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RTE Radio 1's depressing start to the New Year.

  • 03-01-2011 6:22pm
    #1
    Oracle
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    What a lovely way to start the New Year. :rolleyes:

    After the News at One, there's the "800 Voices" show, an ex-Artane Industrial School pupil hosts a live music show from the US. Then after the 6pm news, there's the Documentary on One, the story of one woman's journey into institutional insanity. As if we weren't depressed enough already. :(

    http://www.rte.ie/radio/listing.html?channel=110


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  • #2
    mike65
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    Worthy but dull, classic seasonal filler, either that or Brendan Balfe filling in. And he's been given the boot so worthy documentaries it is.


  • #3
    JonathanAnon
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    Oracle wrote: »
    What a lovely way to start the New Year. :rolleyes:
    After the News at One, there's the "800 Voices" show, an ex-Artane Industrial School pupil hosts a live music show from the US.

    I really couldnt believe this ... 90 minutes of filler... I'm sorry for this guy if he had a rough time in the industrial schools, but it's not good radio... Like I said already, RTE should just shut down between December 23rd and January 4th, The quality of the programming does not even justify the overheads of lighting, heating and (partial) staffing the building for the two weeks..


  • #4
    Lapin
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    And when they do slowly creek back to life over the coming days we can expect more of Paddy O'Gorman and his dog talking to people on the ground about issues like drug addiction, homelessness,and hard done by members of the travelling community.

    And Ryan Tubridy asking his guests about their battle with cancer or Joe Duffy taking phonecalls from the women of Ballyfermot about bent clergy in the parish.

    Even as I write this, RTÉ 1 television are airing a documentry about the Yorkshire Ripper. And while it may be interesting, its hardly the most uplifting fare they can broadcast on what is supposed to be the most optomistic bank holiday weekend of the year.

    Just what is RTÉ's obsession with misery ?


  • #5
    JonathanAnon
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    Lapin wrote: »
    And Ryan Tubridy asking his guests about their battle with cancer or Joe Duffy taking phonecalls from the women of Ballyfermot about bent clergy in the parish.

    It is true, the amount of misery porn that RTE engage in is ridiculous... They should really focus on trying to lift the nation.. and not with their usual sh1te efforts Winning Streak, Liveline Funny Friday and Late Late Show (which they classify as light hearted entertainment, but usually descends into a discussion of a terminal illness by 11.30)... The radio is wall to wall discussion of economy interspersed with depressing documentaries..

    I have an idea of how to inject some laughter in to the new year.. RTE management on the first day back, should organise two meetings with Tubridy.. one to fire him from the radio job, and the other to fire him from the TV job... record his expressions on hidden camera and upload to youtube... oh how I would laugh..


  • #6
    ruanaidh
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    I've had to stop listening to RTE, near put me to downing a bottle of whiskey along with 20 sleeping tablets.

    Then there is the radio advertisements about deaths on Irish roads. I think we have all got the message at this stage! The country is f#cked and speed kills!!


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  • #7
    Oracle
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    ... true, also all those adverts about cancer. :(


  • #8
    irishh_bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,700 ✭✭✭irishh_bob


    katherine thomas was on this morning and had the unbearabley smug ( and ross o carroll kelly like ) john o keefe as a guest , he along with some chick i never heard of were debating a recent report on how international opinion is critical of how we fare in the looks department

    while he might just come across as a harmless tosser ( hes dean of law at a well known private 3rd level institution btw ) , this is a man who during the boom was one of the chief property pimps in the sindo , each week he would schill for a particular irish company who sold property in dubai , this company went into liquidation more than two years ago and thousands of irish ( and british ) investors got badly burned , its well known that o keefe was a close friend of the directors of the now defunct company , any time i hear the slimeball on the radio , i make sure to send in a text which refers to his past life as a schill for this bankrupt outfit but RTE have yet to read it out


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