Its summer and the listening is easy...

mike65

Yep Myles the Mogadon is back in the chair.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

deadhead13

Their summer holidays have been reduced to a mere 4 weeks this year....I was wondering why G. Ryan sounded a bit deflated last friday.

FlutterinBantam

mike65 wrote: »

Yep Myles the Mogadon is back in the chair.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Expect a lot of military and WW2 inserts.

mike65

and other American history.

FlutterinBantam

Did he write books about that stuff:cool:

Greenman

mike65 wrote: »

Yep Myles the Mogadon is back in the chair.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Arsenal

humberklog

Another two hour Hugh Lane and finger pulling warm farts radiothon.

Our man in Havana

When is Derek "The Finest" Davis back on Liveline?

parasite

Myles was really falling in love with Simon Schama this morning, blecch

mike65

Simon Schama is tv history GOD! I suspect its his love of baseball that did it for Myles.

humberklog

Who's in the house?!

Myles 'Da Choons' Dungan is in the house!?

I'm not terribly against it but he's playing a lot of music. Standard pop music too. Something off one of those middle of the road stations like 98fm or 104something or other.

deadhead13

Bring back Rattlebag.

humberklog

deadhead13 wrote: »

Bring back Rattlebag.

I think they're one step ahead of you Dead.:pac:

mike65

Rachel English in for Maid Marian for "the next few weeks" (read two months?)

Firetrap

I quite like Rachel English. Marian Finucane does have the cushiest job in RTE though - who wouldn't like to have to work on just two days a week and get big money for it :P

deadhead13

I surprised she hasn't found a full-time role since leaving Drivetime - Rodney Rice's successor?

mike65

Could do that job, wouldn't mind betting that whoever gets that gig will be someone who won't moan about working on a weekend.

Firetrap

Well, she didn't rule it out when she was chatting to Rodney on her show. Whether she gets it is another thing but she'd be good. I thought she was excellent on Drivetime.

FlutterinBantam

When will someone pull the plug on Maid Marian??

Expect her back in September, which has been the score up to now?

I don't mean take her off the air but the salary vs hours worked is just ridiculous.

Goan will be bleating about hike in license fee soon enough, but notice the "stars" salaries were not published in the recent break even report.


How these people get away with this is beyond me.

brettmirl

They should make her go back to her old stomping ground of Liveline whenever Joe is on hols/in hosp with broken legs.

All included in her current fee of course.

FlutterinBantam

What they should do is halve the current "stars" salaries and see what happens.

brettmirl

What annoys me is that they pay the "stars" so much money when their is no competitors who would pay anything close to those figures.

mike65

Its great isn't it

Star name "I demand a 10% pay rise or I'll leave for er"

RTE "Okay, how about 15%?"

Star name "Done"

RTE "We have been, again*"



*rte note to self, must stop falling for that one

FlutterinBantam

mike65 wrote: »

Its great isn't it

Star name "I demand a 10% pay rise or I'll leave for er"

RTE "Okay, how about 15%?"

Star name "Done"

RTE "We have been, again*"



*rte note to self, must stop falling for that one

No no no Michael.

#1 star name. I demand xxxxx or I will leave the station and go to the erm... opposition(whoever they are)

RTE:eek: jaysus horse!!!( call break in negotiations)
Holy sheet, if that guy leaves we will lose our place in the pecking order, give him what he wants(back after break)
Right horse, 700k good man, glad we could hold on to you.

30 seconds later #1 star rings#2

"Howya horse, just got 700k from the lads, that makes you worth 650k, get onto those guys and sort it out.

50 secs later #2 star rings #3 star..Lookat I got 650... that makes you worth 600k


And so on and so on and so on and so on and so on and so on

deadhead13

Meanwhile....over in the BBC there was a realisation that ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 have no money, the market for presenters doesn't really exist anymore, so their "stars'" contracts are going be cut by around 40%.

FlutterinBantam

heh heh, Don't expect Goan to go for that strategy.

