Newstalk Megathread

dublinmadyoke

Gunther_Gloop wrote: »

I used to think Moncrief was smug, but he doesn't come across that way on the radio. Like P.K., he works best on radio I think.

I'd still like to hear from the person who thinks Claire McKeowan is worth hearing or seeing or experiencing in any way. "And for the next hour we'll look into the 50 best foot massages and how best to varnish your underwear after a luxurious bath."

lol....That is real funny- funny cos it true .....

DMC

A reason never to go back.... "comedian Joe Rooney on why he listens to Newstalk"

/me deletes from presets

Mossy Monk

dublinmadyoke wrote: »

Orla Barry does my nut & so does that Brenda wan.. Orla was doing a interview with a person this morning and her phone cracked (for a second- due to coverage) and automatically she said while of course she stuttered ‘AM AM AM AMMMMM ….. your phone isn’t great there so AM AM AM AM AMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM we’ll try and get back to you!!!!!!!!!!! With that you could hear the interviewee saying ‘oh sorry’ demonstrating that her phone was fine and the listeners could hear her.

I really hate her and her am am am am's. I have only listened to Newstalk 4 times in the last month and that was for Off The Ball.

The Black Oil

Dustin with David Norris? Give me a break.

mike65

When? :eek:

Mike.

Dub13

The Black Oil wrote: »

Dustin with David Norris? Give me a break.

Yea it was mad....only listened to about 20min of it but it sure was 'different'.

LordSutch

Dustin with Norris = appaling cheap amature rubbish, I listened for about three mins before I nearly smashed the radio into a thousand pieces.

Absolute crapp .............

BeatNikDub

Newstalk really has gone down the tubes. I rarely listen to it now compared to a few years back I would have had it on from 7.30am till getting home from work after 6pm....maybe switching off at Damian Kybird the odd time.

Were they trying to shake things up when going national and it just hasnt worked?
Brenda Power is deplorable, Orla's show has gone stale, as has MonCreiff's.
The morning show is entrely rushed and has an air of smugness about it that I just dont like.

Still enjoy Hookie the odd time though, when he gets going he is great. And the travel and film features every week are very enjoyable.

Will be interesting to see who gets Station of the year at the PPI's

The Black Oil

I honestly don't know why I keep waking up to the breakfast show but I don't think there's anything else talky at around 6am. It is rushed as people have said. It's really annoying how they often say the interviewee's first name (and 'we'll have to leave it there' towards the end because you know they're cramming. Maybe I should switch to BBC World Service if I was something able to set it on my stereo.

Who was that one who used to present a Saturday morning show? I think it was before they went national, Sophie something? Her voice was quite soothing and she seemed to have a brain.

dublinmadyoke

The Black Oil wrote: »

I honestly don't know why I keep waking up to the breakfast show but I don't think there's anything else talky at around 6am. It is rushed as people have said. It's really annoying how they often say the interviewee's first name (and 'we'll have to leave it there' towards the end because you know they're cramming. Maybe I should switch to BBC World Service if I was something able to set it on my stereo.

Who was that one who used to present a Saturday morning show? I think it was before they went national, Sophie something? Her voice was quite soothing and she seemed to have a brain.

Sophie Gorman... She did my head in also - 'text us and tell us how you feel...... for the cost of 30cent'

Dub13

In fairness to NewsTalk Talking History is one of the best shows on Radio.

LordSutch

Dub13 wrote: »

In fairness to NewsTalk Talking History is one of the best shows on Radio.

I (used to listen) to talking history all the time but gave up due to 'Opinion' based facts, and to be honest I cant remember if I got 'wound-up' or not, but what really got me going was that talk show on a Sunday evening with Ulick O'Connor, it was just so predictable, with him & the host slagging off our neighbours across the water at every given opportunity & praising a well known local terrorist group (recently gone out of business), in the end it got so poisoned & embarrassing that I just turned the dammed thing off for good.

I think the show was pulled anyway, due to complaints!

mike65

Arrg! Anyone listen to the Breakfast Show this morning?

Our 40w hosts were going big on the price of gas and the regulators role, as Bord Gas intend to put in for a price rise. Between 8 am and the discussion at 8.45 with said regulator they read out txts the contents of which would make you fear if the listenership ever staged a coup.

Not that Clair and Ger were helping to spead any enlightenment as they strangly forgot to put forwards the argument that as a barrel of oil is now 35% higher than a year ago that might be reason for the price hike.

Nope instead they encouraged idiots with fast thumbs to give the nation thier thoughts. The interview with the regulator was 3 mins of wasted airtime, as he pointed out the bleeding obvious.

Mike.

Dub13

And this new thing of shows been done in shop windows...?thats crazy.

mike65

Sure Ryan Tubriddy ws been hanging out in various locations for a few years including a dept store window on Patrick Street in Cork.

Mike.

Dub13

mike65 wrote: »

Sure Ryan Tubriddy ws been hanging out in various locations for a few years including a dept store window on Patrick Street in Cork.

