Newstalk Megathread

nmoran

Orla Barry is also going to be the Social Affairs correspondent for the station. Said she is going to be showing up on other programmes throughout the week. Her new show is going to be an arts programme. Wonder if there are implications for Culture Shock. Probably the end for Motormouth also....

Roanmore

I posted about Tom Macaneny (sp?) on Newstalk and nobody took up the baton. Either nobody listens to him or the people who do couldn't be bothered to disagree with me couldn't be bothered to post. I don't care either which way but does anybody have an opinion of him. I used to like Conor Brophy but 'Tom, I am the man' is ****.

mike65

Newstalk to get European Cup rugby rights?

From "de papeur"

By Tony Leen

NEWSTALK are on the brink of muscling in on RTÉ Radio’s heretofore exclusive rights to the Heineken Cup.

Negotiations with tournament organisers, ERC, are at an advanced stage and may be unveiled ahead of next weekend’s big kick-off.

It is understood the national independent will share live commentary rights with RTÉ Radio, and in some instances, will have first call on the plum fixtures involving Irish provinces Leinster, Munster and Ulster.

It is a blow for RTÉ generally, as Sky Sports have exclusive television rights sewn up at present, despite a Government campaign here to make the Heineken Cup available on a terrestrial television platform. A well-placed source confirmed: "Newstalk have gone after these rights with a vengeance and will be successful."

The station already has Sunday Premier League rights in football, and has had discussions with the GAA with a view to a share of the hurling and football market.

The 16th Heineken Cup kicks off next Friday night.

Skid

mike65 wrote: »

Newstalk to get European Cup rugby rights?

From "de papeur"

Well if they do, will they bother to send the commentators to the match?

Their soccer commentary is appalling.

I think Newstalk had commentaries on the last World Cup but I never listened.

Hope RTE keep the Heineken Cup radio rights, they do a good job.

Lapin

nmoran wrote: »

Orla Barry is also going to be the Social Affairs correspondent for the station.....

Whats a social affair ?

mike65

Fluff correspondent? Just what Newstalk need. I mean that sincerely, its about their level these days.

Koloman

Lapin wrote: »

Whats a social affair ?

She is going to be Newstalk's version of Lorraine Keane. A fluff job alright.

SportsGreatest

When's her new programme starting? I was expecting to hear it tonight, but there was a repeat of Talking History on.

Lapin

SportsGreatest wrote: »

When's her new programme starting? I was expecting to hear it tonight, but there was a repeat of Talking History on.

Does that mean Motormouth has kicked the bucket ?

Good.

SportsGreatest

Lapin wrote: »

Does that mean Motormouth has kicked the bucket?

Yeah, last week's show was the last one for the near future anyway.

Badabing

So Moncrieff is now 1.30-4.30 i wonder whats happening with Lunchtime show?

ste88m

Badabing wrote: »

So Moncrieff is now 1.30-4.30 i wonder whats happening with Lunchtime show?

Getting axed maybe? Tom Dunne 'til 13:30?


(Just speculation. But after all of newstalk's cuts last year, I'd say it's highly possible...)

mike65

Please nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Stuff an' nonsense from 10 till foreveer :eek:

hacx

Jonathan Healy said on Hook that he will be doing a half hour news show fro, 1.00 to 1.30, after the Lunchtime Show.

delaad

So they've finally copped that anyone who wants to know what's actually happening in the country turns over to O'Rourke at one o'clock.

mike65

hacx wrote: »

Jonathan Healy said on Hook that he will be doing a half hour news show fro, 1.00 to 1.30, after the Lunchtime Show.

delaad wrote: »

So they've finally copped that anyone who wants to know what's actually happening in the country turns over to O'Rourke at one o'clock.

If thats true then they should be doing the news from 12.30 till 1 pm.

JonathanAnon

Very hard to listen to Mark Coleman... I'm sorry if he has chronic spluttering, but I dont want to hear it...

delaad

mike65 wrote: »

If thats true then they should be doing the news from 12.30 till 1 pm.

Fair enough, but surely the move is an attempt to compete.

