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

Is there a dedicated thread to rte culture?

Feels like there should be. This thread is about tubridy, but it was via rte's gravy train culture that he's elevated far above any discernable talent as a tv/radio host.

Been going a few years now :)

Back to topic! Is anybody listening? Either via Q102 or via Virgin? Is he in fact putting on listeners or having a marmite effect? The overwhelming majority of comments I have viewed both in The UK + Ireland are of the sentiment "I listened for 20 minutes on day 1 / pick any day and I won't be listening again / back to Vernon/Ken/ Sunshine... Nova respectively.

Will that Q audience be + or - the estimated 41,000 it had before this exercise began a few weeks ago when the JNLR for that slot is totted up in February? And how well are the UK audience taking to him? If incoherent heavy accented garble, in-jokey Irish-isms that are old hat and incomplete thought structures is a new style of radio we are about to discover how successful it can be for a TSA of 64+ million people on DAB perhaps?

Me FM - Where you are never more than a minute away from another namedropping reference / US political reference / book recommendation / art gallery review.

Real Alan Partridge stuff.

Regards...jmcc

Quite correct. Imagine coming out with the statement "I've never been to Australia" and this is live on air not on some Adrian Mole style diary musing. For someone who is meant to be such huge global superstar and omnipotent fountain or oracle of all knowledge what a crass admission to make.

Usually people try a radio show for a week or two and adjust their listening habits accordingly. I fail to see how this appeals to Mary in Finglas doing her ironing or Mick in his Taxi. It was the fail that Lite FM (now Q!) had when it was too white collar and "culture vulture" back in the early 00's. Talking "down" to your audience will result every time in losses of listeners. For a Dublin only show its too generic Irish and "into de wesshhht" and as a UK show it stands up as some pop up or opt out St. Patrick's Day Parody stream and not relevant to the mainstream. If Ken Bruce spoke with a fast Glasgow accent in coloquialisms some Scots might understand and yarned on about books, museums and lectured parents on giving kids mobile phones how far might his success have been at Radio 2 or GHR? Or Vernon Kay done an "Up North Only" focused 3 hours on R2 where else might the audience of 8 or 9 million have tuned?

Has he mentioned the Toy Show yet?

He used to give it a mention at this time of the year.

No traffic in this thread today. Has everyone had enough?

Definitely slowing down.

I've yet to hear a single second of his Virgin show, just haven't had the interest, despite this thread.

I can't be bothered tuning in either. I only ever heard his RTE radio show in waiting rooms etc. Even that made for tough listening at times because he seemed to have become increasingly insufferable over the years. I was curious to know what he would be like on a British radio station and if he'd change his style at all. We know the answer to that now. I'm pretty confident that if I was to listen any day this week it'll be more of the same. The only things of interest now are how long he'll last in London and what new tricks NK has up his sleeve. I'm sure there are fans who are happy to hear him back on the air. Most of us, I suspect, are looking at this and enjoying the drama. It is a great tale to be fair. How a limited broadcaster made it to the top of his profession and messed it up through hubris.

As someone who has helped pay his wages for years, I can't say I'm unhappy that RTE presenter pay has come under the microscope. If he doesn't do well in the UK, it's going to make those arguments for inflated presenter pay look increasingly hollow. I don't want to see anyone living in bedsits living in pot noodles but sanity has to prevail.

When the NK stops astroturfing threads like this then it's over. Ryan will ring Noel and Noel will reply "new number, who dis?"

Yeah I definitely won't be even accidentally dialing in, the station is a stretch too far for me 😀

He must have killed everyone with his joke. :) We'll have to start referring to his show as "The Alan Partidge Project". (With apologies to Alan Parsons.)

Regards...jmcc