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

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For a presenter and a radio station that is supposedly trying to improve their listenership figures - What did they do today? After 12:25pm they brought in one of The Times obituary editors and discussed death. A guest discussion which cascaded into a depressing extended link for Tubridy giving him opportunity to drop in Lee Harvey Oswald, question the editor about savoury and unsavoury obituaries and obituaries over shadowing other obituaries.

Oh Jesus, this is supposed to be a feel good radio station?

Virgin Radio UK AND it's presenters are receiving thousands of messages from the UK listener indicating that the show is utter tripe and they hate him and his only purpose on air is an attempt to appeal to an Irish audience which according to a Virgin Radio source - that is not working either.

It seems that the PD is asleep behind the controls of a runaway train at speed heading straight for a terminus station.

Edging ever closer to grave edge of his career.…

re EASONS - one Saturday morning I was in a branch of easons and they were playing the Tubridy podcast ad over the sound system.

An older very respectable looking lady let out a string of industrial strength expletives and loudly told the staff behind counter “God preserve us and save us - will ye turn off that feckin eejit!!!”

They complied with her wishes!

Can’t imagine a millionaire with a public profile, a happy personal life, a UK wide prime radio slot, and a podcast is wondering where it all went wrong.

You’d imagine some of the people turning on the wireless to hate listen to his show might be thinking that alright.

Virgin Radio UK is not nationwide in coverage - the SDL covers 83% of the UK - the assistant PD is unable to hear it properly in his car, in his hometown and in the home counties.

The word from sources at Virgin is that they are unhappy with Tubridy and that he is on probation - if he doesn't improve ratings they will address it. But look, that's senior hurling.

I don't think many people here are bothering to turn on the radio to listen to him for long, Bobson. We're enjoying the soap opera and know that this experiment is going to end in tears for your golden boy. As for the rest of it…he's only a millionaire because RTE vastly overpaid him for years. His radio slot is far from the prestigious thing you say it is - and it looks like his audience figures are poor. The podcast isn't setting the world alight. Yeah, he's really doing well for himself.

It's notable that none of his defenders have anything to say about his actual show. The comments are mostly along the lines of "Look how successful this man is, you jealous hate-listeners". We've all heard him on the radio and everybody is making much the same comments. Many of the comments are constructive criticisms. He would be in a far better place now if he had taken them on board. I bet if I was to replay that Gift Grub sketch from January, it'd be as relevant today was it was 6 months ago.

This is interesting because someone was suggesting that 2FM should become a sport radio station, look at how low down sports are for radio listeners.

170k a year for a radio show is decent, but it’s not exactly spectacular either. I make almost that myself, and I don’t have to deal with people recognising me, abusing me online, or having to read about myself in the papers. You get paid for your profile and brand, and not always for your time.

And sometimes you get paid for the results you produce, a position Ryan is in for the first time in his life.

And i have to admit, the way he's gone about absolutely tanking the listening figures for the timeslot with his bizarre Oirish immersion heaters & Superquinn sausages paddywackery strategy on a UK show is incredibly impressive.

It's part of the new brand he's making for himself, alongside the shady underhand dealings/lying self-publicist thing he's got going on.

the one from a few months back? Surely it’s time for a new one !