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Ray D'arcy on RTE Radio 1 **Mod Warning post 1, 1263, 1610**

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    #302
    Jack the Box
    Site Banned Posts: 30 ✭Jack the Box


    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    If he brings younger listeners with him from Today FM, then losing older listeners won't really be an issue.



    And as soon as anyone says anything positive or in defence of the show they'll immediately be accused of being related to D'Arcy. It was the same in the last thread, it becomes a distinctly hostile place which is unwelcoming to those who want to give praise.

    Seriously, read the last number of pages. The posts read like a pack of dogs straining at their leads to rip apart a bunny rabbit. What person in their right mind would put themselves in the firing line to defend the rabbit?

    Plus, people are always going to be quicker to bitch and moan about something on the internet than they are to say they're enjoying something.

    So, no, the fact that the thread is 90% negative really doesn't say all that much tbh.

    So you think his opening topics the past 2 afternoons - tuppence on his soup causing discomfort to him and his potential problem of the noise of dropping a kindle when he dozes off may disturb his kids - are of sufficient quality for a national broadcaster funded primarily by public monies ???


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    #303
    berger89
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    Jack the Box wrote: »
    So you think his opening topics the past 2 afternoons - tuppence on his soup causing discomfort to him and his potential problem of the noise of dropping a kindle when he dozes off may disturb his kids - are of sufficient quality for a national broadcaster funded primarily by public monies ???

    Haven't heard a millisecond of his new show..but are you taking the pIss?!?!

    These were the opening topics?!!? :O :O
    Phew, glad I'm not missing too much!


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    #304
    Iwannahurl
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    Jack the Box wrote: »
    So you think his opening topics the past 2 afternoons - tuppence on his soup causing discomfort to him and his potential problem of the noise of dropping a kindle when he dozes off may disturb his kids - are of sufficient quality for a national broadcaster funded primarily by public monies ???


    Perhaps Mr Darcy's main value to the station is as a car salesman?

    5rayd.jpg


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    #305
    ThisRegard
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    Every time I see that photo I think his head has been photoshopped in.


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    #306
    clappyhappy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭clappyhappy


    I have been a huge fan of the ray d'arcy show, lived abroad for years and used to listen to him online. Hated missing the show, used to work my mornings around the show.

    On the old thread all of my posts were defending him and highlighting the positives of the show.

    When he announced he was leaving I was annoyed, upset, disappointed etc. I do love anton savage so happy there. But having listened to his 2 new shows, I have to say I switched over half way through on both days. He had his faults on today fm but this is diabolical. I will get over the wrong buttons, but the mundane rants about extremely trivial things, the sighing etc. I know he is nervous, he will have a big spotlight of expectation on him from every angle, rte, media, listeners, haters etc. I think moving the format of the old show is a bit lazy, yes it worked before but I don't think that many are going to follow him across. He will definitely lose the thousands of older listeners, they will probably move to local radio. Do I wish him luck?? I don't know, really annoyed about his leaving today fm. He will be fine, he'll get tv work and the radio show will tip along.
    I am however really pissed off with jenny, the big send off to stay with her kids and then jumps into rte within 5 months, kick in the arse to all the listeners who wished her well on her last day. Hypocrite.
    Will I continue to listen, yes, I will give him the first 15 mins as I come home from school run, if he doesn't grab my attention I will be switching over when home.


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    #307
    digzy
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    Jack the Box wrote: »
    RTE 1 radio is played in work after lunch. I don't decide which channel is picked.

    Ha ha. This auld nugget


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    #308
    johnire
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    What do you mean by that?
    digzy wrote: »
    Ha ha. This auld nugget


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    #309
    Gergiev
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    Having listened to the first 2 shows, it seems remarkable RTE have shelled out half a million for this?

    Yesterday's bizarre opening stream-of-consciousness preamble mentioned a month of preparation - including '105 meetings' - yet the presentation was barely professional with a number of miscues, some 'dead air' and a few verbal 'non-sequiturs'.

