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

Tubridy is like an expensive overrated restaurant that is struggling due to an increasingly poor reputation amongst punters.
The restaurant owner, let’s call him Noel, is having to pump more and more money every month into the restaurant to keep it afloat but is starting to feel a sense of self doubt about the general appeal and viability of the business.

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Heard him at one song interlude today. First time listening for several months. Complaining of British pronunciation of Irish surnames such as Moran and Gallagher. He said about 10 sentences, at least 6 of which he failed to finish the last word. All rushed, hard for an Irish person to understand everything he said.

It's very, very obvious what the issue is. Gerry Ryan didn't get to stay around long enough to teach him everything.

Beluga caviar appears on the menu, but Lumpfish caviar is served on your plate 🤣

He is not on the same page as the folks behind the glass controlling the feed at Virgin Radio. For example they played Marc Cohen's "Walking In Memphis". His link commenced after that at 11:10 approx. This consisted of his views on what coloured love hearts he uses when reacting on social media etc and then of course this link (like most) then shot off up to the incoherent sphere leaving the listener questioning if the presenter is taking some sort of prescription medication. The folks behind the glass seemed to purposely crash this link with Steve Winwood's "Higher Love" in which Tubridy uncomfortably cut his vocal mid sentence or they cut his mic feed.

A perfect display and of which could be used at School Of Broadcasting institutes for generations to come as an example of how not to do a radio show on a music station.

He's made a few friends the past year?

Made a lot more enemies I'd bet.

That 26% increase is a year-on-year figure. It does not account for the trend on Virgin Radio UK for the same timeslot for which Tubridy lost 300,000+ listeners, going from 448,000 to less than 138,000 listeners in "the past few months", yet they said Virgin Radio UK was up overall year on year. However, at Q102 we are looking at a more miniscule audience to begin with on what has never performed since the days of Martin Block's failed Lite FM - A Dublin 4 aimed white collar type service that would have suited Tubridy best as a sort of Dun Laoghaire/Monkstown community radio. He believes that he is a major celebrity but if the downward trend in these mammoth losses of listening share continues on its current trajectory, they will be through the floorboards by the next JNLR/RAJAR book in a few months. Again with incoherent speech, rambling off tangent links coupled with poor interviewing techniques for which he is not improving. Maybe he should take time to look for new jobs online rather than inflicting this on readers of MoS?

He is just like 99% of people on social media, pretending their life is perfect when it's anything but.

This is exactly what he is doing now.

The narrative is that he was wronged in Ireland, but despite them bad'uns, he is living it up in fashionable London, living his best life and in a huge job.

If I was a betting man I'd say little of this is true. He wishes he was back in 2022.

That's the food budget gone for the rest of the week.

What a manchild.