Its a strange one I cant get my head around it,the radio station must get a good fee.

mike65

Its the whole meet the people "schick", the publicity must be worth paying for alright.

Mike

Dub13

It may be time for NewsTalk to get one of those proper Outside Broadcast units if the local Dublin radio stations can afford them surely a nation station could.

simonw

Newstalk is the only station i really listen to, but the only programme that makes it worth tuning in for is OTB. I like moncrief and talking history, but besides that i only leave it on because i don't like any of the music stations. Nothing has come close to the mystery train but i'm sure theres another thread about that!

The Black Oil

Must admit avoiding the breakfast show in the past while has been a complete breath of fresh air.

jack24

Turn off the Breakfast show myself mostly, had the misfortune to catch some this morning though, still of the same high calibre, 'Text us at a cost of 30c and tell us where you are watching the Champions league match tonight', Jesus wept!!! Also heard what appeared to be a paid infomercial for Google. Maybe they should ditch the 'news' element entirely and devote the whole show to commercials, though they went along those lines with that guy who used to do the business section who has been relegated to the backroom, Tom Lyons, 'Tell us why your product/company etc is so brilliant'...........

CrowdedHouse

jack24 wrote: »

Turn off the Breakfast show myself mostly, had the misfortune to catch some this morning though, still of the same high calibre, 'Text us at a cost of 30c and tell us where you are watching the Champions league match tonight', Jesus wept!!! Also heard what appeared to be a paid infomercial for Google. ....

Agree +1

It's gone very bad,I was listening to it out of habit really.
Switched over to 'Morning Ireland' recently,sounded 100 times more professional.

d15ude

Brenda, Orla, Claire McKeowan - pure tabloid crap.

The news readers are hilariously bad, too.

Gunther_Gloop

Well at least newstalk traffic reporters can usually say "roundabout".

I think a prerequisite for that job on Today FM is to pronounce it rindabite.


...I do smile when I hear Nathan Murray (Murphy?) say his name though.

Nightwish

d15ude wrote: »

Brenda, Orla, Claire McKeowan - pure tabloid crap.

The news readers are hilariously bad, too.

There's one news reader Susan, Susanne, Sinead...something like that. They should give her day off as she's had a horrid sore throat for the past year. It must be all the shouting she does down the mic, seeing as I have to turn down the volume whenever she comes on as she's disproportionately loud.

FullHD

Im not sure if this has been mentioned before, as this
post has become so long.
One of my main problems with Newstalk is the 1/2 hourly news and the placement of ads.

i think that they could solve my issues very easily.
1. Only have the news on the hour, as it usually hasnt changed in 30mins, my problem is the way that they interrupt someone in mid conversation to go to the news.
2. Similarly with ads, the amount of them is ok but again they interrupt a conversation to go to ads.

In fact it happened last week on Joe Duffy, Jenny was sitting in and started talking to a listener, 30secondslater had to do to ads and never went back to the original listener.
its beginning to P me off

garry

Imhof Tank

garrycs69 wrote: »

Only have the news on the hour,

They used to have the "20/20" news 3 times an hour at 20 past, 20 to and on the hour - that was a while ago and the idea got dropped thank God

jawlie

I have tuend in thre times this week to the Orla Barry show, which I used to enjoy. First time it was an article about celebrities - I can't remember what it was but i turned over to something else. Second time i turned in I got her going to the guy she refers to as her "hollywood" correspondent. I listened for a few minutes but it was all about the private lives of actors, so i turned over to somethinr else. This morning I turned in again and it was all about some wedding in italy and there she was gushing abouit it all again, over €80 000 per day being spend on a yacht and that OK! magazine was covering it......

He show seems to have become obsessed with celebrities and has become tabloid-ised. I used to listen to it but listen now less and less due to the celebrity obsession and trivialisiation of this show.

Additionally, I used to love Sean Moncrieff's show, but it has become so overrun by advertising breaks, and the length of these breaks seems to have increades so much, that it seems there are more ads than show these days, and I find I listed less and less to him also.

Newstalk used to be great, but ever since some bright spark thought they ought to have an irritating gimmick to tell me "and now you're up to date with newstalk 106" at the end of every news, its gone downhill. Which is sad.

mike65

Bugger! Eamon Keanes back.

Mike.

Chiron

mike65 wrote: »

Bugger! Eamon Keanes back.

I know what you mean! John Keogh was like a breath of fresh air last week.

GhostInTheRuins

My thoughts exactly Mike.

dublinmadyoke

Is it just me or is Newstalk sounding more and more like a very badly ran community station? The production has to be the worst on Irish radio?

Anyone else agree with me?

Profiler

dublinmadyoke wrote: »

Is it just me or is Newstalk sounding more and more like a very badly ran community station? The production has to be the worst on Irish radio?

Anyone else agree with me?

Yes!

You can be sure that during one of the news bits you could lose count of the number of times you will hear one of the people who read out the news go "eeeehhhhhhh" or "uuuuhhhhhhh" it is just appalling.