    You'd imagine that someone who wakes up with the show's producer each morning would know how to work the controls and have the format absolutely nailed before (re)commencing with the national broadcaster...

    For example, if one invited a musical guest to appear on the show - for little or no reward - it would be unacceptable for said guest to turn up and not know what he was going to perform and not having rehearsed it to perfection for public consumption, yet the presenter thinks it was good enough to just freewheel through the 90 minutes.

    This 3pm afternoon magazine show has never done anything for me, but RD and his team seem to have pulled off the unusual trick of making Marty Morrissey appear like an effortlessly suave and urbane MC - strange days indeed...


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    #310
    neris
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    Good to hear gift grub are back to taking the piss outa him. Even a mention of soup


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    #311
    Gits_bone
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    neris wrote: »
    Good to hear gift grub are back to taking the piss outa him. Even a mention of soup

    This thread is about his show. Go onto Ian Dempseys thread if you want to talk about that! :mad:


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    #312
    Susandublin
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    CountyHurler wrote: »
    I still cant understand RTE's reasoning for paying so much for D'Arcy... RTE have a lot of second tier presenters who could do that job more than adequately.. And I thought when Mooney left it would have been a good change to REDUCE the payroll for that particular radio show, not double it....

    The only way that it would have made any sense would have been to move him straight in place of Tubridy and most of his listeners would have followed him straight across to 2FM. But this just makes no sense at all..

    Anyone know what the wage is? Just curious!!


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    #313
    Expunge
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    http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/oireachtasbusiness/committees_list/transportandcommunications/members/

    Here is a link to the names and contact details of members of The Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications.

    Maybe people would like to contact the various TDs and Senators on the list to see if they'll ask some specific questions about this particular Ray D'arcy deal the next time RTE management troop in there with the paw out to see if the Broadcasting Charge will be implemented.

    There probably wouldn't be specific answers from management, but even if they could enlighten the Licence Fee paying public in general terms about some aspects of this particular deal. Such as:

    The circumstances surrounding the hiring of Ms. Kelly and Mr. Hanafin. What are their roles? Were they hired as a result of public competition? If not, why not?

    What is the estimated timeline for this deal to be profitable for RTE? 2 years? 3 years?
    Is the deal being initially funded by Licence Fee money?

    Was it the intention of RTE management to inflict damage to a commercial rival (Today FM) using public money in this deal?
    Are there competition implications if this is the case?

    I'm sure there are many more. John O'Mahoney TD is Committee Chairman and I'd hope he'd be interested in getting into this subject in at least a little more detail.


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    #314
    CarrickMcJoe
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    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    Perhaps Mr Darcy's main value to the station is as a car salesman?

    5rayd.jpg



    You mean , it's not!


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    #315
    flangemeistro
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    Gits_bone wrote: »
    This thread is about his show. Go onto Ian Dempseys thread if you want to talk about that! :mad:

    Shame gitsbone I feel sorry for you, Stockholm Syndrome at it's deadliest.
    So Jenny wanted to spend more time with the kids, so I'm guessing she prefers being able to drop her kids to school/crèche as opposed to collecting them from school/crèche.
    Let's guess what today's show opener is gonna be, I'm guessing maybe how annoying it is trying to start a roll of kitchen foil, it's a curse trying to get off that little sticky tab without tearing the foil and ruining the integrity of the whole roll.


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    #316
    Claude Burgundy
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    flangemeistro wrote: »
    Shame gitsbone I feel sorry for you, Stockholm Syndrome at it's deadliest.
    So Jenny wanted to spend more time with the kids, so I'm guessing she prefers being able to drop her kids to school/crèche as opposed to collecting them from school/crèche.
    Let's guess what today's show opener is gonna be, I'm guessing maybe how annoying it is trying to start a roll of kitchen foil, it's a curse trying to get off that little sticky tab without tearing the foil and ruining the integrity of the whole roll.

    I'd go with cling film and how it tends to cling.


