Gerry Ryan Radio Show Thread

Nevyn

Seems some very mixed messages tbh.
Ryan knows how to email boards.ie if he wanted.
And realy Darragh is the communications manager not community manager.

Poly

something like this:

"Dear Boards community manager.
I’d really appreciate it if you deleted all the negative comments about my mediocre, self indulgent , smutty radio show, (9-12 2FM).
Only positive comments about me, my friends and my tv appearances from now on please.
Thanks a mil.
G.Ryan."

tbh

this morning he said that he expected a site to remove hateful statements once they were given notice of them. If he can find a post in this forum where that didn't happen, I'll sign over my gaff to the man

deadhead13

The whole interview was a mess. Mark Little obviously knew what he was talking about but Gerry kept cutting accross him, heading off on different tangents - repeatedly contradicting himself. Any listener who knew nothing about boards.ie, Facebook, twitter and bebo would be none the wiser after listening to that.

maxwell smart

Am I correct in saying that Mark Little has "left" (as in not really left, just taken a bit of a jolly from work with the guarantee of going back) RTE to setup/investigate a project on digital journalism.So he should know a bit about it.

Also, could he not take Gerry with him?

Meeja Ireland

He is being very thin-skinned about criticism, if he is talking about himself.

However, there were quite a few nasty comments about one of his daughters in another thread. That would get most fathers into a temper, and most of them would rage about it to whoever was listening rather than necessarily follow the correct protocol of complaint.

Aidric

maxwell smart wrote: »

Am I correct in saying that Mark Little has "left" (as in not really left, just taken a bit of a jolly from work with the guarantee of going back) RTE to setup/investigate a project on digital journalism.So he should know a bit about it.

Correct. He has taken a year out to pursue a digital media project iirc.

maxwell smart

Meeja Ireland wrote: »

He is being very thin-skinned about criticism, if he is talking about himself.

However, there were quite a few nasty comments about one of his daughters in another thread. That would get most fathers into a temper, and most of them would rage about it to whoever was listening rather than necessarily follow the correct protocol of complaint.

I myself have a little girl and would not be please at all if I felt someone was being disrespectful to her (thats putting my reaction mildly as this is a permanent form of record).
However, if I was promoting her at every turn, and preparing her for a life as a "Z-lister", or whatever the phrase is, Yes, I would be upset, but not surprised.

deadhead13

Meeja Ireland wrote: »

He is being very thin-skinned about criticism, if he is talking about himself.

However, there were quite a few nasty comments about one of his daughters in another thread. That would get most fathers into a temper, and most of them would rage about it to whoever was listening rather than necessarily follow the correct protocol of complaint.

I started that thread in the TV forum in a bid to avoid the nasty comments, but it didn't quite work out that way.

barakus

Its fairly obvious that he's still got a bee in his bonnet about the 'Gerry Ryan is a wnaker' group that used to be on facebook, thats why this topic seems to be getting brought up all the time. He is using the anti Jedward groups to prove the point of lack of moderation on FB though.
Its not as if anyone could be 'bullied' on boards unless they are in the public eye either so Id say hes had a good old read of the GR threads on here!!
Watch out Degsy he'll have you arrested if yer not careful:D

Cunsiderthis

This morning I caughe the first few minutes of the show. I normally dislike the first 20 mins where he talks, almost without drawing breath, about the papers and gives his opinions on all sorts of stories. It's a boring part of his show and, to have it at the top of the show seems foolhardy as it's more or less guaranteed to get listeners, like me, reaching for the off button.

This morning, before i could get to the off button, he talked about a paedophile and has changed the way he says it from his previous "pay-dough-feel" to the more usual "pee-dough-file". He was also talking about his father and didn't pronounce it as he used to "fore-ther", but the more usual "far-ther".

Can it be that he is reading boards and correcting the stranguled vowels and unusual way he used to pronounce so many words?

I do hope not, as spotting the bizarre way he used to pronounce his words
was was such a good game to play in the past!

