Disappointed now what will i bitch about “not paying that license fee to pay that cunt tuberitys wages”
The podcast suggestion might work. Tubs will need to heel turn and become incredibly right wing, take cuts off rte at every chance and say they push a leftie agenda and lied about covid, vaccines etc. Himself and Ewan would be box office and challenge Brolly
Tubs is a free agent now. You’d imagine the BBC and ITV could get get into a bidding war now.
BBC NI maybe
RTÉ Radio 1’s Morning Ireland remains number one with 440,000 listeners
LAURA SLATTERY
Brendan O’Connor’s Saturday morning listenership on RTÉ Radio 1 has overtaken the audience for Ryan Tubridy’s weekday show in the latest Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR) survey.
Mr Tubridy’s listenership was broadly stable in the months leading up to RTÉ’s decision to remove him from the airwaves after it admitted understating his pay over several years, the survey reveals.
The Ryan Tubridy Show had 334,000 listeners in the 12 months to the end of June, a period that included the build-up to his final edition of The Late Late Show, which he hosted for 14 years. Compared with the previous survey covering the year to the end of March, the presenter’s listenership has dropped by 1,000, the research indicates, though this fall is well within the margin of error for the survey.
As the research is conducted over a 12-month rolling period, RTÉ’s move to take the scandal-hit presenter off air and replace him with Oliver Callan from June 23rd will not have had a meaningful impact on the figures.
Mr O’Connor, meanwhile, now has 338,000 listeners on a Saturday, up 11,000 on his audience in the previous survey, making his show the second most listened-to in the Irish radio market behind Radio 1’s Morning Ireland, which saw its audience rise by 3,000 to 440,000.
Mr O’Connor has 323,000 listeners on a Sunday, up 4,000 since the last survey.
Gains and losses
Elsewhere, there were modest gains and losses for Radio 1 shows, with the station’s standout performer being Sunday Sport. Its audience surged to 181,000, up 29,000 since the last survey, as the GAA All-Ireland championships drew listeners to its coverage.
On RTÉ 2FM, Drive It with The 2 Johnnies is now the station’s biggest show, having added 10,000 listeners, bringing the audience to 140,000. In the morning, 2FM Breakfast with Doireann, Donncha and Carl now has 138,000 listeners, up 3,000.
Today FM put in a strong performance, adding listeners in all its key weekday slots. Mid-morning hosts Dermot & Dave recorded an audience of 216,000, up 11,000, which is the highest listenership enjoyed by this slot in many years. The show, presented by long-term partnership Dermot Whelan and Dave Moore, came to an end last week, with Mr Whelan opting to depart radio to pursue other career interests.
Ian Dempsey was another JNLR winner, adding 13,000 listeners to bring his tally to 221,000 at breakfast.
Today FM’s third entry in the top 20 programmes on Irish radio is Weekend Breakfast with Alison Curtis, which has 185,000 listeners on a Saturday, up 6,000. The Last Word with Matt Cooper has 174,000 listeners, up 6,000.
Minor slippage
On Newstalk, which like Today FM is owned by Bauer Media Audio Ireland, there was minor slippage in the listenership of some of its weekday peak-time shows, but The Pat Kenny Show was an exception, rising 5,000 to 179,000.
In the afternoon, Sean Moncrieff also added 5,000 to reach an all-time high listenership of 103,000.
One for the unpopular opinions thread maybe but I actually like Brendan O’Connor as an interviewer
I cant fucking wait for the day when Howiya Joe Duffy gets fucked out the door of RTÉ.
‘rolled’
Bakhurst thinks it’s possible that Tubs may take legal action. Hopefully he does, it would be good entertainment.
It’s hard to see a commercial station paying him to do an hour a day, that’s only really something RTE would do.
Tubs not coming back “for now.”.He might get a gig on lyric if Marty or George die.
I enjoy that thing where they sit around and discuss the papers. Is that the whole show or what?
That’s what you are dealing with. The stupider the better
Holy shit. That’s a cast of seriously annoying fuckers right there.
I don’t know.
I actually enjoyed his tv chat show. It wasn’t the vacuous nonsense of the Late Late Show of having a new book out.
You could put the death notices on in his slot and get the same audience.
They shafted him and replaced him with D’Arcy
Dermot off into the sunset with record numbers. He’ll celebrate with some chawklit tonight @gilgamboa
Please rte don’t waste money on paying Tubs but please rte do spend a fortune on legal fees
Contributor (not some Joe soap on a vox pop) on RTE now just compared this to Saipan
I don’t think I expressed an opinion on whether RTÉ should continue to employ Tubs or not. For clarity, I do think he’s a cunt though.