Todd Andrews Andrews jnr. aka comedian David McSavage. In May 2009, Ryan Tubridy was appointed by RTÉ to succeed Pat Kenny as host of the television station's long-running chat show "The Late Late Show", whose first host (and producer) was Gay Byrne until Kenny took over in 1999. Byrne, in his 1989 memoirs "The Time of My Life" and subsequently in an RTÉ documentary in 2005, related how Andrews, then chairman of the RTÉ Authority, phoned the Director-General of RTÉ Tim McCourt and ordered him to fire "that fucker Byrne"; however McCourt refused to dismiss Byrne. Todd Andrews Christopher Stephen Andrews (6
Ryan Tubridy had lost over 110,000 listeners since the move. After finishing "The Tubridy Show" on 16 July 2010, he began presenting "Tubridy" on RTÉ 2fm on 20 August 2010, surprising listeners by starting the programme three days earlier that what was originally scheduled for 23 August. His first guest on the programme was Bono. His RTÉ Radio 1 slot was filled by John Murray. "Tubridy" became synonymous with declining listenership figures, a 40% collapse of which by 2011 coincided with increased listenership figures for its rival "The Ray D'Arcy Show". In May 2011, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland upheld a complaint