Annoying traits of radio presenters.....

alaimacerc

Another one for the malaprop file: on RTER1 this morning, "that changed the complexity of the game".

alaimacerc

dxhound2005 wrote: »

That usage of recuperate is fine. Recoup would be more common, but both are good.

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/recuperate

To recuperate is to get something back that you have lost — could be good health, or money lost in a bad investment. When you recuperate, you heal and recover.

Sadly, the OED agrees with you, too. Don't think I've ever heard it used transitively before. Now I'm wondering if that's a rare usage of long-standing, or a more recent one that's started creeping in when I wasn't looking!

Max Headroom

Howitzer the 5th wrote: »

Kiwi Pet Courtenay and his fake accent? Pet is one of the many ex-crew pirates who sailed the choppy airwaves of yesteryear. Many drew from the Tony Blackburn acme radio supplies line and produced the archetypal 70's, 80's cheesy radio sound with whistles and bells (literally). Society generally has evolved from those sheltered days. Pet still believed I assume that having had his voice briefly heard on Roddy Doyle's The Van and his stint on brekkie on 98fm in the early 90's would leave a lasting legacy. However alas he was shunted off Nova breakfast as it was excruciatingly bad. It hadn't evolved. Nor has he. Pet now has crash bang wallop inserts on traffic updates which is highly dubious owing to the prevalence of road deaths nowadays! Along with ancient Simpsons inserts, no longer heard anywhere in the English speaking world for over 20 years, and a plethora of other strange, unusual pointlessness amid the often indiscreet innuendo its annoying trait fm.

Sadly this is exactly what Branigan/Hayes want ..an 80's pop-tastic zany station akin to the original Nova..which was exactly that....grow up lads....

dense

Not unlike the whole desperate "let's pretend it's 1979 and there's no internet" so the presenter has to ask listeners for advice on how to tie their shoelaces. And the bait works!!



C,mon, who designs this stupidity, just play some not completely shïte music.

bot43

Nicky Byrne and his “Lottie of the Ryan’s” etc. Does my head in.

Dermot and Daves pretending to find each other funny and the fake laughter that goes with that.

Fergal Darcy putting on a hard culchie accent. He is easily the worst radio presenter I have ever listened to. An absolute mystery how his ratings are not zero.

alaimacerc

Dave Fanning.

This is all.

Beechwoodspark

alaimacerc wrote: »

Dave Fanning.

This is all.

Just heard him speed reading through some light news article he clearly couldn’t be bothered with at light speed. Had to turn him on.

aroundthehouse

bot43 wrote: »

Nicky Byrne and his “Lottie of the Ryan’s” etc. Does my head in.

Dermot and Daves pretending to find each other funny and the fake laughter that goes with that.

Fergal Darcy putting on a hard culchie accent. He is easily the worst radio presenter I have ever listened to. An absolute mystery how his ratings are not zero.

I like D&D but i totally agree, Dave in particular really over does the fake laughter

Yes, D'Arcys show is just desperate radio, i think he brought his listenership from iradio where he was on at the same time slot, he built up a cult following of west of ireland 15-25 year olds who deem him "good craic". He did the dj circuit all over the west and this got his name out there with that age range and he made himself appear accessible and in fairness it appears to have worked for him and he brought that listenership across to todayfm

whiterebel

Neil Prendiviile. Just the fact that he exists.

Radio5

Sean Rocks on Arena. There was a guest on last Thursday reviewing shows at the Galway Arts Festival. I'd say she hardly got through a sentence without being interrupted. Must be in the RTE book of instructions.

honeybear

Radio5 wrote: »

Sean Rocks on Arena. There was a guest on last Thursday reviewing shows at the Galway Arts Festival. I'd say she hardly got through a sentence without being interrupted. Must be in the RTE book of instructions.

I’m terrible for interrupting myself but I’m not on radio. It’s crept into RTE Radio 1. Sarah McInerney was dreadful interviewing Dara O’Brien from FF today. Guy from Late Debate, Cormac O Hara is atrocious.

TheRiverman

dense wrote: »

Why do AA traffic reports usually sound like horse race commentaries?


Rapid, random and breathless?

It's all those "rindabouts"

when taking a breath...*A combination of smacking lips,and a sharp intake through the nose*..Drives me nuts:mad::mad::mad::mad:

razorblunt

"s" being very soft and lispy, particularly prevalent in younger presenters, mostly female, but not always.

ford fiesta

The 2 sports guys Des Cahill and Paul Collins with their sniffing and snoring between words

aroundthehouse

ford fiesta wrote: »

The 2 sports guys Des Cahill and Paul Collins with their sniffing and snoring between words

Both sound like they have mouths full of coleslaw

Squatter

honeybear wrote: »

I’m terrible for interrupting myself but I’m not on radio. It’s crept into RTE Radio 1.

Guy from Late Debate, Cormac O Hara is atrocious.

I find that every show presented by CO'H is more about what he thinks/says, rather than what his guests/interviewees want to say.

Neames

"All that good stuff...." - Ivan Yates.


