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The John Murray Show

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    #122
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,576 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    dambarude wrote: »
    He's a psychoanalyst. Apparently he has a busy practice. It seems a bit odd to be combining that with newsreading if you ask me.

    Why?


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    #123
    Bobba Fett
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭Bobba Fett


    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Any source for that Bobba?

    My ears! :P No Kia sponsorship sting at the start of the show, no Kia sponsorship sting in or out of the commercial breaks and no Kia sponsorship sting at the end of the show.

    Listen in tomorrow and see if they're back but I'd put money on it that Kia have bailed out. I don't blame them either!


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    #124
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,576 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    Thanks for that...will listen out .


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    #125
    dambarude
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 2,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭dambarude


    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Why?

    I don't know... it just seems like an odd combination to me!


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    #126
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 12,971 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    I caught the repeat of yesterdays piece on the overnight. Asidee from the banality of the piece in general, you could almost sense JM biting his tongue from a few schoolboy bum chum type comments as Murphy and his partner were talking about their upcoming civil partnership ceremony. In some ways, it was even more painful to listen to than his normal arf arf type jokes.


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    #127
    FlutterinBantam
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    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Thanks for that...will listen .

    Listened and indeed not a whiff of a Kia ad anywhere.


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    #128
    Bobba Fett
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭Bobba Fett


    Yeah I'm nearly positive it's been pulled now. Nothing this morning either.


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    #129
    Slidey
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    Jaysus, this mornings intro was dire.

    Someone needs to tell this guy he is not funny. At all.


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    #130
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,646 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Slidey wrote: »
    Jaysus, this mornings intro was dire.

    Someone needs to tell this guy he is not funny. At all.
    Came in to post exactly the same thing.

    How is this show still on the radio?


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    #131
    FlutterinBantam
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    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Came in to post exactly the same thing.

    How is this show still on the radio?

    Only got the first 20 or so seconds,before the off button got a dig.

    Cringeworthy stuff.


    Pull it.


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    #132
    JonathanAnon
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    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Only got the first 20 or so seconds,before the off button got a dig.Cringeworthy stuff.

    Slagging Mickey Harte and playing "Pretty Little Girl From Omagh" (supposedly as a joke) to a man that lost his daughter less than six months ago :eek:.. He's not funny and has no cop on.. I didnt think he could do a worse intro than his intro where he read out a letter supposedly from the queen to David Cameron, but he's managed it.. It's time for RTE to bin their two 9am fiascos..


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    #133
    Losty Dublin
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    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    Slagging Mickey Harte and playing "Pretty Little Girl From Omagh" (supposedly as a joke) to a man that lost his daughter less than six months ago :eek:.. He's not funny and has no cop on.. I didnt think he could do a worse intro than his intro where he read out a letter supposedly from the queen to David Cameron, but he's managed it.. It's time for RTE to bin their two 9am fiascos..

    Agreed there, it was not at all nice; all the worse was how it is meant to be somehow humourous.

    One other thing about today's show; one of his "random" vox pop comments was from this man.

    www.tinyjames.com

    I presume his professional just happened, by sheer chance and co-incidence, to be wandering around at the time they were recording :rolleyes:


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    #134
    Aidric
    Registered Users Posts: 13,589 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    The Flutt will be putting the broad thumb on the off button as soon a JMs Doob accent contaminates the 'hairwaves.
    No way bro.
    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Don't say I didn't tell you, :Gave it a bit of a go for the first week,and couldn't take any more of Dubbelin John shouting down the mike.
    NT between 09 and 10 for me
    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Anyone still listening to RTE1 between 09 and 10?
    Total rubbish in my opinion.
    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    In the interview with the young wan, he floundered for about 20 minutes.
    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    He had an interview with a mother and a daughter who had a baby recently.
    young Shannon.
    Murray floundered like a beached walrus throughout the interview
    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Nope, soon as I hear that dreadful Doob accent, I switch her off till 1000.
    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Nope, hit the off button as soon as the news finished.
    Terrible stuff....and getting worse.
    FlutterinBantam wrote: »

    Listened and indeed not a whiff of a Kia ad anywhere.
    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    Only got the first 20 or so seconds,before the off button got a dig.
    Cringeworthy stuff.
    Pull it.
    For a man who says he hits the off button as soon as Murray comes on, you can't seem to tune out.


