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Live from Cork - Why?

  • 09-12-2010 6:09pm
    #1
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭


    Both The Last Word (Today FM) and The Right Hook (Newstalk) are being broadcast from Cork today. Is there any particular reason for this?

    I know the host of both programmes is originally from the place but what has that got to do with anything? Newstalk seem particularly obsessed with the place. Poor Hookie gets sent down there every Thursday to present his programme from a goldfish bowl in a side street.

    I'm just wondering what difference they think it makes, and is not more costly to produce these programmes outside their home studio?

    I couldn't care less if they were broadcast from planet Mars myself.
    There are times when I think George Hook might actually be from there!


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  • #2
    klong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭klong


    Um...George Hook IS from Cork


  • #3
    Speak Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    I'm sure Hook loves being home :D


  • #4
    Bard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    Because there's more to Ireland than just Dublin and Today FM and Newstalk ARE nationwide stations. Why SHOULDN'T they do programmes from Cork or other locations around the country?


  • #5
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Bard wrote: »
    Because there's more to Ireland than just Dublin and Today FM and Newstalk ARE nationwide stations. Why SHOULDN'T they do programmes from Cork or other locations around the country?

    +1 The question should be "why not, and why not more often ?"


  • #6
    dh0661
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭dh0661


    klong wrote: »
    Um...George Hook IS from Cork

    Matt Cooper IS from Cork too - BOoy.


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  • #7
    Rubik.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    You can see George in the studio from Opera Lane, so I suppose the idea is passersby might be curious enough to tune into Newstalk to hear whats going on.


  • #8
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,367 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    The studio in opera lane is newstalks studio along with redfm here in cork.


  • #9
    wyndhurst
    Registered Users Posts: 124 ✭✭wyndhurst


    Lapin wrote: »
    Both The Last Word (Today FM) and The Right Hook (Newstalk) are being broadcast from Cork today. Is there any particular reason for this?

    I know the host of both programmes is originally from the place but what has that got to do with anything? Newstalk seem particularly obsessed with the place. Poor Hookie gets sent down there every Thursday to present his programme from a goldfish bowl in a side street.

    I'm just wondering what difference they think it makes, and is not more costly to produce these programmes outside their home studio?

    I couldn't care less if they were broadcast from planet Mars myself.
    There are times when I think George Hook might actually be from there!
    It's surely time for a wider view on the country - CLEARLY, those 'elites' cocooned in Dublin & surrounds have completely fecked up the country.
    Time for the real capital to be crowned and the Munster Brigade to run the country. Take us about 6months to sort the place out.


  • #10
    denishurley
    Registered Users Posts: 753 ✭✭✭denishurley


    klong wrote: »
    Um...George Hook IS from Cork
    dh0661 wrote: »
    Matt Cooper IS from Cork too - BOoy.

    Pretty sure Lapin was saying he/she thinks Hook is from Mars


  • #11
    JayeL
    Registered Users Posts: 385 ✭✭JayeL


    I think it's fair enough that a national station broadcasts from more than the capital but what gets my goat is the broadcasting from Florida or Austria i.e. Ian Dempsey. It's completely pointless and wouldn't make me want to go to that place (if that's the intention).

    I think it'd mean more if they had a primetime show permanently coming from outside Dublin.


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  • #12
    Big Tone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭Big Tone


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    +1 The question should be "why not, and why not more often ?"

    +1 agreed 130%

    More and more Cork people are now discovering other stations since they've made the switch away from 96FM


  • #13
    invaderjim
    Registered Users Posts: 82 ✭✭invaderjim


    The last word was broadcasting from Cork as part of its Area 22 supporters events in anticipation of Munster V Ospreys. They have previoulsy broadcast from Limerick and Galway as well.
    I for one think its great that they do these live audience broadcasts. Looked like good craic on the internet stream.


  • #14
    murphym7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,035 ✭✭✭murphym7


    Have a think about it - every time they broadcast from Cork they mention the name Opera Lane about 100 times per show - coincidence??? Of course not - Opera Lane is not a real lane or street, it is the name of a new shopping complex which had a radio studio built in. Newstalk and Today FM (same company) get paid for broadcasting shows from "Opera Lane" indirect advertising.

