Bad Radio

connundrum

Over the weekend I'd the pleasure of driving up and back to Donegal and noted the following few things that irked me a bit.

Newstalk's Weekend Blend with Orla Barry. Really really poor editing and timing. I understand that some interviews need to be prerecorded but two of the interviews she had were just very choppy, and seemed very rushed when getting back into the live bits of the show.

Newstalk's Repeats (in general). Really really badly edited. I understand that they probably couldn't give a toss about it as its just a time filler, but there have been loads of times when a really good segment from earlier in the day has just stopped midway to allow the news or an ad break. Really feckin annoying!

i102 104's iCycle with Michael Doherty. Listened to this for a bit on the way home on Saturday night. Decent mix of stuff, ruined only when he talked (as is the case with a few DJ's). Couldn't pronounce place names like Naas, Oughterard and some other place I can't remember. He did this thing of joining in with the track near the end, adding 'ooohh, aahhh, yeeaahh, uuh huuh'. Just wanted to twat the guy.

The above chap got me remembering back to when Tony Christie (DJ Crisp) used to rap over songs during his Dance Show on Midlands 103 back about 7 or 8 years ago. Bleedin hysterical, I'm guessing that he was trying to emulate the success of Mark McCabe.

Any more gripes with Irish radio past or present?

I'll come back with a positive thread in a week or two, but just listening to the radio for about 8 hours over the weekend had me cringing or cursing far too often for my liking.

Liam Byrne

connundrum wrote: »

Any more gripes with Irish radio past or present?

Syndicated and voice-tracked shows
Follow-the-herd mentality in playlisting
Today FM's / Ray D'arcy's reliance on everything that's happening in the UK tabloids and news for most interviews or even when picking "odd one out" contestants
Lack of live overnights (even the old pirates used to do this on a shoestring budget)
Lack of proper local radio

grenache

connundrum wrote: »

Over the weekend I'd the pleasure of driving up and back to Donegal

I'll stop you right there connundrum. Nobody should get pleasure from driving on any roads in the west of Ireland, particular not those ones in Donegal

garbanzo

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Syndicated and voice-tracked shows
Follow-the-herd mentality in playlisting
Today FM's / Ray D'arcy's reliance on everything that's happening in the UK tabloids and news for most interviews or even when picking "odd one out" contestants
Lack of live overnights (even the old pirates used to do this on a shoestring budget)
Lack of proper local radio

Fair play Liam, I agree 100% with you here on the Today FM / Ray D'arcy comments. I'm sorry but it aint good enought to trot out the old line that "we're a small country and there is limited news" emanating from here. It is the LAZY, LAZY, LAZY option promulgated by many but particularly by those people who just grew up watching too much UK television. Mario's work seems to really suffer from this approach too, which isi a shame as he's a huge talent.

And, don't even get me started on Moykel Mc Mullen.

Rant over. Pissing rain all week here in Kerry on the holliers with mrs and the little garbanzos.