RTE: Drivetime with Sarah McInerney & Cormac O hEadhra

Mad_maxx · 11-11-2020 9:13pm

TheHomeService wrote: »

I wish someone would tell Sarah McInerney to stop with her faux, exaggerated sighing. It’s blatantly clear it’s an affectation.

Aine Lawlor has been doing it for decades , no one stopped her

jelutong · 11-11-2020 9:31pm

Cole wrote: »

All their JNLR listenership figures are up. I hope RTE realise that's mostly because more people are at home during the recent 'lockdowns' and just have the radio on...almost background noise.

Lots of us disappointed at the sh1t show RTE radio is becoming.

Agreed. Sad to see a once great radio station sinking fast into obscurity.

Spanish Eyes · 11-11-2020 9:36pm

jelutong wrote: »

Agreed. Sad to see a once great radio station sinking fast into obscurity.

I call it "habit listening".

Best thing ever is the Tunein radio app. Found some great programs from all over the world there, and stuck with a few of them too. RTE is up against it now.

I know it's not radio but their Player is dire also. Not that I watch RTE tv either much, but then again I can record it if I want to and zap through the ads. But I rarely do.

LBC radio (UK) have a brilliant catch up app. You can zap the ads. I know the RTE radio app allows you to listen section by section, but I never find anything of interest in the list so I sail on by.

chicorytip · 11-11-2020 9:37pm

Mad_maxx wrote: »

shes very good looking though

Well, that's a moot point. Being easy on the eye does appear to be a considerable advantage for those seeking employment as current affairs presenters with RTE. This applies only to female candidates, of course.

jelutong · 11-11-2020 9:39pm

Easy on the eye but hard on the ear.

Infoanon · 11-11-2020 10:36pm

Cole wrote: »

All their JNLR listenership figures are up. I hope RTE realise that's mostly because more people are at home during the recent 'lockdowns' and just have the radio on...almost background noise.

Lots of us disappointed at the sh1t show RTE radio is becoming.

The JNLRS come with a caveat - firstly the figures are year on year and secondly there was no figures for April,May and June so 9 months of figures were extrapolated out to 12 months.

JNLRS don't include podcasts afaik or online listening which has exploded in other jurisdictions during lock down.

As for the show - it is best with CorMac and Sarah being serious, the invented chat between the two of them is nauseating

FrancieBrady · 11-11-2020 10:44pm

Infoanon wrote: »

The JNLRS come with a caveat - firstly the figures are year on year and secondly there was no figures for April,May and June so 9 months of figures were extrapolated out to 12 months.

JNLRS don't include podcasts afaik or online listening which has exploded in other jurisdictions during lock down.

As for the show - it is best with CorMac and Sarah being serious, the invented chat between the two of them is nauseating

I agree with the last bit. Super radio when they are in investigative dog with a bone mode. Will take time and a bit of latitude to get the balance right.

Radio5 · 13-11-2020 5:16pm

The reading texts from listeners sounds out of place, like they are filling in time and haven't the prep work done. it prompts the false 'chat' which is of no interest if one is tuning in for news and informed insights into the news stories of the day. I would not consider my or anyone else's favourite Christmas ad as a major news story.

I don't recall texts being such a feature in the past.

monseiur · 13-11-2020 5:28pm

Sarah McInerney voice is unbearable and not suitable for broadcasting, what was once a reasonably good programme is now a joke. Come back Mary Wilson all is forgiven !

Grolschevik · 13-11-2020 5:35pm

monseiur wrote: »

Sarah McInerney voice is unbearable and not suitable for broadcasting, what was once a reasonably good programme is now a joke. Come back Mary Wilson all is forgiven !

I like it.

Wilson was like a panda on Prozac.

jay0109 · 16-11-2020 11:44am

Radio5 wrote: »

The reading texts from listeners sounds out of place, like they are filling in time and haven't the prep work done. it prompts the false 'chat' which is of no interest if one is tuning in for news and informed insights into the news stories of the day. I would not consider my or anyone else's favourite Christmas ad as a major news story.

I don't recall texts being such a feature in the past.

It's part of the dumbing down of the debate on current affairs in this country and worldwide. I don't want to hear listener's texts, I simply don't care what they think. There's enough radio shows doing it...could they not leave a few serious shows intact for grown-up's radio?

They had a piece last week about Ireland's ugliest buildings and the 2 of them were giggling like school kids every time they went back to it, all the time looking for more listener's texts. Who cares!

