Manx Radio

[gettafa]

One of the dumbest commentators when they first started was Chris Kinley. He had little clue about the TT other than what went on at Bushy's tent. Thrown in at the deep end when Geoff Cannell died, his interviewing standard was on the lines of "this bike, er um, is it er, quick?" However, he learnt to mimic the phrases thrown back at him and use them in sort of the right places later, eventually enough to make a passable standard of interviewing and commentating.

 

Edited March 3, 2019 by gettafa

[Neil Down]

2 hours ago, Derek Flint said:

In fairness, Jo had more knowledge than Jodie.

 

Bar wasn’t set very high though was it?

[display name]

5 hours ago, hissingsid said:

Does this mean Jo Pack of very little knowledge of the TT will be at large at the grandstand again!!!!!!

On the opposite side of the road would be ideal

[Neil Down]

39 minutes ago, display name said:

On the opposite side of the road would be ideal

Better looking than “Jonny Moss” though

[display name]

On ‎3‎/‎3‎/‎2019 at 10:10 PM, Neil Down said:

Better looking than “Jonny Moss” though

True,but equally as egregious.

[Gizo]

Don’t besmirch Jo. The best commentator the BBC never had. Now happily saving the whales or children or something. 

[Uhtred]

On 3/3/2019 at 7:49 PM, gettafa said:

One of the dumbest commentators when they first started was Chris Kinley...However, he learnt... to make a passable standard of interviewing and commentating.

 

Hmmmm.

[gettafa]

I was being charitable.

Personally I find it drivel.

Edited March 7, 2019 by gettafa

[Mr Helmut Fromage]

https://www.manxradio.com/news/isle-of-man-news/agreement-in-principle-for-2019-tt-radio-coverage/

Nothing to see here - Staus Quo preserved, Tax payer funded, Rob Callister blogs his latest success....

Struggling to uncurl my toes.

[Gizo]

And no tender process. What a surprise.  

[Stu Peters]

1 hour ago, Gizo said:

And no tender process. What a surprise.  

Like the Fire & Rescue or ambulance boys don't tender for providing a service. Those fire engines and meat wagons are probably subsidised by the taxpayer too.

[foxdaleliberationfront]

16 minutes ago, Stu Peters said:

Like the Fire & Rescue or ambulance boys don't tender for providing a service. Those fire engines and meat wagons are probably subsidised by the taxpayer too.

 

Are you honestly comparing yourself and Manx Radio to the Emergency Services? It shows the self-righteous regard that you lot up on Douglas Head hold yourselves in. 

All you lot at Manx Radio do is provide a crappy radio broadcast with an identity crisis. You lurch from trying to be some kind of current affairs service, to a Butlins Holiday Camp show through to some weird 1960's extinct radio station. 

It's a shame the Quayle Administration doesn't have the balls to pull the plug on that shower of utter sh*5e! 

[TheTeapot]

31 minutes ago, Stu Peters said:

Like the Fire & Rescue or ambulance boys don't tender for providing a service. Those fire engines and meat wagons are probably subsidised by the taxpayer too.

Oh dear. Normally I quite like the way you go about defending Manx Radio, but this is stupid.

Edited March 12, 2019 by TheTeapot

[Barrie Stevens]

11 minutes ago, foxdaleliberationfront said:

 

Are you honestly comparing yourself and Manx Radio to the Emergency Services? It shows the self-righteous regard that you lot up on Douglas Head hold yourselves in. 

All you lot at Manx Radio do is provide a crappy radio broadcast with an identity crisis. You lurch from trying to be some kind of current affairs service, to a Butlins Holiday Camp show through to some weird 1960's extinct radio station. 

It's a shame the Quayle Administration doesn't have the balls to pull the plug on that shower of utter sh*5e! 

I was under the impression that MR also had a civil defence function and an isolated place like the IOM would be missing an aspect of governance without a national broadcaster. 

[foxdaleliberationfront]

37 minutes ago, Barrie Stevens said:

I was under the impression that MR also had a civil defence function and an isolated place like the IOM would be missing an aspect of governance without a national broadcaster. 

 

You can be under whatever impression you like. I guess by 'civil defence function' you mean sharing a few posts from the police on Facebook or re-tweeting the Steam Packet. Or you could just be talking bollocks as usual Barrie.