ManFromAtlantis

listen out for the 'wunt' instead of want then you'll know.

anyhoo, i think the show is getting boring, i mean a woman on about trying to get her child to sleep. i know its important to her blah de blah, but c'mon there seems to be alot of broing topics in recent years. yawn.

chalkitdown1

The stuff about abortion and brain training today was interesting.

Gigiwagga

I'm about the same age as Gerry Ryan, I've not had as much success in my life as he has nor have I had as many large scale failures, I suppose because he's in the public eye he can be as opinionated as he likes, and he is just that. Problem for him is that his many attempts at transition to the little screen have been uncomfortable failures for him, time and time again. He just doesn't work on the telly, and he knows that. It must upset him and cause him some dark feelings. Which leaves him back on the radio. Where over the last decade he's become something of a 'Glenn Beck of RTE'. His conservative, pro-american war mongering has actually been disturbing. He's a one track man, like his counterpart Joe Duffy. And I can no longer listen to his voice nor look at his petulant face. That fat show on the telly is about as bizarre as it gets particularly when it is clear that he is more overweight than most of the contestants. If he had the balls he would fully participate and loose the pounds himself.
He's Irelands answer to Disneyland in human form, but without the fun roides.

eth0_

info@williamrua wrote: »

He just doesn't work on the telly, and he knows that.

The man's ego is so large that he cannot take the hint about his TV career. I'm sure he blames his TV failures on everyone but himself.

Anyone who saw Tubridy interview him on the Late Late recently would agree that this man thinks it's his god-given right to be on prime-time TV.

postman prat

I feel a bit lonely here in that while I wouldn't be keen on GR himself I love the show with the chats with Fiona Looney being my favourite item.

maxwell smart

postman prat wrote: »

I feel a bit lonely here in that while I wouldn't be keen on GR himself I love the show with the chats with Fiona Looney being my favourite item.

Sorry, but I can't take to that "ladyee" at all...it's always the same jokes, same mentions of male and/or female genitals, and of course, to top it off, the rip off of the fast show "verry verry drunk". I wonder if its a prerecorded section that they play on repeat every 3 weeks or so...nobody would notice really.

Cunsiderthis

maxwell smart wrote: »

Sorry, but I can't take to that "ladyee" at all...it's always the same jokes, same mentions of male and/or female genitals, and of course, to top it off, the rip off of the fast show "verry verry drunk". I wonder if its a prerecorded section that they play on repeat every 3 weeks or so...nobody would notice really.

Wow, is she still on the GR show? I remember her, when she was living in London, doing an article on the show of some exhibition or other in London and as she described the show, she was reading, word for word, the same article I was reading in the Times. I thought it was very dishonest for a journalist to use another journalists work like that.

deelite

Right I'm going to tune in tomorrow morning - and listen very carefully (hopefully it will be about ghosts or something interesting) I read recently in the papers that he's holding out for his own chat show on RTE 1 on a Saturday night. I thought, in all honestly he did well the night he took over from Mr. Kenny on the Late Late.

The one thing that I'm slightly confused at (and this is not just directed at GR) is why have certain presenters got a "hold" over RTE - (apart from advertising revenue). If their contracts were not renewed where would they go to?

Poly

deelite wrote: »

The one thing that I'm slightly confused at (and this is not just directed at GR) is why have certain presenters got a "hold" over RTE - (apart from advertising revenue). If their contracts were not renewed where would they go to?

Certainly not to a private station,as they would require someone with talent.

Cunsiderthis

Poly wrote: »

Certainly not to a private station,as they would require someone with talent.

While you may think Mr Ryan untalented, there are 300 000 listeners to his who who appear to disagree. Perhaps you make the mistake of thinking your opinion is bound to be universal and shared by everyone else, but the 300 000 listeners to his radio show appear to highlight the contradiction with that view.

The reason RTE pays its talent so well was discussed in another thread, and it's all to do with the political game of keeping the licence fee all to themselves.

Why would any of the on air talent which is so generously paid want to defect and go elsewhere when no one else can pay them anything like the same money, ( due to RTE's cofferes being filled with the licence fee every year), and when they actually do so little work for the money ( it's estimated Maricn Finucane broadcasts, for example, 140 hours per year in return for +-€430 000 per year).

tbh

Cunsiderthis wrote: »

While you may think Mr Ryan untalented, there are 300 000 listeners to his who who appear to disagree. Perhaps you make the mistake of thinking your opinion is bound to be universal and shared by everyone else, but the 300 000 listeners to his radio show appear to highlight the contradiction with that view.

