Sunday with Ryan Tubridy on Q102/96FM/LMFM/Live95

Nobody wants Tubridy in these parts...

Leave him to the English....

it's not no .

hardly anyone wants this, hardly anyone is going to listen to it.

i feel some bit of sympathy for the chap to be honest but rightly or wrongly, for now at least, tuberty is not a good brand in ireland.

i hope he can make a go of it in england and maybe one day he will work here again.

but until then, not build a bridge and get over it but try and fight it and maybe win.

There are only three mentions of the word "local" in the legislation. One about licence applicants having to publish something in local newpapers. Another about stations having to co-operate with Local Authorities and Gardai if they want to use stations for public information. The third refers to local communities being a consideration in the granting of licences.

Work away with bombarding CnaM with complaints. Clause (g) might be the best basis for the attack. But the legal types will probably dispute that putting Tubridy on four stations at the weekend constitutes "undue" control over or substantial interest in a number of stations.

RADIO AND TELEVISION ACT, 1988

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INDEPENDENT RADIO AND TELEVISION COMMISSION HAVING THE FUNCTION OF ENTERING INTO CONTRACTS FOR THE PROVISION OF SOUND BROADCASTING SERVICES AND A TELEVISION PROGRAMME SERVICE ADDITIONAL TO SERVICES PROVIDED BY RADIO TELEFÍS ÉIREANN; TO AMEND THE WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY ACT, 1926 ; AND TO PROVIDE FOR OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE MATTERS AFORESAID. [3rd July, 1988]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:

Determination of applications for award of sound broadcasting contracts.

6.—(1) The Commission shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, consider every application for a sound broadcasting contract received by it pursuant to a notice under section 5 (5) for the purpose of determining the most suitable applicant, if any, to be awarded a sound broadcasting contract.

(2) In the consideration of applications received by it and in determining the most suitable applicant to be awarded a sound broadcasting contract, the Commission shall have regard to—

(a) the character of the applicant or, if the applicant is a body corporate, the character of the body and its directors, manager, secretary or other similar officer and its members and the persons entitled to the beneficial ownership of its shares;

(b) the adequacy of the expertise and experience and of the financial resources that will be available to each applicant and the extent to which the application accords with good economic principles;

(c) the quality, range and type of the programmes proposed to be provided by each applicant or, if there is only one applicant, by that applicant;

(d) the quantity, quality, range and type of programmes in the Irish language and the extent of programmes relating to Irish culture proposed to be provided;

(e) the extent to which the applicant will create within the proposed sound broadcasting service new opportunities for Irish talent in music, drama and entertainment;

(f) the desirability of having a diversity of services in the area specified in the notice under section 5 (5) catering for a wide range of tastes including those of minority interests;

(g) the desirability of allowing any person, or group of persons, to have control of, or substantial interests in, an undue number of sound broadcasting services in respect of which a sound broadcasting contract has been awarded under this Act;

(h) the desirability of allowing any person, or group of persons, to have control of, or substantial interests in, an undue amount of the communications media in the area specified in the notice under section 5 (5);

(i) the extent to which the service proposed—

(i) serves recognisably local communities and is supported by the various interests in the Community, or

(ii) serves communities of interest, and

(j) any other matters which the Commission considers to be necessary to secure the orderly development of sound broadcasting services.

(3) In considering the suitability of any applicant for the award of a sound broadcasting contract to provide a sound broadcasting service in respect of an area which includes a Gaeltacht area, the Commission shall have particular regard to the preservation as a spoken language of the Irish language.

https://m.independent.ie/regionals/cork/news/cork-96fm-ceo-defends-reducing-popular-oldies-and-irish-airtime-for-ryan-tubridy-show/a1698959780.html

Anyone involved in change management will know the Change Curve

These are the steps - similar to the five stages of grief - that people go though when faced with change. Specifically regarding Tubridy's new Sunday show, we've seen the "shock" and "denial" stages played out here, and many people seem to be currently somewhere between "frustration" and "depression". This is the point that people always call for the decision to be reversed. This is normal, and to be expected. But the good news is that it's a temporary phase.

Anyone involved in change management knows that this is an inevitable hump (well, a pit) that must be worked though, that has nothing to do with the quality of the change, and is merely a reaction to change itself. After it comes the more positive phases, where people who swear blind that they'll reject the change begin to "experiment" with it. They then move on to reconciling the conflict between what they previously felt about the change and reality of how they're dealing with it, and finally move on to "integration", where the change becomes an accepted part off their life.

Different people move along the change curve at different rates. I'm not saying that you specifically will move on to final acceptance of this: some people don't mange to get up the hill past the experiment stage, and return to "depression". But on the whole, this is the trajectory people follow when faced with change. And it's the reason why corporations and governments - if they have any sense at all - don't buckle to the inevitable loud complaints of people when they're in the first four stages.

Any change needs time to bed in, and those who plan and implement changes need to take into account that any change will be unpopular with many people at first. Once the change has been given time to bed in, it can then be judged on specifically measurable metrics to determine if it was a success or not. And then decisions can be made to continue with it, tweak it, or reverse it. But it's folly to come to any conclusions before then.

I'm not giving this information to defend Tubridy or the management of the Wireless Group or the various stations. But merely to help people understand that change is a journey, and not to confuse some of the landmarks along it for the destination.

Can you share that version of the latest JNLR? I can't see stuff like that in the press release.

No, I didn’t make that flaw. Funny that you allude to people only reading the dust covers of books, because you very clearly did not read my post.

Here, I’ll help you:

No, it's a representation of the Change Curve.

A sine wave, by definition, would be a defined by the function y = sin x, and would therefore be constant in both amplitude and frequency - hence sine waves represent pure, single frequencies with no harmonics - an acoustically pure tone.

While the graph in my post is clearly not an audio wave, even if you were to misinterpret it as one due to eyesight issues, as it has an increases in amplitude, period and wavelength, it would not be a sine wave.

"Good radio" is entirely subjective.

What Wireless Group is seeking is profitable radio. The jury is very obviously still out on that front, and will rightly remain out until the evidence is in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX3R42yIZHU

Jeez, B, at this stage I’m starting to admire your, obsessive, dedication.

I wonder if Mr.Bobson could enlighten me on where we are on the ' change curve' he so helpfully told me about last January.Was there something about ' anger','grief' ' acceptance ? Just to recap,in Cork,the programme he cannabilised is number 1 with listeners on 96FM.( And ahead of all others on C103,and all national stations.It was also the fastest growing show in 2023,before all the programme changes.So while Derry O' Callaghan is in first position,there are no JNLR numbers for Ryan,with the two hours before Derry's show a complete mystery.

Perhaps you could give me a graphic representation ,if words fail you.

Will there be an Exit Package?