RTE Radio 1 presenters

Yorky

I experience confusion between 3pm and 4.30pm weekdays:

How..just how.do such people get jobs on radio?

This is the national public service broadcaster not hospital radio!

Are personality, ability, competency and talent not basic requirements to be allowed on air?

HeidiHeidi

You should try listening between 1.45pm and 3pm some day and see how you get on :eek:

The quality of some of the broadcasters on RTE is truly shocking alright. Some, however, are great.

Just as well we have alternatives to switch over to!

Samaris

I get inflicted with afternoon radio now at work. It's okay as background noise, and irritating if I actually...well, listen to it.

Jenny Green is alright, but I really wish she'd stop saying "ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?" It got old a while ago.

Barry Badrinath

Most of them are useless.

Spin 103.8 in particular. Now, im not their targeted demographic but fcuk me, their targeted demographic must be braindead idiots.

I have given up on radio completely.

Between inane "comedy" breakfast shows, banal comment and opinion shows, bull**** celebrity news and fake ass intentional outrage shows.....the aul importance of the invention of the wireless has been dumbed down.

It's podcasts in the car from now on.

kneemos

They're embarrassingly bad,not even local radio bad,just inept and not capable of doing the job.

Yorky

Fully commercial stations don't bother me as much but the publicly funded broadcaster does >:(

Ruu

Nepotism.

Yorky

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

You should try listening between 1.45pm and 3pm some day and see how you get on :eek:

The quality of some of the broadcasters on RTE is truly shocking alright. Some, however, are great.

Just as well we have alternatives to switch over to!

I've got a radio with a tuning wheel held in place by a cocktail stick so I'm a captive audience :eek:

alan partridge aha

We allow RTE to employ an ex Today FM man (?) a wad of cash to present a crap radio and tv show. We should march on Donnybrook and get them to sack the pr1ck along with his wife? and sidekick.

HeidiHeidi

Yorky wrote: »

I've got a radio with a tuning wheel held in place by a cocktail stick so I'm a captive audience :eek:

Time for a new investment.

Or ask Santy when the time comes

Yorky

It seems the decision makers at RTE are only interested in who will maintain or boost the listenership with flagrant disregard for the said personality, ability, competency and talent traits

Yorky

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

You should try listening between 1.45pm and 3pm some day and see how you get on :eek:

The quality of some of the broadcasters on RTE is truly shocking alright. Some, however, are great.

Just as well we have alternatives to switch over to!

At least JD has ability - well not with pronunciation..

HeidiHeidi

Yorky wrote: »

At least JD has ability - well not with pronunciation..

:eek::eek::eek:

Wash your mouth out with soap, young (wo)man!

:eek::eek::eek:

*faints*

Samaris

Yorky wrote: »

It seems the decision makers at RTE are only interested in who will maintain or boost the listenership with flagrant disregard for the said personality, ability, competency and talent traits

You would think that personality, ability, competency and talent would tend to be the main factor in boosting listenership.

That or breaking everyone's car radio tuners and putting in cocktail sticks.

pappyodaniel

Ray D'arcy finally put into pasture on rte1... where he belongs and a place I won't be delving into.


Listen to Sean Moncrieff. At that time of day you won't find a better show in this country.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I'm an avid radio listener and usually stick with RTE Radio 1 from 10 am. But come 1.45 I just have to turn it off or tune to something like RTE Gold or BBC Radio 2. It's bad enough getting through the Ronan Collins Show before the news, without Duffy, D'Arcy and co.

The standard of presenter is atrocious.

HeidiHeidi

pappyodaniel wrote: »

Ray D'arcy finally put into pasture on rte1... where he belongs and a place I won't be delving into.


Listen to Sean Moncrieff. At that time of day you won't find a better show in this country.

You missed the bit where the OP is restricted by a cocktail stick

Sometimes Moncrieff is just a bit too intentionally wicky-wacky..... can only take him in limited doses. But yes, he beats the socks off D'Arcy. Which wouldn't be difficult, in fairness!

jimmy blevins

McGruber wrote: »

Most of them are useless.

Spin 103.8 in particular. Now, im not their targeted demographic but fcuk me, their targeted demographic must be braindead idiots.

I have given up on radio completely.

Between inane "comedy" breakfast shows, banal comment and opinion shows, bull**** celebrity news and fake ass intentional outrage shows.....the aul importance of the invention of the wireless has been dumbed down.

It's podcasts in the car from now on.

Do they still do the news? I'd rather listen to static on am, much less chance of crashing the car in an apoplectic fit.

Barry Badrinath

jimmy blevins wrote: »

Do they still do the news? I'd rather listen to static on am, much less chance of crashing the car in an apoplectic fit.

