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Ronan Collins Show

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  • #242
    TheRiverman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,041 ✭✭✭TheRiverman


    Ageism alive and well in RTE.Anyone over fifty four doesn't count it appears when they are catering for listeners.


  • #243
    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,699 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Long_Wave wrote: »
    With Sean O'Rourke due to retire this year, perhaps RTE wiii do a radical shake up of radio one?

    It doesn't need it.

    It's got a massive and loyal listenership.


  • #244
    Long_Wave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭Long_Wave


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    It doesn't need it.

    It's got a massive and loyal listenership.

    Brendan balfe wrote in his autobiography that the philology in RTE is, if it ain't broke, break it


  • #245
    irs
    Registered Users Posts: 129 ✭✭irs


    Long_Wave wrote: »
    Wouldn't Una Healy be more suited to 2fm? Actually she's about the same age as most of the female daytime 2fm djs

    I heard a bit of her show today and she played "Feels Like Heaven" by Fiction Factory which wouldn't be on 2fm anymore. It's no different to BBC putting Angela Scanlon on Radio 2.


  • #246
    irs
    Registered Users Posts: 129 ✭✭irs


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    It doesn't need it.

    It's got a massive and loyal listenership.

    That's part of the problem. RTE are meant to be a PSB but their flagship station is only interested in the same narrow audience that listen out of habit.


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  • #247
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    The solution here is to keep the dedicated oldies station i.e.: RTE Gold. It would reduce the number of music shows on Radio 1 too.
    I wonder where will the few Gold staff be redeployed to when it expects to cease?


  • #248
    padd b1975
    Registered Users Posts: 10,699 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    Long_Wave wrote: »
    Brendan balfe wrote in his autobiography that the philology in RTE is, if it ain't broke, break it

    More than a grain of truth there.


  • #249
    shockwave
    Registered Users Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭shockwave


    Long_Wave wrote: »
    With Sean O'Rourke due to retire this year, perhaps RTE wiii do a radical shake up of radio one?

    RTE will surely keep him on hes the political broadcaster/interviewer they have,.


  • #250
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    shockwave wrote: »
    RTE will surely keep him on hes the political broadcaster/interviewer they have,.

    ONLY


  • #251
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Well i listened to Una Healy today and I have to say I thought she was fine - a nice stand in for Ronan. She followed his light and easy style, which I like, and did all the well wishing and happy birthday stuff with good grace and humour. I also like her accent and her diction is good. All in all, for what it’s, well done Una

    I didn’t win tickets to see ELO, though, darn it!


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  • #252
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    Long live Ronan Collins on Radio 1


  • #253
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,043 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Time to move on folks.


  • #254
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Time to move on folks.

    move on with inexperienced, sub-standard presenters reading from liner notes on a screen?


  • #255
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,043 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    ford fiesta wrote: »
    move on with inexperienced, sub-standard presenters reading from liner notes on a screen?

    Nah, moving away from the same up- down-up worn out brown patter that has been there for the last thirty years.

    It is time...


  • #256
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Nah, moving away from the same up- down-up worn out brown patter that has been there for the last thirty years.

    It is time...

    If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it? :D


  • #257
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,043 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Deleted User wrote: »
    If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it? :D

    It’s broke dude, an burn in’ oil.

    Trust me on that.


  • #258
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    It’s broke dude, an burn in’ oil.

    Trust me on that.

    Nope. Careful what you wish for. Look at the LLS,the Live line, and now Marrions show. All 3 a clusterfuk


  • #259
    irs
    Registered Users Posts: 129 ✭✭irs


    The show is a bit old fashioned but next to Tubridy, Duffy and D'Arcy (who seemed about 20 years older the minute he joined Radio 1) Ronan Collins is a sprightly young buck.


  • #260
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Today’s show was great! Loads of great music - Dusty Springfield, Carpenters (with that incredible voice of Karen), ELO, the Shadows, and on and on it went, from one great song to another.

    For heaven’s sake, don’t go messing with this format and presenter


  • #261
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,043 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Jaysus!!

    Is the up down cadence, the roundy birthdays, the very same intro day after day, back again?


    Just as well I missed it..... and will avoid if possible.... freshen it up a bit, it’s 2020.

    Nah..


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  • #262
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Jaysus!!

    Is the up down cadence, the roundy birthdays, the very same intro day after day, back again?


    Just as well I missed it..... and will avoid if possible.... freshen it up a bit, it’s 2020.

    Nah..

    That bint last week mentioned roundy birthdays on more than one occasion.
    Delighted RC is back.


  • #263
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,043 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Odyssey 2005 wrote: »
    That bint last week mentioned roundy birthdays on more than one occasion.
    Delighted RC is back.

    About 80% less than Ronán I think and somewhat reluctantly I seem to remember.

    I’ll have to give the ‘rubber chicken circuit’ a miss OD, good luck with the Swingtime Aces greatest hits.

    Hope you enjoy.... maybe he might play Jethro Tull’s biggest hit:D


  • #264
    0lddog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭0lddog


    BB, leave Ronan alone. What he does he does very well. I like his program :)

    ( come to think of it, its the only RTE radio program that I can listen to for more than 10 minutes without needing The Off Switch )


  • #265
    Baseball72
    Registered Users Posts: 181 ✭✭Baseball72


    Ronan is quality. He knows his music and his listeners. Just wish we could get Alf McCarthy back on the airwaves.....


  • #266
    thesandeman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,871 ✭✭✭thesandeman


    Odyssey 2005 wrote: »
    That bint last week mentioned roundy birthdays on more than one occasion.
    Delighted RC is back.

    The first few times she said it she obviously didn't know what it meant. She had a hard time pronouncing it as well.
    If somebody is trying to take over a well established presenters slot they could have at least done a bit of research and listened to what works.
    I gave her three days, but it's the first time in years I've gotten out of bed to change the station at that time of the day (I work nights btw before anybody goes off topic).


  • #267
    thesandeman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,871 ✭✭✭thesandeman


    Baseball72 wrote: »
    Ronan is quality. He knows his music and his listeners. Just wish we could get Alf McCarthy back on the airwaves.....

    Check out Alf on Twitter. He has some nice podcasts up there.


  • #268
    neris
    Registered Users Posts: 20,032 ✭✭✭✭neris


    Is this una 1 the one who failed at a girl band, then spent half her life on ray darcys tv then the other half in the indo gossip pages when she was getting divorced


  • #269
    Doodah7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭Doodah7


    The Ronan Collins Show is a joy to listen to. A nice, pleasant hour of nice music in the middle of the day as a nice palate cleanser after the moaning on the Sean o'Rourke Show, the News at One and the sheer awfulness that is Livewhine.

    Collins should be allowed to continue doing the show for as long as he wants as far as I am concerned!


  • #270
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users Posts: 19,043 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Doodah7 wrote: »
    The Ronan Collins Show is a joy to listen to. A nice, pleasant hour of nice music in the middle of the day as a nice palate cleanser after the moaning on the Sean o'Rourke Show, the News at One and the sheer awfulness that is Livewhine.

    Collins should be allowed to continue doing the show for as long as he wants as far as I am concerned!

    Aaahh heeyur!!!

    Time to move on as far as I’m concerned.

    Freshen things up.


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  • #271
    Doodah7
    Registered Users Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭Doodah7


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Aaahh heeyur!!!

    Time to move on as far as I’m concerned.

    Freshen things up.

    Nope. He's grand where he is.


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