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    #317
    Rubberchikken
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    i think ray might have reached his peak during the dustin the turkey days.
    i'd have to wonder why he came back to rte if his show on other station was so popular.

    there are hundreds of people out there who would be a lot more able to present a great radio show and rte has to go dragging through the bushes for past presenters. what is it with them and him?

    and no one has ever convinced me that my licence fee is being spent properly.


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    #318
    somesoldiers
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    been a fan for a long time, will give it a bit longer but not impressed so far with what my money is producing in 90 minutes


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    #319
    wnolan1992
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    Rubberchikken wrote: »
    i'd have to wonder why he came back to rte if his show on other station was so popular.

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    Rubberchikken wrote: »
    there are hundreds of people out there who would be a lot more able to present a great radio show and rte has to go dragging through the bushes for past presenters. what is it with them and him?

    Yeah, there are. But parachuting Timmy Reilly from Gifted Amateur FM into a primetime slot on national radio isn't going to draw instant ratings. It would take years to build a following if he was successful. Advertising revenue would fall, they'd lose the dominant position in that slot and have to regain it as opposed to maintain it. D'Arcy is the safe option. Plus, they can get him to double job on TV bringing in added ad revenue.
    Jack the Box wrote: »
    So you think his opening topics the past 2 afternoons - tuppence on his soup causing discomfort to him and his potential problem of the noise of dropping a kindle when he dozes off may disturb his kids - are of sufficient quality for a national broadcaster funded primarily by public monies ???

    Nope. They bored the arse off me on Monday, and I didn't listen on Tuesday.

    The point I was making is that there's a cohort of posters on this forum that aren't going to be happy with D'Arcy no matter what he does. And that was borne out in the immediate ripping to shreds of the first show. I say again, read those pages and keep the image of a pack of dogs in your mind. It's eerily similar.

    Ultimately, I don't really care that much. As I said after the first show, I'll listen sporadically just to see how he's getting on.


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    #320
    Sideshow Mark
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    Haven't made up my mind about the show, but this threads certainly a train wreck.


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    #321
    ThisRegard
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    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    The point I was making is that there's a cohort of posters on this forum that aren't going to be happy with D'Arcy no matter what he does. And that was borne out in the immediate ripping to shreds of the first show. I say again, read those pages and keep the image of a pack of dogs in your mind. It's eerily similar.

    I tuned in to give him the benefit of the doubt, I usually listen to the News at 1, Loiveline for the lols, and with him on immediately afterwards it's easy just to hear how the show starts.

    How could anyone not see how poorly the first show was, with the awful monologues on trying to avoid his colleagues, and the price of a bowl of soup.

    When he was on Today FM I didn't listen, when he's on RTE I'll drift into his show purely because I have had the same station on for 2 hours before hand.

    And if he makes a cock up, or I feel his piece is ridiculous or awful, I'll voice my opinion is I see fit.


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    #322
    Expunge
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    You don't need to defend criticising the Ray D'arcy show here just because some find it distasteful or unfair. If it's crap, call it crap and the forum rules will take care of all else.

    So far, it's an awful piece of excrement (but still better than Mooney), in my view. It will be a sucess, however, because D'arcy seems to be very popular and will pull in the listenership and sponsorship that it's required to do.

    He is very popular with hundreds of thousands of people for various reasons - growing up watching him on the Den etc.
    The sort of people who enjoy musings of a man on the 2 cents on the price of a bowl of RTE Canteen Soup or dropping a Kindle as one falls asleep or how English people pronounce Irish names are not the sort of people I'd like personally to socialise with.
    But, it seems from his Today FM listener numbers, they are many and they buy stuff like VW cars.
    Unfortunately, many of us have to share a democracy and a social structure with them. But there you go.
    We can still call it (the show) what it is, a steaming pile of excrement which doesn't look like value from half a million Euros.


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    #323
    hufpc8w3adnk65
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    You know Cuz there's 9 of them working on the show that's only 50 mins of content, each, A WEEK!!!


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    #324
    Gits_bone
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    ThisRegard wrote: »
    I tuned in to give him the benefit of the doubt, I usually listen to the News at 1, Loiveline for the lols, and with him on immediately afterwards it's easy just to hear how the show starts.

