Morning Ireland - wrong timechecks

Comhrá

The presenters on Morning Ireland seem to have an tendancy to give wrong timechecks with monotonous regularity.

How they can get the hour wrong so often is beyond me. It's almost always a case of getting the hour wrong - "Time now is fourteen minutes to nine" only to apologise a few minutes later with a correction. . . "that should of course have been fourteen minutes to eight".

Surely there's a large simple clock with hands somewhere in the studio in clear view of the presenters? It sounds distinctly amateurish to be making this basic mistake on air so often.

Harry Palmr

This is as old as the programme - Aine Lawlor made it her speciality.

L1011

tippman1 wrote: »

The presenters on Morning Ireland seem to have an tendancy to give wrong timechecks with monotonous regularity.

How they can get the hour wrong so often is beyond me. It's almost always a case of getting the hour wrong - "Time now is fourteen minutes to nine" only to apologise a few minutes later with a correction. . . "that should of course have been fourteen minutes to eight".

Surely there's a large simple clock with hands somewhere in the studio in clear view of the presenters? It sounds distinctly amateurish to be making this basic mistake on air so often.

Clocks with hands cause this type of confusion. 7:46 is universally understood.

Comhrá

Clocks with hands cause this type of confusion. 7:46 is universally understood.

L1011, You may have hit the nail on the head! I'll suggest they go digital.

(p.s. you must be a Lockheed Tristar fan?)

PeterTheEighth

This is a bugbear of mine as well. The amount of times that they announce the wrong time is just ridiculous. And what's worse is that neither the production team nor the co-presenter are prepared to correct them. Are the presenters that precious that they wont allow themselves to be corrected?

If I running RTE, I would install one of these.



And simply tell the presenters if they want to tell the audience the time, simply read back the words.

Comhrá

One wrong time-check yesterday morning (wrong hour) and the same gaffe again this morning - quickly corrected both times in fairness - but the presenters should really not be making these constant mistakes over and over.

Do they not sit down after the show finishes and ask themselves how they did?

How many mistakes? These time-check errors are an almost daily occurrences and have been for years. Amateurish.