The former Late Late Show host moved over to Virgin Radio UK in January of this year.
Ex-RTE star Ryan Tubridy was dealt a crushing blow to his Q102 radio show as the star pulled in 34,000 listeners in the latest quarter this year, we can reveal.
A spokesperson for Q102 said: "We work on year on year comparisons as industry standard best practice. While we can't compare show time-blocks year on year currently, owing to time-block duration differences, we are delighted that Q102 has added 18,000 new weekly listeners since last year, clearly driven by the addition of Ryan Tubridy to our daily schedule.”
And their shock departures appeared to be reflected in the latest Joint National Listenership Research - but radio bosses insist they were "prepared for it". Liveline gained 5,000 new listeners. Host Joe Duffy now has 307,000 listeners daily, but Ray D’Arcy lost 3,000. He now has 188,000 daily listeners.
The mid-morning show now has 208,000 people tuning in. And Matt Cooper’s The Last Word lost 4,000 listeners, leaving him with 167,000 listeners.
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