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

Christ that’s 15 hours a week plus maybe 2 at the weekend! 17 hours and a few hours prep. I just hope he’ll cope with long hours like that in the long term!

Weekends on LMFM!!!!!!

I wonder what the Q102 schedule will look like with this change.

It seems Tubs is now working for the lovely Murdoch family's News Corporation now. Nice!

Probably not too different.

Breakfast with Aidan and Venetia 6am-10am.

Ryan Tubridy 10am-1pm

Andy Preston 1pm-4pm

Liam Coburn 4pm-7pm

Or something to that affect.

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 🙁

Wonderful news.

What a man. And what an agent!

Thankfully, being good at your job, and looking after your clients, won’t be an impediment in the UK

He is on Q102 10am-1pm weekdays which will be a simulcast of Virgin Radio UK.

This is the next step in networking that we've seen creep in, what has up to now been networked from Dublin, could going forward end up networked from further afield.

It's hard to say - his stock was very low when he went out into the market looking for new work, and was definitely approaching any negotiation from a position of weakness. One would expect that the likes of Virgin commercial managers are not pushovers like Dee Forbes. In any case, as we are not paying it doesn't matter. From RTEs perspective though, it would be interesting for them to know what the open market rate for their best star ended up being.

One thing for sure though is that he will have to work a lot harder over there, three hours every day is a lot of time to fill and keep interesting at the same time.

As I said, he's got a great slot and is punching above his weight with it. The problem with that though is that if you don't quickly step up, you will get clobbered.

He won't get a better chance to become an internationally successful broadcaster.

I have wondered will the current 10-1pm shows on Cork 96, Limerick 95 & LMFM be in time replaced with Tubs show?

Best of luck to him. He's a good presenter and hopefully this works out for him. Certainly don't begrudge him getting this gig

Terrific news. Means we’ve finally seen the back of him. Norton and co must be quaking at the thought of being in his presense!!!

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...

Fair play Ryan, watch all the begrudgers jump on him again.