RTE's new radio schedule

impr0v

If I was in a position to listen to radio all day my schedule would be:
Morning Ireland (RTE), Ray D'Arcy (Today), News at 1 (RTE), Sean Moncrief (sp?) (Newstalk), Matt Cooper (Today), Tom Dunne (Today), The Blast (Today), Donal Dineen (Today).

In the gaps between those show I wouldn't listen to anything. I'm sure some people would consider some of those shows trite, and some of them are a tad, but those that aren't RTE shows are certainly better than anything their stations are offering in the corresponding timeslot. While I'm sure some people have more discerning and specialist tastes, I'm sure I'm not completely atypical of the audience across the country in my age bracket.

FlutterinBantam

regarding Val... Is there someone alive who talks more slowly

I reckon if ya got Fanning and Joyce to read a page of a book out loud ..Fanning would be finished the page before Joyce got past the second line.....Whats with Rachael English...is she joining a nunnery of what????


Mooney will do yer head in if he's on for 2 to three hours......


Someone stop him saying Duublew Duubblew Duubbelew:eek: :eek: :eek:

Buddy74

The two shows in question might not appeal to the masses but served a nice niche audience that is sick to the teeth of hearing the same 'plugged' tunes paid by the record companies to the radio station to play so you think you like it so much that you'll buy the album.

RTE Radio does need a re-vamp! But get rid of the self promoting I want my old TV show Gerry Ryan!

MaltEagle

I don't listen to RTE Radio 1 much - I'm either in school, busy or else listening to some other radio station but Derek Mooney...6 days a week? His Saturday morning show "Mooney Goes Wild" is good enough I suppose, but people will get sick of him. I'm personally happy he's getting places in radio. I certainly wouldn't mind an afternoon gig with RTE Radio!

But Derek's alright in small doses. My worry is that people will get sick of him very soon. John Creedon back to midnight? Bless his good working soul


I hope there changes work out for them!

maidhc

Has been said already but I can't believe they got rid of Mystery train and Rattlebag to give us more moaning from Joe Duffy.

sudzs

MaltEagle wrote:

I hope there changes work out for them!

Me too!

Must be middle age creeping in or something but he's really grown on me in the last few years...

Do you think he was shifted to the middle of th night because of his recent so-called "Anti American" tilt...??? (I know, bet you didn't even notice it!)

DublinWriter

dixiefly wrote:

Also his voice is much lower than the music and if you have the music at normal in the room you cannot hear what Val is saying. well past retirement age imho.

Val Joyce, where to begin? Tell you what, let's not.

sudzs

Ohmygod!!!

Anyone remember his little jingle (from a milliion years ago) ..."Irelands choice, with Val Joyce.."

popebenny16

Yeah, the liveline show has really become the pits over the last two years. Now they are extending it.

Similarly, whats happening to Sportscall, with Des Cahill? Is it being axed as fanning comes on at 7? Not that it would be missed as Cahill is hardly an impartial host "ah, you cant say that" being one of his favourite phrases. Last night some joe rang about Steve Staunton, made two interesting points:

1. - John Delaney said we were getting a world class manager and we didnt.
2. - How can the FAI justify charging ther same prices for friendly tickets as competative ones?

DC kept asking joe who would you play, who would you pick, what's wrong with the ones you've got? when joe admitted he couldnt pick a replacement in midfielf for o'shea dc scoffed at him, then said well we got bobby robson, isnt he world class, and got poor joe off. The point is if your view dosnt co-incide with either Des or Joe Duffy you can forget it, they'll ignore the reason why you're on in the first place, throw questions at you, till there's one you can answer, basicly say you're useless why are you ringing anyway and try to make a dick of you.

Both shows are poor mens James Whale, and that's saying something. Shove them off to RTE3, on long bloody wave, replace them with some talent or somehting interesting.

jjbrien

God I see Larry Gogan is still on 2FM are they ever going to get rid of him and his golden oldies.

easy_as_easy

no, that would breach their pact with the devil.

mike65

Sudzs, an Anti American tilt get you promoted in RTE!

