Newstalk Megathread

Badabing wrote: »

Newstalk have rights confirmed today, Munster match first up this weekend. I think they'll have 1 match a week during HC.

Any word as to how they are going to cover their match? If its anything like the Gillette Soccer Saturday job they do on the Premier, then this will be a disaster. I mean if there's any game where stuff goes on "off the ball"(!!!!), it's rugby.

Ger Gilroy was very keen to stress how "exclusive" Newstalks rugby rights are.
You would think they were the only radio station in the world to broadcast live H.Cup games.

As one who was horrified that Newstalk might attempt to do their commentaries off screen in the studio, I have to say they did a reasonable job.

They made a huge play of proving they were at the match: McIntyre mentioned the height of the gantry they were broadcasting from; Hick, who actually sounded energised at times, repeated how he saw Toby Booth banging a stanchion in rage at the concession of the loser's bonus to Munster.Perhaps the rumbling of their Premier League coverage had got through to them, or more likely the organisers insisted they should be present at any match that they cover.

A major downside tho': too much celebrity analyis during the match. Now I know Fox Australia uses three voices in their coverage of the Tri-Nations, but one of them is not Matt Williams'. How anyone with an ear could think that Williams' plum-eating delivery could be a winner is beyond me. Use him at the end of match if you have to, but not during, when he'll even insist on talking over key action.

Bottom line for me in all this is that Michael Corcoran is the standard. I know he can wing it at times - "some fellow" often plays a key role in many of the matches he covers - but I would love to have heard his description of Tuitupou's BP winning try.

Newstalk won their contract fair and square. Let them live up to it. I reckon opinion of their delivery may crystallise when they do their first Leinster match.

well theres a new presenter for their breakfast business slot and all i can say is if you didnt like tom mcineny (spl?) i'll bet you miss him now.

slowly but surely all the programs are going tabloidesque.

i dont know who theyre targeting but its sure not their existing listernership. with all the changes that are going on i cant see how its not heamoraging them.

sadly i agree.

i used to religiously listen in to the business section when conor brophy was doing it and i liked tom but this american girl has done my head it, and its only the first day she's been on.

not often someone turns me off that quick.

hopefully it'll be abit like that time when they got some bloke and a girl to replace tom dunne when he was on his holliers and sile took over mid week becasue of how atrocious they were. unfortunetly if what ivan was saying later on is correct were stuck with her.

6.30 is too early in the morning to be put out like this so ill be turning off.

the american girl (im pretty sure its mary e howard ? ) was doing some of the worst puns ive heard in ages in relation to java coffees' financial results "brewing up blah blah" etce.

my radio actualy DIED this morning when she was on.

it could be because its 8 years old. but i like to think it decided to commit hari kari instead.

on another note.

does anyone think the ads for sile seoiges show on newstalk make her sound an awfull lot like orla barry?

its bloody uncanny.