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

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That's what an agent is for: to have industry contacts. This only shows the worth of having someone like Noel Kelly on your side, like him or not.

Do you think other sponsorship deals just happen by accident?

This whole line of thinking that the Paddy Power sponsorship deal - one of the most marketing savvy companies in the UK - is somehow and indication that thing aren't going well for Tubridy is, frankly, laughable.

The gambling industry is insidious.

Some of the documentaries I've seen on it over the years are scary.

I switched off Limk 95 after the 10 am news today.

Both Claire B and Miriam far superior to RT

I agree tubs has effectively distorted the former rte management and any credibility they may have had.

Their hubris has been their undoing.

But while bakhurst talks of 400 jobs to go either voluntary redundancy or otherwise, unless everyone from the top down is singing off the same hymn sheet, things won't change.

I appreciate the man came into a new job and doubtful he saw the sh$tshow that was to come.

Or in her shed, if they're looking to cut costs...

I don't get the want to have the LLS remain after PK stint.

It's it so important to this country or to the watching public?

It seems to always be the same formula. Same rotation of guests.

The demographic of viewing public is changing. The older generation who would have watched it religiously are dying out. Do younger people brought up on a diet of streaming and access to everything on the net really want to watch the LLS in the coming decades?

Personally thing it should die a quiet painless death and let rte admit that this country doesn't have access to the celebrities needed to keep a 'talk show' going.

I know I don't watch it. Haven't since the early 80s and have no interest in doing so.

And don't get me started on viewing figures. Where they pull the numbers of viewer/listener figures from for tv or radio shows is a mystery to me😃

I never watched it in the Kenny or tubridy years, but I had enjoyed Kielty gigs over the years. He can read a hall the way the other two never learned how to.

I actually found myself for the first time in my adult life feeling disappointed it wasn't on last Friday, and that's only because I enjoy Kielty.

Will it survive after Kielty? If it doesn't no loss.

The Orish appears to have been turned down a lot, from what have heard this morning. Talking about (free) museums, local pubs and walking around Soho with his daughter. Delightful that he was recognised and photo requested a English Native...

Probably, he has now gone back to Orish mode, as a caller talked about the Young Scientist Exhibition.

This format will make Tubridy a star , his problem on rte was he had too much airtime , now when he has said the main banter they cut to a song and he doesn't have to waffle himself out

Has he started to move past being Irish yet, or is it still all about being Irish and Ireland again this week?

If so, he's probably not intending this to be a long term gig and has little interest in making it big in the UK. Its a stopgap until RTE believe he has served his time and he's brought back in. And if RTE do that, its curtains for RTE and licence fee revenue.

He was asked for a recommendation for a person who is not really into reading. The book he recommended (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), was one that he did on his book club on Radio One more than ten years ago. He did the same thing a few years back when asked what is his favourite book. He answered 'Never Let Me Go', which was also part of that book club.

Considering that the book club only lasted for about a year and included maybe a dozen titles, it's odd that he's still almost exclusively picking them as his favourite books over a decade later. Makes me think that he's a spoofer of the highest order when he calls himself a bookworm. Also, he didn't pick those titles for the book club on RTE, so it's not like the were his all time favourite books. He read them as part of his job. He seems to love short books, that are only one hundred pages long.

Not yet, but perhaps NK is working on that.

To be fair to him, books are like music in that you don’t, necessarily, recommend your favourite book, or album, to someone who isn’t that into books or music.

They could probably run it through a Sterling barter account, they would have the know-how for this already

yep open the other thread so things are back to normal.

The toyman was getting some roasting over there.

I thought the Paddy Power sponsorship was going to start this week, but heard nothing in the half hour or so i lissen to today. It appears he has been told to crank down both the Orish and talking speed. On his first day Tubbs as gasping for air between sentences.