Social media has turned adults into ejjits and the MSM are running fast to join in. And we'll wonder in 10 years time why someone like Trump will be riding high in the polls here

Brendan Bendar · 16-11-2020 1:18pm

jay0109 wrote: »

It's part of the dumbing down of the debate on current affairs in this country and worldwide. I don't want to hear listener's texts, I simply don't care what they think. There's enough radio shows doing it...could they not leave a few serious shows intact for grown-up's radio?

They had a piece last week about Ireland's ugliest buildings and the 2 of them were giggling like school kids every time they went back to it, all the time looking for more listener's texts. Who cares!

Social media has turned adults into ejjits and the MSM are running fast to join in. And we'll wonder in 10 years time why someone like Trump will be riding high in the polls here

Excellent synopsis J

Obviously the folk in RTE have decided to dumb down this show and let it lurch more towards ‘hairdresser’ radio.

This text us in bolloxology is what it is, try to give the impression that you have a say and can influence opinion.

Load of bulldust.... they will read out around two or three texts on each side of the argument usually from bots who are homed in on these issues.

Waste of time.

Also this false ‘banter’ that nobody believes is ‘spontaneous’ doesn’t fool anyone.

As the boy Jay rightly said, this prog has lurched badly into ‘hairdresser radio’ direction, in an attempt to woo ‘younger’ listeners but but will drive away those who want at least one programme with a bit of gravitas during the day.

FrancieBrady · 16-11-2020 1:26pm

jay0109 wrote: »

It's part of the dumbing down of the debate on current affairs in this country and worldwide. I don't want to hear listener's texts, I simply don't care what they think. There's enough radio shows doing it...could they not leave a few serious shows intact for grown-up's radio?

They had a piece last week about Ireland's ugliest buildings and the 2 of them were giggling like school kids every time they went back to it, all the time looking for more listener's texts. Who cares!

Social media has turned adults into ejjits and the MSM are running fast to join in. And we'll wonder in 10 years time why someone like Trump will be riding high in the polls here

Not getting the complaint about dumbing down tbh. But then I grew up in a time when the British Redtops (long before the 'Irish edition' were the most popularly read 'newspapers' here. Far more people engaged on different levels with politics here than 20 years ago IMO. Establishment parties are struggling to maintain vote share as a result.
All presenters that ever were on radio weighted topics too depending on the importance they gave them personally.

Brendan Bendar · 16-11-2020 1:56pm

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Not getting the complaint about dumbing down tbh. But then I grew up in a time when the British Redtops (long before the 'Irish edition' were the most popularly read 'newspapers' here. Far more people engaged on different levels with politics here than 20 years ago IMO. Establishment parties are struggling to maintain vote share as a result.
All presenters that ever were on radio weighted topics too depending on the importance they gave them personally.

“Struggling to maintain vote share”. Gotta be kiddin’ a chara.

The only opposition party couldn’t get near forming a govt, nobody would touch them with a barge pole.

You see votes are one thing, and only one thing, to use a soccer analogy, you can have most possession, most shots on goal, most corners, most passes completed, it if you can’t put the ball into the net you can’t win.

Lot of folk around these here parts would do well to dwell on that analogy.

You can shout and roar about statistics till the cows come home but until you learn how to score and win games you will be like ‘hurlers on the ditch’ -annoying folk who try to make their presence felt by giving the impression that they have all the answers.

Nah...... not how it works dude.

FrancieBrady · 16-11-2020 2:16pm

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

“Struggling to maintain vote share”. Gotta be kiddin’ a chara.

The only opposition party couldn’t get near forming a govt, nobody would touch them with a barge pole.

You see votes are one thing, and only one thing, to use a soccer analogy, you can have most possession, most shots on goal, most corners, most passes completed, it if you can’t put the ball into the net you can’t win.

Lot of folk around these here parts would do well to dwell on that analogy.

You can shout and roar about statistics till the cows come home but until you learn how to score and win games you will be like ‘hurlers on the ditch’ -annoying folk who try to make their presence felt by giving the impression that they have all the answers.

Nah...... not how it works dude.

Not interested in arguing party politics with you here Brendi, it's a 'radio' forum.

My point was that for a lot of the early decades of our state, engagement with politics was not encouraged. The 'state' broadcaster towed the party lines (the two main party's effectively) and the electorate were expected to listen...not answer back.

Now there is a new game in town, pontification and control of what we read, see and hear is no longer possible. The electorate can answer back. That has changed broadcasting just as it has changed politics.

Rather than the debate being dumbed down (it isn't) it has just moved and it is a more intense wide ranging debate. It just doesn't happen on RTE1 anymore and they are just adapting to keep market share.

