Like I say it has to be the quality of the (ir)regular contributors which keeps people tuning in every week. It can't be O'Connor himself. It is also a feature of other programmes on TV and Radio, and not just RTE. As has been mentioned, it must be hard enough to get people to give up a chunk of their weekends for little money.
Run your list for a few months and then decide. Of that lot, the following would be household names due to the number of times they appear on RTE: Pete Lunn, Louise Bayliss, Cormac Lucey, Jack Horgan Jones, Brigid Laffan, Hazel Chu, Brenda Power, Johnny Fallon, Colm O’Gorman. And you can add Maureen Gaffney & Harding to that plus several other shrinks. The odd new voice on Brendan's panels is a rare distraction.
This was Sunday 03 December:
Today's panel were Prof Pete Lunn, Head of the Behavioural Research Unit at the ESRI, Louise Bayliss, founder of SPARK, Louise Burne, Political Correspondent at The Irish Mirror and Cormac Lucey, Economics Columnist at The Sunday Times.
This was Sunday 26 November:
Today's panel included Jack Horgan Jones, politics correspondent at the The Irish Times; Brigid Laffan, Chancellor, University of Limerick; Siona Cahill, account director DHR Communications; Hazel Chu, Dublin City Councilor, Green Party; and Tony Gallagher, risk, security and event manager at Ashtree Risk Group.
This was Sunday 19 November:
Today's panel includes Brenda Power, columnist at the Irish Daily Mail & Sunday Times; Johnny Fallon, Strategy Director at Carr Communications; Colm O’Gorman, human rights campaigner; Rena Maycock, Chief Executive, Cilter child-protection software and former Chief Executive of iRadio and Liam Collins, Sunday Independent reporter.
Same ones week after week after week??????
Ah I must be an outlier so. I tune in and if I hear something/ people new & interesting then I stay (like the recent Sat morning interview). Otherwise I tune in and then turn off when I hear the same old, same old format and old guff from the same people.
Have you stats to back up that assumption??
The fact that folk tune in to a programme doesn’t automatically indicate that they like it?
Is there evidence of a poll which points to that assumption?
It's a successful format. People wouldn't keep tuning in week after week after week if they did not like it.
So you're telling me some of the contributors on that panel actually get paid!
Lots of them will be trying to boost their egos - I'd say that's more likely. I've no particular problem with people wanting to boost their ego but would appreciate if we didn't hear the same ones week, after week, after week.
The guests/panelists don't get paid very much for those type of chat shows. It was mentioned on some other thread like its in the €100 or €200 ball park.... (I don't get out of bed of a weekend morning for anything less than a bag of sand and definitely not for less than a monkey.)
Obviously they don't do it for the money, lots of them will be trying to raise their profile or shill something or other
Off button got a quick bruise………
Now Maureen Gaffney again ffs - has he no one else on call?
Oh hey professor Pete Lunn on today to tell us all how we feel/should feel.same talking heads all avoiding the elephant in the room as usual.
Brendan to Michael today -
"the priest not being gone from you ...."
Where would you get it ?
Slightly off-topic but I still think "Who's in the House?" is an absolute banger.
Very Cark. Another Cark expression I once encountered after failing to read on a bus timetable that there was no Sunday service from Baltimore “you poor stupid thing”
Didn't hear that bad boy, but I had to cut Ballsy off early on.
C'mere to me.
Five 'listens' about a minute in the bit with the Geordie one,Sarah....need to up your game Ballsy
Surprising but interesting enough interview with Victoria this morning, the sort of thing you might have heard back in Finucane's day.
Thoroughly enjoyed that and wasn't expecting to. Good broadcasting.
I'm sure Harding sleeps somewhere in the rte building.
He does ramble on.
Hope he wears his cool scarf
Then post midday he descends into his usual maudlin psychoanalysis rubbish, dissecting above. Off with it.
I meant to post this at the weekend.
Well worth a listen.
Was wondering where all the South Dublin lefty crowd were hiding when there were actual facists they could have tackled, especially with no police to stop them.
Another thing is, last week Ruth Coppinger and co regarded these rioting scumbags as "victims" and "misunderstood" - now she has changed her tune
Yep, difficult to square that circle.
Some section of the population is been ridden ragged based on those statistics.
Paul Murphy is hosting a rally at lunchtime Monday. He will get numbers too.
In a country that is crying out for workers....
Uhmmm ……lot of ‘excuses’ being pumped out as a reason for this mindless rioting on Friday.
In a country which is crying out for workers, one has to wonder why, and why a crowd of that size can gather on a Friday.
Hazel's started talking about tensions building for a long time, but it was too much for Brendan who cut her off.
It is RTE not letting hand picked politically collect guests talk about the issues that help cause tensions to build up.
And when the woman at the end was giving out the address of the site for checking if an email is a scam he talked over her and cut her off.
Newstalk has had Jess Kelly on over the last few weeks saying the same thing.
You, or I, may find it patronising but the fact of the matter is that a lot of old, and younger less “tech savvy”, are clicking these links daily.
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