The RTÉ Megathread

Is Inside Sport much different to Game On.

Was the radio doc a sporting one?

planned and RTÉ just don't see go together!

they really need to be able to put the sports commentary on a separate channel or frequency- because DaB didn’t take off in Ireland they can’t really do a proper Radio 1 extra station

Does this mean we can have Gabriel Egan back on radio commentary??!

Enjoy JK, but Gabriel Egan on a night like last night would have been sublime 🙂

There's an hour of Callans Kicks on the Radio Player but it's the same show repeated one after the other 🤷‍♀️.

yea but they are waiting for Pat Kenny to give way to Claire Byrne on Newstalk and then they regain his listeners

I think I’d be able to tell Clare Byrne and Pat Kenny apart and I don’t just mean because one is a woman and one is a man. One will be very superficial the other details oriented

In fairness Ciara Kelly has some bite to her, and Andrea Gillian is not a great presenter, but both are largely as bland as Claire, and she follows …. Anton Savage!

Paint drying IMO.

Lookit lads…..would ye ever get a grip

What’s happening at Rte is they are trying to shift the listening audience age profile back to around 35 ish.

Why else would they drag in overlong interviews ridden to death on vacuous subjects on so called ‘Current affairs’ themed programmes. Happening on every so called ‘serious’ show lads.

Bring in some no name tosser from some obscure genre and listen to horsesheet for 20 minutes.

That’s what’s happening…..you know it…….. I know it……..it’s Monaghan what done it.

If you happen to get into a high level discussion about pay with RTÉ is not it should go

RTÉ: We like to offer you more money than you are worth for the next 5 years and we also will give you a bonus at the end

You: That's not enough, I was thinking more along the lines of this.

RTÉ: Oh we couldn't afford that, let us think on it

A few weeks later

RTÉ: We have an idea, basically we agree you are worth more that what we think your worth which is actually more than you are worth, so what we will do is get you a gig with one of our advertisers and in this way you can take what you suggested you are worth.

You: Oh! I don't know I'd question if that is right.

RTÉ: You might be right and we will take note of it that you have questioned this, but we believe it to be quite normal in the industry.

You: Okay, I will go along with this.

RTÉ: Also here are the last 3 years of pay which are incorrect but we are going to publish them anyway.

You: Oh yes you publish them, they look lower that what I received but I won't question that or say anything.

RTÉ: Cool aren't we the best public service broadcaster in the world

You: Oh! yes and you not only thrifty but you pay really good money.

How it should work

RTÉ: So we believe you are worth this amount

You: I disagree

RTÉ: Oh! have you had other offers

You: Yes

RTÉ: Sorry to see you go we will develop others and look forward to working with you in the future.

The End.

Go on another long holiday?

Has RTE's Washington correspondent ever been allowed in the press room in the White House?

It looks like all they do is listen to whatever is said on CNN and repeat it on RTE bulletins.

They had a Spanish reporter in there yesterday.

Just don't see point of a Washington correspondent based in Washington when they can do the job from Dublin.