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    #135
    mrsdewinter
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    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    Slagging Mickey Harte and playing "Pretty Little Girl From Omagh" (supposedly as a joke) to a man that lost his daughter less than six months ago :eek:.. He's not funny and has no cop on.. I didnt think he could do a worse intro than his intro where he read out a letter supposedly from the queen to David Cameron, but he's managed it.. It's time for RTE to bin their two 9am fiascos..

    God, I couldn't believe it when he mentioned Mickey Harte's name. Not cool, John...


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    #136
    FlutterinBantam
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    Aidric wrote: »
    For a man who says he hits the off button as soon as Murray comes on, you can't seem to tune out.


    Only reason is I forgot to turn the radio off.

    Sometimes I have to keep listening to see if it is really as bad as I thought.


    It is. Sorry.


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    #137
    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,703 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Just read a snippet in todays Irish Independant regarding his "comedy" vignette at the start of yesterdays show. Apparently his used some of the answers Mickey Harte gave in his drivetime interview and inserted his own "humerous" questions for no other reason only to make Mickey look stupid.
    Looks like the ajectives petty and sneering can be added to his discription.


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    #138
    JonathanAnon
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    This is the offending "comedy" intro.. It really is awful.. soundbites, bad jokes... It's like something from college radio..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7go_94C6mIY


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    #139
    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,703 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    This is the offending "comedy" intro.. It really is awful.. soundbites, bad jokes... It's like something from college radio..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7go_94C6mIY
    Words fail me.


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    #140
    FlutterinBantam
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    padd b1975 wrote: »
    Words fail me.

    They don't fail me.


    Stupid, amateur, cringeworthy, in fact the greatest load of crap broadcasting(almost) I have ever heard.

    I turned it off(the live show) at the first mention of Mickey Harte.

    How does the producer and presenter stand over this rubbish.


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    #141
    JonathanAnon
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    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    How does the producer and presenter stand over this rubbish.

    Well I guess it's the whole back slapping nature of things in RTE.. But I cant believe that somebody would have picked up on the fact that it may have been in bad taste to play "Pretty Little Girl From Omagh", given that his own little girl died five months ago..


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    #142
    Lapin
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    It was a cheap shot and one that RTÉ should be ashamed of.

    The extracts in the 'humorous item' were taken from an interview Harte gave to Mary Wilson on Drivetime the previous day. It centered around the decision by a group of GAA managers not to speak to RTÉ, due to what they believe to be an unfair demotion of GAA commentator Brian Carthy

    Following the interview Wilson said a spokesperson from RTÉ was also asked appear on the programme, but they declined.
    (This was the first time I ever heard of anyone in Montrose refusing an interview on one of their own programmes.)

    I wouldn't blame Micky Harte if he never spoke to them again.

    Not just because of the insensitave nature of the piece as mentioned by Jonathon and Flutt above.

    But also because it was an extremely cynical method used by RTÉ to downplay their farsical handling of the apparent demotion of one of their own staff. They didn't have the guts to speak with Harte when they were offered the opportunity to do so, but have no problem taking his interview out of context for their own use.

    It was a sickening and nasty excuse for humour and I'm saddened that Murray went along with it.
    I thought he was better than that.


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    #143
    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,703 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Lapin wrote: »
    It was a cheap shot and one that RTÉ should be ashamed of.

    The extracts in the 'humorous item' were taken from an interview Harte gave to Mary Wilson on Drivetime the previous day. It centered around the decision by a group of GAA managers not to speak to RTÉ, due to what they believe to be an unfair demotion of GAA commentator Brian Carthy

    Following the interview Wilson said a spokesperson from RTÉ was also asked appear on the programme, but they declined.
    (This was the first time I ever heard of anyone in Montrose refusing an interview on one of their own programmes.)

    I wouldn't blame Micky Harte if he never spoke to them again.

    Not just because of the insensitave nature of the piece as mentioned by Jonathon and Flutt above.

    But also because it was an extremely cynical method used by RTÉ to downplay their farsical handling of the apparent demotion of one of their own staff. They didn't have the guts to speak with Harte when they were offered the opportunity to do so, but have no problem taking his interview out of context for their own use.

    It was a sickening and nasty excuse for humour and I'm saddened that Murray went along with it.
    I thought he was better than that.
    He is not better than that.
    Been mooching around that slot for the thick end of a year trying to be funny.
    He has failed........ admit it RTE.