And the 1.30 start for Moncreif an effort at eating into Liveline's 1.45 audience.

mike65

No need to compete directly, just get in first! By going out 30 mins sooner they'll get the political heavyweights (and Mammy) before RTEs lunchtime news.

delaad

mike65 wrote: »

No need to compete directly, just get in first! By going out 30 mins sooner they'll get the political heavyweights (and Mammy) before RTEs lunchtime news.

Provided of course they actually do news, and not the usual radio equivalent of op-ed, knocking copy that you can listen to right now.

Lapin

delaad wrote: »

Provided of course they actually do news, and not the usual radio equivalent of op-ed, knocking copy that you can listen to right now.

Well said.

The first half hour of Lunchtime with Whoever today was spent interviewing Conor Faughnan from the AA about the front page article of todays Indo.

Newsworthy? - Perhaps
Headline News? - No

mike65

True, anyway Moncreiff has confirmed he starts from 1.30 so that suggests Tom Dunne will get three hours again till 1 pm and then 30 mins news.

The 12 start was handy as it meant I could go straight from Kenny to more current affairs (however debased!) now its bather or blandola

kerryabu

What about this!!!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056051153

Rubik.

From todays Mail....

Damien Kilberd will continue presenting Lunchtime from 12 to 1.

Jonathan Healy will do a news roundup, 1 to 1.30.

Henry McKean gets his own show, "Under the Covers", Saturday mornings 9 to 10.

George Hook will be doing a playback-type show Saturdays 10 to 12.

And Sile Seoige will be on Saturdays 12 to 2.

Starting the 23rd of October

Lapin

Rubik. wrote: »

George Hook will be doing a playback-type show Saturdays 10 to 12.

And Sile Seoige will be on Saturdays 12 to 2.

Starting the 23rd of October

Good. Thats my golfing times for Saturdays sorted then.

ButtersSuki

Rubik. wrote: »

From todays Mail....

Damien Kilberd will continue presenting Lunchtime from 12 to 1.

Jonathan Healy will do a news roundup, 1 to 1.30.

Henry McKean gets his own show, "Under the Covers", Saturday mornings 9 to 10.

George Hook will be doing a playback-type show Saturdays 10 to 12.

And Sile Seoige will be on Saturdays 12 to 2.

Starting the 23rd of October

WTF is Newstalk's fascination with Sile Seoige? If they thought Orla Barry was bland.......


Come back Eamon Keane - all is forgiven!!!!!

Donkey Oaty

Rubik. wrote: »

Henry McKean gets his own show, "Under the Covers", Saturday mornings 9 to 10.

Henry is outstanding with some of his short contributions, but I wonder how he'll take to whatever format they have planned for him here?

Could be interesting.

ballsymchugh

ButtersSuki wrote: »

WTF is Newstalk's fascination with Sile Seoige? If they thought Orla Barry was bland.......


Come back Eamon Keane - all is forgiven!!!!!

What?? now you just go away and think about what you just posted, and we'll all agree that you were wrong later!!

Rubik.

ButtersSuki wrote: »

WTF is Newstalk's fascination with Sile Seoige?

A client of Irelands most powerful broadcasting agent exits stage left another one enters stage right.

ButtersSuki

ballsymchugh wrote: »

What?? now you just go away and think about what you just posted, and we'll all agree that you were wrong later!!

NOT APOLOGISING! It's all relative! Come on, I'd take Eamon Keane giving a politician a dressing down over Sile Seoige discussing dressing gowns any day.

mike65

ButtersSuki wrote: »

NOT APOLOGISING! It's all relative! Come on, I'd take Eamon Keane giving a politician a dressing down over Sile Seoige discussing dressing gowns any day.

Not if the studio has a camera and Sile is trying them on.!

constitutionus

oh dear jesus .

an extra half hour of moncrief ?

looks like i'll be slapping on the podcasts at 1.30 then.

i cant stand the guy. its the same crap over and over again. god help me ive found myself turning over to joe !

i know he has his audience but that doesnt mean people that listen to the lunchtime show want to put up with him.

im starting to get worried about newstalk now. they just cant seem to keep the talent and get their act together.

Duck's hoop

Moncrieff's alright.

I mean if it's repetition that gets you then surely Joe is not the answer.

mike65

Does anyone have a schedule from when NT was Duberlin only?

More Music

It all change at Newstalk, always.