Mike.

DublinWriter

sudzs wrote:

Anyone remember his little jingle (from a milliion years ago) ..."Irelands choice, with Val Joyce.."

Even I'm not that old!

He was one of the first presenters on 2FM when it opened, wasn't he?

These days he's so bad, he's actually good. At his funniest when he's reading off the various feast days of observation at 2 MPH from some relgious diary and having 5 seconds of dead air before queing up a track.

He never fails to send me to sleep, even when I'm driving.

DMC

Airs and Races... Saturday afternoons for donkeys years, is my abiding memory of Val.

tSubh Dearg

Okay folks, can we get back on topic again please?

Crubeens

News Release

May 30, 2006

ICSA Urges RTÉ not to jeopardise Farming Audience

ICSA president Malcolm Thompson has urged RTÉ management not to jeopardise the regional audience by any further erosion of agricultural programmes on the national airwaves.

"The new shake-up of the RTÉ Radio 1 schedule has made no mention of Farm News, and its future has not been confirmed, which is distressing. Farmers everywhere rely on programmes such as this to get information on beef prices, changes within the industry, and amendments to regulations," said Mr Thompson. "It is a vital link in the agri - business sector, and allows non- farming communities to gain an insight into rural life. I have noticed myself over the years that regional and rural broadcasting has been confined more and more to the margins, and Irish farm families are no longer adequately represented by the their national public service broadcaster. I would urge RTÉ not to alienate the farming audience by further erosion of farming programmes."

Now I'm not a radical agricultural type, I'm quite the smooth urbanite who switches off RTE when the farm news comes on - but I think it would be disgraceful if it was dropped.

RTE has got a public service remit at the end of the day, and there's no excuse for axing minority interest items. Farmers pay their licence fee too!

DMC

tSubh Dearg wrote:

Okay folks, can we get back on topic again please?

Val Joyce is on topic... he's leaving Late Date which Creedon is taking over..

/me shrugs....

tSubh Dearg

That's as may be, but I felt the thread was getting a little too focused on Val and this is supposed to be a discussion of all aspects of the new RTE schedule.

You're welcome to start a thread discussing all things Val Joyce if you so desire.

mike65

BBC radio 4 has a farming digest every morning at 5.40-ish (not usualy awake when it starts!) so if they can broadcast to a nation with few farmers as a % of total population then RTE have no excuse.

Mike.

DMC

tSubh Dearg wrote:

That's as may be, but I felt the thread was getting a little too focused on Val and this is supposed to be a discussion of all aspects of the new RTE schedule.

You're welcome to start a thread discussing all things Val Joyce if you so desire.

We've focused in on one aspect of the new schedule, you've got to expect that in a thread like this... at the end you're splitting hairs at that point.... your board....

DublinWriter

popebenny16 wrote:

Yeah, the liveline show has really become the pits over the last two years. Now they are extending it.

As a programme concept, Liveline is good, and badly needed extending timewise.

However, Joe Duffy seems to be driving it down into new lows of tabloidism.

The debate last week about Lidl selling the uber-sharp Divers' Knives was typical of the "won't someone think of the children!" phone-in rantage the programme has become.

And there was some other random mad wan ranting about how the €40 a night B&B didn't turn out to be the luxury private apartment of her dreams. A 20 minute arguement between her and the owner of the B&B over the kitchen being shared. Chrisht.

And then there's their 'Funny Friday' shows. How I'd love to wrap Brush Shields' out of key mandolin around his Syl Fox's neck. Then I'd laugh.

They really need to purge the entire Liveline production crew and bring back either Derek Davis or Marianne Fuinucane, although Marianne's weekend shows are working, especially the Sunday one.

DublinWriter

tSubh Dearg wrote:

That's as may be, but I felt the thread was getting a little too focused on Val and this is supposed to be a discussion of all aspects of the new RTE schedule.

You're welcome to start a thread discussing all things Val Joyce if you so desire.

We are talking about RTE's new Radio schedule and the various minutiae of same.

