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2FM’s big names like Ryan Tubridy have continued to lose listeners, according to the latest Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR) audience figures published this evening – with Tubridy’s listenership now at an all-time low.
Listener numbers to Tubridy’s two-hour 9am show on 2fm now stand at 175,000 – losing a further 11,000 listeners on top of the 16,000 he had lost in the previous quarter.
His audience is now less than half of the 363,000 peak audience he had enjoyed on Radio 1 before his move to fill the slot vacated by Gerry Ryan; Ryan’s listenership stood at 303,000 in the last figures released before his death in April of last year.
Station manager John McMahon said he was confident that “ongoing work we’re doing to improve both Hector [Ó hEochagáin]and Ryan’s shows, and indeed every show on 2fm, will pay dividends over time”, but conceded that there were “changes that have to bed down fully”.
The station did not release audience details for Ó hÉochagáin’s ‘Breakfast with Hector’ show.
Its veteran Larry Gogan performed strongly, however, with his Golden Hour adding 7,000 listeners to 85,000, while the Colm Hayes Show also added listeners.
RTÉ Radio 1 remains the country’s most listened-to radio station, with 18 of the 20 most popular programmes on radio, as Morning Ireland remaining easily the most listened-to radio programme in the country.
Its listenership has fallen slightly, however, from 460,000 in the last quarterly update to 454,000 in today’s data.
Liveline is the second most popular programme with an audience of 398,000 – though its audience is also down, by 2,000.
Many of the station’s daytime shows saw their audiences fall slightly, though they remain increased on the same period from last year.
Today FM consolidated its status as the country’s second most popular station, with Ray D’Arcy’s audience up by 16,000 listeners to 228,000 – further widening the gap between his show and Tubridy’s to 53,000 – though the RTÉ star’s show is an hour shorter.
There were also modest gains for Ian Dempsey and Tony Fenton, who both gained 1,000 listeners each, though Matt Cooper saw his Last Word audience fall by the same amount. Ray Foley’s lunchtime show fell by 4,000 to 141,000.
The station’s chief executive Willie O’Reilly said the station was “in a growth phase” and was winning listeners which had previously been held by opposing stations.
His Newstalk counterpart Frank Cronin said he was “delighted” with Newstalk’s performance, which sees it break the cumulative barrier of 300,000 listeners per day.
Its Breakfast show now commands an audience of 115,000, closing the gap on the station’s most popular show The Right Hook which commands an audience of 121,000.
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RTE need to wake up here tubridy has not the mix for the show full stop.
Tubrity has the Gravitas of a plank. An MDF plank at that.
That’s unfair, a plank can be put to some use.
Does everyone have to be called a plank?
Jaysus “sheelagh” you are on to this now that FF gallagher has lost the election
Is that Brian Featherstone?
Agreed, Moncrieff is one of Ireland’s best broadcasters. Tubridy has even poached some of his regulars in an effort to fix his train wreck of a show.
Agreed Huey, Moncrieff is a first class broadcaster whose success is based on talent and hard work and not, unlike Tubridy, family connections. How many generations of the useless, workshy and dense Andrews clan are going to be inflicted on the nation?
Moncrieff is good, but not great in his present slot-he’s the only option in the afternoon to be honest-Gareth is stuck in 1995 (lose the applause O’ Callaghan, you are NOT Steve Wright, and your studio is not filled with happy clappers either!), the chap on 2fm who talks too fast and sounds like Ray Cokes on MTV about twenty years ago does my head in, and the less said about Mooney, the better.
I reckon Sean has two full time stealth contributors, one English and one from the US, who, together with their wives pretend to be different people, because every time I tune in, he’s got someone from either part of the world, peddling something, and they always sound the same. Or else Paolo Tullio talking about food and making me hungry.
Ryan Tubridy is yet another first class example of how far the right family connections will still get you in Ireland. Those figures are catastrophic yet RTE seem to think they can rearrange the deck chairs. Were RTE a purely commercial enterprise Tubridy would have had to clear his desk by now. Were RTE a purely commercial enterprise I wouldn’t care less that they’re carrying dead wood like Tubridy, but it really is an insult to the general public that this pampered and talentless pup is going to get to continue to stuff his pockets every week with money confiscated from the general public.
Tubridy is a very good broadcaster, not my cup of tea though. Suggesting that there’s some sort of nepotism is unfair and suggests that he is without talent and this is untrue.
It is also unreasonable to compare anybody who follows in Ryan’s footsteps with Ryan himself. He had a huge personal following.
Tubridy is in the wrong slot and, to be frank, I’m doubt that 2FM will find another broadcaster that will achieve the numbers that Ryan was doing.
On a point of information – Staff at RTE are paid from income generated from commercial advertising and the licence fee. There is no money confiscated from the public to pay them.
You’ve said it all for me!
@Brian Daly, and the licence fee is voluntary now is it?!
@Brian_Daly “On a point of information – Staff at RTE are paid from income generated from commercial advertising and the licence fee. There is no money confiscated from the public to pay them.”
The license fee is money confiscated from the public.
Used to really like Tubridy on 2fm morning show years ago, less so on radio 1 but now his show is all people complaining about recession related woe and him being condescending to them. I’ll listen when he rewinds his style but until then Tom Dunne on newstalk is much better listening.
Good. Any danger he’d disappear up his own arse? (Where he spends most of his broadcast time).
Waste of (air) space.