Cole · 16-11-2020 2:17pm

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Excellent synopsis J

Obviously the folk in RTE have decided to dumb down this show and let it lurch more towards ‘hairdresser’ radio.

This text us in bolloxology is what it is, try to give the impression that you have a say and can influence opinion.

Load of bulldust.... they will read out around two or three texts on each side of the argument usually from bots who are homed in on these issues.

Waste of time.

Also this false ‘banter’ that nobody believes is ‘spontaneous’ doesn’t fool anyone.

As the boy Jay rightly said, this prog has lurched badly into ‘hairdresser radio’ direction, in an attempt to woo ‘younger’ listeners but but will drive away those who want at least one programme with a bit of gravitas during the day.

News at One is all that's left. Even Morning Ireland does the 'banter' thing and now we have the Queen of the fake (sports) banter, Aine Lawlor, there...all downhill.

amlinopta · 17-11-2020 6:24pm

Text us now on 51551 with your suggestions for a name for the President’s horse. Followed by a lot of fake laughter between the presenters. Cutting edge alright.

imme · 17-11-2020 6:28pm

Grolschevik wrote: »

I like it.

Wilson was like a panda on Prozac.

What does a panda on prozac look like.

She was effective in running the program and asking the questions.

Odyssey 2005 · 17-11-2020 6:28pm

This Cormac lad Is a chip off the PBH block. A right pain in the left bollok

FrancieBrady · 17-11-2020 6:35pm

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

This Cormac lad Is a chip off the PBH block. A right pain in the left bollok

Anyone who stops Donnelly waffling and pontificating is a hero in my book. And Cormac did it there.

Pelvis Parsley · 17-11-2020 7:36pm

imme wrote: »

What does a panda on prozac look like.

She was effective in running the program and asking the questions.

She was ignorant in the extreme in my view and constantly spoke over people.

imme · 17-11-2020 8:09pm

Pelvis Parsley wrote: »

She was ignorant in the extreme in my view and constantly spoke over people.

Ignorant?

Should a drive time show be a place for lectures or uninterrupted speeches by politicians etc etc

Pelvis Parsley · 17-11-2020 8:23pm

imme wrote: »

Ignorant?

Should a drive time show be a place for lectures or uninterrupted speeches by politicians etc etc

Not at all, an interview of course needs to be structured and sometimes forceful.

But asking a question and then babbling over the answer serves no one.

FrancieBrady · 17-11-2020 8:25pm

Pelvis Parsley wrote: »

Not at all, an interview of course needs to be structured and sometimes forceful.

But asking a question and then babbling over the answer serves no one.

She is still prone to it on TWIP on RTE1.

Pelvis Parsley · 17-11-2020 8:33pm

FrancieBrady wrote: »

She is still prone to it on TWIP on RTE1.

She is Francie-I think it's just automatic at this stage.

imme · 17-11-2020 8:45pm

Pelvis Parsley wrote: »

She is Francie-I think it's just automatic at this stage.

I think some people mixing up their Mary Wilson's and their Aine Lawlor's.

Aine Lawlor presents The Week In Politics.

FrancieBrady · 17-11-2020 9:00pm

imme wrote: »

I think some people mixing up their Mary Wilson's and their Aine Lawlor's.

Aine Lawlor presents The Week In Politics.

Correct...apologies. Both of them rudely interrupt though. Maybe they trained together.

curioser · 17-11-2020 10:45pm

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Correct...apologies. Both of them rudely interrupt though. Maybe they trained together.

And Audrey Carville and Rachel English and Claire Byrne and Sarah McInerney!

imme · 18-11-2020 9:25am

curioser wrote: »

And Audrey Carville and Rachel English and Claire Byrne and Sarah McInerney!

So, all women

FrancieBrady · 18-11-2020 9:31am

curioser wrote: »

And Audrey Carville and Rachel English and Claire Byrne and Sarah McInerney!

Not too familiar with the output of the first two, but no I wouldn't say Byrne and McInerney are the same. Bynre is actually prone to allowing waffle and Sarah is more likely to allow latitude and then come back with a zinger question. Diferent styles altogether IMO

Pelvis Parsley · 18-11-2020 9:49am

imme wrote: »

I think some people mixing up their Mary Wilson's and their Aine Lawlor's.

Aine Lawlor presents The Week In Politics.

I assumed he meant MI, or that she’d stepped in for Aine at some stage.

FTR, I don’t think Aine is half as bad.

Brendan Bendar · 18-11-2020 6:35pm

Colm Brophy just tore McInerney out a new arse hole.

