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    #1742
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Dub13 wrote: »
    The way the repeats at night are played does my head in.The other night I was in the bath and had the repeat of culture shock on just before they went for a brake they said whats up next,I cant remember what it was but I remember thinking that will be interesting.So after the brake they cut to a entirely different show.:mad:

    Yeah, those "brakes" can be a pain in the ar$e.

    Especially in the bath. :rolleyes:


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    #1743
    Arthur Daley
    Registered Users Posts: 4,411 ✭✭✭Arthur Daley


    JimboJones74 wrote: »
    Advert on newstalk said Tom Dunne will be starting at 10.00 from september. Does this mean a 3 hour breakfast show, or a 1 hr show at 10am?

    Good we won't have to listen to him spew the usual crap drivel on his 5-10 minute 'preview' that takes over the breakfast show at 8.30 anymore.


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    #1744
    Kalinda
    Registered Users Posts: 89 ✭✭Kalinda


    Barname wrote: »
    I want Newstalk to run Kevin Myers from 1:45

    the show should be called the Whineline

    Kevin & The Whineline Vs Joe & Liveline

    ratings war, winner takes all

    Funny!


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    #1745
    Bard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    Rubik. wrote: »
    It kind of makes sense to have your most popular presenter doing the breakfast show, but there will be a trade off because Yates is bound to loss a fair few of the Right Hook's listeners

    Makes more sense to me that if you're going to move your most popular presenter, you move them to a timeslot that you need to pull your listenership up in...

    Just a thought...


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    #1746
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    My god that interview with Daithí O Sé is cringeworthy... Did Damien Kiberd do ANY research on him at all????

    Kiberd: "Are you a gaelgóir?".....


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    #1747
    Rubik.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    Bard wrote: »
    Makes more sense to me that if you're going to move your most popular presenter, you move them to a timeslot that you need to pull your listenership up in...

    Which, in Newstalk's case, would be The Breakfast show - "get people to listen to you in the morning and they will stay with you during the day".

    Problem being, the station has never been able attracted enough listeners to that time slot. In fact, it has lost listeners in the last two quarters.


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    #1748
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    Who is the girl in for Tom Dunne this week...?


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    #1749
    Rubik.
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    Dub13 wrote: »
    Who is the girl in for Tom Dunne this week...?

    Jenny Buckley...I think.


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    #1750
    JimboJones74
    Registered Users Posts: 54 ✭✭JimboJones74


    I know its probably difficult for guest hosts to come in for a week, so would it not make more sense to have the Joe the producer fill in ( i think he a while ago) for a week, rather than trying to create a "partnership" instantly


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    #1751
    constitutionus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    Rubik. wrote: »
    Jenny Buckley...I think.


    with some bloke on as well as a co host and theyre BOTH more head wrecking than sile.

    dear jesus dial down the volume. it like theyre shreiking into the microphone at time and i swear the bloke is trying to do his best colin farrel "deadly buzz" impersonation.


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    #1752
    giftgrub
    Registered Users Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭giftgrub


    i hear another departure is due from one of the main shows, which will mess with their plans


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    #1753
    Lenny Lovett
    Closed Accounts Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Lenny Lovett


    giftgrub wrote: »
    i hear another departure is due from one of the main shows, which will mess with their plans
    I guess it involves someone going to Montrose? Been bubbling for a while I believe...


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    #1754
    Rubik.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    Any hints as to who this person might be?


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    #1755
    Lenny Lovett
    Closed Accounts Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Lenny Lovett


    Rubik. wrote: »
    Any hints as to who this person might be?
    It could be someone who has started popping up quite frequently on RTE radio shows giving political opinion... regarding leadership change.... in a certain political party....


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    #1756
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    My god, once again Mark Coleman is awful .. I tuned to hear his discussion of Tubridy's statements on Larry Murphy... he's already pissed off Charlie Flanagan (who had been brought on to discuss the issue) and he hung up after Coleman made a sweeping generalisation about all TDs. And now he's pissed off his other studio guest by cherry picking the statement they received on the issue from RTE....

    Awful as usual...


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    #1757
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    My god, once again Mark Coleman is awful .. I tuned to hear his discussion of Tubridy's statements on Larry Murphy... he's already pissed off Charlie Flanagan (who had been brought on to discuss the issue) and he hung up after Coleman made a sweeping generalisation about all TDs. And now he's pissed off his other studio guest by cherry picking the statement they received on the issue from RTE....

    Awful as usual...

    True.
    I could picture him squirming with the egg on his face when his guest pointed out that he was being very selective in the parts of the statement he chose to read on air. It was an attempt to fool the listeners and it backfired.
    I'm no fan of The Late Late Show but Newstalk's attempts to create a sensationalist (non) story at RTE's expense was pathetic.


