Radio presenters in the wrong place thread

Anorak34c

John kelly and Marty Whelan RTE lyric fm, Tom Dunne Newstalk, Dave Fanning and Larry Gogan 2fm, Ray Darcy RTE radio 1

heybaby

Declan Meehan, Martin King Today FM

Fanning 2FM

Will Leahy Radio 1

Itssoeasy

heybaby wrote: »

Declan Meehan, Martin King Today FM

Fanning 2FM

Will Leahy Radio 1

Isn't he gone for today FM ?

heybaby

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Isn't he gone for today FM ?

I stand corrected if so,but I heard him only a few weeks back.

wnolan1992

Ray Foley - Not on Radio










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ford fiesta

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Ray Foley - Not on Radio










:pac:

I think 'not on radio' is the right place for him !

donegal.

hopefully ruth scott will be joining him

05eaftqbrs9jlh

Ivan Yates on Newstalk. He should just be universally shunned by society. What a waste of human skin.

wnolan1992

ford fiesta wrote: »

I think 'not on radio' is the right place for him !

Mikayla Round Values wrote: »

Ivan Yates on Newstalk. He should just be universally shunned by society. What a waste of human skin.

Boo-urns to both of you! :P



My serious answers though, and most have already been said:

- Tom Dunne is too good a music presenter to be on a talk station. It's totally out of place.
- Neil Prendeville shouldn't be on RED IMO, I wish RED was more youth focused.
- Game On makes no sense on 2FM.
- Ray D'Arcy's style of show made way more sense on Today FM than it does on RTER1.

heybaby

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Boo-urns to both of you! :P



My serious answers though, and most have already been said:

- Tom Dunne is too good a music presenter to be on a talk station. It's totally out of place.
- Neil Prendeville shouldn't be on RED IMO, I wish RED was more youth focused.
- Game On makes no sense on 2FM.
- Ray D'Arcy's style of show made way more sense on Today FM than it does on RTER1.

Much of 2FM makes no sense to be honest. Ditch all three presenters on Breakfast republic. Ditch Nicky Byrne, Jenny Greene is more than capable of hosting a mid-morning slot on her own without needing to cowtow to yer man.

I would absolutely agree Game ON is ridiculous, totally out of place.
I think Mc Sharry is also out of place, ideally for an alt music programme you need someone with an inherent ability to discuss the music played and not just faithfully read what's on the blurb that came with the press release. Compare McSharry with Annie Mac, the latter eats , sleeps and breathes the music she plays, you dont get that same sense of knowledge and authority from McSharry and it robs her of credibility just at a time when 2 FM is craving some credibility.

Conor Behan, Stephen Byrne and Lottie ... none of the above have the draw to engage listeners, all three are lightweight and interchangeable, the only thing they have in common with the 2fm demographic is that all three would fall neatly into it age wise.

Fergal darcy / Paula mcsweeney.. neither sound like they fit Today FM. the former too manic, the latter nowhere near slick enough to be on national radio.

Declan A Walsh

Here is my tuppence worth.

Tom Dunne - Newstalk - as said before, because of his musical knowledge.

Richie McCormack - Newstalk - Yes, he is good at doing sport. The problem is that this guy is also very knowledgeable and interested in music, as anyone who heard him on Phantom would know.

Marty Whelan - Lyric FM - he does not play anything remotely classical.

Larry Gogan - 2FM - his style is not suited to 2FM as it is currently constituted.

Colm Hayes - 2FM - his style is not suited to 2FM as it is currently constituted.

Neil Delamare - Today FM - don't think his style really suits the chat show he presents,which has quite a slice of current affairs.

John Barker - 98FM - Totally Irish is very different from the style of 98FM these days.

Other than that, it's a struggle. I can think of people who may have the wrong program rather than the wrong station!

ford fiesta

heybaby wrote: »

I think Mc Sharry is also out of place, ideally for an alt music programme you need someone with an inherent ability to discuss the music played and not just faithfully read what's on the blurb that came with the press release. Compare McSharry with Annie Mac, the latter eats , sleeps and breathes the music she plays, you dont get that same sense of knowledge and authority from McSharry and it robs her of credibility just at a time when 2 FM is craving some credibility.

I agree with your comments about McSharry. Like a lot of the presenters that have come to national radio in the past 10 years, she comes across as a bluffer when it comes to music. I think she has, and had too much, going on in her private life to take an active interest in new music. As you say it sounds like she is reading from a press release just doing a job on a computer.

It just so happens that she is now as I type, on the Ray D'Arcy show on TV talking about taking a pregnancy test in the radio centre in RTE with her husband who works in RTE. We don't need to know this, music presenters of the past didn't talk like this before. I doubt Annie Mac or any proper and credible music presenter would divulge their private life on national TV.

Dan Healy made another poor choice, in this case to fill Dave Fanning's shoes (different times I know). Perhaps she would be more suited back in generic commercial / regional / Dublin youth radio?? Her show on RTE 2FM is supposed to be specialist??? It does not sound that way.

