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    #602
    deadhead13
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,034 ✭✭✭deadhead13


    Claire today after the 7am news, cheerfully announces " If there are any worried SR Technics workers on the way to the meeting please text us (on this permium rate textline), we would love to hear from you." - ffs.


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    #603
    giftgrub
    Registered Users Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭giftgrub


    2 things

    First it looks like Eamon Keane will be around for a while longer.... he went up in the listership figures yesterday

    And on the issue of Claire's text appeals, i was listening to the repeat last night, and shwe was rattling on about some interview with Joaquin Phoneix

    "we want to hear what you think is the worst TV interview ever?"

    text us....

    For the Love of God

    Imagine if Aine Lawlor said that? I think i'd crash the car

    Morning Ireland have it right, dont get the listeners involved


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    #604
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Today Clare was admonishing (in a jokey fashion) the business ed for NOT having a dishwasher! How out of touch is this woman?


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    #605
    brettmirl
    Registered Users Posts: 2,429 ✭✭✭brettmirl


    Did she ask people to text in voting if he should buy a dishwasher or not?


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    #606
    raven136
    Registered Users Posts: 1,929 ✭✭✭raven136


    mike65 wrote: »
    Today Clare was admonishing (in a jokey fashion) the business ed for NOT having a dishwasher! How out of touch is this woman?

    who doesnt have a dishwasher:D its a recession not the apocalypse


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    #607
    jonny oxford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 83 ✭✭jonny oxford


    giftgrub wrote: »
    2 things

    First it looks like Eamon Keane will be around for a while longer.... he went up in the listership figures yesterday

    Oh Christ:eek:


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    #608
    mazza
    Registered Users Posts: 219 ✭✭mazza


    Did I imagine it or did one of the interviewees in the hurling item on Off The Ball on NewsTalk last night use the following phrase in passing on-air?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/******_in_the_woodpile

    Man, I haven't heard that used in years!

    Edit: the stars represent a six letter racially abusive word beginning with 'N' and ending in 'R'!


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    #609
    ateam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 986 ✭✭✭ateam


    They always seem to say that they're getting a lot of texts about such and such a thing. You just know, they've got about 4 texts.


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    #610
    indenial
    Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭indenial


    I've read people here banging on about the lack of depth in covering topics on the morning show but this took the biscuit. From 6.30 - 7.30 they teased us by played tiny clips of the Lance Armstrong rant at Paul Kimmage and promising to bring it to us later. Then, at 7.30 they play an "extended" clip about twice the length of the teaser of the Lance Armstrong rant before bringing on Paul Kimmage to discuss it. Ger Gilroy asked him one question to which Kimmage spoke for about 45 secs. Then Gilroy says "and one final question" to end the chat. My god, if you can't dedicate enough time to discuss an issue in depth don't bother with it............absolute tripe.


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    #611
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    indenial wrote: »
    I've read people here banging on about the lack of depth in covering topics on the morning show but this took the biscuit. From 6.30 - 7.30 they teased us by played tiny clips of the Lance Armstrong rant at Paul Kimmage and promising to bring it to us later. Then, at 7.30 they play an "extended" clip about twice the length of the teaser of the Lance Armstrong rant before bringing on Paul Kimmage to discuss it. Ger Gilroy asked him one question to which Kimmage spoke for about 45 secs. Then Gilroy says "and one final question" to end the chat. My god, if you can't dedicate enough time to discuss an issue in depth don't bother with it............absolute tripe.

    I stopped listing to the show because of things like this,its ridiculous.


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    #612
    timbel
    Registered Users Posts: 250 ✭✭timbel


    mazza wrote: »
    Did I imagine it or did one of the interviewees in the hurling item on Off The Ball on NewsTalk last night use the following phrase in passing on-air?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/******_in_the_woodpile

    Man, I haven't heard that used in years!

    Edit: the stars represent a six letter racially abusive word beginning with 'N' and ending in 'R'!

    I heard that too, but i have never heard that saying, so wasn't sure.
    The presenter seemed a bit surprised/stuttery after it though, so it must have been said.


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    #613
    pfk-0p
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭pfk-0p


    i like newstalk
    and the breakfast show, they get to things quickly and get to the point quickly unlike rte radio who will bring you a full report on a story and then go to the phone to a reporter who is going to tell you the exact same details in a different way and then to someone who is an exepert on the area the story is in.

    and i love claire byrne, when they're interviewing ministers she really grills them and rattles the answers out of them.


