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

I listened to Callan today, doing a little bit of waffle, play a song, then chat to an author, and just thought to myself that our Ryan must be absolutely kicking himself as to how he has royally fdcked up his career.

That would have been him in his element today, earning really east money for very little work. Plus he could have been finished by 10am, abs been out walking in the sun by 11am, with the rest of the day his own.

Instead he is away from home, probably paying huge rent, working until 1pm, for so much less money.

What a mess he made.

It would have been NK who organised and then advised him to take the dodgy payments. So he surely must be trying his best to get back on Tubridys good side now. Dont think it will be too long til they part company.

Yes. A little bit of contrition and humility at the time and it could have been oh so different. He relied too much on his agent and probably should have sought other advice at the time.

Even until the last few moments with Kevin Backhurst, it was salvageable. I pity the fool, as Mr. T used to say.

Now, based on those RAJAR numbers, he carries the stench of failure - something they don't prepare you for in Blackrock College.

He sounds as if he's having a breakdown.

I tuned in for the first time since January out of curiosity.

After EMF / Unbelievable, Ryan launches into a book recommendation (Hagstone by Sinead Gleeson). Despite it being a recommendation, he says "let's read the blurb" which is an odd way to sell a recommendation.

"I hear the siren call of the West of Ireland calling me back, even for a break"

Careful what you wish for.

Not in my head he's not, haven't thought of the tosser till I saw an article that his audience had fallen from previous incumbent.

Life lesson in the big bad world for Tubridy where you have to survive on merit.

I wonder how would his radio show have gone if he had kept his mouth shut. Even though the RTE scandals are no longer getting the airtime they did, none of it has really gone away. Would his position have become untenable if he'd stayed on Radio 1? Would he have lost listeners?

I’ve always had the impression that Bakhurst became increasingly aware of the full cost of bringing Tubridy back as the weeks ticked along and into negotiations.

The public mood was mixed but internally it was said to be far more negative towards RT. Then when it was agreed to put the issue to bed and RT continued to try to score points against RTE KB knew that Tubridy was a complete liability and had no choice but to cut him loose and let him unleash his crazy talent abroad.

They would have had to sort out a completely new team for him, consisting of people who had little previous interaction with him, maybe newer people who were still making the tea in the back room.

They all took pay cuts while Ryan lied to them about talking a pay cut. You also have to remember RTE only pays the big bucks to the talent and management, the rest of his team would be on a fraction of his money.

did RT ever attempt to “make amends” with the production staff colleagues and people he deceived for years in RTÉ?

Or did he act as if nothing was wrong?

WOW. The balls on this guy.

Didn't work that way for civil service and anything tied to civil service wages. Higher % cuts at the top that were unwound last.

Made hiring for certain pegged skilled roles very difficult.

wow, RTE really have their finger on the pulse. Or were they thinking, sure we’ll leave it up, he’ll be back in no time.

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/ryan-tubridy/

I think we're in agreement but talking about two completely different things in case this wasn't clear - I'm talking about the official RTE viewing figures while you're talking about the reality.

Yes, I'm questioning the validity of the methodology that produces the official figures.

He sounds as awful as he does now as he did back then in 2003. The fact he got away with playing any of those artists at length just proves the mess that RTE is - no idea who they are broadcasting to and no respect for format. He continued to output the same blithering, incoherent speech rambling and pointless car crash links on 2fm as he is doing now. Tubridy has never had any "best work" as he simply does not work.

It was Tubridy getting his way like a spoiled little brat - doing his own little 'JACK FM' and playing whatever HE wanted. It must of been disheartening for other folks at 2fm in proximity to see the freedom this little nepo babe was getting due to his connections at the top of RTE's food chain and also for what is supposed to be a CHR driven music radio station?

RTE nepotism taken to the stratosphere.

I think it the only in fairness that we can give Tubs that and Tubridy Tonight, weather we like it or now.

The Full Irish boosted 2FM's radio show (I stopped listening after he started waffling about how more students were considering arts degrees over science and IT), never really watch Tubridy Tonight but it was something different for RTÉ, however he desperately wants to offer his guests some sweets from the jar of sweets under his table!

My thinking is that he thinks the different things he did on 2FM and RTÉ1 is just the right format to try on the British public.

BTW Tubs ramblings are a way to copy Gay Byrne, Byrne might go through the headlines and at the end something might pop into his head and he'd do this thing where he knowingly ramble for a bit and the move into the break, Tubs flitters like this constantly with no regard. He reads the head line "Kings new red portrait" ….. Have you see it ! I mean come on !, its a floating head just there in the middle of a vast red back drop… I don't know if you have seen the Irish Presidents portrait now that's classy… like the days of old … Can you imagine Cary Grant wearing that?…. I mean come on .. and another thing the red is very like the wrapper to the special K bar packets you know the ones … yeah there was a girl up in Donegal went viral for wearing clothes like cleaning products … Donegal if you have been you know you know " Producer press next on the playlist.

Everything with Tubs has been and is a projection. Nothing is genuine

This.

This all day, week, month, and all fcuking year long.

The only thing genuine about the man is that nothing about him is genuine.

Alongside a photo of him looking all Hugh Grant-y, the magazine gushed: "He should run for political office, he's that charismatic. 

Yes, they are actually talking about Ryan Tubridy…. The man who's currently 'broadcasting' to less people in the U.K. than he broadcast to previously in Ireland, in a country with about 12 times the population of Ireland…. a man who can barely string a coherent link together in-between playing Ed Sheehan & Taylor Swift songs… (even Irish people can barely understand what he's on about most of the time)…

The man who just released (to great fanfare) his long awaited (and in some quarters long demanded) book podcast featuring some of heavyweights of the literary world… "which is apparently doing huge numbers on YouTube (you know, kids n stuff, mp3's downloads, napster, internet)"..

• Ep1. 4k views (1 month)
• Ep2. 1.6k views (4 weeks)
• Ep3. 1.2k views (3 weeks)
• Ep4. 1.3k views (2 weeks)
• Ep5. 0.6k views (1 week)
• Ep6. 0.1k views (12 hours)

The man who, although technically didn't do anything wrong, and was still in a very salvageable position (go into PAC, say sorry, go back on air, say sorry, give back the €150k, and eat a bit of humble pie) still managed to balls it up so much that he ended up where he is now…

Mr F_[king Charisma eh…?

My breakfast has just come up😔