George Hook used that phrase a lot as well as "Hold a while..hold a while".....

Headwrecking.

B0jangles

Sean O'Rourke has this weirdly dismissing way of saying 'Yeah..' or 'OK...' after any of his guests finish telling a story - always sounds like he was just waiting for them to shut up so he can start talking again.

And Marian Finucane's OutRAGEd WEIRldy EMPHAsisED MODe of spEECh when she thinks anything a guest has said is even mildly controversial is a touch grating.

beertons

Avoid Shane Beatty on KFM. He hasn't a notion.

"Oh, I didn't know they got black Ice in Canada."

I kid you not, he said those words, shocked he was.

tabby aspreme

beertons wrote: »

Avoid Shane Beatty on KFM. He hasn't a notion.

"Oh, I didn't know they got black Ice in Canada."

I kid you not, he said those words, shocked he was.

Very hard to listen to him, he must do very little if any research into the topics he discusses.

crossman47

Any of the sports presenters during a news bulletin who say "And we will bring you all todays action in sport" when they are about to give a few 30 second snippets.

beertons

tabby aspreme wrote: »

Very hard to listen to him, he must do very little if any research into the topics he discusses.

He was a gofor for Clem, a while back. Clem ditched the early mornings, and being the CEO was probably looming at the cheapest replacement. And I'm a regular listener, but it's Sunshine or 4FM from 9-11.

ford fiesta

sports presenters about to give an update or result starting with "I can tell you that Liverpool are 1-0 down......."

Oops69

can we just put all the sports presenters and programmes and news segments on one chanell--'sports fm ' so they rest of us don't have to be bothered with e.g Rory's progress on a golf course every hour on the hour no matter what you're listening to .

johnire

Fergal Darcy constantly saying that basically everyone is “a good friend of mine” or calling callers “brother “. What’s all that about??

endacl

Susan Cahill, presenter of Talking Books on Newstalk.

Not her voice. The cadence of her phrases. Oddly enough, only when she’s doing her “I’m presenting on the radio to a radio listener” voice. When she’s chatting to a guest she could pass for a normal human, having a normal conversation. When she’s doing her links though, she somehow morphs into some quasi-robotic did-a-course-in-radio-presenting vocoder.

Bizarre. Sometimes comical. Sometimes it’d make your teeth itch. Depends on your humour.

whiterebel

johnire wrote: »

Fergal Darcy constantly saying that basically everyone is “a good friend of mine” or calling callers “brother “. What’s all that about??

Don't forget "Legend" to basically anyone that speaks to him. I've noticed he's turning into another Gerry Ryan:

Caller: Hi Fergal, yes I've a problem with me Fallopian tubes.......
Fergal: Ya know, I had exactly that same problem when I was a young fella......

johnire

You’ve hit the nail on the head! Yes “legend” is another one!

whiterebel wrote: »

Don't forget "Legend" to basically anyone that speaks to him. I've noticed he's turning into another Gerry Ryan:

Caller: Hi Fergal, yes I've a problem with me Fallopian tubes.......
Fergal: Ya know, I had exactly that same problem when I was a young fella......

Mutant z

Talking down to and being condescending to their callers this largely applies to Joe Duffy just because you earn a decent wage on the national broadcaster doesn't make you better than everyone else this is the problem when you have bang ordinary presenters like Ray Darcy earning huge sums on RTE that they are somehow gods gift to broadcasting.

aroundthehouse

johnire wrote: »

Fergal Darcy constantly saying that basically everyone is “a good friend of mine” or calling callers “brother “. What’s all that about??

oh man that drives me insane, everyone is "a very good friend of mine"

The slot he did with Declan Pearce over at Audi in Germany was crigneworthy

Howitzer the 5th

whiterebel wrote: »

Don't forget "Legend" to basically anyone that speaks to him. I've noticed he's turning into another Gerry Ryan:

Caller: Hi Fergal, yes I've a problem with me Fallopian tubes.......
Fergal: Ya know, I had exactly that same problem when I was a young fella......

The mention of 'Fergal D'Arcy and 'Gerry Ryan' in the same sentence is so incongruous and utterly astonishing that I've had to be picked up off the floor!

I appreciate you're making a point to illustrate something. Ryan was of course polarising. Often maddening and repulsive but often also brilliant.

That gimp from the whest on today fm is a bucket of puke. A born galoot who's horribly over promoted and woefully out of his depth.

SheroP

Yeah the energy overload is killing me, cool the jets Fergal

supernova5

Mwireoin O' Connell on Todayfm has got to be the most pretentious individual on radio, she takes annoying, cringe worthy and puke inducing to a whole new level.....

