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

Tubridy could be playing Senior Shinty? :)

Regards…jmcc

The cronyism at RTE has not stopped either - there are hundreds from Joe Duffy to Aidan Leonard to Rick O'Shea etc. who will be carried out of Montrosia in that proverbial brown box.

Tubridy may have a hard time getting a job at a hospital radio station if he contaminates the Virgin Radio brand and RTE will not want him back as he is an eternal poster boy for overpayments and RTE greed.

The fantastic thing about these appalling figures making it into the public domain is that all control of the situation is lost -

When the inevitable 'Have you considered your future with VR Ryan, because we don't really see it if we're being honest' conversation happens - Noel's little spin monkeys could have laid the ground with -

'Tubs mum's heartache missing her son', We hear from an emotional Mrs T in the Irish Rag

''Anyone can suffer homesickness…", reveals Ryan Tubridy in a frank and touching interview with Evoke

"Ryan Tubridy refuses a three year contract with VR as his heart is in Ireland", an emotional Tubs confesses in a Irish Daily Mirror exclusive

See the stern of that vessel way out there on the horizon…that's the - MV PR Control

weak and repetitive.
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Your heart not in it any more?

Understandable

Since about 2018 myself and a slew of other posters had identified the reality of Tubsidy’s broadcasting talent or lack thereof, and were confronted with gaslighting type responses by Friends of Tubsidy .

Threads in any way critical of Tubsidy were complained about, and there was a certain narrative accepted by a certain status quo and you breached it with trepidation.

This cohort of early critics have been thoroughly vindicated, but we had to wait because this is How Ireland Works

This is clickbate from Evoke

https://evoke.ie/2023/06/13/entertainment/soaps/10-surprising-fair-city-facts

Go on you want to click it to read what they have said about the audience numbers

On average, 550,000 people tune in to Fair City every night, which makes it the most-watched drama series in the country.

The series even rivals its British counterparts Coronation Street and Emmerdale on Virgin Media as viewers around the nation tune in every

Apart from the launch episode which brought in over one million viewers the most-watched episode to date was aired in 2001 and saw Billy Meehan being killed by Lorcan Foley.

This is not an up-to-date figure they are using.

Home and Away back in the day was getting 300k of an audience!

It first airing on RTÉ ONE has 90k to 100k and RTÉ2's later showing has 40k to 50k, while its often the top most watch show on the RTÉ Player. That brings them close to that 200k figure at least (not to mention the +1 showings of the show, and its omnibus editions). It'd be interesting to know how well each of the tradition soaps are doing across TV and online.

From some newspapers I think we are estimating between 50k and 100k, TBH at this point this is not really what matters IMO

After this Virgin fiasco, any salary for Tubridy as a radio presenter will seem too much. It's he who should be paying the company to put hims on air....

To think he could still be in Montrose hoovering up €180k pa for sweet FA, if only he could have engaged with reality and made a humble apology. I bet he wakes up in cold sweats about that little folly.

Multiple places

I wanted to see if there were any improvements or changes made to the presentation of The Ryan Tubridy Show from my last experience so I just listened to the first hour as the format of the remaining next two will be copied exactly.

Each hour consists of about 7-8 links for which the overall sound is just a mess, no seamless integration from music into presentation and presentation into music - very erratic. There are too many links containing unnecessary content generated by Tubridy and examples of the presenter not finishing his words - for instance mentioning Saturday as Saat, taking breath and then quickly charging onto another trajectory. He doesn't appear to have the ability to mix his audio into the opening of a song which may contain music at its start and end his link in sequence with the beginning of the start of the songs vocal. The end result is a harsh sounding -segmented presentation. The show is a poor attempt to fit a square into a circle and I don't believe that there is anyway that this show could actually attract listeners.

He is now talking about Roy Keane's dog. I'm out.

The Irish Independent's "well placed source" says £50,000 to £80,000.

The Business Post's "well placed source" says £50,000 to £80,000.

Buzz.ie quotes an "insider" saying: “His profile just isn’t big enough in the UK, but he could be taking home between £70K to £100K."

So it has been reported that the speculation is that he would be paid between £50,000 and £100,000.

With such awful listenership figures, you’d have to wonder if Noel “Duck Egg” Kelly is considering jettisoning the former golden child Tubridy now???

You can believe what is reported or you can't that is up to you.

As it is a commercial for profit company he is more than likely on a base payment at the reported 50k and the rest is incentive based on listenship and advertising take up since he is not a recognisable name in the UK marketplace he would have to earn the higher end by bringing in the listenership and advertising revenue to prove his worth to that compnay.

However you are again fee to believe whatever you want believe.