I guess the show needs it's own thread. The plan is that Oliver Callen, Brendan Courtney and couple of other tba hosts will do it will into the winter. It very much looks like the vacancy is left open for Tubs to return.
If anyone was listening to Callan this morning and the remark he made about H McEntee, I know if I was a minister
however I was performing if some grifter getting taxpayers money said that about me I would move heaven and earth to have the fuuhker kicked out of the number.
Lad has form here, said so himself….Kevin……maybe you need to move on this.
What'd he say?
He was talking about the technical problems with Trumps X interview and said
'it was glitching like Helen McEntee when she was asked about immigration from the north, riots or anything really'.
Someone would want to sit you down and explain that comedy is subjective, you not finding him funny is immaterial, many do and pay for the pleasure others will pay for Mario or Mrs Brown. More power to them.
It was the way it was said really
3.18 into the show.
I’d run that lad out of the organisation if I was that or any minister.
Cheap shot.
Would you tolerate the US embassy calling to demand his head because of the way he took shots at Trump, Harris, Vance, Biden? Or when he takes shots at a host of public figures and politicians routinely, should Kevin be putting the ads in de papers?
The 'We want a national broadcaster but only if we can control what is said' days are long gone or certainly should be. A minister cannot 'run' anyone out of an organisation just because they got lampooned. If he defamed her there are avenues of redress open to her.
Francie…. please don't post idiot responses all your life.
I deliberately did not go party political in my post…. I merely outlined what I would do…. Ill say it again what I would do if someone like Callan came up with that remark.
But of course ,as expected you jumped in with the size 12s and played the whataboutery card.
Read the fokkhing post dude.
"If he defamed her there are avenues of redress open to her."
Sinn Fein could advise.
Anyone who has been defamed could. Like anyone else she (Helen) has a right to redress if defamed. Seems some, if they were a minister, want to have firing rights just because they got lampooned which is truly chilling.
Not even Helen is that thin skinned I’d imagine.
Incorrect again, my friend, never mentioned "want to have firing rights'" said would "move heaven and earth to have the fuhhker kicked out".
That means going through the correct lines to ensure the fhukker is gotten out or stunted in every way legally possible.
Just a PERSONAL opinion.
There is also the issue of 'context' in what are Callans 'riding instructions' for this show?
I never heard Tubridy "lampoon' our politicians, does this guy have different parameters?
All those points are important Francis, best read every word before you try to get over the big 70k.
Top lad.
What has what Tubridy did got to do with anything.
Radio and TV hosts around the world have the same style - lampooning current events before getting into the meat of the show - Callan is in that genre not Tubridy's saccharine one. You either need a thicker skin or to get out more.
Hmm "lampooning current events" Context, Francis.. how does this morph into lampooning individuals?
What are the parameters for the show Francis, that's most important, does it give the presenter the power to
indulge his or her personal views on taxpayer funded media?
Uhmmm could be a bit more to this than you realised Francis , but nothing new there, sez you.
How would these 'parameters' read Brendan?
From reading what you get outraged about, to satisfy you, they would need a line saying 'lampoon anyone you want but a government politician'.
Callan presents a light entertainment show not a CA one. I have zero issues with competent CA presenters grilling any politician.
Have to say, that was a fascinating well done interview about Mangan.
The man from Monaghan must be doing something right.
Oliver Callan remains the third most popular weekday show on Irish radio and 2FM has shown strong gains following recent upheavals at the station, according to the latest round of Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR) figures.The new figures represent the first six months of Callan's stewardship of the RTÉ Radio 1 9am slot since he took over from Ryan Tubridy and his morning show now has 336,000 listeners each day, which is a rise of 6,000 book on book.
Oliver Callan remains the third most popular weekday show on Irish radio and 2FM has shown strong gains following recent upheavals at the station, according to the latest round of Joint National Listenership Research (JNLR) figures.
The new figures represent the first six months of Callan's stewardship of the RTÉ Radio 1 9am slot since he took over from Ryan Tubridy and his morning show now has 336,000 listeners each day, which is a rise of 6,000 book on book.
Well done???
You obviously don't mean that bull. You predicted he would lose listeners. You predicted he wouldn't be as good as Tubs. The horrible things you've said about Callan, under your previous docs username, were not kind.
I'm delighted when the person being a wum gets proved wrong.
We said it for years...any clown could slot in to the show directly after Morning Ireland and retain strong numbers....
It was obscene paying Tubridy his outrageous fees and justifying it based on this nonsense argument.....
Back into your box Noel Kelly and your acolytes.....
A nail in the coffin for ever to bringing back Tubridy....
I don't know about any 'clown', I think a lot of people consciously left when Tubridy came on, myself included. You are right though, nobody should be able to get paid based on 'they can't be replaced'. Both Tubridy's former slots have managed quite fine without him.
Callan will put his foot in it sometime in the future for sure,he's done so a few times already.
He'll push the boat out too far when it comes to political bias at some stage.
Nothing surer.
It is obscene the amount the current presenter is making. It should be at least half of what it currently is. Paying a salary like that for a slot like that, inflates all on air wages.
Goes right back to Uncle Gaybo, Mike Murphy, and the DG at the time Fred O Donovan it is said
Gaybo got the big wedge supposedly to stop him going to the States with Disney.
Allegedly had a word with MM to reveal the wedge and say You are the number two here, you should look for relativity.
He did, and MM got a relatively similar wedge !
So the story goes they say…..it progressed from there even though there isn't a valid reason in hell for the wedges pumped out in the Pink Palace to the so called talent.
History has shown it, but it still goes on with the taxpayer almost completely gelded to stop it.
Getting recognised in public is part of the gig. If they don't want that and still want to make 150k, they should get a job like yours.
I am sure the prep and time you spend in your workplace is a lot more then some stars are doing.
The "Pink palace"?
"Gaybo got the big wedge supposedly to stop him going to the States with Disney. Allegedly had a word with MM to reveal the wedge and say You are the number two here, you should look for relativity. He did, and MM got a relatively similar wedge !"
He actually got to meet Mickey Mouse?
It's a flagship radio show for a very small country on a station that is completely broke.
We're not the UK. 150k is ridiculous as is most of the RTE salaries.
Micheál Martin.
Pat Kenny was at one time on a €950,000 salary in RTE, it dropped to over €600,000 and he went to Newstalk (I think) on a €2m deal. He has 230,000 listeners compared to Callan's 336,000
In that scenario, i.e. the private sector paying that kind of money, €150,000 seems to me reasonable.
Yeah, 150k is not a lot of money any more. People who think it is would be flabbergasted at what some other people earn.
There is a view that RTE should just sack everyone and begin again or disappear even. A quick turn of the dial to regional stations would show anyone that finding people that can do what Callan etc do and the often forgotten production infrastructure around them, would not be very easy. Even Kenny etc perform to a standard that isn't that common IMO.
Nowt like a bit of bad radio and telly, and there is plenty off it at a standard much much lower than RTE out there, to demonstrate that.
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