SheroP

While I do listen to today fm, why do they make it so hard, all this nonsense constantly promoting themselves indirectly,”go and see so and so ,UNBELIEVABLE MARVELLOUS show” blah blah or “make sure and listen to my podcast” .really kills me,oh funny you should mention tag line and on then about some other promotion !! Ok that enough

aroundthehouse

anyone know what happened with Neil Delemere? whilst I enjoy marios show at the moment, its hard to see how he can keep it going long term as its so dependent on the guests, i thought they had some sunday brunch show on there for a while with susan feminism keogh but maybe it was scrapped

honeybear

Ray Darcy is terrible for asking guests questions and answering them himself straightaway! Just now, in a group discussion about Love Island, he asked one of the guests: “Do your family all watch it?” Immediately HE answered: “They do”

Howitzer the 5th

honeybear wrote: »

Ray Darcy is terrible for asking guests questions and answering them himself straightaway! Just now, in a group discussion about Love Island, he asked one of the guests: “Do your family all watch it?” Immediately HE answered: “They do”

No more is required.

Max Headroom

Presenters who bang on about the JNLR's when things are rosy, but dont mention them when theyre nova.....:D

johnire

I have to agree. She really is hard work to listen to. I can never get over her accent. Where on earth did she get it from? It certainly wasn’t from Limerick anyway!She has the most irritating habit of repeating words and sentences.

supernova5 wrote: »

Mwireoin O' Connell on Todayfm has got to be the most pretentious individual on radio, she takes annoying, cringe worthy and puke inducing to a whole new level.....

johnire

You have mentioned to sum up Fergal Darcy perfectly!!

QUOTE=Howitzer the 5th;107657504]The mention of 'Fergal D'Arcy and 'Gerry Ryan' in the same sentence is so incongruous and utterly astonishing that I've had to be picked up off the floor!

I appreciate you're making a point to illustrate something. Ryan was of course polarising. Often maddening and repulsive but often also brilliant.

That gimp from the whest on today fm is a bucket of puke. A born galoot who's horribly over promoted and woefully out of his depth.[/QUOTE]

artvanderlay

Ray D'Arcy, Ryan Tubridy, Joe Duffy, Ciara Kelly, Marian Finucane, Sean Moncrieff, Tom Dunne: Breathing.

Dufflecoat Fanny

endacl wrote: »

Susan Cahill, presenter of Talking Books on Newstalk.

Not her voice. The cadence of her phrases. Oddly enough, only when she’s doing her “I’m presenting on the radio to a radio listener” voice. When she’s chatting to a guest she could pass for a normal human, having a normal conversation. When she’s doing her links though, she somehow morphs into some quasi-robotic did-a-course-in-radio-presenting vocoder.

Bizarre. Sometimes comical. Sometimes it’d make your teeth itch. Depends on your humour.

God I thought I was the only one to notice her. Her programme is excellent, she's great but that bizarre uppy downy thing she does drives me insane.

endacl

endacl wrote: »

Susan Cahill, presenter of Talking Books on Newstalk.

Not her voice. The cadence of her phrases. Oddly enough, only when she’s doing her “I’m presenting on the radio to a radio listener” voice. When she’s chatting to a guest she could pass for a normal human, having a normal conversation. When she’s doing her links though, she somehow morphs into some quasi-robotic did-a-course-in-radio-presenting vocoder.

Bizarre. Sometimes comical. Sometimes it’d make your teeth itch. Depends on your humour.

She's an excellent presenter, can't fault anything to do with the content of the programme, but yeah, I wish someone would pull her aside and have a word about the tone. As you say, it only kicks in during her monologues. She's done some cracking interviews down the years, one that stands out in my mind is with Jonathan Blate, the most recent biographer of Ted Hughes. Susan Cahill didn't fall into the trap of many literary journalists, trying to paint Hughes as a saint or a villain. I'd recommend that interview to anyone who hasn't already read Blate's book, if it's still online.

The voice thing is a minor quibble by now, I think I've come used to it.

thejuggler

A small fault but endearing from Larry Gogan recently transferred from 2FM to RTE gold.
Larry always had difficulty pronouncing the name of the dance act 'The Prodigy' It usually came out as 'The Progidy' .
Heard him say it several times over the years. At least they are unlikely to crop up his golden hour playlist.

It just proves that even legendary DJs are human

johnire

Muireann OConnell has the most infuriating habit of repeating words and sentences. Does she do it to fill up her 2 hour show?She repeats nearly every word and sentence she utters so quite literally she only has to think of garbage to talk about for an hour instead of two!

Dufflecoat Fanny

I wonder how many of the posters on this thread have misophonia like myself haha

ford fiesta

Music presenters giving the same old, predictable extra names to artists, making them (and the presenter!!) extra important::

"The Reverand" Al Green
"Miss" Grace Jones
"Francis Albert" Sinatra
Philip "Parris" Lynott
"Mr. Declan McManus" Elvis Costello

..not to mention "Sir" Tom Jones and "Dame" Shirley Bassey.

Cole

If being a person was a trait...then Ray D'Arcy. Just being Ray D'Arcy

dvcireland

ford fiesta wrote: »

Music presenters giving the same old, predictable extra names to artists, making them (and the presenter!!) extra important::

"The Reverand" Al Green
"Miss" Grace Jones
"Francis Albert" Sinatra
Philip "Parris" Lynott
"Mr. Declan McManus" Elvis Costello

..not to mention "Sir" Tom Jones and "Dame" Shirley Bassey.

Van The Man