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Lyric fm's Breakfast show presenter - Marty Whelan.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Lenny Lovett


    Rubik. wrote: »
    Marty's new show will run from 7am to 10am.

    http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/ryans-doing-a-great-job-but-i-want-to-be-a-real-alternative-to-him-2314209.html

    You have to admire the man. He just keeps bouncing back.
    Now, that's got to be the most sensible thing RTE have done in ages. Marty is a natural all rounder and with his 'Wogan' style he should do very well on Breakfast. They should plug it hard prior to launch.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,441 ✭✭✭FGR


    Definitely glad to see Marty back where he should be. I still wonder why he wasn't kept in this slot for 2fm.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,737 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    Martys a great talent.
    I've never ever listen to Lyric, but you know what, I might now to check him out.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    Marty's an absolute gent too, lovely chap. Nice one... Delighted for him :)


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 2,493 Mod ✭✭✭✭dambarude


    Good news. If John Murray's show turns out to be a flop I'll have something to listen to!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 811 ✭✭✭todolist


    Marty is a true professional.I really like the guy.He's a national treasure.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 221 ✭✭TimmyTarmac


    If it's anything like his Lunchtime show that he's been presenting on Lyric for the last year, it's another big fat ****ing nail in the already rotting coffin of RTE's commitment to public service broadcasting.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Poly


    Lyric is great for a break from propaganda, I love it, apart from the "musicals" I fukin hate them more than tubridy


  • Registered Users Posts: 740 ✭✭✭garbanzo


    Christ . . . . I'm old enough to remember "Whelan Home". Now it's Whelan to Work. Marty's alright. Deserves better. Good luck to ya.


  • Registered Users Posts: 811 ✭✭✭todolist


    If it's anything like his Lunchtime show that he's been presenting on Lyric for the last year, it's another big fat ****ing nail in the already rotting coffin of RTE's commitment to public service broadcasting.
    RTE never had a commitment to public service.All they're committed to is collecting tax payer money(TV Licence) to dole out to medicore talent like Tubrity,Finunchan and Duffy.Not to mention to huge staff they have doing virtually nothing.The BBC is the same over in London.Total waste of tax payers money.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,504 ✭✭✭bbability


    Definitely glad to see Marty back where he should be. I still wonder why he wasn't kept in this slot for 2fm.

    I think because he lost a shed load of the audience... 227,000 down to 170,000 in his tenure.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Lenny Lovett


    bbability wrote: »
    I think because he lost a shed load of the audience... 227,000 down to 170,000 in his tenure.
    You should check the facts on those numbers and exactly who was presenting at the time. You will find that, actually, Marty brought the numbers back up during his last six months on Breakfast on 2FM. John Clarke admitted that but the decision had already been made that he was only in there on an interim basis.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,504 ✭✭✭bbability


    Oh my facts are right lenny. And as I predicted Marty is well suited to Lryic's target audience. Best of luck to him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Lenny Lovett


    bbability wrote: »
    Oh my facts are right lenny. And as I predicted Marty is well suited to Lryic's target audience. Best of luck to him.
    I think if you check back the JNLR books from 2007 and 2008, you'll see that when Marty took over the listenership initially dropped and then began to rise again and rose steadily (albeit slowly but rising nonetheless) over three books. Then Colm and Jim Jim took over and rose in their first book by 6,000 and declined in each book after.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 221 ✭✭TimmyTarmac


    If Whelan is such a great radio talent, why is he drinking in the last chance saloon of national radio, Lyric FM?
    I say this as a daily listener to Lyric and an admirer of most of the output.
    What Lyric largely has been is a broadcaster of specialist music, mostly classical, with decent, informed, mostly low profile presenters. Not a vehicle for household name stars with no feeling for the musical output.
    Has Marty come to save Lyric or is he on Lyric because no-one else in RTE or outside wants him?
    Maybe, bbability, you could tell me what Lyric's target audience is and how Marty is wel suited to them, as you predicted?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 491 ✭✭doomed


    Mixed feelings on Marty. He's a nice man and I don't begrudge him getting work but please not on Lyric. The incessant vacuous patter and MOR playlist has made the lunchtime slot a no go area. If RTE want to turn Lyric into a Radio 1B then they should have the courtesy to tell us.

    One the plus side, since I listen to Morning Ireland anyway the new schedule is better. Music at lunchtime again - yippee.

    At the same time isn't it saying something that RTE will give 15 hours a week of Lyric to Marty Whelan and the outstanding "O'Brien on Song" is gone forever.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    I've stopped listening to Lyric in the morning. :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Barname


    What has happened?

