Newstalk Megathread 22/08/16 to date

To be fair, radio is already sports-saturated across the board especially at weekends. Popular as it is, I guess even that has its limits.

Off the Ball are putting their content out across so many platfors that the radio listenership figures is not their primary concern

--

Apparently with conventional radio the tactic to measure peoples listening in 15 minute spells. Which gets the people that flick channels for 5 minutes. Even that counts.

--

From the above link -

'One of the most common tools used to track listenership in conventional radio is a concept known as AQH. This stands for Average Quarter Hourly, and – as you might have guessed – identifies averages of people listening to a radio station within 15 minutes.

When using AQH, it’s worth remembering that not everyone’s listenership is equal. Typically speaking, listeners will need to have been tuned in for at least five minutes during these quarterly spells.'

Eh, that Regina Doherty of Fine Gael is doing the show Wednesday. Care to explain how the outrage will express itself?

Probably just copying what has just happened in the UK. Lbc did this for a week recently.

Yeah same here. Honestly for years I just left it on all the time.

Now I listen to Pat Kenny often enough but not always, Moncrieff the odd time and maybe Off The Ball, although that often only lasts 30 seconds if it's rugby talk or golf talk which seems to be nearly all the time, although I know it isn't (or something I've already heard on Off The Ball, which happens all the time).

It's the constant saturation of things I need to be worried about, things that seem to be infomercials as much as news articles and then worst of all things no one in the world needs to hear about. Seriously, I don't give a fùck if they stopped making Neighbours, and no, we're not all talking about ITV reality shìte.

It's a weird move shoving on politicos, and wouldn't appeal to me. I'd rather at least the semblance of an unbiased presenter.

We get enough of them honking their uninformed views throughout the week and on PK last thing on Fri.

Talk about the News is the name of the station!

I:m travelling Basel to Berlin on night train next Friday. Can't wait.

Bit of blowback to the trans company line this morning. Surprised they didn't censor it.

Yeah once or twice a year they do the standard "Did you know that Cork also has buildings and restaurants?" while throwing in a load of annoying cliches and stereotypes.

My point is that they talk about the most boring, inane, local Dublin issues all the time. We don't need more than 20 minutes to discuss liter in one of the cities, let alone two days at least across a few programmes