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    #1758
    delaad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭delaad


    Lapin wrote: »
    True.
    I could picture him squirming with the egg on his face when his guest pointed out that he was being very selective in the parts of the statement he chose to read on air. It was an attempt to fool the listeners and it backfired.
    I'm no fan of The Late Late Show but Newstalk's attempts to create a sensationalist (non) story at RTE's expense was pathetic.

    Or Coleman's attempts, maybe.

    BTW, did he have Ronan Mullan on tonight, as a matter of interest?


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    #1759
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    delaad wrote: »
    Or Coleman's attempts, maybe.

    BTW, did he have Ronan Mullan on tonight, as a matter of interest?

    Coleman's attempts perhaps, or maybe the production team of the Coleman at Large programme ? Either way Newstalk was the vessel used for this piece of shabby journalism.

    Unfortunately Senator Mullan wasn't on the programme earlier. I say "unfortunately" because he is one of the few senators I have any time for.


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    #1760
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    delaad wrote: »
    Or Coleman's attempts, maybe.

    BTW, did he have Ronan Mullan on tonight, as a matter of interest?

    Deirdre De Buirca, Charlie Flanagan (on the phone, he hung up), Constantin (one haa haa, two haa haaa) Gurdgiev, some newspaper guy...

    Didnt hear Ronan Mullan, but he could have been doing his other job working for Jim Henson

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    #1761
    delaad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭delaad


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    Deirdre De Buirca, Charlie Flanagan (on the phone, he hung up), Constantin (one haa haa, two haa haaa) Gurdgiev, some newspaper guy...

    Didnt hear Ronan Mullan, but he could have been doing his other job working for Jim Henson

    190px-RonanMullen2010.JPGmuppets_scooter.gif

    Cracker!


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    #1762
    Rubik.
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    Fair play to Seamus Dooley, he absolutely savaged Coleman and rightly so.


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    #1763
    JonathanAnon
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    Rubik. wrote: »
    Fair play to Seamus Dooley, he absolutely savaged Coleman.

    The point Coleman made about ALL politicians supposedly being guilty of abusing the expenses system (which is what he was trying to insinuate) was just childish, unfounded and irresponsible as a broadcaster. Flanagan was right to hang up on him, and Dooley was right to tackle him on this issue AND on not reading out the full RTE statement ... which was probably not easy for him to sitting across from Coleman in HIS studio on HIS show..


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    #1764
    Rubik.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    Its up here if anyone wants to listen to it http://media.newstalk.ie/listenback . The first 20 minutes or so.


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    #1765
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Cheers for the link Rubik, I had to have a listen back just to hear if I could believe my ears when I heard it live.
    For anyone else who wants to listen back it might be worth skipping the first ten minutes (it takes in the news and an awful AC/DC track as well as some irrelevant stuff). Skip straight to 09:55 to hear the relevant stuff.

    Its worth listening on for a further ten mins to hear Derirde de Burca's comments and the manner in which she also rebuked Coleman, who at this stage was digging himself into an even deeper hole. He retaliated with sarcasm by trying to twist the debate into a left / right wing argument.
    Always a last resort of someone who's beaten into a corner.
    Interpreting de Burca's comments to suggest that she was claiming the Rape Crisis Centre is a right wing organisation would be comical if the subject wasn't so serious.


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    #1766
    tbh
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    just listening to it now - one word springs to mind - farcical. Sounds like coleman misjudged the public attitude towards RTE (and Ivor) and just expected the contributors to join him in an easy dig at an unrepresented scapegoat. Good on 'em for not falling for it, I say. There's too much populist ranting on the radio these days, there's a place for it (Jooooooooooooooooe) but not on a supposedly analysis based show.


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    #1767
    Lenny Lovett
    Closed Accounts Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Lenny Lovett


    Rubik. wrote: »
    Fair play to Seamus Dooley, he absolutely savaged Coleman and rightly so.
    Coleman trying to make a big issue out of nothing. Tubbers never said he was wanting to interview yer man. It was a hypothetical question and he answered it well. As I said in another post, it's a bit rich Newstalk trying to accuse RTE of shoddy journalistic standards.


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    #1768
    constitutionus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


    well theres a new guy doing the business section of the breakfast show and he's fecking awfull.

    apparently its some journo from the business post but i think it henry mckeen doing a dodgy accent.

    FFS get connor brophy back on that, thats his job and he does it well.

    speaking of which nice littly freudean slip from him to clair about her being irreplaceable :):)

    ive given up on the coleman show, the start of it was enough to put me off. awfull tabliod crap. whats he trying to be? whatever it is its NOT working .

    i cant belive they got shot of the other show they had before him for this tosh.


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    #1769
    CiaranMT
    Registered Users Posts: 4,092 ✭✭✭CiaranMT


    Síle should be getting her own slot on the station at this stage.


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    #1770
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    CiaranMT wrote: »
    Síle should be getting her own slot on the station at this stage.

    How come she is back...?were the other 2 that bad..?


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    #1771
    conno16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,335 ✭✭✭conno16


    the other two?


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