    Why?

    natter, natter, natter

    Play the music, zip the gob

    I dont want to hear the strained voice in the am

    bad move by lyric, put Marty back on Winning Freak


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,605 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    I mean no disrespect to Marty but this is a terrible move for Lyric. They took a format that wasn't broken and have turned it into just another inane morning show. Competitions! I don't want a bloody competition and I certainly don't want to hear "that's amore" at 8.10am. There's no other choice now, I'll have to use my alarm instead of radio waking me up. I can't listen to morning ireland first thing - I'd never get it up: it's all so depressing! I'm going to complain direct to whoever is Lyric's head of programing.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    Unfortunately the only thing they'll listen to is the ratings, and in this case, I'm sure any drop over the next year will be written off as him settling then, and then thereafter as "well, it's only a niche station anyway, we shouldn't be expecting large figures in the morning" just to keep Marty in his little nixer.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 221 ✭✭TimmyTarmac


    Spot on, Nevore. I don't understand why Lyric can't be treated the same as Rna G and take it out of the JNLR. Then they could make programming necessary to fill what was the original remit - Music (mostly classical, world, jazz etc) and arts without looking over their shoulders and just get on with this kind of public service broadcasting.
    If RTE don't want to do it in this way, then the minister could direct that a trust be set up to administer the station independently with whatever amount of the licence fee needed being ringfenced for this purpose.
    And no more messing with the Marty Whelans and Gay Byrnes of this world.


  • Registered Users Posts: 692 ✭✭✭CUCINA


    Unlike most of the posters so far on this topic, I am not a Smarty Whelan fan...far too much smarmy yakkety-yak chit-chat.
    I really enjoyed Liz Nolan's tenure of this slot on Lyric but now I have one less option when choosing a station in the morning.
    MW Ireland's answer to Terry Wogan? Don't think so!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    Rubik. wrote: »
    Marty's new show will run from 7am to 10am.

    http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/around-town/ryans-doing-a-great-job-but-i-want-to-be-a-real-alternative-to-him-2314209.html

    You have to admire the man. He just keeps bouncing back.

    Don't like it at all. I turned over to Lyric yesterday morning and he had way, way, waaaaaay too much life in him for 8.15am. I want something calm, relaxing and in tune with the beauty of the crisp morning that was in it. Something to wake me up gradually.

    I'm very much a morning person, but he was just far too much too soon. Perhaps give him an afternoon slot, as a reward for his resilience alone. Personally, I'd prefer quieter, calmer and more cultured (sorry; I genuinely don't mean that in a bad way) presenters. Marty would be great in, say, Derek Mooney's slot, or Joe Duffy's or one of those sorts.

    I go to Lyric for calm, for escapism, for the little different things like having the main news bulletin at 30 minutes past each hour, for the cúpla focal, for the new music and the new musical knowledge. I don't want so-called "personalities", be they Marty Whelan, George Hamilton or Gay Byrne. That's a different world, to be polite about it.

    I wish the powers-that-be in RTÉ could accept that very many Lyric FM listeners feel similarly and stop dumping erstwhile "stars" upon Lyric FM.

    Le meas.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,759 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Marty's a nice man, chatty and upbeat, but he's just not suited to Lyric!

    I heard him this morning, talking about a young pianists' competition that's on this Saturday in the Freemasons' Hall in Dublin...so far so good.

    Then he has to throw in "...just before Winning Streak. Sorry, couldn't resist the plug!" - I tuned out at this stage. :mad:


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,156 ✭✭✭jcsmum


    Yeah, I'm not keen on Marty either. I listen to Lyric on the way to schoolrun/work, I find it nice and calming.
    Marty talks way too much and comments on every single tune/song/text message ... I miss Liz.


  • Registered Users Posts: 18 Coleyoscar


    Delighted to see so many others share my view that Marty Whelan, although entirely inoffensive, is entirely unsuitable for the Lyric morning show. I'm sorely tempted to abandon Lyric altogether. (And why does he have to repeat everything he says? Everything he says. He repeats it. Repeats it. Everything...)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 491 ✭✭doomed


    Even though Marty on Lyric is like a spray can in an art gallery you can't blame him for taking the gig. Lyric in the Morning, Tesco in the afternoon. "Every little helps".

    The real problem is RTE management who see Lyric as an outlet for retirees and other people who need something to do but would not get on to RTE 1. What made Lyric really good in the past was the fact that the presenters knew their music and realised that the stars of the show were the composers, musicians and singers and not themselves.

    Under the current RTE regime things will get worse I fear. How about Jedward to bring in the younger listeners? OMG


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Callan57


    Marty is harmless but God he drives me mad first thing in the morning ... he's way too 'chatty' & dizzy for that hour of the day.
    RTE management are treating Lyric the way the political parties treat the Seanand ... a place for pre-retirement presenters & anyone they feel sorry for and want an excuse to give a few bob to.
    It has dumped down a long way from its early days when you not just got good music but knowledgeable presenters & the chance that you might actually learn something.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3 Tom2010


    I completely agree Classical Music needs a restained presenter who does not get in the of the music, Marty Whelan is just aweful, its like a bad Aprils Fools joke on Lyric listeners to have him presenting a program instead of the very bright & classy Liz Nolan. I sometimes listen to BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM through the sattelite and you simply cant imagine them havig a chap like Marty Whelan presenting, why do RTE make a mess of everything, can we launch a campaign to get him out, I wrote a long letter to the head of Lyric Aodán Ó Dubhghaill, my first ever to a radio station of paper., maybe lots of people should follow suit


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 221 ✭✭TimmyTarmac


    Good luck with it, Tom. I've also written to him, the Director of Radio and the D.G. - all replied in a polite way. They more or less told me that the likes of Marty, Gay etc. are very popular and enhance the Lyric schedule. A load of Bullplop - they may be (have been) popular on TV but add not one whit to Lyric.
    Honest to God, when these RTE management types close ranks, they make the Vatican look like an open, touchy - feely social club.


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