FrancieBrady · 18-11-2020 7:13pm

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Colm Brophy just tore McInerney out a new arse hole.

By avoiding the actual question he was asked and answering a different one that wasn't asked as was pointed out to him several times, same as he did when last on the radio.

18-11-2020 9:49pm

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Colm Brophy just tore McInerney out a new arse hole.

You most certainly have a way with words.

padd b1975 · 19-11-2020 7:38pm

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Colm Brophy just tore McInerney out a new arse hole.

He's doing the rounds.

Clinical job done on Pádraig McLoughlin on Claire Byrne the other morning.

Joe_ Public · 20-11-2020 6:26pm

No one from rte was available to come on a show and talk about rte....on rte. Well, that's a new one anyway.

Brendan Bendar · 20-11-2020 6:38pm

Joe_ Public wrote: »

No one from rte was available to come on a show and talk about rte....on rte. Well, that's a new one anyway.

Let’s remember that when some of their high earning presenters try to pressure other folk to ‘come on air’ .

Let’s throw it back at them.

curioser · 21-11-2020 12:01am

Joe_ Public wrote: »

No one from rte was available to come on a show and talk about rte....on rte. Well, that's a new one anyway.

Claire Byrne said the same thing this morning - six hours later they still can't find someone to speak on it. Just how hard did they try?

amlinopta · 27-11-2020 5:34pm

What was your favourite Christmas toy? Text us now on 51551. Dreadful

ShamNNspace · 30-11-2020 5:53pm

Ah now so a large portion of these images were uploaded voluntarily to online sites for monetary gain, now wouldn't one think that rte might have looked into this when the "story" was fed to them last week instead of running with the agenda.. RTE.... the truth matters

Brendan Bendar · 03-12-2020 5:44pm

O’hEadhra is getting torn out a new one by Maria Walsh.

FrancieBrady · 03-12-2020 5:46pm

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

O’hEadhra is getting torn out a new one by Maria Walsh.

What do you mean by that? I just listened to that interview.

Is nobody allowed question a FGer without this pile on Brendi?

Nobody tore anything in that interview.

Brendan Bendar · 03-12-2020 5:52pm

FrancieBrady wrote: »

What do you mean by that? I just listened to that interview.

Is nobody allowed question a FGer without this pile on Brendi?

Nobody tore anything in that interview.

Francie, it is unbelievable that Stanley is still chair of the PAC given his record.

Unbelievable.

How can the electorate have any confidence in how things are done if this is not sorted.

FrancieBrady · 03-12-2020 5:57pm

Brendan Bendar wrote: »

Francie, it is unbelievable that Stanley is still chair of the PAC given his record.

Unbelievable.

How can the electorate have any confidence in how things are done if this is not sorted.

Brendi...it's unbelievable you don't know what forum you are in.

This is the radio forum. You listened to the same interview I did and your impression of a very respectful well done interview was that the FG rep 'tore' Cormac a new one'.

She didn't, she answered his questions that he has a duty, as a good broadcaster, to ask.
It was a good interview.

ShamNNspace · 03-12-2020 5:59pm

More dumbing down.. how can anyone be expected to take this "news" show seriously anymore?

FrancieBrady · 08-12-2020 5:39pm

Who is the guy having a nightmare talking about the judges payrise?

Brendan Bendar · 08-12-2020 6:45pm

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Who is the guy having a nightmare talking about the judges payrise?

Patwell, should never be let near a microphone.

Nevin Parsnipp · 08-12-2020 8:51pm

Who let that stumblebum on air to speak about the pay rise for the Judiciary ?

Surely the beaks have enough brass to get a competent speaker on air......not the train wreck we just heard...

Historybluff · 09-12-2020 10:26pm

amlinopta wrote: »

What was your favourite Christmas toy? Text us now on 51551. Dreadful

I don't like the regular pleas with listeners to text in about this, that, and the other. The show seems to be aping Newstalk's current affairs programmes in that regard. If I listen in, I want to hear breaking news and informed opinion, not silly and ignorant comments from Joe (or Joanne) Soap. Still, the show is better than its rivals.

Brendan Bendar · 09-12-2020 11:04pm

Historybluff wrote: »

I don't like the regular pleas with listeners to text in about this, that, and the other. The show seems to be aping Newstalk's current affairs programmes in that regard. If I listen in, I want to hear breaking news and informed opinion, not silly and ignorant comments from Joe (or Joanne) Soap. Still, the show is better than its rivals.

Just about......

RTE: Drivetime with Sarah McInerney & Cormac O hEadhra

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