WLR FM ..supporting local businesses ????????

Man Up

Is anyone else fed up with WLR beating out the "We're local" message? "We support local businesses" You can't have missed them! Well, you could if you don't listen to it :-)

Anyway I'm one of those guys when I'm working in the shop or in the car who turns it up if I like something and turns it down when i don't, and if the truth be told I don't take a lot of notice of much else ..... but those irritating "local" things they keep playing and saying really do grate on me! Oh, and when i do turn it up it always sounds no matter where I am like I need to tune it in right if you know what I mean? Even though I have!

Anyway I'm back from Limerick a couple of weeks after a few days away and while there got chatting to a couple of guys in a pub called Peter Clohessy's. When they heard I was from Waterford one of them began the craic about knowing this guy from Limerick that works on WLR. Straight away I though ..."where is the localness in that??" ... and then i thought could this be a way for me to win 500 euro on my birthday? But it turned out he does their radio transmission technical type work, which wasn't going to help my birthday fund, but did, and does, leave me with a question!! Why the hell do they go on and on about being supportive to local businesses if they employ some guy from Limerick who can't even hear WLR there to do their transmission work?? Especially as there is a Local Business in the centre of Waterford that specialises in this sort of thing??? So not only am i fed up hearing the "we support local businesses" stuff being belted out .... I'm even more annoyed that WLR aren't practicing what they preach!!

So, I gave them a call when I got back, spoke to some girl, explained that I was fed up listening to the support local businesses muck .... when they don't .... the girl hadn't the first clue what I was talking about and of course there was nobody there to speak to me .... probably because they were out supporting local businesses .... in New Zealand or somewhere!!

Anyway does anyone else think it's hypocritical to pump out these support local messages (as well as annoying!!) ???? Where is the support from WLR for local businesses??

How can WLR say it supports local businesses when they (a radio station) can't even support a local business that actually does radio transmission work??!!!

S28382

Thats some rant for your first post Welcome to boards.

Man Up

Thanks for the welcome S28382!! I registered a while back ... but couldn't think of anything to moan about then ..... except the weather :-)

wellboytoo

You forgot world peace

bradknowell

Should see how much they charge for an ad. Jaysus , I nearly had a heart attack when i seen it, a few radio stations from different counties are charging way less than WLR

ChunkyNorris

I admire what you are trying to say here Man Up. It's an epidemic here. There are businesses over in south Kilkenny advertising to be Waterford businesses but paying their rates to the cats, and i mean companies just over the county boundary. This money is NOT going back into the local economy!

Keep your business local people if possible, Waterford companies should get quotes from Waterford companies first and foremost. This keeps jobs in the city and county.

jad2007

How dare they give jobs to people from outside Waterford !!

Imagine hiring people from outside our GAA boundary. The only way this country will recover is if we stick to the parish pump politics.

Personally Im guessing you went for this job and didnt get it.

Next thing they will have foreign people working in Waterford.

allthedoyles

Just reading the latest edition of ' Waterford Today '

If this is fact then locals must be supporting WLR .

If this is the most listened radio station, then WLR should re-pay that by supporting local business .

jad2007

Firstly I would strongly suspect the OP is trolling.

Secondly even if he isnt if a company advertises for a new position they can hardly say " has to be from Waterford"

When people say support local business they mean making choices such as I choose to do my christmas shopping in Waterford rather than Dublin.

Supporing local business does not meant discriminating against people based on their geographic location.

I can just imagine the fun people would have on here if Kilkenny radio said

" Engineer wanted only Cats need apply"

fricatus

ChunkyNorris wrote: »

IThere are businesses over in south Kilkenny advertising to be Waterford businesses but paying their rates to the cats, and i mean companies just over the county boundary. This money is NOT going back into the local economy!

They can't help who they pay their rates to. That's a separate issue, but the solution to that is that the council boundaries are redrawn so that the city administers its hinterland.

It's ridiculous to suggest that we shouldn't support a business in Slieverue or somewhere because it happens to be "just over the county boundary". It's still local FFS, and even though the rates might be spent in Kilkenny city or wherever, the money earned will more than likely find its way back over the bridge. It's not going to North Korea like!

Here's a novel idea: did you consider for one second that one of those awful "non-local" businesses just across the bridge might actually - horror of horrors - employ someone from south of the river?

Smell the glove

It annoys the crap out of me too when they bang on about how much they love Waterford and please support the Waterford business and then they play the advert for a cork hotel haha they are some shower of money wh**es. I would have no problem with them playing this advert if they didn't harp on about their love for Waterford and all business's from Waterford.