Not sure tbh. Last time I heard it, they mentioned The Minister for "Money" in lieu of "Finance".

The listener attention span is so minute, they do the weather summary in 5 words.

It's trash

Ted111

What the fck is it with RTE and their competitions. Every tv and radio program has a raffle integrated into it. They're such backward, gombeens. Fvck off with your raffles.

RnaG ftw. 3:30pm today they had an interview with Máirtín Ó Díreáin that was recorded in 1972. What a lovely, refreshingly different mellifluous sound on the ears, an entire world conveyed in his articulation of life.

TheRiverman

Sarai Wrong Stockade wrote: »

I'm an avid radio listener and usually stick with RTE Radio 1 from 10 am. But come 1.45 I just have to turn it off or tune to something like RTE Gold or BBC Radio 2. It's bad enough getting through the Ronan Collins Show before the news, without Duffy, D'Arcy and co.

The standard of presenter is atrocious.

I like Ronan Collins and the few songs he gets to play.The number of breaks in his show is atrocious.The Angelus,news,ads,nuacht,Liveline promo,weather forecast.Truly awful.

Yamanoto

I miss Derek Mooney.

He did a segment some years back on just how reliable info sourced using Wikipedia was, mentioning that his own page had been edited to include details of a bogus autobiography, titled 'How Beige is My Jacket?'

ButtersSuki

Yamanoto wrote: »

I miss Derek Mooney.

He did a segment some years back on just how reliable info sourced using Wikipedia was, mentioning that his own page had been edited to include details of a bogus autobiography, titled 'How Beige is My Jacket?'

Jedward and Mary Byrne miss him too. None of them have been mentioned on RYE radio since Mooney left.

muddypaws

Sarai Wrong Stockade wrote: »

I'm an avid radio listener and usually stick with RTE Radio 1 from 10 am. But come 1.45 I just have to turn it off or tune to something like RTE Gold or BBC Radio 2. It's bad enough getting through the Ronan Collins Show before the news, without Duffy, D'Arcy and co.

The standard of presenter is atrocious.

You should try BBC Radio 2 at 10.30 am - Pop Master

tupenny

I have a radio in my car

mrsdewinter

Sarai Wrong Stockade wrote: »

I'm an avid radio listener and usually stick with RTE Radio 1 from 10 am. But come 1.45 I just have to turn it off or tune to something like RTE Gold or BBC Radio 2. It's bad enough getting through the Ronan Collins Show before the news, without Duffy, D'Arcy and co.

The standard of presenter is atrocious.

You listen avidly to Radio 1 after 10am - but Collins, Liveline and the Ray D'Arcy Show get on your wick?

Just buy a new radio, will you? Life's too short.

greenflash

I always find Radio 1 to be incredibly insular, narrow minded and conservative. It's tedious banal waffle forces me to reach for the dial.

I listen to BBC Radio 4 a fair bit when I'm driving in the North and usually find it to be diverse, informative and challenging, with a much more global outlook on its topics. Sometimes it's too stuffy and up its own pompous hole but I'd take Radio 4's mix of current affairs and entertainment over RTE 1 any day of the week.

sligojoek

I generally listen 10 till 3.15. I try to avoid Tubridy. There's always someone on with a story about a dead or dying baby, sibling or parent. Duffy can be gold or sh1te. More often the latter, made more bearable by the crack on the LL thread. I avoid Darcy at all costs unless I'm working in someones house or travelling in a car or van not being controlled by me.

AlekSmart

greenflash wrote: »

I always find Radio 1 to be incredibly insular, narrow minded and conservative. It's tedious banal waffle forces me to reach for the dial.

I listen to BBC Radio 4 a fair bit when I'm driving in the North and usually find it to be diverse, informative and challenging, with a much more global outlook on its topics. Sometimes it's too stuffy and up its own pompous hole but I'd take Radio 4's mix of current affairs and entertainment over RTE 1 any day of the week.

I terms of the Wireless,I've yet to find anything to beat the sheer all-encompassing sense of having listened to SOMETHING of value,that accompanied the BBC World Service's "Letter from America" programme,presented by Alastair Cooke each Sunday Morning.

It's quite a lot for a modern digital era listener to take in,but the BBC's "Quality" channels really did demand a bit of discipline and interest from their listener.....I wonder if they still do ...?

suicide_circus

Listened to Ray D'Arcy on Wednesday. Shocking, truly shocking. Man oh man is he awful. When you compare him to Moncrief who has wit, warmth, insight and decent interviewing skills. D'Arcy must have the dirt in someone in Montrose because he is beyond terrible.

