Umm...was anyone listening to 2fm this morning?

Wertz · 01-05-2006 12:07PM #1

Normally I wouldn't be caught dead, but I was channel hopping and came across Marty Whelan playing a selection of easy listening/80's craptastic standard fare of a bank holiday....that's not my issue though;

The guy sounded like he was talking into a broken microphone ALL morning!
I mean you know when you see people putting a handkerchief up to the mouthpiece of a phone to disguise theri voice? Well he must have had a crisp bag and a duffle coat...f*cking dire, for upwards of 2 hours (maybe more)
Does no-one monitor the quality output? Where the hell's the producer or someone with enough cop on to correct such a glaring technical hitch? Had this been on a news broadcast phone interview they would have termintaed the call due to line quality issues...it really was that bad.

Seriously, why are we paying for this amateur bedroom sound in this day and age?

kc66 · 01-05-2006 12:17PM

Tune in the station properly?

im...LOST · 01-05-2006 12:27PM

Yeah. I heard it too.
Awful.:mad:
And it wasn't a case of tuning properly,it was just really bad quality.

parasite · 01-05-2006 12:32PM

You've made the assumption that people work in rte on a bank holiday, it's been at least a couple of weeks since their two week easter break

FlutterinBantam · 02-05-2006 08:18AM

Well done Parasite... spot on..... Any auld crap will do from RTE over any Bank Holiday period..... Record almost everything in advance....truncate the few live programmes...e.g. Morning ireland... 5-7 Live...turn on the remote control and let her run her guts out for the day.....If anything goes wrong....ah sure.... who'll notice...they 'll be all p****d anyway

Táck · 02-05-2006 12:08PM

ah its great (well it was when he was good) hearing G.Ryan complaining about the state of the studio's and quality of equipment.

FlutterinBantam · 02-05-2006 12:17PM

Heh heh... Unfortunately its not the equipment, its the users...or ,on Public Holidays, lack of them.

RTE must take us all for a bunch of gobshoooites...

You don't seriously watch that prat Clarkson on Top Gear do you???

Sound far too sensible to listen to a long faced mug in permanent jeans
workin the corporate system,and creamin the pickins????

Táck · 02-05-2006 12:27PM

i watch top gear. i dont watch it for jeremy clarkson. i watch it because i think its a brilliantly produced programme on cars.

i could never imagine RTÉ producing a programme anywhere near the quality of it (sorry, i love slating RTÉ).

ok, jeremy is a pain on occasion but sometimes his whit amuses me. he knows his stuff about cars which nobody can deny.

lets not get too off topic here!!!

FlutterinBantam · 02-05-2006 05:38PM

Rooish!!!

Wertz · 02-05-2006 07:11PM

On the chance that this was indeed pre-recorded (a possibilty no doubt), that would make it even more damning surely; what kind of QC does it show to let this amateur production out on the national airwaves?

kc66 wrote:

Tune in the station properly?

Yeah it's not a thermal valve wireless I'm using. RDS PLL tuners normally lock right on to a signal as strong as the 2FM one.

OT: Topgear rocks...what else would you have us watch on sundays at 8pm? You're a Star, maybe? Heartbeat?

FlutterinBantam · 03-05-2006 11:00AM

No... I paint a square on the wall and watch it drying

Táck · 03-05-2006 11:37AM

yeah DRIVE on RTÉ was much better then top gear could ever try and be

FlutterinBantam · 03-05-2006 02:01PM

Il'l put it to ya this way... watchin a drip goin down the wall is a lot more stimulating than watching a drip on Top Gear....
He did a thing for Discovery about going round the world in 24 hrs on scheduled airlines, and after 5 mins watching when he blagged his way into business class I (gave the long legs excuse used by all from 5'0" to 7'10")I genuinely had to restrain myself from sinking a Budweiser long neck into the back end of the tube.

I realise it must be me as apparently he is very popular:o

Sorry for going off topic....

Táck · 03-05-2006 02:40PM

ok - new topic needed - tv forum

monkeyfudge · 03-05-2006 02:46PM

FlutterinBantam>> Some people enjoy watching Top Gear. Get over it.

No more going off topic please!

FlutterinBantam · 03-05-2006 07:44PM

Sorry.... I'm over it....

Umm...was anyone listening to 2fm this morning?

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