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    #614
    Badabing
    Registered Users Posts: 1,907 ✭✭✭Badabing


    Text us at 53*** if you agree.


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    #615
    raven136
    Registered Users Posts: 1,929 ✭✭✭raven136


    personally if i want a bit of light hearted stuff and non forced interaction with the sports guy i plump for Newstalk.
    If its a big story i usually go with Rte and morning Ireland.


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    #616
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    raven136 wrote: »
    personally if i want a bit of light hearted stuff and non forced interaction with the sports guy i plump for Newstalk.
    If its a big story i usually go with Rte and morning Ireland.

    Yeah but it's Newstalk. We expect news. Not light-hearted fluff.


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    #617
    老大
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭老大


    Just found this thread on newstalk and even though i like the station.. have to say the appeals for texts on the breakfast show is dreadful.

    I mailed them to reduce the cost of them...didnt get a reply!

    Agree that Claire Byrne is a bit loopy some times.. but still i would jump her bones! ;)


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    #618
    deadhead13
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,034 ✭✭✭deadhead13


    老大 wrote: »
    .. but still i would jump her bones! ;)

    That was fine on TV3 when you could press the mute button - doesn't quite work on radio.


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    #619
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Eamon Keane now on 4 hours a day. Jebus.


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    #620
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    Two State Transport Company's announced a strike today and not a word about it on the Right Hook nothing not a thing,a total joke.


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    #621
    pfk-0p
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭pfk-0p


    Dub13 wrote: »
    Two State Transport Company's announced a strike today and not a word about it on the Right Hook nothing not a thing,a total joke.

    to be fair they probably had the show planned out for that day before the news about the strikes coming out.


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    #622
    ateam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 986 ✭✭✭ateam


    pfk-0p wrote: »
    to be fair they probably had the show planned out for that day before the news about the strikes coming out.

    Newstalk makes a big deal of the fact that they are the station people should turn to for breaking news. I think they could have squeezed something in.

    I think it was mentioned in the news bulletins though.


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    #623
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    pfk-0p wrote: »
    to be fair they probably had the show planned out for that day before the news about the strikes coming out.

    If a station called Newstalk can not fit in some breaking news that will effect hundreds of thousands of people then they are useless in my mind.Yes it was a headline on there news bulletins but did not deserve a mention on there flagship show.They were talking about the sequence kinds are born in for a good 20 min...!

    Also the fit it in on the Last word.

    I am finished with the Right hook,I will podcast Michael Graham but thats it.


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    #624
    Koloman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,628 ✭✭✭Koloman


    Dub13 wrote: »
    Two State Transport Company's announced a strike today and not a word about it on the Right Hook nothing not a thing,a total joke.

    George's father worked for CIE so that might be a reason he goes soft on them. He seems especially pally with Barry Kenny from Irish Rail for example.


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    #625
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    Koloman wrote: »
    George's father worked for CIE so that might be a reason he goes soft on them. He seems especially pally with Barry Kenny from Irish Rail for example.

    I am not talking about him been pro/anti ether side,just mention the story it was a big story that day and not a word about it on the right hook.


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    #626
    themont85
    Registered Users Posts: 2,608 ✭✭✭themont85


    I wonder have the Newstalk managment seen this thread, because they seem keen to bludgon on with their 30c texts and Lowest common denominator radio. Their ratings are still so so for a service that requires large amounts of cash to fund itself.


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    #627
    ateam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 986 ✭✭✭ateam


    Eamon Keane took about 5 minutes to introduce the first item on his programme today. My god he tries to simplify the topic but actually just makes it more confusing. He left no time to speak to his guests. Senseless interviewer.


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    #628
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Eamon Keanes got a little helper.


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    #629
    deadhead13
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,034 ✭✭✭deadhead13


    Really? Whose that then?


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    #630
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Dunno who she is, haven't been listening close enough. She was reading out texts, etc.


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    #631
    giftgrub
    Registered Users Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭giftgrub


    mike65 wrote: »
    Dunno who she is, haven't been listening close enough. She was reading out texts, etc.

    She's some kind of reporter, i think she could have been the one who went "undercover" into a psychiatric hospital with a knife in her bag. Got NT into trouble with the BCC

    http://www.bcc.ie/decisions/oct_08_decisions.html

    This text thing seems to be new, a lot of them were of the "Eamon you're so right" variety

    I think i listen to Lunchtime to anger myself....before Sean O'Rourke comes on

    Another thing i've noticed is that EK, when theres guests in the studio, will give them his big theory abour De Recession or De Economy, or De Dail and then ask them what they think of it.


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