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Text The Last word on the Cheap!!

  • 05-02-2009 10:58pm
    #1
    bbability
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,504 ✭✭✭


    I hear that Today Fm have removed the premium text number from the The last word and reverted to a normal rate text number. Will others follow suit. Surely Newstalk will have to revert to a standard rate text number?


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  • #2
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    I thought it was regular rate for TLW, was the premium recently introduced?


  • #3
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,158 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    The show did use 53102, IIRC.


  • #4
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    53102 was ALWAYS standard rate.


  • #5
    Leaderbored
    Closed Accounts Posts: 329 ✭✭Leaderbored


    Yeah... It was kind of a mantra - "53102 - Standard network rates apply"


  • #6
    heybaby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,125 ✭✭✭heybaby


    yes it was the standard rate charge using 53102, however if you text the station from one of the networks websites 085/086/087 you can text for free , this wasnt possible using the 53102 number, also if like me you have free text messages on your network provider you also get to text for free, again with 53102 this wasnt the case.!!


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  • #7
    robo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭robo


    Isn't 53102 only for the competition on TLW. But 083 4100102 is for normal texting, comments etc for TLW and other programmes


  • #8
    Firetrap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,442 ✭✭✭Firetrap


    At least they never went down the premium text route like Newstalk. Hearing the presenters touting for texts is woeful. Especially when it comes down to them prattling on, then as an aside asking stupid questions like "Do you think I ate too much chicken last night. Text 53***" It's like tourettes :mad:


  • #9
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    robo wrote: »
    Isn't 53102 only for the competition on TLW. But 083 4100102 is for normal texting, comments etc for TLW and other programmes

    Nope. 53102 is (or was) for ANY contact with TLW......0834100102 is for all other programmes.


  • #10
    bbability
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,504 ✭✭✭bbability


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Nope. 53102 is (or was) for ANY contact with TLW......0834100102 is for all other programmes.


    And for the record "53***" numbers are premium rate text numbers. 30 cent per text.


  • #11
    Declan Thyme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭Declan Thyme


    Their new intro music sounds good though...does anyone know what it is?


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  • #12
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    bbability wrote: »
    And for the record "53***" numbers are premium rate text numbers. 30 cent per text.

    But in the case of The Last Word, they absorb the extra cost themselves, and only charge you the standard rate.

    They have started using the 083 4100102 number for the competition this week, but are still using 53102 for comments.


  • #13
    2fivers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 311 ✭✭2fivers


    bbability wrote: »
    And for the record "53***" numbers are premium rate text numbers. 30 cent per text.
    jor el wrote: »
    But in the case of The Last Word, they absorb the extra cost themselves, and only charge you the standard rate.

    Yup. Hence the "price of a standard text" mantra delivered by Matt Cooper every time the short text number was mentioned.


  • #14
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    Just listening now, and it seems that 53102 is gone. It's the other number for everything now.


  • #15
    heybaby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,125 ✭✭✭heybaby


    the 53102 number is gone.. its 0834100102 for all texts now, competition or otherwise.


  • #16
    robo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,825 ✭✭✭robo


    Fair play to them...back to texting for free for the competition

    Wonder if Newstalk will follow suit :rolleyes:


  • #17
    tbh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    bbability wrote: »
    And for the record "53***" numbers are premium rate text numbers. 30 cent per text.

    are all 53x numbers that rate, or can the operator set the rate? I'm not sure that the 53 number was ever used for the competition, but I'm 99% sure that both comments and competition lines have always been standard rate - I remember Matt driving the point home again and again when newstalk introduced the premium rate, and off-and-on ever since.


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