246 ✭✭✭yagan


    Would this Montrose ecosphere exist without the tv license?

    Probably not.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 928 ✭✭✭z80CPU
    Darth Randomer




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,923 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Looks like theres a job in accounts there for King Nidge Noel if the super agent thing ever wanes…



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭hawley


    I listened to about an hour of the show today. There's now a woman in the background, who laughs at his "witticisms". A person sent in a text saying "I have you in my pocket", and Tubridy commented "I must be very small", to which the lady in the background convulsed with laughter.

    The music on the programme is all over the place. I was listening on Q102. They finished a song, two-thirds of the way through, took an ad break and came back half way through the next song.

    Still receiving most of his messages from Ireland, almost all Irish sounding names, but he leaves out location, unless they're from England.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,834 ✭✭✭GSF


    What the singular of posse?



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