The reason RTE pays its talent so well was discussed in another thread, and it's all to do with the political game of keeping the licence fee all to themselves.

Why would any of the on air talent which is so generously paid want to defect and go elsewhere when no one else can pay them anything like the same money, ( due to RTE's cofferes being filled with the licence fee every year), and when they actually do so little work for the money ( it's estimated Maricn Finucane broadcasts, for example, 140 hours per year in return for +-€430 000 per year).

the question is, are those people listening because it's G ryan, or because it's 2fm? what are the figures like when Ryaner isn't around?

Poly

Cunsiderthis wrote: »

Perhaps you make the mistake of thinking your opinion is bound to be universal and shared by everyone else, but the 300 000 listeners to his radio show appear to highlight the contradiction with that view.

My opinion is also based on Family, friends, work colleagues and I would say the majority of boardsies.
I don’t know anyone who listens to the tripe. I only tune in to hear him gripe about boards.ie
As was discussed here before, I really question how the listenership figures are arrived at. ( and TV figures too)

SEPT 23 1989

He just had a lady on talking about genealogy when the interview was over he lowers his voice and says she has a lovely voice

then he says to her would you mind saying

"would you like to come for a walk with me?"

awkward silence,mortified lady says its daytime radio and says something else to try and change the subject

absolute p**v**t

miketv

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

He just had a lady on talking about genealogy when the interview was over he lowers his voice and says she has a lovely voice

then he says to her would you mind saying

"would you like to come for a walk with me?"

awkward silence,mortified lady says its daytime radio and says something else to try and change the subject

absolute p**v**t

That was very strange, she seemed very confused by the way the conversation was about to go

ManFromAtlantis

he thinks laydeeees love his voice.
well ?

Degsy

bilko1234 wrote: »

It sounds like he's going to start making representations to Daragh Doyle of Board.ie if this mornings patter was anything to go by.
He said for years, Facebook wouldn't listen to him or return his mails/calls, when all of a sudden they saw "reason".
I think he's going to make sure that Boards sees "reason".
Stand firm people, stand firm.

He pestered facebook to take down the group about him and now he has boards in his sights for criticism of his show and presenting style.
He wants a blanket ban on criticism of himself,a concept completely at odds with a democratic society.

Cunsiderthis

Poly wrote: »

My opinion is also based on Family, friends, work colleagues and I would say the majority of boardsies.
I don’t know anyone who listens to the tripe. I only tune in to hear him gripe about boards.ie
As was discussed here before, I really question how the listenership figures are arrived at. ( and TV figures too)

Your opinion is your opinion and can be based on whatever you choose to base it on. However, to claim you know what most people on boards think on any subject seems to question your judgement.

You are also free to question where the listenership figures come from too. Where have you questioned them and what was the answer to your questions? Or by question, do you mean you don't want to believe them and haven't questioned anyone?

While it may not flatter your case that 300 000 people do listen to his show, that's a fact. I am astonished anyone listens to many tv shows, which are so dreadful that they embarass me out of the room, but that doesn't lead me to think that no one watches the programme.

tbh wrote: »

the question is, are those people listening because it's G ryan, or because it's 2fm? what are the figures like when Ryaner isn't around?

I really have no idea, but there are plenty of radio stations for each of them to listen to and now one is forced to listen to someone on the radio when they have a show they prefer on another channel.

In any case, he achieves a listenership of 300 000, and that's enough for ORETE to keep him on air. I'm not sure the if-there-was-someone-else-in-place-of-him is an argument often used for tv or radio presenters who achieve decent audiences. Certainly its an argument I haven't heard before, and obviously a question which is rhetorical.

tbh

Degsy wrote: »

now he has boards in his sights for criticism of his show and presenting style.

he doesn't degsy.

JonathanAnon

My god he's singing on The Mooney Show now..