Newstalk Drive

phater phagan · 24-01-2017 06:57PM

To be honest - I turn off the sound for a few minutes with the remote when ads come on. I find them terribly irritating and unimaginatively facile.

Ol' Donie · 24-01-2017 07:09PM

phater phagan wrote: »

She does have a nice voice. I'm hoping that, with time, she'll find her forte. It's a hard act to follow after Moncrieff, who's one of the best presenters on any radio show. I hate all the ads Newstalk have, though. I read a very good article on advertising once, and it said that the optimum time for ads breaks to run and be most effective is two minutes. Newstalk ad breaks can be up to four minutes long. I wonder if the companies who pay for them realise that they're not getting value for money.

Great post. Agree with all this.

PeterTheNinth · 25-01-2017 08:48AM

meeeeh wrote: »

They don't need to be balanced on international stuff. We don't elect American president.

They do if they want to be seen as objective and credible media source, and not as a lobby group or advocate for issues that they agree with. After their coverage and marriage referendum, and the American Presidential election, I would see Newstalk as a station with a definite liberal agenda. I would not see them as objective.

CHealy · 25-01-2017 10:11AM

The amount of times Iv heard a guest say something along the lines of "if you'll allow me speak" to Sarah says it all about the interviewing technique on this show. I had to turn it off yesterday it got so bad but at least once a week I'll hear a guest asking to be given the time to answer a question. Iv not come across it on any other radio show bar this one.

tomwaits48 · 25-01-2017 10:12AM

CHealy wrote: »

The amount of times Iv heard a guest say something along the lines of "if you'll allow me speak" to Sarah says it all about the interviewing technique on this show. I had to turn it off yesterday it got so bad but at least once a week I'll hear a guest asking to be given the time to answer a question. Iv not come across it on any other radio show bar this one.

yes she was very bad yesterday. came across as petulant.

mattser · 25-01-2017 10:38AM

CHealy wrote: »

The amount of times Iv heard a guest say something along the lines of "if you'll allow me speak" to Sarah says it all about the interviewing technique on this show. I had to turn it off yesterday it got so bad but at least once a week I'll hear a guest asking to be given the time to answer a question. Iv not come across it on any other radio show bar this one.

Mary Wilson never stops.

phater phagan · 25-01-2017 12:08PM

Wait until Sarah interviews Micheal Martin on - she won't get a word in edgewise. That would be a good training device for her.

AnneFrank · 25-01-2017 03:51PM

it's a liberal love in now, which is such a shame as i can't stand today fm either,
i wish one of the other stations would see the gap in the market here and get two different
people on the same show for the 5 to 7pm slot,
the morning shows have gone to pot aswell

constitutionus · 25-01-2017 04:08PM

chris saying if he won the 88mil he'd go virgin galactic.

Must....Resist...JOKES !!!!!!

:d

J Mysterio · 25-01-2017 04:09PM

Its like listening to two tipsy idiots on the bus or in the pub. I've given it a fair chance, they're terrible.

constitutionus · 25-01-2017 04:19PM

im only here till 4.30 and the adults start.

TBH its kinda shocking how hard it is to last even THAT long with the program.

NufcNavan · 26-01-2017 09:00PM

Sarah McInerney got absolutely schooled by Kieran Staunton earlier.

Zonda999 · 27-01-2017 11:06PM

I generally tend to switch between the Last Word and Newstalk Drive on the way home. The Last Word is much more polished and the better show all round but Newstalk Drive isn't as awful as some people here make out I don't think. Vincent Wall is excellent on the business in particular I think, then again he isn't just on Drive of course.

I don't mind Chris too much, he isn't the most controversial of presenters but he's rarely clueless on any topic he's covering that shows he prepares at least. Actually not controversial is an under statement, I think (like many people nowadays) he is terrified of being accused of being even mildly racist, sexist or generally just being accused of having anything other than the standard liberal social justice warrior opinion of the time on any topic.

As for Sarah, she is clearly inexperienced on the radio and her diction isn't great. I reckon she's more willing to go with a more divisive opinion than Chris but she seems to lack the seriousness or something to do so

Brendan Bendar · 29-01-2017 06:16PM

The Last Word?

Is that Matt Cooper?

If so, that lad is way too high pitched for this poster.

Couldn't listen to him for more than five mi Utes.

Way too high pitched for me.

constitutionus · 30-01-2017 04:23PM

sarah getting a slaggin off the texters over her claim that the majority of the country dont support trump.

now shes defending herself by quoting POLLS !

Fecking numpty.

media Ireland aint the country.

ultra violet 5 · 30-01-2017 04:27PM

constitutionus wrote: »

sarah getting a slaggin off the texters over her claim that the majority of the country dont support trump.

now shes defending herself by quoting POLLS !

