RTE Radio 1 presenters

Yorky · 30-06-2016 09:33PM #1

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 · 30-06-2016 09:35PM

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 · 30-06-2016 09:38PM

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 · 30-06-2016 09:42PM

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 · 30-06-2016 09:48PM

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

Yorky · 30-06-2016 09:48PM

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

Ruu · 30-06-2016 09:49PM

Nepotism.

Yorky · 30-06-2016 09:49PM

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 · 30-06-2016 09:51PM

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 · 30-06-2016 09:51PM

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 · 30-06-2016 09:52PM

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 · 30-06-2016 09:53PM

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 · 30-06-2016 09:55PM

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 · 30-06-2016 09:57PM

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 · 30-06-2016 09:59PM

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 · 30-06-2016 10:00PM

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 · 30-06-2016 10:01PM

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 · 30-06-2016 10:06PM

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 · 30-06-2016 10:12PM

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 · 30-06-2016 10:16PM

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.

30-06-2016 10:16PM

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 · 30-06-2016 10:16PM

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 · 30-06-2016 11:01PM

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 · 30-06-2016 11:06PM

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 · 30-06-2016 11:20PM

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 · 01-07-2016 12:46AM

I have a radio in my car

mrsdewinter · 01-07-2016 01:08AM

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 · 01-07-2016 01:22AM

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 · 01-07-2016 01:25AM

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 · 01-07-2016 06:20AM

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 · 01-07-2016 06:47AM

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.

RTE Radio 1 presenters

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