What's your problem about letting a thread become organic, fluid and developing into lots of funny and interesting sub-topics?

Apologies if it wasn't general enough, your modship *tugs forelock*.

mike65

Native are restless, rightly.

Mike.

r3nu4l

Oh God, why dump Fanning to RTE1? I can't stand Fanning, ok, he "discovered" (promoted) U2, God bless his cotton socks but he's still a prat!

I will miss aspects of Rattlebag, RTE could do with increasing the amount of time it gives to film, books, art and theatre (not sure about opera! ).

Derek Mooney is not too bad, his nature program is about right, not sure he'll be any good with anything else. We'll see.

G. Ryan, the G man, man of the people and king of Clontarf. This God who walks the earth and moistens the knickers of many a middle-aged woman...or so he likes to think! AAAAARRRRGGGHHHH! I cannot stand this guy, never could, would somebody please think of the children! Dump him now RTE, he's being polluting the airwaves for far too long now.

Crubeens

The thought of one and a half hours of back to back Des Cahill and Dave Fanning is pretty close to my idea of radio hell. It ranks just behind a three hour show, presented, produced and edited by Mannix Flynn and Eamonn Dunphy, called 'The Tings I don't like about Dis Country' - On RTE One medium wave

tSubh Dearg

Since we had two duplicate threads, I've merged them. I think one started off in AH. Anyway enjoy.

Elmo

There is another thread in media about bad language on the Radio and TV if you are interested.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054939190

popebenny16

Dont get me wrong, liveline does a great job - when its something of importance, and this week has been a good one for Joe. Most of the time, as was posted above, it does descend to one guy moaning for an hour about the colour of next doors gate. You can tell when Joe's not even interested, you can hear him asking wind up questions.

Val Joyce is going? Sad, would listen to him if driving at night. As for Cahill and Fanning I'm sorry, Dave, but in the last year you've started to drive me up the wall. I love it when guests (the lad from The Doors recently was a great example) cant understand that the four minuite long almost surreal stream of consiousness form Dave was actually a question and they usualy reply with "What?" or, confused, more usually "yeah".

Farm news will survive, no doubt, probably incorporated into clonetime or whatever the new drivetime identikit show will be called.

Crubeens

[Farm news will survive, no doubt, probably incorporated into clonetime or whatever the new drivetime identikit show will be called/QUOTE]

Maybe Fanning's movies and entertainment slot is a red herring, and the latter hour of the show will actually be called 'Farming with Fanning'

Dave dons his wellies and travels around the country doing outside broadcasts on various arable, dairy and mixed drystock and poultry farms. Listen as he confuses simply country men with convoluted ten minute 'nightmare-questions' about their views on scour treatments and Liver Fluke. He'd have a pitchfork buried in his face by the third show.

meldrew

LOL cant see Fanning lasting too long on Radio 1 anyway , its a crap station without him anyway

popebenny16

on boring ireland this morning they had some art's type person who was a little peeved what with her slot getting shoved to around midnight.

RTE fella, presumably radio head, said "sure Dave Fanning will cover the arts"

Come on!!! Films and Music, that'll be it. Cant wait for his interview with a painter/sculpter/advant guard elastic band combo. "Yes yeah, but what about the doors, they were great, did you ever hear this one...."

nitrogen

The Mystery Train going is big shock alright. I think that ends my relationship with Irish radio, although we'll see where Kelly goes.

FlutterinBantam

Thank God RTE finally cottoned on to Kelly ...pretentious git full of his own importance imho.... good riddance....

Wertz

FlutterinBantam wrote:

Thank God RTE finally cottoned on to Kelly ...pretentious git full of his own importance imho.... good riddance....

Now if only they'd cop on to Ryan...

J.R.HARTLEY

or at least ban that cretinous dandelions ad. sycophantic wenches, and their trindad and tobago joke is just insulting to anyone from that country, (not that it's near as important as their ad of course)

FlutterinBantam

With ya all the way on that one JR..... that is one ballbuster ad