Fcukin licence fee increase will be his first port of call.

Firetrap

I don't think cutting stars' salaries will do a lot for RTE really but they are overpaid. It would be interesting to see how much of a cut they could take. It's not as if they'd get better money if they quit and went to Newstalk, Today FM or to a local station.

FlutterinBantam

30% at least.

FlutterinBantam

Aaaah dear !!

Hard to get good help.

The Flutt bristled up when he heard someone on RTE say that the number if "incedences" had increased recently.

Incidents honey.

Poor Jackie Hurley, she who pronounces "t" as "d" "twendy minutes" said today that someone put in a very "credible" performance.

"Creditable" is the word you wanted Miss.

Ooooh dear.

Fulton Crown

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Aaaah dear !!

Hard to get good help.

The Flutt bristled up when he heard someone on RTE say that the number if "incedences" had increased recently.

Incidents honey.

Poor Jackie Hurley, she who pronounces "t" as "d" "twendy minutes" said today that someone put in a very "credible" performance.

"Creditable" is the word you wanted Miss.

Ooooh dear.

You won't change this one Crusty....was out in Dundrum SC to day and had to "Take a powder" after about 20 minutes of listening to young ones with black circles around the eyes saying.

"he was sooooo, like.....gross."

" I haade dat stuff"

"Dats a really cewel top!"

Oh is he on Twidder ?

Fook sake...........headed orf a fter a quick purchase in Urban...

Stylo

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Aaaah dear !!

Hard to get good help.

The Flutt bristled up when he heard someone on RTE say that the number if "incedences" had increased recently.

Incidents honey.

Poor Jackie Hurley, she who pronounces "t" as "d" "twendy minutes" said today that someone put in a very "credible" performance.

"Creditable" is the word you wanted Miss.

Ooooh dear.

Far be it from me to defend the neanderthals in Montrose but CREDIBLE is the right word and CREDITABLE is not

tbh

stinger, bantam!

FlutterinBantam

Au contraire teebs, that man is wrong.

maybe he might take the time to explain the reasoning for his assertion and if he convinces me I will have no hesitation in eating humble pie.

credible comes from the Latin "Credo" "I believe" hence the Creed in Mass and the various derivations in English such as "incdredible" .

It would be correct to define a report or story about an event as credible
i.e. believable,but a performance uh oh no way Jose .

The description jackie wanted there was " a performance worthy of credit"

In other words. "The dublin hurlers gave a performance worthy of credit against Kilkenny yesterday" "They gave a creditable performance"

"Credible" would be wrong in that context.


NEXT!!!!!

FlutterinBantam

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/creditable

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/credible


Think that should sort things out:rolleyes:

humberklog

Oooh Mr. Higgins I believed in the Dubs.

I thought their performance was credible for their fans, creditable for the team and briefly incredible for all involved (including Jackie).

FlutterinBantam

So did I, and they did well, but Mr Stylo locked horns with the wrong guy on grammar.:D


Will he be back I wonder;)

FlutterinBantam

humberklog wrote: »

Oooh Mr. Higgins I believed in the Dubs.

I thought their performance was credible for their fans, creditable for the team and briefly incredible for all involved (including Jackie).

More to that than meets the eye, creditable effort, despite all the editing.

I might give that debate a run out in the english forum.

I can feel the tsubh's infraction stick twitching:eek:

humberklog

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

More to that than meets the eye, creditable effort, despite all the editing.

I might give that debate a run out in the english forum.

I can feel the tsubh's infraction stick twitching:eek:

Ah the editing had to be done in order to swing it back (if even a little) towards a radio topic.
There's even more to it than meets the eye!;)

I like Jackie though, thought I caught her giving Stephen Hiney the glad eye one night. That's not an intended pun on S. Hiney's past eye problems.
Where did she spring from? I like her accent.

FlutterinBantam

Cork woman my sources tell me.

give her a clip of the ...

Well excellent broadcaster in my opinion, bit of life about her.