RTEs Summer on One - new voice

mike65

Your wan has gone to rest up after her stint and we have some fella in her place, the moment I herd him speak I was discombobulated and for a moment I wasn't sure why. Than it hit me - he has a vocal tone and delivery that speaks of the night. Quite simply he's on at the wrong time.

robo

I liked Gavin Duffy, but yes agree with you on the time of day...suits the evening - night shift radio. Isn't he suppose to be going to Newstalk?

mike65

Apparently.

FlutterinBantam

First you have KT jumping out of her skin in false jollity at 0900,roaring laughing at every false opportunity, and now you have a lad GD,whose delivery and pace would make Val Joyce seem like Dave Fanning, and whose funereal pace leaves one in a somnolent and semi comatose state come 0955, only to be brought back from the trance by the 1000 news.

Jaysus!!!

Barname

Gavin,

your chin is kissing your Hermes tie

Chin up! dont talk into your shirt

project your voice !

SEPT 23 1989

I wonder how many people have crashed their cars while falling asleep at the wheel listening to Gavin? He would be much better suited on nightime radio

Lenny Lovett

Yet another millionaire feeding at the trough supplied by the taxpayer. Just what we (and all unemployed media people too) need. Well done again RTE!

Sergeant

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Val Joyce seem like Dave Fanning

They should try and get Val Joyce to put down his wine glass, stump out his cigar, and get out of his easy chair. Now that was a radio professional. He got the time wrong, he put on the wrong songs, he left the mike open.

But he was fantastic. Charismatic, aware of his audience, funny without being "zany".

Missed.

delaad

Sergeant wrote: »

They should try and get Val Joyce to put down his wine glass, stump out his cigar, and get out of his easy chair. Now that was a radio professional. He got the time wrong, he put on the wrong songs, he left the mike open.

But he was fantastic. Charismatic, aware of his audience, funny without being "zany".

Missed.

And a damn good tipster to boot. Was at a do in Leopardstown some time back where he did the PR bit and he gave the winners of the first three races bang on.... Seemed to lose the script for the last four though, but who cared? Great day; fond memories of Val Joyce.

Sergeant

delaad wrote: »

And a damn good tipster to boot. Was at a do in Leopardstown some time back where he did the PR bit and he gave the winners of the first three races bang on.... Seemed to lose the script for the last four though, but who cared? Great day; fond memories of Val Joyce.

I have vague memories of Val Joyce doing the Saturday racing/sports programme during the mid 80's, only a nipper at the time so I could be wrong.

Even though RTE have a racing commentator at the moment, and you can tell the horse he has backed by the excitement - or indeed the lack of it in his voice.

Aidric

I remember Val doing a fair bit of work down at the Killarney summer racing festival. You couldn't misplace those dulcet tones.
He was of course to perfect man to send you to forty winks.

delaad

Sergeant wrote: »

I have vague memories of Val Joyce doing the Saturday racing/sports programme during the mid 80's, only a nipper at the time so I could be wrong.

Even though RTE have a racing commentator at the moment, and you can tell the horse he has backed by the excitement - or indeed the lack of it in his voice.

If I'm not totally mistaken, at that time in the mid 80's, betting tax (yes!) in the bookies was 20%. Off-course betting died in the shops as a result, and publicans spotted a gap in the market for Saturday afternoon betting. They acted as bookmakers for their customers, settling wagers based on the Starting Prices as relayed by Val on his Saturday afternoon show.

This went on for three or four years, until eventually the off-course 20% tax was dropped.

So if you ever see your Granny or Granddad getting misty at the mention of Val Joyce, you'll now know why.

Lenny Lovett

Anyway, steering gently back on topic. I listened to him this morning for a bit. He's a smarmy git and his little banter with Derek Crystal Swinger was cringeworthy. Didn't he used to do News at 1 on RTE years ago?

Plowman

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Lenny Lovett

Plowman wrote: »

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But that's what he is, patronising. He was most unpleasant on The Apprentice and Dragons Den.

INCONFIDENCE

He never asked the obvious question to his "Good Friend", did he snog Lucy Kennedy. It was interesting the way it is acceptable from Lucy to take him to his debs and her an older married woman. What about a married man taking a young girl would that be acceptable.

win2one

Lenny Lovett wrote: »

Yet another millionaire feeding at the trough supplied by the taxpayer. Just what we need. Well done again RTE!

I agree