They just can't hold down a schedule for any decent length of time. You might (I said "might") get used to somebody and then they're off or are sent packing to the broadcasting equivalent of Siberia.

What's going in there at all, staff morale has to be sh!te.

kerryabu

So Dill on Global village is staying??

Even after her rant on us irish last week being racist because a dublin taxi man asked her where she was from??

And her stereotype irish "Drinking Guiness" and when the border was mentioned she said "The irish only know that for the cheap drink"

GET HER OFF AND GIVE SOMEONE ELSE THE SHOW!!!

delaad

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

Henry is outstanding with some of his short contributions, but I wonder how he'll take to whatever format they have planned for him here?

Could be interesting.

It may need tight editing.

Anyone remember when the Breakfast Show used to have 2 personalities in to review the papers. Henry made a limited no of appearances in this role. He'd usually have 3 potential libel cases sparked up in the space of a couple of comments! It was literally...priceless.

ButtersSuki

delaad wrote: »

It may need tight editing.

Anyone remember when the Breakfast Show used to have 2 personalities in to review the papers. Henry made a limited no of appearances in this role. He'd usually have 3 potential libel cases sparked up in the space of a couple of comments! It was literally...priceless.

Ha! Ha! Yes, remember that! A few have slipped through on his vox pops with "da odinaree people peoples a Dubalin" too - some classic xenophobic and racist comments from the punters that Henry (and producers etc.) missed.

Just remembered when Eamon Dunphy was on Breakfast and he had Amanda Brunker in on a Friday to talk about the Dublin Social/Gossip Scene - high-brow programming indeed! After the first segment he got literally dozens ( Ok, it was Dublin-only at this stage....) of texts asking WTF were they doing having her on; which in true Eamo fashion he read out on air. I think that segment lasted 3 weeks.

c montgomery

kerryabu wrote: »

So Dill on Global village is staying??

Even after her rant on us irish last week being racist because a dublin taxi man asked her where she was from??

And her stereotype irish "Drinking Guiness" and when the border was mentioned she said "The irish only know that for the cheap drink"

GET HER OFF AND GIVE SOMEONE ELSE THE SHOW!!!

I hate that show. Minority this and minority that, racism here there and everywhere. Just get on with it, its just a 2 hour winge fest with a load of nobodies complaining about their treatment/experiences in ireland and with irish people. On a saturday night at 7 o clock surely they could find something better to have on.

For Forks Sake

mike65 wrote: »

Does anyone have a schedule from when NT was Duberlin only?

All evidence of that has been erased.

remember the 2 hours of pretentious crap they used to have on in the afternoon?

Koloman

mike65 wrote: »

Does anyone have a schedule from when NT was Duberlin only?

I can't find a schedule, but I found an old Irish Times article dated 10th April 2002. The day after Newstalk went on air.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2002/0410/1017357761535.html

The link often fails so I copied the text of the article and posted it below.

Apologies for taking up so much room.



"Harry Browne listens to the first day of Dublin's all-talk radio station and finds a local station with national ambition which might find itself stretched.


At the time of going to press, The Irish Times had not heard of any "news junkies" going to hospital with overdoses. However, Dublin's NewsTalk 106 is clearly aimed at listeners who need a fix in a hurry: "You can watch it tonight, you can read it tomorrow, but you can hear it now . . ."
Then again, you wouldn't want to take the station's promo snippets too seriously - like the one which plugged "the new radio competition that everyone's already talking about . . .". Some trick, when the relevant programme had not even aired yet.


From listening to its first-day programming yesterday, you get the feeling that NewsTalk would love to have poached Eamon Dunphy. Failing that, they've tried to clone him into three parts: David McWilliams represents the vaguely iconoclastic but basically pro-business Dunphy, Damien Kiberd is the green-leaning Dunphy, and George Hook is the jock-talking Dunphy.
And for Daire O'Brien's show, NewsTalk has managed to attract Amanda Browne, formerly The Last Word's researcher, as the programme's producer.


The level of NewsTalk's ambition (or pretensions) can be measured by the fact that hardly any item from 7 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. was a local Dublin story.
The station's on-air talent is notably male and its audience is likely to be similar. The major exception is in the afternoon, when the presenters not only lack a Y chromosome, but have also been permitted to team up.
Dublin Life, with Sue Carter and Karen Moran, is the one programme which follows a talk-radio convention which is commonplace in other countries - having two hosts who alternately bounce questions off their guests and trade banter with each other.