Max Powers

WLR in fairness do support local stuff/festivals/businesses with advertising/good rates/ promotions - bring the van there etc etc

On saying that too, WLR is often the best option for listening to the radio if you want to avoid the pathetic cringeworthy, wannabe your friend, so whacky wallys on 2fm and today fm.

CardBordWindow

Smell the glove wrote: »

It annoys the crap out of me too when they bang on about how much they love Waterford and please support the Waterford business and then they play the advert for a cork hotel haha they are some shower of money wh**es. I would have no problem with them playing this advert if they didn't harp on about their love for Waterford and all business's from Waterford.

You hardly expect WLR to refuse to air a PAYING customer's ad???

In order to spend money in the local area, money is needed.

looksee

Have none of you complainers any idea of how pathetic and parochial you sound? I reckon we have trolls and rock painters on here.

wellboytoo

What amazes me about this rant is this guy can write, good punctuation parsing, spelling, apostophies in the right place..... wait surely he's not trolling or using boards to grind out an old grudge.

decies

No

Jason Todd

I'm a local guy, who works in a local, family-run business. We deal with WLR on more than one occasion every year. Just saying.

TheGormog

Listen Billy, dese people are comin down here an takin our jobs an stealin all of our megahertzes. Where does it stop Billy? 

jad2007

Will Someone please think of the Children !!!

bradknowell

Don't even listen to it anyways. I'll.stick with mp3's , at least then I know I'm not listening to shyte

niallo76

Hey don't knock WLR-it's the only radio staisuín in the world that continues to play Level 42 and Huey Lewis &The News-

michellie

Man Up wrote: »

Thanks for the welcome S28382!! I registered a while back ... but couldn't think of anything to moan about then ..... except the weather :-)

This isn't only a place for moaning ya know....:)





Joke joke, it is!!

looder

Do any local businesses do radio transmission work?


If the chap from Limerick was the best qualified for the job, what's the problem?

Musicman2000

Yes Total Broadcast solutions are a waterford based company and I'm sure WLR are one of their clients. You do know WLR is owned by a Cork based company TCH Holdings and the other 20% by Des Whelan. So there goes the whole local thing.

MitchKoobski

looder wrote: »

Do any local businesses do radio transmission work?


If the chap from Limerick was the best qualified for the job, what's the problem?

Was just gonna post this.

I'm all for supporting local as much as the next guy, but if someone else can do better work or a better price then why would you bother shopping local?

Smiley Burnett

a few points re this rant

1---We have one of the most successful radio stations in Ireland based in Waterford and yet you still complain??!!:rolleyes:

2---what would happen to major waterford employers/companies like RADLEY ENGINEERING if they didnt get contracts and work OUTSIDE of their own county??:cool:

bradknowell

Smiley Burnett wrote: »

a few points re this rant

1---We have one of the most successful radio stations in Ireland based in Waterford and yet you still complain??!!:rolleyes:

2---what would happen to major waterford employers/companies like RADLEY ENGINEERING if they didnt get contracts and work OUTSIDE of their own county??:cool:

its hardly one of the best in the country is it?
As I said already I don't listen to wlr or any radio station at all but didn't think wlr would have been up near the top. Hmm learn something new everyday.

Smell the glove

Ah it's just wlr's skewed listenership figures, they dress them up and word them neatly but when you break them down they are nothing impressive.

scout353

Had to be a troll!

If the guy from Limerick was the best in the interview then congrats to him!

As for WLR, they are very good at what they do. They are recognised as one the best stations in the country and the listenership figures are independently verified so let them off. I listen to them on a regular basis and while some of their presenters are very good, I would turn off for certain presenters in particular, the self serving Mr Deise AM!

wellboy76

looder wrote: »

Do any local businesses do radio transmission work?


If the chap from Limerick was the best qualified for the job, what's the problem?

Assuming the Waterford guy was asked for a price also, then I wouldn't have a problem with it myself. If they didn't bother get a price from him in the first place, that's a different story.

There is a local celebrity here (well puts himself up as one anyway) who pulled the wool over my eyes in the last month, went to Dublin to buy his particular purchase, lied to me about needing his existing repaired. Bragged about his new purchase on twitter the same evening I was with him after telling me that he wouldn't be making a purchase until later this year! Happens a lot in my line of work.

Darkest Horse

looksee wrote: »

Have none of you complainers any idea of how pathetic and parochial you sound? I reckon we have trolls and rock painters on here.

Exactly. This is well and truly pathetic.

The bit I chuckled at in the OP was "I was in a pub called Peter Clohessy's".