Minor complaints thread (4 Viewers)

[JohnnyRaz]

People in the South, particularly Dublin, have voted with their attention spans on this

Drivetime don't favour UK news over NI news just cos they all love All things British in Montrose - they do - but because they know that's what people largely have a preference for.
Same with Brendan O'Connor doing segments on the British Royal family. It's because there's a huge appetite for it.

Again, all well and good. We're a nation with a huge population of anglophiles. West Brits. Jackeens. Whatever you want to call it.
We just don't seem to admit it to ourselves; how much the English enthrall us and how it's all a one-way attention stream.
Maybe I'm nuts, or just because I'm so disinterested in Englishness. But once you see it, you see it everywhere.

agree with much of this, as I've said before.

but I think its arrogant to assume that interest in a) equates to disinterest in b).

this is a bugbear for you, grand.

 

[Deadmanposting]

but I think its arrogant to assume that interest in a) equates to disinterest in b).

Just I see a consistent preference for one over the other expressed consistently.

And yeah, it bugs me. And I guess this is the thread for that.

 

[magicbastarder]

the UK has a population over 30 times that of of NI. whatever about the effects of proximity, that disparity in population/influence in a close neighbour is definitely a massive factor. and in terms of news, huge chunks of the place are frozen into a story that simply is not news to many people now.
for example; name a single story now from NI that is as interesting as the tory party punching itself in the face saying to itself 'why are you hitting yourself in the face' as if it was both bully and victim?

 

[Deadmanposting]

for example; name a single story now from NI that is as interesting as the tory party punching itself in the face saying to itself 'why are you hitting yourself in the face' as if it was both bully and victim?

To me?
Every single story out of NI is more interesting than any story coming out of England. And you can put France and Germany and Italy (huge close-by populations) above the Sassanach also.
We have a country at peace, a borderline political magic act given what has gone before. And it's under threat, from Englishness.
There's a bunch of religious loonies also trying to torpedo it. The current talks to save Stormont are interesting in and of themselves, and of vital national interest. If Michael Healy Rae is interesting and worthy of news, Jeffrey Donaldson is equally so.
The English voted to fuck away off and I am beyond happy to let them do so.
My countrymen don't agree. They still think England is the bees knees. Fine.

But if a Punch & Judy show starring a bunch of Etonians - who consider Ireland at best an irrelevancy and at worst an annoying problem - is more interesting then people should just say they're Anglophiles. but they can't. These stories are interesting because you're an Anglophile.

It's the dichotomy between how people spend their attention and how they regard themselves is what's interesting/galling to me.

 

[nuke terrorist]

People in the South, particularly Dublin, have voted with their attention spans on this

Drivetime don't favour UK news over NI news just cos they all love All things British in Montrose - they do - but because they know that's what people largely have a preference for.
Same with Brendan O'Connor doing segments on the British Royal family. It's because there's a huge appetite for it.

Again, all well and good. We're a nation with a huge population of anglophiles. West Brits. Jackeens. Whatever you want to call it.
We just don't seem to admit it to ourselves; how much the English enthrall us and how it's all a one-way attention stream.
Maybe I'm nuts, or just because I'm so disinterested in Englishness. But once you see it, you see it everywhere.

Don't listen to the radio! It's shit and drives me nuts like 24 news channels and all their biased agendas.
EDIT:
My local radio station plays up to Mattie McGrath types by letting them call in most mornings. Only became aware of this in the last month because I was not a listener except for odd hurling match.
Now those bigoted eejits wreck my head.
END EDIT.
I'd say Austrians and all the other countries bordering Germany have a similar experience.
Fairly easy to change channel when Windsors are mentioned.
Tories blocs stabbing each other in the front is entertaining if you don't have to live in UK.

 

[Deadmanposting]

I love the radio
The radio is never off in my house


And I apologise for going on about this, it's just blindingly obvious to me

It's not inherently interesting for anyone for me to say basically the same thing over and over again

 

[nuke terrorist]

I love the radio
The radio is never off in my house


And I apologise for going on about this, it's just blindingly obvious to me

It's not inherently interesting for anyone for me to say basically the same thing over and over again

What radio do you listen to out of interest?
I listen to my records instead.

 

[Deadmanposting]

What radio do you listen to out of interest?
I listen to my records instead.