News Talk Tom Dunne & Sean Moncrieff are head & shoulders above RT & work hard to entertain & genuinely are interested in their Jobs the likes of Ryan & most of Mont Rose reminds me of a person who just has to turn up do a half assed job & still get paid ……He will be responsible for the death nail of the Late Late no harm & morning chat….RTE has to throw hard cash make you text & sit their through the complete & utter tripe just so you can take the call to collect the cash in the hope you can now pay for your licence fee & then put food on the table
half assed job & still get paid …. Plus don’t forget their so overpaid that they have a HUGE sense of self-importance and think that we all live for their pearls of wisdom!!!!!
2fm is done for, done diddly un for.
Well my listenership figures went up! Noctor till 6 on WLRfm.com 4-6 pm. Great chat and great music. What more do you want?
Entirely down to the quality of your sometime political pundit ;) Congrats!
Well done ian! ( coyne)
Nice one Ian. Blaa fm’s best ex national news jock
Thanks all. Please get all your friends to tune in so I can post another positive result in three months time. :-)
Gavan, the increase in figures is of course down to the quality of your contributions, along with help from some other equally passionate contributors. Thanks again for your help.
Deirdre Coyne! Now there’s a blast. Thanks D. Hope all is well in Farrelly land.
Alan Murphy. Thanks buddy. Tell your friends to tune in!
O&O
Turbridy has to be the worst presenter in the history of the state!I always thought Pat Kenny was terrible,and he was, but this fella is just absolutely terrible. He knows nothing about sport, thinks he knows all about JFK and the American political system, can not engage properly with any guest and then falls flat on his trying to be funny. Along with Brendan O’Connor,god help the TV license man coming around these parts looking for cash to pay these fools.
gerry ryan was the best
Let’s not forget ourselves-Gerry Ryan was often boorish and arrogant, and spent half his time on ear munching into the mike, and the other half bigging up his buddies in exchange for freebies (Harry Crosbie, anyone?)
But what he did have, and which Tubridy will never even come close to, is the ability to talk naturally to people, get a laugh and a story out of them and also the ability to steer a show for two or three hours without sucking the life and the fun out of everything in sight, while floating along in a bubble of jellybeans, Mad Men, The West Wing, JFK, and the Beatles.
Tubbers is also a FF hack, so that makes me loathe him even more.
No. He was not. You are mistaken.
is it not rte and not tubrity that has lost the viewers and listeners due to their ongoing one sided veiw in supporting this eu bailout to pay their wage bill
Exactly Olive
and also their “reluctance” to show any demos/protest against ANYTHING (with the exception of Roscommon Hosp but that’s only Inda was there)…..
I am no lover of any of them but Jesus ye all must be brilliant at your jobs. That’s what gone wrong with this country,we are all ready to kick people when their down.
If you can do better apply for their jobs
Well said Paddy!
we’re not on half a mil of taxpayers money for a few hours a week
when the likes of brendan o’connor host anything things have to be really, really bad
but maybe you should apply for thier jobs. you seem to have assimilated the ridiculous cliches that pass for critical opinion in places like rte!
Given the ridiculous sums they are paid and that we have to pay a TV tax masquerading as a “license” to contribute towards their salaries, I don’t see any reason why we can’t comment.
@Paddy Murray, is that Ryan Turbidy when he’s down? Really? I think most people would exchange his down for their up, any day of the week. The guy is sitting pretty while his slot goes to the dogs. Down would be if he got what anyone working for a commercial enterprise would get if they delivered results as rubbish as his i.e. sacked. But like every Andrews before him Turbidy will continue to coin it irrespective of his value because like all the Andrew’s clan he’s taken care to position himself at the teat of the public purse.
good stuff.. no loss Ryan…. he has become boring – shallow… nothing enduring
Ryan Tubridy was great on RTE 1. his show was interesting and witty but when he moved to RTE 2 it dumbed down. Such a pity.
Well it’s clear to see that the fabulous Radio Nova has had a definite impact on not only 2FM’s figures, but also on 98FM’s, Spin’s and Q102′s!!!! Very proud Novette today, as are all the staff :-)
The man is a kids presenter at best.
Everything on rte is shite just look at the crap on tonight mike murphy interviewing that bastard Bertie and this why we pay €160 a year for this shit wonder how much the bertie fella was paid for that garbage oh wouldn’t watch the crap giving them ratings for this shite as they wil have cowen the clown on next
bored them to death maybe
Tubridy is too much by the book and likes to play it safe look at the ronan keating interview he completely avoided the elephant in the room ,for his wage he should really get stuck in
Strange that RTE won’t pub use Hectors figures….?.
Should be publish
@Ryan Murphy
MTV most wanted with ray cokes was the best program ever. Ray was the man and not forgetting naughty nympho nina.
I remember it well.
CANT STAND HIM ON RADIO OR TV
All Irish Radio is formulaic pants apart from Mid West Radio which is actually broadcast from another planet. The rest of it is all about opinionated big heads spouting hot air or playing music the rest of the world has told them they should be playing. Just press Scan and you could be waiting a month to hear something innovative. Get rid of the lot. Silence is better.
I hate radio.
is there a link to the full results?
Tubridy was covering for somebody on BBC radio 2 a few weeks ago. Heard some people from work talking about how crap he was. How does he get these gigs? It’s shocking, he’s even back I think next week to cover for somebody.
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