SEN losing the plot?

[DAWESOME!!]

What a load of rubbish was tonight's Run Home, esp. between 6 and 7? Rabbiting on about NRL, which they both clearly know nothing about, between crossing to Matt Thompson at the Brownlow red carpet so he could describe the girl's outfits to us (red carpet via radio = pointless), in between accusing Matt Lloyd's wife of being an escort.

I called in wanting to give a pat on the back to Scott Burns for a great career, and after being on hold for nearly 10 mins (on a mobile, which I told the operator), the producer comes back and says they don't want calls on Burns, but they might give me a call back later, so they can talk about the Brownlow.

And then there's the worst batch of callers I've ever heard in my life. One guy rings up to impart the important information that he likes to tape the Brownlow and watch it the following day without the ads - cue Ox and Leach bagging him out. Another guy rings up and explains how he compiles a spreadsheet with players sorted by vote and position and doesn't have a girlfriend - cue Ox and Leach bagging him out, and cue Ox asking why people don't play proper drinking games anymore. Third guy - Santo - calls in to say that he'll puke if Judd or Riewoldt wins - which he repeated very slowly about 8 times, but refuses to provide any explanation as to why, before telling Ox and Leach they're idiots who are "frothy" obsessed idiots, and that when HE rings in, HE knows what he's talking about.

Yeah, wanting to pay tribute to a retiring captain of a club and champion of the game is clearly less important than any of those escapees from a mental health institution.

 

[Hodgepodge]

SEN had a plot?

It's protracted talkback. Now that the AFL's over next week, they'll still be talking footy 24/7, this is where it gets really bad. I'm over them taking calls from any moron who wants to discuss a new rule they want introduced.

 

[DAWESOME!!]

SEN had a plot?

It's protracted talkback. Now that the AFL's over next week, they'll still be talking footy 24/7, this is where it gets really bad. I'm over them taking calls from any moron who wants to discuss a new rule they want introduced.

But exacly, its a sports talkback show, so you'd think they'd want to talk about sport. At least the producers could try and weed out the obvious nutters.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

When I first discovered SEN a few years back it was fresh and exciting. However, SEN did the worst thing possible .. it joined the corporate world. It replaced all its' interesting and entertaining on air talent with jerk offs who just annoy the crap out of me.

It used to be compulsory listening but I really can't be bothered any more. Surely there must come a time when crap reaches a saturation point, give the listeners a break, and start to concentrate more on sport.

And this concept of "getting something off your chest" is good in theory, but all it has degenerated into is a slanging match between supporters bagging each others' clubs.

It's childish, boring, nothing more than Bay 13 dribble, and if that's all they can offer then they can do it without me listening.

 

[King_Mallee]

the amount of ads have me dismayed.

 

[On the bench]

When you hired so called 'on air talent' in the likes of Maher,Doran & Leach was there a plot in the first place?

 

[Daytripper]

Its a few hours before the Brownlow. Of couse SEN want to talk about things Brownlow at that particular time. Its not rocket science.

Do you think people are really interested in your personal tribute to Scott Burns two hours before the Brownlow starts ? FFS, how selfish do you sound that the 99& of the people interested in the Brownlow have to be put on hold whilst you waffle on about what a great bloke Scott Burns is - which everyone knows anyway. Was there anything eartn shattering you were going to mention that we hadn't heard before.

By the way, the SEN producers aren't clairvoyants. How are they meant to know what type of caller they are going to get ? They could be nice as pie to the producer before they get on and then turn into absolute ferals once they get through.

And for the person complaining about the ads. Again not rocket science - but thats how radio stations make money. No ads = no SEN.

 

[pepsi]

^^^^^^^^^^^

Exactly right. There was a point around 18 months ago where it looked as if SEN would have to shut down. They managed to turn it around, get the footy and there ratings have improved. I for one am happy that they are still around and if we have to listen through more ads for that to happen, so be it. If you don't want to listen to a station with ads, go listen to the ABC.

Sometimes you cant get on and talk about what you want, some callers are idiots and waffle on, but the producers don't know this is going to happen. They should have given you a couple of minutes to talk about Burns, that would have been fair seeing you were on a mobile call. MAybe try and ring 1 of the programs today.

 

[DAWESOME!!]

Its a few hours before the Brownlow. Of couse SEN want to talk about things Brownlow at that particular time. Its not rocket science.

Do you think people are really interested in your personal tribute to Scott Burns two hours before the Brownlow starts ? FFS, how selfish do you sound that the 99& of the people interested in the Brownlow have to be put on hold whilst you waffle on about what a great bloke Scott Burns is - which everyone knows anyway. Was there anything eartn shattering you were going to mention that we hadn't heard before.

By the way, the SEN producers aren't clairvoyants. How are they meant to know what type of caller they are going to get ? They could be nice as pie to the producer before they get on and then turn into absolute ferals once they get through.

And for the person complaining about the ads. Again not rocket science - but thats how radio stations make money. No ads = no SEN.

I was probably a bit annoyed because the callers they took ahead of me all turned out to be idiots, and I guess to a degree that's not quite the producers fault. Pretty dumb topic for mine however, maybe they would have been better asking people for favourite Brownlow moments or smokey predictions outside the top two or three favourites would have led to some more interesting discussion.

As opposed to another ten guys saying variations of "I reckon Ablett/Harvey/Bartel will win"? Besides they weren't even doing anything that decent - it was "what weird things do you do while watching the brownlow?"

Given that Burns was a bit of a champ, that the retirement had only happened a couple of hours ago, and that its now been lost in the news cycle with the result of the Brownlow and Scott West's retirement, it is a bit of a shame, because it's going to pass relatively unremarked - not unlike Jimmy Clement's retirement last year for the same reasons...