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

That's narcissism on a different level.

Instructions to the illustrator, "I want the little boy to look like me, and make me the journalist too".

Slightly sad and creepy.

His brother Niall is a also apparently a leading Neurologist.

That used to be quite common you know - the favoured son would become a doctor, and the idiot brother would be sent off to work with RTE.

Money.

Perhaps there's also a bigger picture with the Wireless Group (Virgin Radio's owner) wishing to sell its Irish radio stations and needing an Irish name to make them more attractive to a buyer? Virgin gets the advertising revenue and Q102 gets an ex-RTE presenter for much less than the previous RTE management thought he was worth. And guess who owns Virgin Radio, Wireless Group and The Sun and The Times?

Regards...jmcc

Or the Gardai 🙂

Would you consider that a lot of "conceptual" art is the product of low-talent chancers and is aimed at people who wish to be considered sophisticated? :) (Vaguely remember a monkey's artwork being passed off as that of a great artist and fooling quite a few art critics.) Wonder what Tubridy thinks about Aristotle's second book of Poetics?

Regards...jmcc

I can imagine Graham thinking everyone I interview has some work behind them with which I can talk to them about in front of the UK public. Where would he even start with Tubs in front of a UK audience?

"Hi everyone, this is Ryan whose Partygate style backhanders were found out so now he's slumming in the UK until he thinks it's safe enough to crawl back to his old job."

Not true. I bought a copy of a JMcC book, must be almost 30 years ago!

Jaysus the defenders are out in force. The cheques must have cleared

What’s happened to @Pintman Paddy Losty and @Sunny Disposition ?

Why does everyone seem so confident that Tubridy will have ANY chance of a future career with RTE ?

How could that be justified by anyone at RTE ?

Unlike RTE, Virgin Radio is a commercial radio station and it has to cover costs and make a profit. It has no licence fee to help it along so it primarily works on getting advertising and sponsorship. With Tubridy, Virgin got an established name even if he was just an Irish broadcaster with little UK visibility. The interesting thing is the part of the deal that has Tubridy's slot syndicated on Q102 and other Wireless Group (News Broadcasting) stations in Ireland.

There has been a lot of takeover activity in the Irish radio market and the Communicorp stations were sold a few years ago to Bauer. There have even been sales at a local radio level. Tubridy's main value is not to Virgin Radio but rather in the syndication deals with Q102 and the other Irish stations. He may have been worth the salary he is being paid by Virgin Radio if he can boost the listenership of Q102 and the other Irish stations. He's working longer hours for less money than he was getting in RTE.

It might seem to be a bit of a gamble for Virgin to put Tubridy on right after Chris Evans but if people are listening to the slot rather than the presenter, it might not lose a lot of the audience. The important thing is that the advertising and sponsorship for the slot remains healthy. If Tubridy helps build the figures for Q102 and the other Irish stations, it would make them more attractive to a buyer but it might also bring in more advertising. Perhaps he will get some of his fans to switch from RTE to Q102. His old slot on RTE seemed to get more listeners after he was replaced. The next few RAJARs and JNLRs should show if the gamble has paid off.

If he's a success for Q102 etc (their figures go up and the RTE and others figures go down slightly) then it might make more commercial sense (for Virgin Radio's and Q102's owner) to move him sideways back to Ireland and reassign the Virgin Radio slot to a UK presenter. It could take six months to a year to see if that's what will happen.

Regards...jmcc

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