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[Deadmanposting]

Why is RTE DriveTime giving over sooo much time to Grenfell and people in England with cladding problems


Like beyond Kingspan's involvement, who in Ireland cares about people in Bolton with dodgy cladding?
Or cares enough to give 20 minutes a goddamn day on it.

 

[ann post]

I was thinking self awareness has gotta be on the wane over there at the minute.

This bit of copypaste from a press release has wording 100% written for the UK market and while RTE did rephrase it in the article, they left the UK phrasing in the tweet. I mean if you don't like being called a west brit, then stop acting the west brit


Interestingly the same PR was run by bbc and guardian a few days back with the same text as RTE.

Katy Thornton of Lovin.ie does a good job of extracting the relevance for the irish reader here (see below image) - hotpress went with copy and paste same as RTE

 

[Deadmanposting]

Jesus, but David McWilliams talks in circles without actually saying anything

 

[Unicron]

Whatever good service liveline does from time to time, or just the odd bit of Batshit entertainment, Joe was utterly incapable of moderating what was being talked about on it this week

 

[magicbastarder]

I heard he has a long segment on drag queen shows for kids? That must have been a car crash.

 

[ernesto]

Whatever good service liveline does from time to time, or just the odd bit of Batshit entertainment, Joe was utterly incapable of moderating what was being talked about on it this week

guy is a fucking dolt

 

[Deadmanposting]

So it's pretty cool that they have 10 years + of Bowman on the archive, but the old stuff is difficult to access


If anyone has the time to click on this, can you tell me if the content plays for you?

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/bowman-sunday-830/programmes/2011/1016/353645-bowman-sunday-830-sunday-16-october-2011/

I just get constant looping/spooling

 

[Space]

So it's pretty cool that they have 10 years + of Bowman on the archive, but the old stuff is difficult to access


If anyone has the time to click on this, can you tell me if the content plays for you?

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/bowman-sunday-830/programmes/2011/1016/353645-bowman-sunday-830-sunday-16-october-2011/

I just get constant looping/spooling

Yeah same just balls of death spinning around.

 

[Deadmanposting]

Thanks
I assumed so



This is as far as I can go back

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/bowman-sunday-830/programmes/2012/0930/353694-bowman-sunday-830-sunday-30-september-2012/

Sept 30, 2012


It's one the best things they do on that station - like an oral history of the nation.
Remarkable stuff some weeks.

 

[magicbastarder]

dave fanning is being put out to pasture.

Tom Dunne: End of an era as Fanning bows out of 2FM

I’m so happy to hear he is “going digital". That’s like that Abba show in London, isn’t it? Perfect, around forever really

www.irishexaminer.com

 

[therealjohnny]

End of an era. I haven't listened to him in about 30 years but his show was important to teenage me.

Was he even still doing the weekday shows?

 

[magicbastarder]

he was doing the fanning show from whelans on telly too, not sure if that's impacted.

 

[Unicron]

he was doing the fanning show from whelans on telly too, not sure if that's impacted.

I've watched a few episodes of that. Thought it was pretty good.

 

[rettucs]

End of an era. I haven't listened to him in about 30 years but his show was important to teenage me.

Was he even still doing the weekday shows?

he's going to RTE Gold. Ronan Collins starts a radio show over there next week. They're going back to a full daytime schedule and its gonna be deadly. I've been a fan of the station for a few years now.

 

[magicbastarder]

i'd never listened to it but the name gives it a bit of an easy listening sort of vibe.

 

[ann post]

It's what you listen to when you want to hear the doobie brothers 6 times a day

 

[magicbastarder]

sure i have nova for that.

 

[Deadmanposting]

End of an era. I haven't listened to him in about 30 years but his show was important to teenage me.

Was he even still doing the weekday shows?

Same

He was on Brendan or someone there a few weeks ago, and said he stopped keeping up with music ages ago
Which was kinda why I listened to him way back when

Like not sure what he had to offer if he wasn't out there keeping on top of things.

Why do we even listen to RTE music stations when we have the internet anyways?

 

[therealjohnny]

Same

He was on Brendan or someone there a few weeks ago, and said he stopped keeping up with music ages ago
Which was kinda why I listened to him way back when

Like not sure what he had to offer if he wasn't out there keeping on top of things.

Why do we even listen to RTE music stations when we have the internet anyways?

I like the randomness. I hate it when the dj lists everything they're going to play

 

[JohnnyRaz]

he's going to RTE Gold. Ronan Collins starts a radio show over there next week. They're going back to a full daytime schedule and its gonna be deadly. I've been a fan of the station for a few years now.

When John creedon goes over they might as well just pull down the shutters on rte1