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    #144
    JonathanAnon
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    Lapin wrote: »
    The extracts in the 'humorous item' were taken from an interview Harte gave to Mary Wilson on Drivetime the previous day.

    I heard the interview the previous day, but I think part of the it was taken from The Business Show over the previous year.. he was brought in to that show to listen to business pitches from business owners (over the phone) and he would give his opinion as to who was the best.


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    #145
    Harry Angstrom
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    While I don't agree that GAA managers should dictate RTE policy, I find it staggering that they included that song in the "sketch". Truly shockingly insensitive.


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    #146
    padd b1975
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    To be honest the connection between the song and his daughter flew over my head until Jon pointed it out in an earlier post as my mind was more concentrated on Murray's contribution. Which leads to the question what if any daily/ weekly/ monthly debrief is held between presenter and back room staff?? My guess is none at all.


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    #147
    dambarude
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    Just listened to the clip above there (thanks JonAnon). Wow it's bad.

    They must be wondering where they can move him to... his place has been filled on The Business and Morning Ireland. Whatever way they go about it it won't look good, but after hearing that clip it seems like an inevitability that he will be shifted.


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    #148
    newcavanman
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    I can't understand how anyone enjoys this guy. He isn't funny, full stop . RTE need to get a grip, and realise they are pissing our money away making crap like this.


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    #149
    JonathanAnon
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    newcavanman wrote: »
    RTE need to get a grip, and realise they are pissing our money away making crap like this.

    I think that particularly over the last couple of years they have made a number of really bad broadcasting decisions, which seemed more to be appease their presenters themselves, rather than to genuinely try to improve the quality of broadcasting..

    John Murray was good at the business show... BUT RTE had nothing for George Lee had no job (given that he is still in "decontamination") and they needed someone to fill in Gerry Ryan's slot.. So, rather than find somebody new for any of the positions they just simply found a job for all their existing presenters, never mind whether they were fitted to the job or not.. And what did they come up with..

    George Lee on The Business Show... okay at best..
    Tubridy talking about Willy Wonka and Clinton from 9am-11am (2FM) .. awful
    The John Murray Comedy Hour 9am-10am (Radio 1) ... awful
    Charlie Bird.. given whatever job he wants apparently... though he's never happy.

    RTE seems is run for the benefit of the people in the organisation themselves, not for the good of the public.. They then just spin the JNLR figures to suit themselves..


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    #150
    Slidey
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    I used to think the show was ok. In my mind it was a hell of a lot better than having tubbers on, I am allergic to him.

    However, his intros are dire and he just needs to drop his comedy attempts. Local radio is brutal for me, D'arcy would give an anadin a headache and Tubbers is a no go, so as it stands he is the best of a bad lot.


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    #151
    FlutterinBantam
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    JonathanAnon wrote: »
    I think that particularly over the last couple of years they have made a number of really bad broadcasting decisions, which seemed more to be appease their presenters themselves, rather than to genuinely try to improve the quality of broadcasting..

    John Murray was good at the business show... BUT RTE had nothing for George Lee had no job (given that he is still in "decontamination") and they needed someone to fill in Gerry Ryan's slot.. So, rather than find somebody new for any of the positions they just simply found a job for all their existing presenters, never mind whether they were fitted to the job or not.. And what did they come up with..

    George Lee on The Business Show... okay at best..
    Tubridy talking about Willy Wonka and Clinton from 9am-11am (2FM) .. awful
    The John Murray Comedy Hour 9am-10am (Radio 1) ... awful
    Charlie Bird.. given whatever job he wants apparently... though he's never happy.

    RTE seems is run for the benefit of the people in the organisation themselves, not for the good of the public.. They then just spin the JNLR figures to suit themselves..

    Have to agree that Those Who Rule in Montrose have gotten many things wrong

    Tubridy does not connect with the 2fm audience.... end of story.

    Murray is at the very best, poor.

    Definitely not up to an hour show.Kia seem to have seen the light.

    In my opinion RTE1 Rad need to take a bit of a risk with that 0900-1000 hour and get maybe a younger age demographic at least tempted to tune in.

    Not Kat Thomas who is way too 'into' celeb culture and tabloid stuff.

    No, some eager young hopeful who perhaps can combine a fast running but interesting hour with some serious interviews handled with professionalism and not that absolute crud that the producer of the John Murray show seems to think is appropriate.

    Absolute total load of bollocks, if i may say so.


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