Today’s Irish Mail on Sunday reports that RTE Radio 1′s Saturday View programme is to be dumped in favour of a satire show featuring Nob Nation’s Oliver Callan and a weekly one hour programme hosted by Charlie Bird. RTE’s Press Office could not confirm the Mail on Sunday’s story but did confirm to me that [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Newstalk'
Budgetjamming the myths
December 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Blogging, Irish Politics, Live Blogging, Newsdump, Newstalk
Over on Politico.ie a fine bunch of people are spending time between now and Budget day liveblogging the myths of the economy, reflecting on the state we are in and all the other phrases that make up what we are told is the ‘national discourse’. The project is part of Budgetjam and there will be [...]
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Newstalk’s Ego… oops I mean Editorial
December 9th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Irish Media, Irish Politics, Newstalk
I’m very glad I wasn’t around yesterday listening to the radio when Newstalk decided it was going to do an O’Reilly – I meant Bill O and not Tony O… but hey if it narks Denis O’Brien who cares! If you missed the Newstalk Editorial you can read it in full here. But here’s the [...]
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What happened before Traitorgate?
September 30th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Declan Ganley, Irish Politics, Lisbon, Newstalk, Social Media
Karen Coleman has released video footage from last Sunday morning’s radio debate on Newstalk between Prionsias De Rossa MEP and Declan Ganley before the off air incident where expletives were exchanged and Richard Boyd Barrett intervened. Did you ever see a grin like it?
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The media epidemic that is Ivan Yates
January 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Irish Media, Irish Politics, MSM, Newstalk, Recession
Ivan Yates in case you have possibly missed him is a former Fine Gael minister and former country’s youngest TD turned bookie, stand in presenter on Newstalk and rent a mouth and paid guest speaker. (Really interesting site that – a speaker agency with mouths for hire.) The rent a mouth part has reached epidemic proportions [...]
Brenda Power replaced on Newstalk
August 21st, 2008 · 9 Comments · MSM, Newstalk
HSE officials and government press secretaries were probably cheering yesterday. Brenda is being replaced as a morning anchor on Newstalk by rockstud and calm voiced Tom Dunne. (Take a Parachute is one of my all time favourite songs.) The Irish Times reports that Brenda is looking forward to getting back into ‘scripted radio?’ Is that [...]
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Bill Clinton defend’s Hillary’s role in Northern Ireland Peace Process
March 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Newstalk, Uncategorized, US Election 2008
Even though some of my readers protest , more on the US Election and what Hilary did to solve ‘The Troubles’. It has been rumbling on all week and Hilary herself has launched further defences. Speaking in New York last night Bill Clinton defended the role of his wife in the peace process Bill told [...]
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Bitches get stuff done
February 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Newstalk, US Election 2008
The Writers Strike is over, Saturday Night Live returned…. and Bitches get stuff done… (unless you’re Brenda Power from Newstalk and think that shouting down the phone at a Civil Servant live on air is going to change anything….miaow…) I have to wonder if the free enough ride that Obama has gotten in the past [...]
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Hello Newstalk staff
February 22nd, 2008 · 4 Comments · Irish Media, Newstalk
Hi Brenda or members of Your Call Team. Nowt else to be doing with your day except vanity google? mail.newstalk.ie – – [22/Feb/2008:13:30:29 +0000] “GET /?p=326 HTTP/1.1″ 200 35526 “http://www.google.ie/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3A official&channel=s&hl=en&q=newstalk+your+call&meta=&btnG=Google+Search” I do wonder what the real story in Newstalk head offices is – is there anyone really worried about what the recent tabloid turn [...]
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