RTÉ admits paying Tubridy €345,000 more than declared

20-30k??? I'd say he has a loyal fanbase of around 1,000 bourgeoisie mammies, young and old, who like reading shallow booky-wooks, and who think Tubs is an all round nice guy and an intellectual that they can relate to (he is after all a heavyweight author: check his instagram - Patrick and the President, The First Christmas Jumper, and his magnum opus JFK in Ireland). They won't pay for content. They want their names read out on live radio, so they'll stay with RTE. Having said that, it would be interesting to see Tubs do something where the massaging of figures can't hide his lack of popularity.

“Kevin is playing with fire?”

Are you for real? All the key commentators have said over the weekend that Ryan’s star will fade the longer he’s out of work and away from the public. Life and listeners/viewers will simply move on and it will be harder to come back.

If Ryan makes money on podcasting, then wonderful but it’s unlikely he will - furthermore just because someone listens to a Ryan podcast doesn’t mean they don’t have their radio tuned to RTÉ at 9am- you do know that you can listen to a podcast at any time?

Ryan has very little to offer listeners aside from his ramblings - I’d doubt there’s any more than a few thousand people who’d pay to listen to a Ryan podcast and that would drift to a few hundred after the first few weeks

That podcast is self funded, don’t know the listenership figures but it seems to do very well globally with the Irish diaspora and just general sports fans.

€5 a month with thousands of subscribers so I don’t doubt they make a very good living out of it.

Tubridy might be a bigger name here but I’d seriously doubt he could get anywhere near their listenership. He might get some subscribers in Ireland but unless he produces a hugely successful show it’s highly unlikely he’ll be well known outside of this island.

Dermo and Dave, Dermo has just left recently so they are change the format, I didn't think they had changed the name.

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But it's so much fun to insult his fans. Anyone who likes Tubridy is automatically not my type of person, so I will have nothing good to say about them.

It would actually be a lot of fun watching Tubs try to come back with a podcast and failing miserably, but he's too cute to do it. He'll have to get in with a radio station somewhere; he has absolutely zero appeal for a mass listenership on his own, and deep down he knows this. Hospital radio perhaps? He's in Blackrock, pop down to Vincent's. I think his brother works there so he could probably get him in, and get the hospital to pay him half a million as a paediatric consultant bringing joy to terminally ill children with his inane banter and toys that somebody else paid for.

God, I'm toxic today :)

all the articles in the weekend papers were saying that there’s no room in the schedules of the commercial radio stations and that margins are tight so they couldn’t possibly pay close to what Ryan is currently on.

Does he take “anything” in the time being just to stay in the spotlight? Can’t see him doing that.

A new researched book is probably the one thing that might get him back on the circuit but even then, would he go on an RTÉ chat show to plug it? 😀

Would he do the unforgivable and write his autobiography? I really hope not and anyway, someone writing their autobiography at 50 is just ridiculous but many do it.

Isn’t it incredible that the guy who took over TLLS really doesn’t have a broadcasting home to go to?

Besides his retrospective on TLLS, Gay also had The meaning of life and also his lyric Sunday radio show which suited him just fine, playing music he loved and doing the olde requests. The fact he was still revered by many meant his shows were always popular but they were quality within themselves too.

Pat Kenny went back to his true love and total comfort zone- current affairs and interview style chat.

Ryan was never “known” for anything particularly unique before TLLS- now that he’s without that support, it must be quite a shock to him.

I could see RTÉ saying in a few years time, “we don’t have any vacancies right now for Ryan’s talents”

Yeah totally- I remember Kielty back in the day- you’d class him as a comic entertainer most likely- he’s hosted shows, has done stand up - he’s quite skilled - I’m really interested though as to what new changes will be made to TLLS- you could get the best presenter in the world but it could still fail if the format wasn’t right.

Okay - let's work it out then, shall we.

The Ryan Tubridy Show had 334,000 listeners in the 12 months to the end of June this year. 5% of those downloading his podcast would give him an audience of 16,700.

Now for earnings, I have no personal experience, but a quick Google suggests that revenue from podcasts varies from $20 to $100 per 1,000 listeners. I'm going to be generous and assume Tubridy would get €100 per thousand downloads.

Thus, Ryan would earn €1,670 per episode. Let's say he works harder than he ever did at RTE, and releases a weekly episode every single week. Ryan now has an income of just shy of €87k.

Of course, he will have had to buy equipment, rent a studio, hire a researcher, and then pay tax. So he's take home will be a lot less. And bear in mind, I have given him the maximum income rate.

So, no. The notion that he'd "make way more" on a podcast with just 5% of his listeners is nonsense.

Black belt in Haiku, that fella.

It’s the children. He couldn’t possibly leave them and go abroad !

I'd say it would be largely personality driven, with occasional guests. If I was close to Ryan I'd be trying to convince him to do it, and keep the format he was so successful with on Radio 1. I would say it's very likely it will happen, unless RTE have quietly told him he'll be back next year.

I know some people won't like to hear this, but the success of such a podcast is a certainty, he's just too popular for it not to succeed. Tbh I think most people know Ryan isn't gone for good, that he will resurface and be successful again sooner rather than later.