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

Wait now, let’s add this one into the mix.

So millionaire Tubridy who was being paid between half and 3/4 a million euro a year for more than a decade, is now inexplicably paying an agent to in turn pay both the Irish Mail on Sunday and Virgin Radio (and probably the Wireless Group stations) so that he can work for them all for free (but is also getting sponsorship from Paddy Power) while living in London - but also while owning a house in Dublin.

Oh, and he’s scabbing free laundry detergent from Vogue Williams.

And then there’s also posters here being paid by Kelly to post - not even positive, but just not constantly negative - things about him.

But not only does Kelly have this magic porridge pot of money to spend on Tubridy for no financial gain, he also has a magical ability to bend the will of even the biggest media organisations in the world to do his not-for-profit bidding - all while being just a jumped-up chocolate salesman with a two-bit hack for a client.

Keep up the creative writing classes, lads, that’s all I can say. The plot has to be somewhat believable, but you’ll eventually get there 🤣

Back handed boot licking of NKM. It is notable how even those who pretend not to like Ryan Tubridy have no criticism of NKM. The opposite in fact.

For someone who presents themselves as calling balls-and-strikes, the idea that these relationships between agents and TV companies, even by poor little chocolate salesmen, is suprising. I don't believe its altruism on NKM's behalf. NKM is only doing it in the hope to make more money, nothing more nothing less.

Well, of course, Ryan has further stories to tell about the Cadbury salesman and best to be seen to represent.

If, as we all agree, Tubridy is such a woeful broadcaster, how is NKM going to realize a profit on his supposed investment?

The strategy has paid for itself already, thousands of time over. Not only for Ryan but for the coverage given on the prime media slots for NKM stablemates. It was very clever from NKM. The idea of the sponsorship would cost NKM little, I would assume. Likewise gaining access to a weekly column. Using already well established rolodex of contacts. Of course we know how good NKM is at hiding what is being actually received by his clients, so looking at his books are unlikely to reveal anything. Maybe you are right, maybe there are other reasons why he has to show loyalty to Ryan.

How will this strategy pay for itself in Tubridy's case? For Noel Kelly to make money, Ryan Tubridy must make money. Most of us who post on this thread agree that Tubridy is crap. Many suggest that he won't last long in his current gig. What gigs is Tubridy likely to get that will be lucrative enough to guarantee a worthwhile agent's fee?

Now, I don't know if NKM will be trying to negotiate a scheme to offset his voluntary pay-cut for solidarity in COVID any more. Or go to the bother of not invoicing through his own company. He isn't worth that level of investment any longer. But he is still worth something. Maybe Gregor can put him his change management model again. At some point in the future, he may have established his audience and be a friendly face to NKM stablemates with any soujorns across the water.

Of course, it might have just been Dee Forbes (and RTE) that believed how much NKM talent was worth.

If that's the case we'll that's his own fault. No one forced him to move to the UK.

He could retrain as a history teacher if he's genuinely interested in that. His alma mater, Blackrock, might even give him a gig.

You still haven't said how you think Noel Kelly is going to make a return on the investment you said he has made in Tubridy's current gigs.

How do you think Noel Kelly will make a profit on this investment?

You haven't, but that's not a crime either.

Are you suggestng that I'm trying to distract from Tubridy's predicament?

I think he's still trying.

Could you quote your post where you set out how you think NKM is going to make a return?

I'll have to take your word that you really believe that you've answered the question that I asked.

Because Tubridy has a radio gig and a newspaper column and is thus earning fees.

And you think Tubridy sourced these roles himself without involvement from NKM?

They just sit back and take 15% or whatever their fee arrangements are.

NKM takes no active involvement in discussing working towards better more lucrative options for Ryan?

What does NKM trying look like to you?

Tubridy and NKM are playing the long game on this. That gig in London is seen as a short-term pain for a longer-term gain. Both ultimately want Tubridy to end up behind a microphone in Ireland, earning a high wage. Ideally, that'd be back in RTE but time will tell if that happens. NKM and Tubridy made a lot of money from his success in RTE so why wouldn't the pair work towards that outcome again? The 2nd best outcome is for another Irish station to hire Tubs and pay him well. They might be thinking of how well Pat Kenny has fared on Newstalk since leaving RTE.

If Tubridy had received any job offers worth entertaining after leaving RTE, he wouldn't be in London right now. It also makes sense to have him in London while the RTE controversies continue to rumble on. Those will eventually go away and the media will lose interest. In the meantime, Tubs hasn't really gone away. He can still be heard on local radio stations and is in the paper every Sunday. It'd all be going well if he hadn't proved to be surprisingly inept once he was removed from an RTE studio. I don't think anybody expected him to be exposed in the way he has.