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Newstalk Megathread

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  • #1532
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    yer man standing in for Keane there just says "if you dont throw some money in the bucket for the special olympics, shame on you"....


  • #1533
    dh0661
    Registered Users Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭dh0661


    Just to tell all his "fans" here that Jerry made his first "appearance" on radio Kerry this morning.

    Wasn't too bad - IMO.


  • #1534
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    Did newstalk fly ken early over for the Chelsea game on Sun..?


  • #1535
    hacx
    Registered Users Posts: 458 ✭✭hacx


    Coleman was pushing his views too hard with that guy on last night talking about making Irish optional at LC. Not very professional at all, he was too whiny. Made me want to punch him.


  • #1536
    delaad
    Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭delaad


    hacx wrote: »
    Coleman was pushing his views too hard with that guy on last night talking about making Irish optional at LC. Not very professional at all, he was too whiny. Made me want to punch him.

    And is not At Large tonight....o'donovan standing in.


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  • #1537
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    Dub13 wrote: »
    Did newstalk fly ken early over for the Chelsea game on Sun..?

    Sounded like it alright.


  • #1538
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    Why do Newstalk insist on doing 'outside broadcasts' from such places as pubs..?I turned on Off the ball tonight so I could catch up on the weekend sport and it was from a pub,I turned it off immediately I don't want to be listening to a humming noise from the crowed in the background.

    Why do they think we the listener would want this..?Its very unprofessional.


  • #1539
    Badabing
    Registered Users Posts: 1,907 ✭✭✭Badabing


    Tuned into Newstalk for a bit yesterday during ad breaks elsewhere and they were in a pub for a while and then during the Leinter match they had the telly on with crowd noise and 2 lads talking about the match for a bit, it's all very unprofessional and unnessary. Do they think people will tune into them instead of RTE and the great commentator Michael Corcaran.


  • #1540
    barneygumble
    Registered Users Posts: 162 ✭✭barneygumble


    It's getting harder to listen to George Hook slobber and snort his way through 2 and a half hours.

    And does he expect to be taken seriously when, in the middle of his own show, they run the ad where he tries to flog the Sky+ box?


  • #1541
    BarryM
    Registered Users Posts: 837 ✭✭✭BarryM


    barneygumble wrote: »
    It's getting harder to listen to George Hook slobber and snort his way through 2 and a half hours.

    And does he expect to be taken seriously when, in the middle of his own show, they run the ad where he tries to flog the Sky+ box?

    +1

    I don't mind admitting that I'd be in GH's age cohort and presumably Newstalks's research shows that his audience likes his personalised rants, but he is getting tiresome. We all know the country is down the pan and we all know why, but GH is in a position to do summat about it, in the sense that he can actually follow up on some of the stuff he rants about, but, like Kenny and the others he doesn't, so the pols and the bankers etc., know it will blow over... (no pun intended....)


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  • #1542
    Shane10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 785 ✭✭✭Shane10


    Dub13 wrote: »
    Why do Newstalk insist on doing 'outside broadcasts' from such places as pubs..?I turned on Off the ball tonight so I could catch up on the weekend sport and it was from a pub,I turned it off immediately I don't want to be listening to a humming noise from the crowed in the background.

    Why do they think we the listener would want this..?Its very unprofessional.

    its not unprofessional atal, OFB has a big following and they bring it out to the people now and then. they have done it a good few times and have special guests normally in the region there in. something different the odd time.


  • #1543
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    Shane10 wrote: »
    its not unprofessional atal, OFB has a big following and they bring it out to the people now and then. they have done it a good few times and have special guests normally in the region there in. something different the odd time.

    I am well aware OFB has a big following sure I have been listening in since the start,it still does not stop me turning off the min I find out they are doing a outside broadcast.


  • #1544
    Aidric
    Registered Users Posts: 13,589 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    barneygumble wrote: »
    It's getting harder to listen to George Hook slobber and snort his way through 2 and a half hours.

    And does he expect to be taken seriously when, in the middle of his own show, they run the ad where he tries to flog the Sky+ box?
    Hook is a blustering lightweight. All hot air and misguided rants. Himself and Mary Wilson in the same slot across two of the main stations, depressing stuff.


