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    #212
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    In fairness to NewsTalk Talking History is one of the best shows on Radio.


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    #213
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Dub13 wrote: »
    In fairness to NewsTalk Talking History is one of the best shows on Radio.

    I (used to listen) to talking history all the time but gave up due to 'Opinion' based facts, and to be honest I cant remember if I got 'wound-up' or not, but what really got me going was that talk show on a Sunday evening with Ulick O'Connor, it was just so predictable, with him & the host slagging off our neighbours across the water at every given opportunity & praising a well known local terrorist group (recently gone out of business), in the end it got so poisoned & embarrassing that I just turned the dammed thing off for good.

    I think the show was pulled anyway, due to complaints!


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    #214
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Arrg! Anyone listen to the Breakfast Show this morning?

    Our 40w hosts were going big on the price of gas and the regulators role, as Bord Gas intend to put in for a price rise. Between 8 am and the discussion at 8.45 with said regulator they read out txts the contents of which would make you fear if the listenership ever staged a coup.

    Not that Clair and Ger were helping to spead any enlightenment as they strangly forgot to put forwards the argument that as a barrel of oil is now 35% higher than a year ago that might be reason for the price hike.

    Nope instead they encouraged idiots with fast thumbs to give the nation thier thoughts. The interview with the regulator was 3 mins of wasted airtime, as he pointed out the bleeding obvious.

    Mike.


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    #215
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    And this new thing of shows been done in shop windows...?thats crazy.


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    #216
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Sure Ryan Tubriddy ws been hanging out in various locations for a few years including a dept store window on Patrick Street in Cork.

    Mike.


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    #217
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    mike65 wrote: »
    Sure Ryan Tubriddy ws been hanging out in various locations for a few years including a dept store window on Patrick Street in Cork.

    Its a strange one I cant get my head around it,the radio station must get a good fee.


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    #218
    mike65
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    Its the whole meet the people "schick", the publicity must be worth paying for alright.

    Mike


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    #219
    Dub13
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 21,252 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dub13


    It may be time for NewsTalk to get one of those proper Outside Broadcast units if the local Dublin radio stations can afford them surely a nation station could.


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    #220
    simonw
    Registered Users Posts: 645 ✭✭✭simonw


    Newstalk is the only station i really listen to, but the only programme that makes it worth tuning in for is OTB. I like moncrief and talking history, but besides that i only leave it on because i don't like any of the music stations. Nothing has come close to the mystery train but i'm sure theres another thread about that!


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    #221
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,307 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    Must admit avoiding the breakfast show in the past while has been a complete breath of fresh air.

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



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    #222
    jack24
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    Turn off the Breakfast show myself mostly, had the misfortune to catch some this morning though, still of the same high calibre, 'Text us at a cost of 30c and tell us where you are watching the Champions league match tonight', Jesus wept!!! Also heard what appeared to be a paid infomercial for Google. Maybe they should ditch the 'news' element entirely and devote the whole show to commercials, though they went along those lines with that guy who used to do the business section who has been relegated to the backroom, Tom Lyons, 'Tell us why your product/company etc is so brilliant'...........


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    #223
    CrowdedHouse
    Registered Users Posts: 6,811 ✭✭✭CrowdedHouse


    jack24 wrote: »
    Turn off the Breakfast show myself mostly, had the misfortune to catch some this morning though, still of the same high calibre, 'Text us at a cost of 30c and tell us where you are watching the Champions league match tonight', Jesus wept!!! Also heard what appeared to be a paid infomercial for Google. ....

    Agree +1

    It's gone very bad,I was listening to it out of habit really.
    Switched over to 'Morning Ireland' recently,sounded 100 times more professional.

    Seven Worlds will Collide



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    #224
    d15ude
    Registered Users Posts: 315 ✭✭d15ude


    Brenda, Orla, Claire McKeowan - pure tabloid crap.

    The news readers are hilariously bad, too.


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    #225
    Gunther_Gloop
    Registered Users Posts: 649 ✭✭✭Gunther_Gloop


    Well at least newstalk traffic reporters can usually say "roundabout".

    I think a prerequisite for that job on Today FM is to pronounce it rindabite.


    ...I do smile when I hear Nathan Murray (Murphy?) say his name though. :)


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    #226
    Nightwish
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    d15ude wrote: »
    Brenda, Orla, Claire McKeowan - pure tabloid crap.

    The news readers are hilariously bad, too.

    There's one news reader Susan, Susanne, Sinead...something like that. They should give her day off as she's had a horrid sore throat for the past year. It must be all the shouting she does down the mic, seeing as I have to turn down the volume whenever she comes on as she's disproportionately loud.


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    #227
    FullHD
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    Im not sure if this has been mentioned before, as this
    post has become so long.
    One of my main problems with Newstalk is the 1/2 hourly news and the placement of ads.

    i think that they could solve my issues very easily.
    1. Only have the news on the hour, as it usually hasnt changed in 30mins, my problem is the way that they interrupt someone in mid conversation to go to the news.
    2. Similarly with ads, the amount of them is ok but again they interrupt a conversation to go to ads.

