ryan tubridy and the rest of rte your a load of old &*%$£

steddyeddy

Im sick of the keeping it in the family nature of rte, ryan tub getting gerry ryans slot ect. I dont watch the afternoon shows but they all seem to be sisters! I know were a small country but that doesnt mean our tv station has to be backward!

steddyeddy

They used to say that the church and state in ireland were too close but id lump rte into that aswell!

albeit

Yes, it is like that in RTÉ. It is alot easier to get a job there with contacts, as it is in most workplaces, only in a such a public organisation it becomes very obvious to all the people that are literally watching it.

Hank_Jones

I'm tired of people not using proper grammar.

I don't know why it is so important to me, but it is.

steddyeddy

albeit wrote: »

Yes, it is like that in RTÉ. It is alot easier to get a job there with contacts, as it is in most workplaces, only in a such a public organisation it becomes very obvious to all the people that are literally watching it.

Yes i know contacts help but they are forgetting its not a old boys club talent matters, take a leaf from the bbcs book rte!

SeaFields

and its exactly why George Lee and Charlie Bird went running home to daddy...

steddyeddy

yea the realized the problem with working for a media outlet run like a social club is that chances are talent has nothing to do with it, i have a lot more respect for people like vincent browne!

Coriolanus

I'm glad to see him get it. Hopefully the Liveline will be moved to 2fm as well, and we can get decent current affairs during the day as well as early morning.

They're such hodge podge stations, they really need to seperate them properly and put all the idiot shows onto 2fm.

Celly Smunt

steddyeddy wrote: »

yea the realized the problem with working for a media outlet run like a social club is that chances are talent has nothing to do with it, i have a lot more respect for people like vincent browne!

if thats who we have to choose from i don't think i want a t.v anymore

questionmark?

steddyeddy wrote: »

Im sick of the keeping it in the family nature of rte, ryan tub getting gerry ryans slot ect. I dont watch the afternoon shows but they all seem to be sisters! I know were a small country but that doesnt mean our tv station has to be backward!

Two words > subscribe & newsletter - that is all

rovert

steddyeddy wrote: »

Im sick of the keeping it in the family nature of rte, ryan tub getting gerry ryans slot ect. I dont watch the afternoon shows but they all seem to be sisters! I know were a small country but that doesnt mean our tv station has to be backward!

Television forum invades After hours

As much as some boardsies say they hate RTE they by god love watching it.

albeit

However, his slot in the morning after morning Ireland doesnt really fit there, it is much too lighthearted after all the heavy going news discussions. They are probably planning to put something more "serious" in there.

orourkeda

Please dont give Joe Duffy any ideas?

We dont need his offspring waffling on the radio too.

albeit

steddyeddy wrote: »

Yes i know contacts help but they are forgetting its not a old boys club talent matters, take a leaf from the bbcs book rte!

You're right. It is public service after all and not supposed to be for the purpose of people having careers getting promoted all the time. Is it in the publics interest to see the same face and hear the same voice over and over again in different shows- maybe it is. I don't mind, except why not more women- except Marian Finucane and Marion (?) from Prime Time women don't seem to get promoted as much or having more and more different shows.

recylingbin

Surely you mean AreTE?

Killer Pigeon

steddyeddy wrote: »

Im sick of the keeping it in the family nature of rte, ryan tub getting gerry ryans slot ect. I dont watch the afternoon shows but they all seem to be sisters! I know were a small country but that doesnt mean our tv station has to be backward!

"... 600,000 a year, for an 11 hour week?! And in the boom time you were earning 900,000!"

bigwormbundoran

rovert wrote: »

Television forum invades After hours

As much as some boardsies say they hate RTE they by god love watching it.

Well they have to pay for it, so they should have right to complaing about the muck it comes out with

Celly Smunt

Killer Pigeon wrote: »

"... 600,000 a year, for an 11 hour week?! And in the boom time you were earning 900,000!"

ah he works more than 11 hours a week,it's like the way people think radio hosts work for 2 hours a day

albeit

steddyeddy wrote: »

They used to say that the church and state in ireland were too close but id lump rte into that aswell!