  • #1545
    Arthur Daley
    Registered Users Posts: 4,368 ✭✭✭Arthur Daley


    Aidric wrote: »
    Hook is a blustering lightweight. All hot air and misguided rants. Himself and Mary Wilson in the same slot across two of the main stations, depressing stuff.

    Hook was actively in denial for years there was anything wrong with house prices or the banks. Then in 2009 he jumps on the 'we are sooo screwed bandwagon'. He has no credibility on economic matters anyway.


  • #1546
    Badabing
    Registered Users Posts: 1,907 ✭✭✭Badabing


    He lost 3,000 listeners


  • #1547
    barneygumble
    Registered Users Posts: 162 ✭✭barneygumble


    He threw the toys out of the pram yesterday when a texter accused him of being part of the "middle class privileged elite" or something along those lines. A blast of self-righteous indignation duly followed.

    I seem to remember him complaining when RTE lost the rights to cover the Heineken Cup live and giving out about Sky. And now he's taking Murdoch's shilling. Good to see his principles don't get in the way of him making a few extra quid.


  • #1548
    Koloman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,628 ✭✭✭Koloman


    Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Hook was actively in denial for years there was anything wrong with house prices or the banks. Then in 2009 he jumps on the 'we are sooo screwed bandwagon'. He has no credibility on economic matters anyway.

    I recall George telling a texter a couple of years ago to not wait around to buy a house because the prices will continue to rise! Great advice eh...?


  • #1549
    Koloman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,628 ✭✭✭Koloman


    It seems Newstalk have been forced to apologise again.

    http://www.sbpost.ie/news/ireland/bai-upholds-casey-complaint-over-newstalk-interview-49448.html


  • #1550
    barneygumble
    Registered Users Posts: 162 ✭✭barneygumble


    I remember that edition of the KC show and, at the time, I was taken aback at the treatment of Patricia Casey.

    Yet another example of the lack of professionalism at NT.


  • #1551
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Does this in any way help to explain why Colemans show is now pre-recorded?


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  • #1552
    sesna
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭sesna


    Claire Byrne, Carol Coleman, Marc Coleman .. Jesus wept


  • #1553
    honeybear
    Registered Users Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭honeybear


    The number of ads is unbelievable. I've often switched channels during an ad break on Newstalk to return 3/4 minutes later and the break is still on.
    My personal favourite was inviting texts throughout the show, telling us they would read some out after the break, taking a break, reading out one text (nothing else) and then taking another break!


  • #1554
    Arthur Daley
    Registered Users Posts: 4,368 ✭✭✭Arthur Daley


    Yes they do that on Eamonn Keane's lunchtime show a lot. Tis a joke.


  • #1555
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    honeybear wrote: »
    The number of ads is unbelievable. I've often switched channels during an ad break on Newstalk to return 3/4 minutes later and the break is still on.
    My personal favourite was inviting texts throughout the show, telling us they would read some out after the break, taking a break, reading out one text (nothing else) and then taking another break!

    But those texts are important to them and they read them all.


  • #1556
    Nicht Besonders
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭Nicht Besonders


    edit: Ah, there's already thread on Keane leaving the station


  • #1557
    Koloman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,628 ✭✭✭Koloman


    Maybe Eamonn Keane has left to hook up with Gerry O'Sullivan at Radio Kerry?

    A sort of Kerry dream team!biggrin.gif


  • #1558
    LostinBlanch
    Registered Users Posts: 2,908 ✭✭✭LostinBlanch


    Jaysus, Michael Dee has just spent the last 15 minutes laying into Michael Graham called him a wanker who's stirring up fear. :D


  • #1559
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    LostinBlanch wrote: »
    Jaysus, Michael Dee has just spent the last 15 minutes laying into Michael Graham called him a wanker who's stirring up fear. :D

    I had that on,it was good radio.


  • #1560
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,884 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    Dub13 wrote: »
    I had that on,it was good radio.

    Good man Michael d. Was he spitting fire?? Would loved to have heard that.


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  • #1561
    congress3
    Registered Users Posts: 159 ✭✭congress3


    Dub13 wrote: »
    I had that on,it was good radio.

    Jaysus twas savage altogether.


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