Pronouncing names badly wrong and just coming across as very unprofessional seems to be the Spewtalk.... eeeehhh... Newtalks, I mean Newstalk 103... uhhh... 106 way

LordSutch

Does Orla Barry ever stop talking ?

Have you noticed how Orla Barry takes about twenty words to say or convey something that could be said in just five words, God that woman could talk the hind legs off a donkey & still keep talking . . .

wittymoniker

can we start a campaign to bring back David Mc Williams and Damien Kiberd? maybe put Orla and Declan back together again... good times.


pony or phoney anyone?

nkay1985

I'll be honest, I haven't read all 211 posts in this thread, just the first and last pages. But am I the only one who likes Newstalk?

Coming to work between half 5:30am and 6:00am I get the best bits of the previous day - usually some George Hook stuff.

Coming to work at 2pm I get the end of Eamonn Keane, which isn't the best but at least it's not shit chart music.

Finishing at 2pm I get Moncrief, which is quirky and fun and I find him quite a good presenter, specially compared to the drivel on the other stations around that time.

Coming to work at 10pm I get 'Off The Ball', which is by far the best sports show on any radio station IMO.

Leaving at 10pm Late Night Live is pretty good for general discussion.

If I'm listening to the radio during the evening I flick between Matt Cooper and George Hook. I always thought I'd hate George Hook on the radio but I don't think he's too bad.


Overall I'd say it's my favourite station.

EdgarAllenPoo

Moncrieff is the equivalent of a midweek action movie on RTE, it passes the time and allows your brain to switch off for a few hours. I like the Right Hook but find both their breakfast show and Your Call (and the presenters of these shows) insufferable and pretentious.

Badabing

Their weekend sports show is a joke no live commentary for the whole summer and no reporters at the GAA matches, poor editing aswell the show is all over the place. Its a poor mans Rte.

nkay1985

GDM wrote: »

Moncrieff is the equivalent of a midweek action movie on RTE, it passes the time and allows your brain to switch off for a few hours. I like the Right Hook but find both their breakfast show and Your Call (and the presenters of these shows) insufferable and pretentious.

I don't ever listen to their breakfast show or Your Call so I can't really comment. But there have been a fair few bad points said about them here so everybody can't be wrong.

mike65

Badabing wrote: »

Their weekend sports show is a joke no live commentary for the whole summer and no reporters at the GAA matches, poor editing aswell the show is all over the place. Its a poor mans Rte.

Have to agree 3 hours of Jerry O'Sullivan on Saturday and Sunday rabbiting on 20 to the dozen would do your head in, they have no rights to anything after the Prem footie ends as far as I can tell which is a bit of a flaw.

Mike.

brettmirl

mike65 wrote: »

Have to agree 3 hours of Jerry O'Sullivan on Saturday and Sunday rabbiting on 20 to the dozen would do your head in, they have no rights to anything after the Prem footie ends as far as I can tell which is a bit of a flaw.

Mike.

It's 4 hours on a Saturday and 5 hours on a Sunday...followed by Oisin "folks" Langan for an hour, pleading "folks" to call in.

mike65

Its worse than I thought! :eek: and Langan is the worst. Ever.

Christ, Newstalk. Its crap really isn't it? :pac:

Mike.

Big Tone

mike65 wrote: »

Its worse than I thought! :eek: and Langan is the worst. Ever.

Christ, Newstalk. Its crap really isn't it? :pac:

Mike.

Yes it is.

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't NewsTalk a lot better BEFORE they went national?

They seemed to lose some key people like McWilliams, Dunphy and that Sunday Business Post fella (cant think of his name offhand).

ronbyrne2005

Big Tone wrote: »

Yes it is.

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't NewsTalk a lot better BEFORE they went national?

They seemed to lose some key people like McWilliams, Dunphy and that Sunday Business Post fella (cant think of his name offhand).

As i said before. They made it really good at start so they could win critical acclaim and get a national licence then they dumbed it down and made it more tabloid and more commercial (30cent text , sponsorship, adverts etc).

Drag00n79

mike65 wrote: »

... and Langan is the worst. Ever.

I have to agree. His smarmy, smart ass comments after someone texts in a point gets on my nerves. He never lets the facts get in the way of what he's saying, that's for sure!

berliner

Orla Barry and Brenda Power are so passive in their interviewing.Really dull radio from these two people pleasers.

Benster

Right, I've had it with Newstalk.

Listening to the stunning story about Ingrid Betancourt's rescue from FARC today on the Breakfast show, and that gimp cut Laura Marlow short before she had finished the story! IDIOTS! That programme is a joke now, a shadow of it's former Dunphy-led self...

Táck

yeah i use to be a major fan of the station as a whole. now its strictly the sports show every night, particularly the soccer show

nkay1985

Táck wrote: »

now its strictly the sports show every night, particularly the soccer show

In fairness, the soccer show and sports show in general are the business.

Big Tone

Eamon Keane seems to be a particularly poor interviewer overall, heard him interview Vincent O Shea from Met Eireann and it was a terrible interview, Vincent couldn't really understand Keane's confusing and convoluted questions!