Good luck to her anyway.

PeterTheEighth

Mary Wilson on any show, other than contributing as a courts reporter which she was actually good at.

ford fiesta

heybaby wrote: »

Conor Behan, Stephen Byrne and Lottie ... none of the above have the draw to engage listeners, all three are lightweight and interchangeable, the only thing they have in common with the 2fm demographic is that all three would fall neatly into it age wise.

You can add the fool carl mullen to that list also...where did the state broadcaster get him from?

bobbyss

PeterTheEighth wrote: »

Mary Wilson on any show, other than contributing as a courts reporter which she was actually good at.

She is in fact very good but I am afraid very wooden. You would wonder why she wouldn't just loosen up a little. She is missing a sense of humour. Compared to Hook she is like listening to Shakespeare.

Mr Snow

nova Greg Gaughran should do the home time show. best weekday dj they have

soc160

Adrian and Jeremy on 98, the figures are steady and all but we all know a show like that thrives at night.

Cathal Funge is a talented enough broadcaster, he could fit a slot on Today Fm somewhere I'm the future, has a good knowledge of music.

Becki Miller on spin. She's been in that slot for years now and is far more talented to be stuck there. Not sure of her personal situation but she could easily do a day tome gig if she wanted.

Faugheen

soc160 wrote: »

Becki Miller on spin. She's been in that slot for years now and is far more talented to be stuck there. Not sure of her personal situation but she could easily do a day tome gig if she wanted.

This one has always confused me. Although Nikki Hayes tweeted today to say she's leaving Spin so I would be very surprised if she's overlooked again considering how long she's been there.

Like you said though, there could be a personal situation there that makes night-time shows perfect for her.

Speaking of night-time shows, Tara Murray on FM104. The definition of a graveyard shift and I can't see how she can possibly enjoy it. Would love to see her average quarterly hour in the JNLRs.

Whoever said Richie McCormack has hit the nail on the head. He's good at what he's doing, but he's a music presenter and a pretty damn good one at that. It's a testament to him though that he's so versatile.

Darren Rice on Beat. I think he's excellent and he should be well out of there by now. Maybe he doesn't want to but after Andy Mac he's the best DJ they have. I think he would have been really good in the slot Fergal D'Arcy has now (and I like D'Arcy).

Game On on 2FM is just wrong.

Declan A Walsh

Faugheen wrote: »

Whoever said Richie McCormack has hit the nail on the head. He's good at what he's doing, but he's a music presenter and a pretty damn good one at that. It's a testament to him though that he's so versatile.

That was me! I think he needs an outlet for his music knowledge. Newstalk is not going to give him that!

padd b1975

John Murray did the sports news bulletins on Morning Ireland earlier this morning.

Lazy, uninterested and shocking diction throughout.

Pairc Ui Rinn FFS! Not Pairc Ui Ring.

Someone should tell him that pausing. after. each. word. and ending with every sentence with an upward inflection does not sound good.

Clearly wasn't tested for the role, just thrown in to give him something to do of a morning.

hullaballoo

The Rinn in Páirc Uí Rinn is next to impossible to pronounce correctly for non-Irish speakers but "Ring" is a better attempt than "Rinn" imo.

Brother camping

The Sunday business show on Today Fm doesn't make much sense imo

hullaballoo

hullaballoo wrote: »

The Rinn in Páirc Uí Rinn is next to impossible to pronounce correctly for non-Irish speakers but "Ring" is a better attempt than "Rinn" imo.

Sorry for the tangent, but it should be pronounced Rinn, not Reen/ Ring

'No accent, no stress' is the rule here. We say Sinn Féin, no Sheeng Fein.

Thugamar Féin An Samhradh Linn, not Lean, or Ling

Maybe there's a local aspect to it, but Páirc Uí Ring/Reen annoys me too.

back on topic: Ryan Tubridy is sometimes a bit too energetic first thing on a Monday morning. I wonder would he be better-placed in the 3 o'clock - 4.30 slot?

The 9am show will do well no matter who's doing it, they don't need a heavy hitter like Tubs.

hullaballoo

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Sorry for the tangent, but it should be pronounced Rinn, not Reen/ Ring

'No accent, no stress' is the rule here. We say Sinn Féin, no Sheeng Fein.

Thugamar Féin An Samhradh Linn, not Lean, or Ling

Maybe there's a local aspect to it, but Páirc Uí Ring/Reen annoys me too.

Of course, the local deviants deviations probably account for a lot. But the pronunciation of the "nn" in Rinn is the same as that in "bainne" in the other dialects (Munster being the one I know little/nothing about.) It's almost like ñ but not quite. Is that not the case in Cork Irish?

I'm not saying it's "ring" but imo, it's closer to ring than rinn.

I should probably change the thread title to "liguistics discussion in the wrong place thread" but sure at least it's getting a few posts! :pac:

wnolan1992

I was taught "linn" was pronounced "ling" in both of my North Cork schools... I'd always have pronounced it Pairc Ui Ring because it's what my Dad calls it.