Ryan Tubridy joins The Wireless Group - Thread bans in opening post

Delighted for him

Hopefully his enormous salary doesn't affect his soul like his last job

Thanks to the shareholders of The Wireless Group for taking over the financial burden from the Irish Licence Fee fools.

He'll have four Rajar surveys to make it a success.

Same show for UK and IRL audiences? really?

Only Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Louth and Meath will be able to hear his show... not Galway, Waterford or the rest of the country

You're posting on the internet so you know it exists.

Anybody, anywhere will be able to hear the show that's if they wanted too.

I know I won't as I just don't see his appeal as a broadcaster.

Look I don’t wish him bad luck with this and do hope he lands in his feet. I don’t want to see anyone left without a living. It’s a fact though that he did present a pretty poor show on RTE five days a week and was pretty abysmal as a TV presenter so he has an uphill struggle ahead. Not withstanding all that, I wish him well.

He was massively overpaid....as has been shown by the fact the figures in his slot are up since he left.

I wont be listening but hey for those who enjoy him grand stuff.

Where are you from?

Whatever about the weekend network show across the Irish stations, I wonder how C na M feel about a primetime networked show from another country - one that isn't even in the EU at that - being broadcast on Q102?

Anyone that comes on tv every Friday night with a sad face begging for money off normal families while publicly claiming to be doing his bit all the while being topped up on the QT to prevent him from actually doing his bit is a dick, pulling a dick move and based on the evidence of him being in possession of a large sum of money that all agree should be returned due to work not being done, being on the take is not an outlandish description.

It’s a weekend show for the Irish stations I think

YES .. on Q102, Cork 96, Limerick 95 & LMFM for a show at the weekend. BUT will be on Q102 Dublin all week from 10am-1pm simulcast

"Ryan Tubridy is returning to radio with a show on Q102 in Dublin and Virgin Radio in the UK from London.

He’ll be on-air across the two stations from 10am till 1pm weekdays, following Chris Evans on Virgin Radio UK and Aidan and Venetia in Dublin."

So despite tripling his weekday broadcasting hours, he still needs a weekend gig to supplement his income. I suspect he's found out his value in the open market was nowhere near what he was being paid by RTE.

Did he jump or was he pushed?

Ireland one again loosing its best and brightest to foreign shores 🙁

You’d have to presume that Tubs is making more coin as a result of this gig than he was in RTE. Showed some amount of stoicism in fairness. Didn’t respond to all the cranks and naysayers.

From The Manics to Michael Bublé

He's already brought up two dead people to agonisingly get to some kind of morality tale in that X clip.

Best of luck to Virgin listeners Mid Morning :)

He got a great slot filling in mornings the Graham at the BBC and didn’t manage to name more out of it. Hopefully he’ll be more successful this time

Will he have a virgin toy show on air.

"God in a hoodie."

Jesus wept.

Yip realise that, and thats the case for the moment. If it is a big success on Q102, one could imagine a simulcast also on other Irish Wireless Group stations - Cork 96, Limerick 95 & LMFM - is a possibility?

I did say "in time" in my sentence on this :D

It would be an interesting thing? A UK + IRL daily Radio Show live broadcasted in both Jurisdictions with callers from both Jurisdictions.

From what little I know I would have thought Virgin's profile was a bit younger & poppier than Tubs? I guess he can tailor his schtick, not so much Dean Martin and Tony Bennett, the way he presumably did when he moved to 2FM...