The result is certainly not (yet) slick, but the busy-ness, "yoof" and laughter of Dublin Life was refreshing compared to the dry sound elsewhere.


Inevitably, there were some surprises from the more isolated-sounding presenters. Agenda viewers, used to the authoritative appearance of McWilliams on TV3, may have been taken aback that his voice alone doesn't convey the same strength.


This may not be a problem - Dunphy proves, among many other things, that highly individual non-standard voices can work well on radio.
George Hook had better hope he is another case in point. His introductions were awkward, verging on fumbling. Some of his actual interviews, however, were surprisingly smooth and concise.


O'Brien has no such worries, combining reach-out-and-touch- him warmth with evident skills.


At lunchtime, Kiberd, on the other hand, didn't quite find his flow, hampered both by technical problems and by the station's programming structure, which sees too many interruptions from ads, promos and the vaunted 20/20 news service every 20 minutes.


Kiberd's programme did, at least, have a newsworthy interview with Mary Harney, though the Ansbacher-related remarks picked up from the interview by other media weren't even reported in NewsTalk's own bulletins.


The NewsTalk newsroom, even with input from Independent Network News, will clearly be stretched. The same goes for the producers of a full 10 hours a day of serious, newsy speech-based programmes, all basically chasing the same sorts of items and chats as their RTÉ and Today FM counterparts.


Even with a single strong-hand- ed editor overseeing the whole lot, how long will it be before the various shows fracture into the sort of mutual suspicion which normally fills the air at Montrose?
Early on, that old RTÉ politicker, Eoghan Harris, joined McWilliams to "review the morning's newspapers" - i.e. to hammer the IRA and praise the Queen Mum."


Harris declined to bash the Catholic Church, which he thought deserved more credit for its "decommissioning" efforts. NewsTalk followed his lead: the topic which has dominated RTÉ was conspicuous by its virtual absence."



Just found the Irish Independents review a few days later.

http://www.independent.ie/unsorted/features/but-can-they-walk-the-walk-310061.html

That link works!

mike65

Cheers for that, I'd forgotton about the 20/20 marlarky, dunno who though that was a smart move, didn't they then go big with news on the half hour before shortening it to headlines?

More Music

I was only thinking about 20/20 the other day and how annoying it was!

Stations make really outlandish proposals at BCI/BAI application time to stand out and then regret them later.

Koloman

More Music wrote: »

I was only thinking about 20/20 the other day and how annoying it was!

How true. It just interrupted the flow of the programmes and was quickly dispensed with.

ButtersSuki

Koloman wrote: »

Early on, that old RTÉ politicker, Eoghan Harris, joined McWilliams to "review the morning's newspapers" - i.e. to hammer the IRA and praise the Queen Mum."

What a fantastic description of Eoghan Harris! If the author had included a line about Harris' bedroom covered floor to ceiling in Bertie Ahern posters, badges and other paraphernalia it would however have been perfect.

constitutionus

More Music wrote: »

I was only thinking about 20/20 the other day and how annoying it was!

Stations make really outlandish proposals at BCI/BAI application time to stand out and then regret them later.

i cant help thinking that alot of that was down to insecurity about actually filling the space's inbetween in the first place. you have to admit its a handy out to pad any show.

once they copped they could do the deed out went the 20/20 news.

good ridance TBH.

IvyTheTerrible

Darragh from Boards is on lunchtime...the presenter clearly is not a user of Facebook!

ballsymchugh

ButtersSuki wrote: »

NOT APOLOGISING! It's all relative! Come on, I'd take Eamon Keane giving a politician a dressing down over Sile Seoige discussing dressing gowns any day.

oops!! should've just quoted what you said about eamo. have only heard síle seoige once so haven't made my mind up yet.

fred funk }{

Connor Brophy is on RTE now, didn't realise he made the switch. RTE really is where they all aspire to be and to jump onto that juicy gravy train.

Badabing

Have Newstalk dropped the Buisness show from Saturday? unless Sile will cover all that stuff in the new show.