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

It might also be that fame, especially in Ireland, has a kind of half-life and the more that someone like Tubridy is out of the public's eye, the faster the public forgets about him. He had the LLS until last March and the radio show. Of these, the LLS was the most important. Without any more television appearances (apart from the Oireachtas committees), he dropped back to radio level prominence. His show was still a on a national broadcaster. He was dumped from that too.

He was off radio for about six months and has been off TV for almost a year. There's been no appearance on any TV programme in Ireland to explain what happened. There's been no appearance on any UK TV programme. At best, he's on local radio in Ireland and has a weekly column in a small Sunday newspaper. He was lucky to get the Virgin Radio gig but the longer he stays in the UK, the more that the Irish TV audiences will forget about him.

Regards...jmcc

And so are the remaining RTE management. :) They've already saved about 100K on his move to the UK.

Regards...jmcc

Well it was telling that just a few weeks ago on the LLS Kielty introduced fellow chat show host and Virgin Radio presenter Graham Norton.

Tubridy had just started at Virgin and was not even hinted at during the entire interview.

Would that not be "an upturned Tuttle"??

Three months. Previous quarters figures are only just out.

Same for the Q102 and regional weekends here

So Q102 is totally automated now on Bank Holidays?

Maybe Ray D'Arcy was doing a nixer.

You need a full year to make any absolute statements from them. The stations get the quarterly figures though, not for publication

I'd say the next figures have a use, but would not absolutely determine Tubs' future at Virgin. There will be soft data that will add to that, like poor social media engagement, the lack of diversity (on so many counts) of callers/texters, & the active negation of ordinary listeners by creating an 'pseudo-elitist' hub of Tubs definition of 'nerds' for his 'nerd herd' club/bus. The sheer promotion of that, which is just a vehicle for his own ego, will isolate more listeners than it will gain.

What will also be on the mix is Tubs' compliance/resistance to programme format, & any suggestions VR make re links. Already the links at 10 & 50 mins past the hour are sharper & shorter. Then at 20 & 40 mins past, they are long & rambling, mainly discussions with callers, about books as a facade to talk about himself, which he does ad nauseum. That tells me there's been a finger wagged at him about this issue, & the short & long links are a 'compromise on trial' re format. Because his ears are too hard to hear that listeners aren't interested in him boiling his Argos bought kettle, or collecting his service-washed smalls on a Monday evening. The jaw dropping red riding hood act of 'what wonderful buildings & buses & bookshops you have O London' only amuses himself & Mammy Tuttle.

However a few weeks ago when first on the air & he encouraged listeners to ask questions, he was asked where to go in London for a good Guinness. His chosen pubs were all tourist holes & not where those living in London drink. Looking at his social media trivia, & where he isn't photographed, I feel the Irish celeb diaspora who are based in London, aren't inviting him into the inner sanctum.

London will be lonely for him, & also anonymous- with more freedom than Monkstown & D4. I'd say once NKM's 10% of £80k runs out on puff pieces, & policing social media comments, RT will perhaps be quietly socialising with those living a 'pink' lifestyle. And so he should.