Isn't rté state-run, I thought it was partly founed by tax anyway, so it is already lumped in with the state. As long as they play the angulus (sp?) every day at 12 and 6 on radio and tv I suppose they are also lumped in with the church.

albeit

recylingbin wrote: »

Surely you mean AreTE?

That's because it is an abbreviation of Irish words and R is pronounced like that in Irish. Fyi, but maybe you already knew.

steddyeddy

Hank_Jones wrote: »

I'm tired of people not using proper grammar.

I don't know why it is so important to me, but it is.

mm from an evolutionary point of view maybe me you come from a tribe which held grammar was highly important and a miss use resulted in death!

steddyeddy

albeit wrote: »

Isn't rté state-run, I thought it was partly founed by tax anyway, so it is already lumped in with the state. As long as they play the angulus (sp?) every day at 12 and 6 on radio and tv I suppose they are also lumped in with the church.

yes i wish they got rid of that archaic jingle in front of the news very backward!

steddyeddy

ryan is in rte because they eqaute obnoxiousness with talent and b he has more connections than a universal adaptor

rovert

bigwormbundoran wrote: »

Well they have to pay for it, so they should have right to complaing about the muck it comes out with

Muck that they faithfully watch every day/week/episode. Viewership and listemship figures dont lie.

steddyeddy

rovert wrote: »

Muck that they faithfully watch every day/week/episode. Viewership and listemship figures dont lie.

doesnt change the fact that their attitude to new talent sucks

albeit

steddyeddy wrote: »

yes i wish they got rid of that archaic jingle in front of the news very backward!

when you think about it, what an insult to people that have been abused by and/or left the church. and they are forced to pay tax for it..

thetonynator

questionmark? wrote: »

Two words > subscribe & newsletter - that is all

Isn't that 5???:P

Hank_Jones

steddyeddy wrote: »

mm from an evolutionary point of view maybe me you come from a tribe which held grammar was highly important and a miss use resulted in death!

I think the less said about this post the better...

steddyeddy

albeit wrote: »

when you think about it, what an insult to people that have been abused by and/or left the church. and they are forced to pay tax for it..

Very true and some have asked from it to be removed, the whole eating out of the churchs hand is a another thing rte do, when your tied in with state and church you dont want to step on any toes!

ascanbe

rovert wrote: »

Muck that they faithfully watch every day/week/episode. Viewership and listemship figures dont lie.

There's a sizable contingent in this country who would watch/listen to RTE exclusively, even if all their programmes were hosted by Barney the dinosaur; viewer/listenership figures cannot be put down to the quality of the presenters.
And nothing justifies their preposterous wage packets.

albeit

steddyeddy wrote: »

Very true and some have asked from it to be removed, the whole eating out of the churchs hand is a another thing rte do, when your tied in with state and church you dont want to step on any toes!

Interesting point, the one about not wanting to step on any toes. They have started to step a little bit on the toes of the church though, in a way, at the same time keeping up the same old dogma expressions such as the angulus. Strange. Maybe it is on the way out.

Wazdakka

I know a certain ex-boardsie who needs to know about any public tubridy bashing...

steddyeddy

ascanbe wrote: »

There's a sizable contingent in this country who would watch/listen to RTE exclusively, even if all their programmes were hosted by Barney the dinosaur; viewer/listenership figures cannot be put down to the quality of the presenters.
And nothing justifies their preposterous wage packets.

very true and funny! i think though once the new generation takes over in this country they will have to actually search for talent that isnt directly related to someone currently working for them.

rovert

ascanbe wrote: »

There's a sizable contingent in this country who would watch/listen to RTE exclusively, even if all their programmes were hosted by Barney the dinosaur; viewer/listenership figures cannot be put down to the quality of the presenters.

Nothing to do with the point I was making.

starbelgrade

I think Tubridy is a pretty good presenter - definitely better than Gerry Ryan was on his show, or Pat Kenny was on the Late Late.

Having said that, he is vastly over-paid & it would have done no harm at all to find someone "new" to do the show and to leave him on Radio 1.