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

I'd argue that Jenny Z doesn't really have a brand outside of RTÉ. Doireann is iffy on that one, but time will tell.

She has a lot of name recognition. The Two Johnnies have an existence outside RTE and their decision must have come as a bit of a surprise to RTE management. With Tubridy, people always think "RTE" and many now associate him with the payments scandal. The spike in audience figures for Doireann Garrihy and Vogue Williams is a good indication of the influencer effect.

Regards…jmcc

Jesus christ what kind of headline is that - I thought Paul McCartney had passed away or something had gone terribly wrong on his tour. It's very unnatural. Why not just "Saddened to Realize I May Have Seen Paul McCarney in Concert for the Last Time", would make a lot more sense. Westerners go to Argentina all the time without any special event being on, if he really wanted to see him he could easily fly there but he couldn't be arsed.

Also how rude of him to say "one last time before he gets too old to tour". I googled it to see if there was talk of it being his last, maybe McCartney had said it was probably his last tour - not at all. He actually said the opposite: "Paul said he isn’t retiring so it’s probably not his last. As long as his health allows, he’s going to continue touring and making music".

https://extra.ie/2024/06/23/entertainment/ryan-tubridy-beatles

from the barter account, no doubt.

Wasn't Jennifer at TodayFM, isn't that where she made her "radio bones", so to speak? She was Jennifer Maguire back then

Ryan Tubridy has said he has “no escape” from fans as he is recognised by people all over the world.

The 49-year-old broadcaster told RSVP Live that he has been noticed while on holiday abroad. "I was in Iceland, and a guy went, ‘Tubs, welcome to Reykjavik!’ I’ve gone to some strange countries and there’s just no escape.”

"The Late Late Show is quite a thing,” he continued. "New York is hilarious, I’ve been to New York and in the subways, I get, ‘What are you doing here Tubs?’ I’m actually okay with it and I love my job so it’s fine."

https://m.sundayworld.com/showbiz/irish-showbiz/ryan-tubridy-says-there-is-no-escape-from-fans-as-he-is-recognised-all-over-the-world/152416679.html

Isn't Tubridy's problem that he is not wanted, especially in RTE? :)

Regards…jmcc

And at the end of that article Tubridy even talking about how much he wants to travel and see the world, less than 2 years ago.

"I made a promise to myself after the pandemic finished I said I’m going to travel and I’m travelling and I’m enjoying it," he said.

"I found the pandemic very heavy going, like everyone else, and I want to see the world and I want to run."

Now's his opportunity. If he's crestfallen then why not go - it'd even give him new material for articles as well.

https://www.argentina.travel/en/about-argentina/news/paul-mccartney-in-argentina-when-he-plays-and-how-to-get-there

A go-fund-me on the radio forum for Ryan's travel adventures would probably keep him in round the world trips for the rest of his life.

If somebody else was paying for the jaunt, he'd be first onto that plane.

What's puzzling me is the comment that McCartney is only touring in South America. He's playing in London and in Manchester at the end of this year and those dates were announced by the time that comment was published. The asking prices for some of those tickets is beyond ridiculous though. You'd nearly be better off flying all the way out to South America instead.

You're right, it was announced in the media six days ago: https://www.nova.ie/paul-mccartney-announces-2024-uk-and-european-tour-251495/

Tubridy must have been planning/writing this article since before his last one was published, and liked the idea of how he was so crestfallen, that he would miss Paul McCartney's final tour because he's a bit old and no doubt won't have any more, and didn't even bother… oh my god - oh my god my sides, I'm getting wheezing laughter, if I'm found dead you know who to blame.

…he didn't even bother to correct it a week later before putting it in one of the biggest Sunday newspapers in Ireland. Probably he'd be looking for overtime to fix it before going out to thousands and thousands of people. And like that would be interesting information, like a piece of trivia, how Paul McCartney decided to end his touring career like that in just those three South American countries, shows how you can't trust Tubridy for even the most basic of information.

Terry Prone has a piece about RTEs fall from grace in todays Examiner and Bryan isn't spared..

It looks rundown and disrespected, rather as if a tsunami went through it, just a year ago, although that’s what actually happened. Tsunamis, unlike hurricanes, don’t get names. If they did, this one would be named Ryan Tubridy.

Later on in the piece she really lays it on him

But if the Tubridy payments had never been made or discovered, none of the rest would have happened. Unintentional causality must be laid at his door, and what was caused was a broad-spectrum disaster with startling implications, not just for broadcasting, but for public accountability and for the workings of the houses of parliament.

It's a fair piece but the concluding musings about RTE's present role compared to its past stop short of admitting what the core problem is. Before radio and then TV the verb to Broadcast meant to spread seed, whereas the internet is as revolutionary to the forming, sharing and dissemination of ideas as the printing press was in its time. Broadcasting is the giving and receiving of information, the internet blurs the lines between receivers and broadcasters and legacy media simply can't compete with it.

Bryan keeping his youtube comments closed is as luddite as it comes.

his audience of 100 people on virgin radio wouldn’t probably justify the promoters giving him a freebie