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

To be frank with you. I have more issues with Boyne, then I do with RT.

Might put off some of his acolytes on here :)

Happy days.

He mentioned before that a good few RTÉ people wouldn’t speak to him when he went back.

This was when he was back working in RTÉ after Century folded.

I'd say unlikely. His name is toxic at present, so not in the next few years anyway.

But never say never.

I don't believe Tubs has anything to offer any commercial radio station in Ireland. His audience, if he ever really had one, would be the older Irish demographic who listen to Radio 1 religiously and would be the most deposed to putting up with his unique brand of incompetent, trivial nonsense. For one hour a day at least.

Any other outfit would, like Virgin, require him to do a 3 hour show (accounting for incessant ads) and I just don't know who would be listening to a copy of his current show within Ireland only. The market is so small, he would need to hold and grow the numbers, which seems highly unlikely to me.

As I said before, Tubs is neither a journalist, a light entertainment presenter or even a music DJ. He's just an ambitious, probably fairly ruthless operator, who knew how to game a broken system in RTE to the fullest to get into the big chairs ahead of people who had genuine ability. He has been royally found out since last January when he was forced into finally flying the nest.

Virgin Media TV have really reduce their spend on TV production. They largely look for funding from the sound and vision fund (the licence fee), in house productions, and 2 returning series (Lucy and Googlebox) but little else. Pat Kenny's shows both on UTV Ireland and later on TV3 failed to gain audiences. And they have moved away from big name presenters like Kenny, Browne, Yeats and Cooper, save for Tommy Bowe on Ireland AM most of VMTV's people are staff or lesser known people, though they do try to promote TSOCS but is largely seen as an afterthought. He could take over on The Six O'Clock Show! I doubt it would improve audiences.

The jist of that article….

Kielty has on average attracted 45,000 more viewers than Tubridy did in his final season.

From September 2, 2022, to April 21, 2023, Tubridy had an average audience (consolidated) of 407,000.And over 28 episodes of The Late Late Show, from September 15, 2023 to April 19, 2024, Kielty had an average audience (consolidated) of 442,000.

The two presenters are neck-and-neck in terms of audience share, at 39pc.

These figures do not include The Late Late Toy Show for either season.

Meanwhile, RTÉ has also released figures which show that Kielty shines brightest on social media. Across The Late Late Show social media platforms, total video views for the 2023/2024 season were up 174pc — from 49.7m to 136m views. On TikTok, views are up from 5.23m to 34.66m when compared to the same time last year.

Asked the reason for the significant bump — close to 100m extra video views — in their social-media audience, the RTÉ spokesperson said: “We are delighted that The Late Late Show is reaching new audiences across all platforms. [ENDS]

Obvious that the people prefer Kielty, he seems to be building back up some of the hundreds of thousands of viewers that Tubridy lost (some for good).

Not sure why the social media views exploded, I would suspect good content is only a part of it, and more likely that there's new people working in the social media team who either know what they are doing, or who are not bone idle. If it's the old team, then they got a rocket up the backside.

I'm saying this as having worked previously for a major social media player, my experience was that most people in social media had no idea what they were doing.

he would loooove to make looove to me, a retired librarian

Whenever Kielty leaves RTE will the Boards people keep following him like they do with Tubridy? Would he get 3,470 posts about his next career? I do not follow the Late Late thread in TV. Has there been an increase in posts since Kielty took over?

Why?

Is he championing libraries now?

When he was on radio in Ireland, he'd often mention book shops, and certain ones in particular (to get free gifts?), but he'd rarely mention libraries and the role they play in society. It was often commented on in the thread how an avid book worm never seemed to go to a library.

Unlikely. Kielty is a competent broadcaster who isn't stealing a living. Maybe if he gets embroiled in some shady financial engineering to get additional unreported earnings, but otherwise he's as likely to have a boards following as Pat Kenny.

"From the moment I could read, I quickly discovered my local library and from that day to this, I’ve been a fan of the place."

Opening salvo from Ryan. Jesus. I really hope its not Ryan drafting this stuff.

" I used the computer, printed off a few articles and got myself a library card which sits proudly in my wallet."

Sure you did Ryan.

Stock photos of the library, No photos of Ryan this week. A picture of Richard Corrigan who he didn't meet. Is he on NK's books? A link to the London Library that contains the information he recites in the article (when it was founded, where it was located and its former members) An impromptu call from Mark Wogan gives the opportunity to fill space and importantly a picture of Ryan from a few months back.

Hmmmm. I wonder. NK production intern all over this.