Was never a fan of Del Mooney but we never knew how good we had it until he was replaced by Ray.

Tubridy is OK, pretty poor. Sean O'Rourke is more formidable and can be good when he wants. Liveline is a grotesque parody of itself and McSavages depiction of Joe as a sadomasochist is on the money.

LordSutch

They show RTE Radio One on the tele (I think its on News Now), and the studio usually resembles the buildup to a funeral. Ultra serious & starchy presenters with andertone of guilt & foreboding, just like presenters & guests are permanently waiting for some really bad & depressing news

Watching RTE Radion 1 on the tele certainly does nothing for their stuffy image.

Oh, and don't forget to wear a tie.

LorMal

I agree with everyone on here. RTE 1 radio is pathetic. From Moaning Ireland to Loive Loine - utter dross.
Everything over dramatised, depressing, downbeat and doleful. They moaned and groaned us into the worst recession ever, they will try again with Brexit.
50,000 ways to say 'what does this mean for Ireland?' in a frightened, depressed tone.
Marge Finucane going through the motions aon obscene rates of pay ( when she bothers to turn up). Des Cahill mumbling and fumbling through the sports. Roly Collins reliving the glory days of the Showbands for the 5th decade in a row. Awful efforts at comedy which still badly mimic Scrap Saturday 30 years later.
Nothing cheerful, nothing innovative, nothing creative. Same old tired formulaic drudge, same old chancers.
The license fee is outright larceny.

chillin117

alan partridge aha wrote: »

We allow RTE to employ an ex Today FM man (?) a wad of cash to present a crap radio and tv show. We should march on Donnybrook and get them to sack the pr1ck along with his wife? and sidekick.

They brought the producer from Today FM too....The jobs are on me ! !

maudgonner

LorMal wrote: »

I agree with everyone on here. RTE 1 radio is pathetic. From Moaning Ireland to Loive Loine - utter dross.
Everything over dramatised, depressing, downbeat and doleful. They moaned and groaned us into the worst recession ever, they will try again with Brexit.
50,000 ways to say 'what does this mean for Ireland?' in a frightened, depressed tone.
Marge Finucane going through the motions aon obscene rates of pay ( when she bothers to turn up). Des Cahill mumbling and fumbling through the sports. Roly Collins reliving the glory days of the Showbands for the 5th decade in a row. Awful efforts at comedy which still badly mimic Scrap Saturday 30 years later.
Nothing cheerful, nothing innovative, nothing creative. Same old tired formulaic drudge, same old chancers.
The license fee is outright larceny.

Creedon is excellent. I like Philip King and his whispery wistfulness of a weekend. And the Doc on One is normally very good.

But yeah, there's an awful lot of rubbish.

kneemos

LorMal wrote: »

I agree with everyone on here. RTE 1 radio is pathetic. From Moaning Ireland to Loive Loine - utter dross.
Everything over dramatised, depressing, downbeat and doleful. They moaned and groaned us into the worst recession ever, they will try again with Brexit.
50,000 ways to say 'what does this mean for Ireland?' in a frightened, depressed tone.
Marge Finucane going through the motions aon obscene rates of pay ( when she bothers to turn up). Des Cahill mumbling and fumbling through the sports. Roly Collins reliving the glory days of the Showbands for the 5th decade in a row. Awful efforts at comedy which still badly mimic Scrap Saturday 30 years later.
Nothing cheerful, nothing innovative, nothing creative. Same old tired formulaic drudge, same old chancers.
The license fee is outright larceny.

Des Cahill is painful to listen to.How hard is it to just get somebody that can speak probably?
It's almost as if they go out of their way to get mediocrity.
Marian ain't bad on the odd occasion she turns up,her stand in however is another embarrassingly inept disaster.

Letree

Samaris wrote: »

I get inflicted with afternoon radio now at work. It's okay as background noise, and irritating if I actually...well, listen to it.

Jenny Green is alright, but I really wish she'd stop saying "ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?" It got old a while ago.

Jenny doesn't say are you not entertained thats lottie ryan.

Samaris

Letree wrote: »

Jenny doesn't say are you not entertained thats lottie ryan.

Oh, really? Huh, I always assumed that was Jenny Green from the title of the show. Shows how much I listen to radio really

Well, I wish Lottie Ryan would stop it then!

Also, I cannot cope at all with Marian Finucane. That damn noise she makes when she's talking or listening, a sort of sucking snort sound drives me nuts. Only time I've intentionally listened to her was an interview regarding the Philip Cairns case and I lasted about ten minutes, during which time I learned that he ate lunch three times. I think we've had faster ice ages than Finucane interviews if that's a specimen. Probably more productive ones too.