    How could anyone not see how poorly the first show was, with the awful monologues on trying to avoid his colleagues, and the price of a bowl of soup.

    When he was on Today FM I didn't listen, when he's on RTE I'll drift into his show purely because I have had the same station on for 2 hours before hand.

    And if he makes a cock up, or I feel his piece is ridiculous or awful, I'll voice my opinion is I see fit.

    Didn't listen yet still felt the need to comment on his previous shows thread?

    http://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?thread=2057301142&query=&user=346041&date_from=&date_to=

    I suppose when you look at the number of replies between this and the Anton Average thread then you'll see why he got the job.


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    #325
    Gits_bone
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    ThisRegard wrote: »
    I tuned in to give him the benefit of the doubt, I usually listen to the News at 1, Loiveline for the lols, and with him on immediately afterwards it's easy just to hear how the show starts.

    How could anyone not see how poorly the first show was, with the awful monologues on trying to avoid his colleagues, and the price of a bowl of soup.

    When he was on Today FM I didn't listen, when he's on RTE I'll drift into his show purely because I have had the same station on for 2 hours before hand.

    And if he makes a cock up, or I feel his piece is ridiculous or awful, I'll voice my opinion is I see fit.


    I'm sorry, I didn't realise 3pm radio was supposed to discuss the inner workings of the brain.


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    #326
    ThisRegard
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    Gits_bone wrote: »
    Didn't listen yet still felt the need to comment on his previous shows thread?

    http://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?thread=2057301142&query=&user=346041&date_from=&date_to=

    3 posts, none of which were about Ray.

    You have serious issues Git.


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    #327
    Gits_bone
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    ThisRegard wrote: »
    I tuned in to give him the benefit of the doubt, I usually listen to the News at 1, Loiveline for the lols, and with him on immediately afterwards it's easy just to hear how the show starts.

    How could anyone not see how poorly the first show was, with the awful monologues on trying to avoid his colleagues, and the price of a bowl of soup.

    When he was on Today FM I didn't listen, when he's on RTE I'll drift into his show purely because I have had the same station on for 2 hours before hand.

    And if he makes a cock up, or I feel his piece is ridiculous or awful, I'll voice my opinion is I see fit.
    ThisRegard wrote: »
    3 posts, none of which were about Ray.

    You have serious issues Git.

    Why post in the thread?


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    #328
    digzy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭digzy


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    3 posts, none of which were about Ray.

    You have serious issues Git.

    is this a ray darcy thread or a 'lets all be bullies' thread. moved from ray onto a particular poster!

    the ironic thing is that ray is only on his third rte show today yet there's pages on this thread...
    not so much comment on antons...........


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    #329
    ThisRegard
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    digzy wrote: »
    is this a ray darcy thread or a 'lets all be bullies' thread. moved from ray onto a particular poster!

    the ironic thing is that ray is only on his third rte show today yet there's pages on this thread...
    not so much comment on antons...........

    Seriously, a let's be all bullies thread, are you guys for real?

    You guys are getting upset because anonymous people are criticising a public figure?

    The "Leave Britney alone" YouTube video springs to mind.


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    #330
    Gits_bone
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    digzy wrote: »
    is this a ray darcy thread or a 'lets all be bullies' thread. moved from ray onto a particular poster!

    the ironic thing is that ray is only on his third rte show today yet there's pages on this thread...
    not so much comment on antons...........

    Mob mentality alright.

    It's ok to do it as long as everyone else does it it seems.


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    #331
    flangemeistro
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    Gits_bone wrote: »
    Didn't listen yet still felt the need to comment on his previous shows thread?

    http://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?thread=2057301142&query=&user=346041&date_from=&date_to=

    I suppose when you look at the number of replies between this and the Anton Average thread then you'll see why he got the job.

    You don't reckon it might be something to do with Anton actually doing a really great job in that time slot and Darcy is doing exactly the opposite.


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