Billy McCarthy

Musicman2000 · 14-06-2007 08:32PM

Lot of cocky F*****s working for Wlr and especially Beat, but a lot of people dont know, that Beat 102 103 should never have got its licence in the first place. but thats another story, and im afraid I can say anymore:(

Minfadlek · 15-06-2007 09:43AM

Musicman2000 wrote:

Beat 102 103 should never have got its licence in the first place. but thats another story, and im afraid I can say anymore:(

- A few clues... ?

BBM77 · 15-06-2007 11:11AM

Musicman2000 wrote:

that Beat 102 103 should never have got its licence in the first place. but thats another story, and im afraid I can say anymore

What was the name of that pirate station that applied for the licence that Beat won? You wouldn’t be a bitter support of theirs, would you.:)

Our man in Havana · 15-06-2007 12:18PM

Do Beat not have a 20% non music requirement like most other stations?

Mr Ed · 15-06-2007 02:19PM

ABC Power 104 was the pirate station that applied for the same licence as Beat 102-103 and yes Beat has to comply with the statutory regulation imposed by the BCI of 20% news and current affairs.

blondie999 · 15-06-2007 02:28PM

Janey I had forgotton about ABC radio. Those were the day's. Working nights in the IDA listening to ABC all nite. Thump thump thump all nite long!!!! As far as I can remember it was only ever dance music they played!!!

BBM77 · 15-06-2007 02:29PM

Mr Ed wrote:

ABC Power 104 was the pirate station that applied for the same licence as Beat 102-103

O Yeahhh:rolleyes:

mike65 · 15-06-2007 02:32PM

The old ABC was the business, was ABC Power 104 directly connected?

Mike.

Our man in Havana · 15-06-2007 02:33PM

What does Beat transmit to meet the 20% news requirement?

aoa321 · 15-06-2007 10:12PM

Back on topicc, I think Billy is one of the worst broadcasters on local or national radio. He's a poor communicator, a poor presenter and to me he comes across an utterly charmless individual. But he's also the director of programmes - it's like Alex Ferguson picking himself to play striker for Man Utd !!

The chances of Billy sacking himself are pretty slim, but he really should listen to a tape recording of one of his shows, even somebody whose judgement is as bad as his must surely be struck by the desperately poor quality of his broadcasts.

He doesn't seem to be able to complete a single sentence without stumbling, stuttering, or mispronouncing something, I mean come on, he's a radio presenter for God's sake, he's supposed to be able to speak !!

I should turn off but WLR is the only place I can hear local news, local issues and local people. I avoided the station for so long because of BIlly but now I listen to Deise a.m. DESPITE him rather than because of him !

jdee247 · 17-06-2007 10:46AM

I worked in WLR a few years ago and I must say I found Billy to be a genuinely unpleasant man, far removed from the "man of the people" act he puts on when on the radio. Like a lot of local radio DJs, he was completely in love with the sound of his own voice and he was obsessed with money. There was nothing he wouldn't do to bring in extra cash or save a few quid, even screwing quite a few local artists out of money they were owed because they had been working with a handshake agreement, rather than a contract. Not a nice man at all.

Timmy Ryan, though, made me laugh. He was obsessed with birthdays. When he used to do the drivetime show, he used to spend hours writing interminable little links to use in between songs. Stuff like "A big happy birthday to Bridget in Ferrybank, who's 62 today. You'll be pleased to hear, Bridget, that you share a birthday with Caroline Corr, who's 33 today. And speaking of Caroline Corr... here's 'Runaway' by The Corrs." For some reason, he thought this was fantastic radio.

Then there was Geoff Harris, who used to go to local factories, interview the most monosyllabic man in the world about the machinery he operated and then put the whole thing on his show. He thought it was great stuff!

Jess

Minfadlek · 17-06-2007 01:41PM

Nice to hear about the "real" Billy

. I think he's under the illusion that most people tune in to listen to him, and his 'sermons'. Whereas I think alot of people just want to hear what local people are talking about !
I don't know why they don't shuffle the presenters around, and perhaps they'll find someone who could do Deise AM better... Lots of National radio stations do/did this, and it works fine when people get used to it !

Billy McCarthy

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