Entertainment Updates

Duggie2012

@ off with this muck. How is this allowed and tolerated. People are getting paid for this.

L1011

Duggie2012 wrote: »

@ off with this muck. How is this allowed and tolerated. People are getting paid for this.

Counts as "news and current affairs" and is hence actually required by the BAI.

Until enough people petition the BAI to remove their forced content rules you're going to have to put up with entertainment guff, lengthy news bulletins of nonsense and hearing One Direction eleventy billion times a week as they count as Irish.

Atlantic Dawn

Who decides though what warrants inclusion, for example Neil Diamond ads running daily for months because lets face it the tickets are not selling yet he is being subsidised with free ads by the state broadcaster, surely these slots should be reserved for community based events?

buckfasterer

But how else would Lottie Ryan tell us about one of the Kardashians lunch? And act cool and ask us if we are not entertained?

Duggie2012

buckfasterer wrote: »

But how else would Lottie Ryan tell us about one of the Kardashians lunch? And act cool and ask us if we are not entertained?

yep hear what your saying but its not her that annoys me per say, just wanna make that clear...:pac:

L1011

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Who decides though what warrants inclusion, for example Neil Diamond ads running daily for months because lets face it the tickets are not selling yet he is being subsidised with free ads by the state broadcaster, surely these slots should be reserved for community based events?

Those on RTE are actually paid for ads. The entertainment "news" on other channels is who some bloke from Geordie Shore is riding this week/day/hour and is classed as current affairs.

Cliff Walker

L1011 wrote: »

Counts as "news and current affairs" and is hence actually required by the BAI.

Until enough people petition the BAI to remove their forced content rules you're going to have to put up with entertainment guff, lengthy news bulletins of nonsense and hearing One Direction eleventy billion times a week as they count as Irish.

Well 2fm aren't subject to those rules but the Dan Healy/Paul Russell administration decided to bring one in to sound cool like all the other youth stations

Duggie2012

and then the 'presenter' has to get involved and ask questions on it and laugh out loud and ooooh its sooo interesting. puke.

buckfasterer

Not sure if any other stations do it but iRadio do and it's the most irritating thing going. At the end of their "entertainment update" they have a story that they tease and then say for more on it, go to their twitter where they've retweeted they story. Holy **** that's annoying and not once has it ever made go onto twitter. The opposite happens to be honest and it would make me deliberately not go on it.

dickiepower

buckfasterer wrote: »

But how else would Lottie Ryan tell us about one of the Kardashians lunch? And act cool and ask us if we are not entertained?

And let's not forget to mention the crazy and outrageous Kanye is getting up to.

Ursus Horribilis

Maybe some people want to hear these updates?

Cliff Walker

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

Maybe some people want to hear these updates?

Yes, that's what focus groups tell radio stations

Birneybau

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StaticNoise

Cliff Walker wrote: »

Yes, that's what focus groups tell radio stations

Let us not forget the 'Win a concert ticket [which we've been sent as promo and is left lying around] by rating our music!!!!!!!!" websites.

Fr Tod Umptious

I'm not in the demographic for these updates so I'm not saying they are good or bad.

But are people in the target demographic really interested in them ?

Trebor176

Yes, at the end of the news on 4FM one morning last week, we were informed that Adele sold her home in Brighton and moved into a new pad in LA. Very newsworthy stuff indeed. . .:rolleyes:

Birneybau

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

I'm not in the demographic for these updates so I'm not saying they are good or bad.

But are people in the target demographic really interested in them ?

I sincerely doubt it, sure, they're just regurgitated rubbish from the likes of the Daily Mail, yesterday's news at that.

Trebor176

And some presenters will throw in the bit of goss as filler between tracks.

wnolan1992

Cliff Walker wrote: »

Well 2fm aren't subject to those rules but the Dan Healy/Paul Russell administration decided to bring one in to sound cool like all the other youth stations

It's almost as if 2FM is meant to be a youth oriented station and brought in something that seems to be popular among younger listeners...

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

I'm not in the demographic for these updates so I'm not saying they are good or bad.

But are people in the target demographic really interested in them ?

Well, if you look at Facebook or Twitter any time there's "news" from the entertainment world, I think it should be pretty obvious that yes they do care about it. I'd be willing to wager that there are a lot of people out there who would much prefer some fluffy entertainment news rather than depressing heavy news about earthquakes and terrorist attacks tbh.

eiresandra

Birneybau wrote: »

I sincerely doubt it, sure, they're just regurgitated rubbish from the likes of the Daily Mail, yesterday's news at that.

Love it or hate it, the Daily Mail website is the most read English-language news website in the world, primarily based on their entertainment news coverage. There's an appetite for this stuff.

Birneybau

eiresandra wrote: »

Love it or hate it, the Daily Mail website is the most read English-language news website in the world, primarily based on their entertainment news coverage. There's an appetite for this stuff.

Oh, I know. But why tell the target audience twice?

wnolan1992

Birneybau wrote: »

Oh, I know. But why tell the target audience twice?

Because it counts as speech and current affairs content, and they're more likely to retain their target audience by serving up something that the target audience is interested in rather than an in depth financial report or something.

Testament1

buckfasterer wrote: »

But how else would Lottie Ryan tell us about one of the Kardashians lunch? And act cool and ask us if we are not entertained?

My favourite entertainment update was the one where Rick O'Shea interrupted Lottie during some kardashian bolloxology to say that he was losing the will to live. An appropriate summary I thought.

Skid X

I even heard Eoghan McDermott pulling up Lottie Ryan on air one day asking "Lottie, Who is this person you are talking about?" (turned out to be some American Instagram person or something).

Dozens of people texted in to agree, it took a few records before someone said they were, like, totally aware of whoever Lottie was talking about.

maudgonner

L1011 wrote: »

Counts as "news and current affairs" and is hence actually required by the BAI.

Until enough people petition the BAI to remove their forced content rules you're going to have to put up with entertainment guff, lengthy news bulletins of nonsense and hearing One Direction eleventy billion times a week as they count as Irish.

Or how about people petition the BAI to narrow their definition of what counts as "news and current affairs", to exclude rubbish like this?

GavRedKing

Corks Red FM have Izzy Show Bizzy and no, unfortunately, I'm not making that up.

She does some DJ work now for them too but still does the "showbiz" news.

:rolleyes:

Broadcastonfm

GavRedKing wrote: »

Corks Red FM have Izzy Show Bizzy and no, unfortunately, I'm not making that up.

She does some DJ work now for them too but still does the "showbiz" news.

:rolleyes:

its dumb down radio and to think a pd gets paid to come up with it . A lot of the radio airheads really should be sponsored by Wikipedia

L1011

maudgonner wrote: »

Or how about people petition the BAI to narrow their definition of what counts as "news and current affairs", to exclude rubbish like this?

Because then you're going to have adversarial talk shows which are the next cheapest thing to make that meets the rules. Stations can't afford to do in depth news analysis or serious talk (not to mention how neither fits with pretty much anything except a talk format anyway). The rule is unworkable, extremely nanny stateish and ridiculously outdated - it comes from a concern that people might miss news due to not listening to RTE!