Yorky

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Jedward and Mary Byrne miss him too. None of them have been mentioned on RYE radio since Mooney left.

Not forgetting the Eurovision and every other topic having a homosexual theme

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

mrsdewinter wrote: »

You listen avidly to Radio 1 after 10am - but Collins, Liveline and the Ray D'Arcy Show get on your wick?

Just buy a new radio, will you? Life's too short.

You have totally lost me there.

Yorky

Yorky wrote: »

I experience confusion between 3pm and 4.30pm weekdays:

How..just how.do such people get jobs on radio?

This is the national public service broadcaster not hospital radio!

Are personality, ability, competency and talent not basic requirements to be allowed on air?

Its 3pm to 4.30pm, who do you think is listing to the radio at that time of the day.

I like Sean Moncrieff, except he seems to be veering in to cranky old man as time goes by.

ButtersSuki

sligojoek wrote: »

I generally listen 10 till 3.15. I try to avoid Tubridy. There's always someone on with a story about a dead or dying baby, sibling or parent. Duffy can be gold or sh1te. More often the latter, made more bearable by the crack on the LL thread. I avoid Darcy at all costs unless I'm working in someones house or travelling in a car or van not being controlled by me.

+1 on the above. I honestly couldn't listen to De Lahv Lahn without the thread for accompaniment. The host makes Alan Partridge look like an intelligent, sophisticated, well-balanced, ego free, caring, sensitive and compassionate interviewer by comparison. And I'm not joking.

Trent Houseboat

We can all agree that RTE Radio 1 is terrible and all their presenters would be working for the BBC is they had any talent, but why does it have such high listenership?
Is there a generation who grew up with nothing but RTE and refuse to change the dial no matter how poor the broadcast?

Joe_ Public

Liveline is tremendous, the best comedy show on the airwaves and I'm most certainly not talking about Funny (like a lobotomy without anaesthetic) Friday. I never laughed so hard as when the priest who edited the newspaper was on a couple of months ago, unintentional comedy was never done better anywhere in broadcasting history, telly or radio, as far as I'm concerned.

Ray D'Arcy has no redeeming features, however. He had the Maguire golfing twins on the show yesterday and it was a cringe fest from the first question to the last. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, yeah, right. The way he has to ask tough questions, like about the Olympics, in a snide, roundabout manner, as opposed to just directly head on, as a broadcaster is supposed to do, shows him up for the desperately poor presenter he is. I hope the figures don't show he is retaining listeners or even gaining them. Otherwise there could never be any accounting for taste.

Amalgam

Evenings are fine, The Late Debate, Seascapes, Roots Freeway, The Rolling Wave, Arena, Mooney Goes Wild (gone back to just nature, more time to compile better output).. I avoid the daytime stuff.

I'm not a farmer, but a fan of the farming reports, early on Sunday. Countrywide, fun stuff.

There's still stuff there to soothe your mind.

Amalgam

Amalgam wrote: »

Evenings are fine, The Late Debate, Seascapes, Roots Freeway, The Rolling Wave, Arena, Mooney Goes Wild (gone back to just nature, more time to compile better output).. I avoid the daytime stuff.

I'm not a farmer, but a fan of the farming reports, early on Sunday. Countrywide, fun stuff.

There's still stuff there to soothe your mind.

That is so true the afternoon seems to be the big issue.

sligojoek

I can feel a week of "The Somme" coming up. Poignant stories about young men dying and how great the Irish were.

Stasi 2.0

Is there any radio station in Ireland that doesnt spend saturday afternoons sh*teing on about sport ?

Wiseman Drinkwater

Some excellent stuff on Radio 1. Morning Ireland is an excellent current affairs show, O'Rourke has settled into his slot very well, the documentary on one is always great, John Creedon plays a wonderful range of music and is a natural presenter, late debate has always been engaging when I've had a chance to listen to it.

Joe_ Public

Amalgam wrote: »

Evenings are fine, The Late Debate, Seascapes, Roots Freeway, The Rolling Wave, Arena, Mooney Goes Wild (gone back to just nature, more time to compile better output).. I avoid the daytime stuff.

I'm not a farmer, but a fan of the farming reports, early on Sunday. Countrywide, fun stuff.

There's still stuff there to soothe your mind.

Some of those shows are decent alright. Mooney is agreeable enough when talking about wildlife except for that insufferable "byeeeeeeee" he insists on screeching at the end of each show. And although I have little interest in most of the subject matter, I always find Seascapes soothing for some reason. Could be something to do with the old theme tune which I adore and still runs throughout the show in the background.