    Its like when 2FM are live from Liffey valley, or RedFM is live from Mahon point - they all get paid to broadcast from there.

    Its all about the bob's.


  • #15
    _feedback_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭_feedback_


    JayeL wrote: »
    I think it's fair enough that a national station broadcasts from more than the capital but what gets my goat is the broadcasting from Florida or Austria i.e. Ian Dempsey. It's completely pointless and wouldn't make me want to go to that place (if that's the intention).

    I think it'd mean more if they had a primetime show permanently coming from outside Dublin.

    Topflight have had Dempsey going on ski trips for many years now. So they must find it beneficial.


  • #16
    seachto7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭seachto7


    Off The Ball and Moncrieff move around the country as well, and Off The Ball go to towns, not just cities. It's a great idea I think to have a live audience as well.

    To the OP, why not? I only used to ever get to hear Newstalk on trips to Dublin. I listen to it everyday now...


  • #17
    Rubik.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    seachto7 wrote: »
    Off The Ball and Moncrieff move around the country as well, and Off The Ball go to towns, not just cities. It's a great idea I think to have a live audience as well.

    I was never really a fan of Off The Ball's roadshows. The half-pissed audience were just annoying, it didn't really make for great radio. It probably would have helped if you were half-pissed yourself while listening to it, but that would be unlikely at 7 o'clock on a Monday night.


  • #18
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Bard wrote: »
    Because there's more to Ireland than just Dublin and Today FM and Newstalk ARE nationwide stations. Why SHOULDN'T they do programmes from Cork or other locations around the country?

    I'm not from Dublin myself and I agree that broadcasts outside the capital are welcome for some programmes. Contributors here have mentioned the Off the Ball Roadshow and Moncrieff . Both of these are light entertainment programmes which I enjoy. The agenda for these programmes can be decided weeks in advance. Audience participation is part of the gig and adds to the atmospehere. The listener knows what to expect.

    But The Last Word and The Right Hook which I have mentioned are primarily news based programmes and the agenda for such programmes is decided outside the studio often at short notice.

    Therefore I struggle to see the benefit in telling the listeners that they broadcasting from Cork or elsewhere. What difference does it make? I'm just wondering why Cooper, Hook and others feel the need to inform the listeners that they are there.
    One man in a studio sounds the same when he's on air be it in in Opera Lane, Diggs Lane or my garden shed.
    denishurley wrote: »
    Pretty sure Lapin was saying he/she thinks Hook is from Mars

    I now he's from Cork (God knows we all do, he reminds his listeners often enough), but there are times when he sounds like he's from a different planet. And he'd probably be the first to agree. :)
    murphym7 wrote: »
    Have a think about it - every time they broadcast from Cork they mention the name Opera Lane about 100 times per show - coincidence??? Of course not - Opera Lane is not a real lane or street, it is the name of a new shopping complex which had a radio studio built in. Newstalk and Today FM (same company) get paid for broadcasting shows from "Opera Lane" indirect advertising.

    Its like when 2FM are live from Liffey valley, or RedFM is live from Mahon point - they all get paid to broadcast from there.

    Its all about the bob's.

    Thats a very good point and you've probably hit a poor old nail on the head.

    However The Right Hook this week was broadcast from Ballincollig (wherever that is).
    I've nothing against the good citizens of Ballincollig and I don't have a problem with a nationwide current affairs programme being broadcast from where ever it is.

    But I don't think its in Opera Lane. :confused:
    wyndhurst wrote: »
    It's surely time for a wider view on the country - CLEARLY, those 'elites' cocooned in Dublin & surrounds have completely fecked up the country.
    Time for the real capital to be crowned and the Munster Brigade to run the country. Take us about 6months to sort the place out.

    Arse:pac:.


  • #19
    mike65
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    They never broadcast from Waterford :(


  • #20
    Dan Dare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭Dan Dare


    mike65 wrote: »
    They never broadcast from Waterford :(

    Why not? Ring Liveline and lets all have a heated debate.:)


  • #21
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    wyndhurst wrote: »
    It's surely time for a wider view on the country - CLEARLY, those 'elites' cocooned in Dublin & surrounds have completely fecked up the country.
    Time for the real capital to be crowned and the Munster Brigade to run the country. Take us about 6months to sort the place out.

    So we can move the arrogance to its natural home?


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