I've had enough of this talk radio crap!

mike65

Sorry, but I can't take it anymore!

Get up and listen to either Newstalk Breakfast (or Morning Ireland if I'm up later) as I eat, listen to Morning Ireland or Fivelive in the car to work, listen to rest of Morning Ireland then Tubridy and Pat Kenny and then bide time with Luchtime on Newstalk (that Eamon Keane (?) is really staring to piss me off) then over the News At One on RTE, flick bewteen Liveline and Newstalk until 2.10 then will either stay with Duffy if he's talking about something of interest or go to Moncrieff. Seek respite at about 3 pm with John Kelly on Lyric FM then inevitably switch to Matt Cooper at 4.30 until finish work then its proberly either fivelive or RTE on the way home!

Help me! :eek:

Mike.

Wertz

get an iPod or something....after all day listening to [insert generic Dublin pop music crap station] all day, I welcome a bit of chat in the car on the way home...

DMC

Get an mp3 player and a wireless FM transmitter.

I find that too much talk radio is bad, as bad as too much music radio. What I mean is, if I listen to too much of either, I tune out or go back to the other.

I listen to Liveline in small doses, and very irregularly nowadays. My blood pressure is back to normal now.

Thats why I think its very important that Radio 1 has Ronan Collins at noon.

r3nu4l

I drive to work with the gf so we usually listen to Kiss FM (English station) all the way to work so I'm very happy to sit at my computer to listen to talk radio (Newstalk, RTE1, Today FM, BBC4) before heading home with Kiss FM or Q103 or StarRadio 107.9.

Can't stand inane DJ's prattling on with some sort of banal rubbish about 'OMG, this next tune is bangin' reminds me of the club I was in on Saturday, I was so wasted I thought the DJ was Michael Barrymore, remember him folks?..."

Kwekubo

I find myself listening to Newstalk all the time, and yeah, the Lunchtime show grates on me too. Must try to get some Phantom in now that it's on the air again.

is_that_so

Yes it is hard to get good variety. Talk radio doesn't do neither does pure music.

For me it's a mixture of RTE 1 /Radio 4/Lyric/2 FM/Today FM and DCAL in the afternoons if driving.

A "radio day" would be Morning Ireland,Tubridy/Kenny,Lyric till lunchtime, News @ 1, Lyric for the afternoon, DriveTime and then RTE1/Lyric for the evening unless there's a specialist music show on somewhere.

TBH I find Newstalk very tiresome and Joe Duffy is no better than the late night ranters.
Phantom has variety but a tendency like all radio, to drift into its "usual suspects".
Much as RTE is criticised it does provide variety along with the BBC radio stations, especially Radio 4.

mickd

DMC wrote:

Thats why I think its very important that Radio 1 has Ronan Collins at noon.

You must be joking, Collins is typical of the talentless individual employed by RTE. I remember heading out to school in the mid 80's and this eejit was on the mornings on Radio2 as it was then with the same grey depressing drivel he plays now. That humourless voice seconded only by that vegetable Creedon who was on before him for the most boring person on radio. I gather Collins has a showband CD out, typical the music of rigor-mortis.

DMC

I enjoy his show. Its not the playlisted pap that you find elsewhere on Irish radio.

Diff'rent strokes, I suppose.

bbability

Thank god for Chris Moyles in the morning.. The Beeb's can be picked up loud and clear as far as the airport. I've gone off the Strawberry's a bit, their best hour is 6 to 7am, its alot less scripted and more off the cuff radio.. far better to listen to.. and in fairness I am a listener of Newstalk in the mornings.

Dave!

Stop listening to talk shows then There's more than enough music on the radio -- and it's all sh*te. Hence why I listen to an mp3 player when I want music (it's great being able to CHOOSE what music to listen to), and the radio when I want chat. It works a treat for me.