Fecking numpty.

media Ireland aint the country.

but she lives in the real world and has an amazing voice

Arcade_Tryer · 30-01-2017 04:27PM

constitutionus wrote: »

sarah getting a slaggin off the texters over her claim that the majority of the country dont support trump.

now shes defending herself by quoting POLLS !

Fecking numpty.

media Ireland aint the country.

Nor are Newstalk listeners. Thankfully.

PeterTheNinth · 30-01-2017 04:27PM

J Mysterio wrote: »

Its like listening to two tipsy idiots on the bus or in the pub. I've given it a fair chance, they're terrible.

This is bang on. Particularly Sarah laughing at Chris's jokes. It's like they are on the bus back from the Christmas party and she's suddenly just discovered he's hilarious (with about two bottles of Chardonnay)

Grolschevik · 30-01-2017 05:01PM

constitutionus wrote:

now shes defending herself by quoting POLLS !

On what would you base the contrary assertion?

PeterTheNinth · 30-01-2017 05:12PM

My God, it's just wall to wall Trump bashing on Newstalk these days. Even Gilroy on Off The Ball consistently makes cheap jokes at Trump's expense. Sick to death of the lot of them at this stage. I wish they would just accept that Hilary didn't win and start covering other topics.

Grolschevik · 30-01-2017 05:51PM

PeterTheNinth wrote:

My God, it's just wall to wall Trump bashing on Newstalk these days. Even Gilroy on Off The Ball consistently makes cheap jokes at Trump's expense. Sick to death of the lot of them at this stage. I wish they would just accept that Hilary didn't win and start covering other topics.

If Clinton had been elected, and was doing the same sort of things Trump is, there'd be wall to wall Hilary bashing now.

It's not about Trump v Clinton any more.

Donal55 · 30-01-2017 05:54PM

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

My God, it's just wall to wall Trump bashing on Newstalk these days. Even Gilroy on Off The Ball consistently makes cheap jokes at Trump's expense. Sick to death of the lot of them at this stage. I wish they would just accept that Hilary didn't win and start covering other topics.

Its not just Newstalk. Every station whinging about Trump. Not that we didn't know what was coming down the tracks once he got elected. Or perhaps the shock is that he actually kept his word.

Time to load something onto the ipod.

pajo1981 · 30-01-2017 05:57PM

Trump is disliked hence the digs. Why are trump heads so obsessed with the election?

Trump person's response to any critism of Trump: He won the the election, get over it.

???

joejoe87 · 30-01-2017 06:06PM

It really grinds my gears that they shortened Sean Moncrief's show when they rejigged the schedule. Drive is really not very listenable but I still choose it over the drab RTE content. Sean's show seems very popular and I like the varied topics , he gives good interviews too.

phater phagan · 31-01-2017 03:27PM

I like Chris and Sarah. I'm not sure why Trump supporters here ( you'd think that he was our President ) are so defensive about him. He has shown himself in the campaign to be a very unpleasant man with his various remarks about women, mocking the disabled reporter etc., and he insulted the parents of a young officer who died in Iraq. To get into a public row with them was unfeeling and cold. People are entitled to their opinions ( even the Trump fans ) but we don't have to agree with them. Newstalk is reporting what he is actually doing and are through different programmes getting different opinions of Trump. George Hook and the guy who calls in from Boston are always defending Trump. Myself, I think that he is dysfunctional, and bullying.

constitutionus · 31-01-2017 04:09PM

i lasted 8 mins today.

henry mckeen FFS.

HOW does that bollocks still have a job?

PeterTheNinth · 31-01-2017 05:42PM

As if Ruth Coppinger need another reason to be glum. She makes Peig Saors seem like Mr Motivator.

osullic · 31-01-2017 05:46PM

constitutionus wrote: »

i lasted 8 mins today.

henry mckeen FFS.

HOW does that bollocks still have a job?

Where does he find the people he surveys?

It's like he conducts an IQ test and then if they're within the moronoic threshold he asks them for their opinions

Birneybau · 31-01-2017 06:08PM

constitutionus wrote: »

i lasted 8 mins today.

henry mckeen FFS.

HOW does that bollocks still have a job?

He's like Louis Theroux's 'slow' brother

Conservative · 31-01-2017 06:18PM

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

As if Ruth Coppinger need another reason to be glum. She makes Peig Saors seem like Mr Motivator.

LOL.

I'm still not sure what all the outrage is about. The introduction of this vetting process certainly needed a bit more planning but what the hell is wrong with running detailed background checks on people coming in to the US from warzones/countries known to harbour and support terrorists.

Quite frankly, our Government should be encouraging fellow EU countries to take a leaf out of Trump's book.

Irish politicians including Enda Kenny should mind their own ****ing business. US pre clearance in Dublin is for all intents and purposes American soil and a very generous "gift" from our American friends.

Donald Trump is the last person we need to be pissing off!

Have they had a single Trump supporter on one of their panels? Ian O'Doherty perhaps.

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