Radio 1
Lyric
WFMU
6Music
KEXP
WERS

 

[pete]

Radio 1
Lyric
WFMU
6Music
KEXP
WERS

CHRISTMAS FM

 

[nuke terrorist]

Radio 1
Lyric
WFMU
6Music
KEXP
WERS

I have heard lots of sessions recorded for KEXP and a few from the other two American stations.
Used to listen to Lyric's Nova experimental programme w/ Bernard on Sunday nights years ago.
Rarely listened to 6Music.

Irish radio is mostly background noise to me and I very rarely listen to any of it other than to hear a local hurling match.

EDIT:
Don't have patience to listen to music radio in real time. When they only play one or two good things (or often no good music) over an hour.
2nd EDIT:
Also people who play half an hour of music without telling you what the tracks were are lazy and can piss off.

 

[rettucs]

What radio do you listen to out of interest?
I listen to my records instead.

and TippFM

 

[pete]

Treble T R

 

[rettucs]

Again, all well and good. We're a nation with a huge population of anglophiles. West Brits. Jackeens. Whatever you want to call it.
We just don't seem to admit it to ourselves; how much the English enthrall us and how it's all a one-way attention stream.
Maybe I'm nuts, or just because I'm so disinterested in Englishness. But once you see it, you see it everywhere.

I hate to agree with this but this year the most watched thing on TV in ireland was lizzys in a box's funeral, followed by charlie's coronation.

I hate us

 

[magicbastarder]

radio in the car - mainly dublin city FM and nova (even though i kinda hate nova).
radio in the shed - mainly 8radio. which is too samey; they need more specialisation of their output.

 

[therealjohnny]

I hate to agree with this but this year the most watched thing on TV in ireland was lizzys in a box's funeral, followed by charlie's coronation.

I hate us

the shame of it

 

[therealjohnny]

I remember being aghast at Ronnie Drew recalling how his family had a special Union Jack tea-towel that their mother would drape over the radio when the King was giving a speech

what are we like?

 

[JohnnyRaz]

I remember being aghast at Ronnie Drew recalling how his family had a special Union Jack tea-towel that their mother would drape over the radio when the King was giving a speech

what are we like?

like a nation that has a complex and troubled past and present with our much bigger and historically more powerful neighbor, that has been defined by colonization, genocide and cultural assimilation, but also some direct participation in the wars and colonial adventures of said larger neighbor?

 

[therealjohnny]

like a nation that has a complex and troubled past and present with our much bigger and historically more powerful neighbor, that has been defined by colonization, genocide and cultural assimilation, but also some direct participation in the wars and colonial adventures of said larger neighbor?

stop that

the correct answer was "sure this is it" or something similar

 

[magicbastarder]

I hate to agree with this but this year the most watched thing on TV in ireland was lizzys in a box's funeral, followed by charlie's coronation.

not even close.

"An average of 113,000 viewers watched RTÉ’s four hours of coverage of The Coronation of King Charles III last Saturday, with almost half a million tuning into the lavish royal ceremony at some point"
"In comparison, around 260,000 RTÉ viewers watched Queen Elizabeth’s two-hour funeral ceremony last September, of whom an average of 77,000 viewed the entire proceedings"

RTÉ’s Coronation Coverage Viewing Figures Announced

Ireland's fascination with the British royal family hasn’t dimmed if the coronation viewing figures are anything to go by.

evoke.ie

"Virgin Media's live coverage of the game from Paris was the most watched television programme in Ireland this year, its 1.378 million viewers"

Consolation for some in number of tv viewers glued to Ireland's World Cup heartbreak

Virgin Media's live coverage of the World Cup quarter-final loss to the All Blacks is the most watched television programme in Ireland this year

www.irishexaminer.com

 

[JohnnyRaz]

not even close.

"An average of 113,000 viewers watched RTÉ’s four hours of coverage of The Coronation of King Charles III last Saturday, with almost half a million tuning into the lavish royal ceremony at some point"
"In comparison, around 260,000 RTÉ viewers watched Queen Elizabeth’s two-hour funeral ceremony last September, of whom an average of 77,000 viewed the entire proceedings"

RTÉ’s Coronation Coverage Viewing Figures Announced

Ireland's fascination with the British royal family hasn’t dimmed if the coronation viewing figures are anything to go by.

evoke.ie

"Virgin Media's live coverage of the game from Paris was the most watched television programme in Ireland this year, its 1.378 million viewers"

Consolation for some in number of tv viewers glued to Ireland's World Cup heartbreak

Virgin Media's live coverage of the World Cup quarter-final loss to the All Blacks is the most watched television programme in Ireland this year

www.irishexaminer.com

never mind yer foreign sports.

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