    In fact it happened last week on Joe Duffy, Jenny was sitting in and started talking to a listener, 30secondslater had to do to ads and never went back to the original listener.
    its beginning to P me off

    garry


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    #228
    Imhof Tank
    Registered Users Posts: 2,122 ✭✭✭Imhof Tank


    garrycs69 wrote: »
    Only have the news on the hour,

    They used to have the "20/20" news 3 times an hour at 20 past, 20 to and on the hour - that was a while ago and the idea got dropped thank God


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    #229
    jawlie
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    I have tuend in thre times this week to the Orla Barry show, which I used to enjoy. First time it was an article about celebrities - I can't remember what it was but i turned over to something else. Second time i turned in I got her going to the guy she refers to as her "hollywood" correspondent. I listened for a few minutes but it was all about the private lives of actors, so i turned over to somethinr else. This morning I turned in again and it was all about some wedding in italy and there she was gushing abouit it all again, over €80 000 per day being spend on a yacht and that OK! magazine was covering it......

    He show seems to have become obsessed with celebrities and has become tabloid-ised. I used to listen to it but listen now less and less due to the celebrity obsession and trivialisiation of this show.

    Additionally, I used to love Sean Moncrieff's show, but it has become so overrun by advertising breaks, and the length of these breaks seems to have increades so much, that it seems there are more ads than show these days, and I find I listed less and less to him also.

    Newstalk used to be great, but ever since some bright spark thought they ought to have an irritating gimmick to tell me "and now you're up to date with newstalk 106" at the end of every news, its gone downhill. Which is sad.


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    #230
    mike65
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    Bugger! Eamon Keanes back.

    Mike.


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    #231
    Chiron
    Registered Users Posts: 131 ✭✭Chiron


    mike65 wrote: »
    Bugger! Eamon Keanes back.

    I know what you mean! John Keogh was like a breath of fresh air last week.


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    #232
    GhostInTheRuins
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    My thoughts exactly Mike.


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    #233
    dublinmadyoke
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    Is it just me or is Newstalk sounding more and more like a very badly ran community station? The production has to be the worst on Irish radio?

    Anyone else agree with me?


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    #234
    Profiler
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    dublinmadyoke wrote: »
    Is it just me or is Newstalk sounding more and more like a very badly ran community station? The production has to be the worst on Irish radio?

    Anyone else agree with me?

    Yes!

    You can be sure that during one of the news bits you could lose count of the number of times you will hear one of the people who read out the news go "eeeehhhhhhh" or "uuuuhhhhhhh" it is just appalling.

    Pronouncing names badly wrong and just coming across as very unprofessional seems to be the Spewtalk.... eeeehhh... Newtalks, I mean Newstalk 103... uhhh... 106 way :o


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    #235
    LordSutch
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    Does Orla Barry ever stop talking ?

    Have you noticed how Orla Barry takes about twenty words to say or convey something that could be said in just five words, God that woman could talk the hind legs off a donkey & still keep talking . . . :confused:


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    #236
    wittymoniker
    Registered Users Posts: 205 ✭✭wittymoniker


    can we start a campaign to bring back David Mc Williams and Damien Kiberd? maybe put Orla and Declan back together again... good times.


    pony or phoney anyone?


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    #237
    nkay1985
    Registered Users Posts: 6,975 ✭✭✭nkay1985


    I'll be honest, I haven't read all 211 posts in this thread, just the first and last pages. But am I the only one who likes Newstalk?

    Coming to work between half 5:30am and 6:00am I get the best bits of the previous day - usually some George Hook stuff.

    Coming to work at 2pm I get the end of Eamonn Keane, which isn't the best but at least it's not shit chart music.

    Finishing at 2pm I get Moncrief, which is quirky and fun and I find him quite a good presenter, specially compared to the drivel on the other stations around that time.

    Coming to work at 10pm I get 'Off The Ball', which is by far the best sports show on any radio station IMO.

    Leaving at 10pm Late Night Live is pretty good for general discussion.

    If I'm listening to the radio during the evening I flick between Matt Cooper and George Hook. I always thought I'd hate George Hook on the radio but I don't think he's too bad.


    Overall I'd say it's my favourite station.


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    #238
    EdgarAllenPoo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,686 ✭✭✭EdgarAllenPoo


    Moncrieff is the equivalent of a midweek action movie on RTE, it passes the time and allows your brain to switch off for a few hours. I like the Right Hook but find both their breakfast show and Your Call (and the presenters of these shows) insufferable and pretentious.


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    #239
    Badabing
    Registered Users Posts: 1,907 ✭✭✭Badabing


    Their weekend sports show is a joke no live commentary for the whole summer and no reporters at the GAA matches, poor editing aswell the show is all over the place. Its a poor mans Rte.


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    #240
    nkay1985
    Registered Users Posts: 6,975 ✭✭✭nkay1985


    GDM wrote: »
    Moncrieff is the equivalent of a midweek action movie on RTE, it passes the time and allows your brain to switch off for a few hours. I like the Right Hook but find both their breakfast show and Your Call (and the presenters of these shows) insufferable and pretentious.

    I don't ever listen to their breakfast show or Your Call so I can't really comment. But there have been a fair few bad points said about them here so everybody can't be wrong.


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    #241
    mike65
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    Badabing wrote: »
    Their weekend sports show is a joke no live commentary for the whole summer and no reporters at the GAA matches, poor editing aswell the show is all over the place. Its a poor mans Rte.

    Have to agree 3 hours of Jerry O'Sullivan on Saturday and Sunday rabbiting on 20 to the dozen would do your head in, they have no rights to anything after the Prem footie ends as far as I can tell which is a bit of a flaw.

    Mike.


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