New Newstalk line up

[the_mixer_walsh]

So your point is, it doesn’t matter if the car is a pig, if the fella steering and braking it has some kind of superpower, he’ll make it go faster? This Byrne fella is a spoofer and his limited talent stopped him from getting a drive at the time.Driver funds wasn’t the deciding factor either, Dennis and Marlboro had entered into a project (MP ) at the time and the cigarette co wasn’t short of cash to put behind the best driver, regardless of who that was

[backinatracksuit]

Oooofffttt.
Poor old @carryharry only knows two things, cars and hurling and has been shown up as a spoofer on both recently.
Any chance he’d point me in the direction of his favourite gif with the lads from Blazing Saddles having a good old snigger, it’s rarely been so appropriate.

[iron_mike]

Jayses poor auld @carryharry getting a bit of a kicking here and in the impending wars thread. And it’s not even 10 am. I’d say there will be plenty of wheatabix to be ate this morning

[Fagan_ODowd]

Williams made a remark about Trump putting sand in Meryl Streeps Vaseline this morning.

He seems to be a very strange individual

[myboyblue]

Thank God for Hollywood all the same though. That could have sounded preachy and condescending in anothers hands.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@myboyblue

Thank God for Hollywood all the same though. That could have sounded preachy and condescending in anothers hands.

Possibly one for the meltdown thread. And these cunts can’t figure out why people didn’t vote for Hilary.

[Tim_Riggins]

ASTI guy on Newstalk, no doubt on his first day back to work after the Christmas holidays, demanding Corporation Tax is raised to pay teachers more increases in pay.

[myboyblue]

Still, she fairly mugged off MMA

[Watch_The_Break]

Yeah but imagine the amount of hardcore Meryl Streep fans that were big Trump supporters. The impact on them will be massive.

[briantinnion]

Ivan in flying form on The Last Word this evening. Well worth a listen. Talking sense on Trump, FG and Brexit.

[myboyblue]

Don’t forget his back, Matt was very interested in his back

[feck_it]

i actually miss the cunt in the mornings. i refuse now to listen to any radio on my weekday a.m. commutes

[iron_mike]

I see Ivan is on the way back. Yankee land must have been expensive

[Fagan_ODowd]

Things must be bad. They awoke George Hook from his crypt this morning to come on and have a rant at Councillor Ciaran Cuffe about cycling. Newstalk should be ashamed of themselves giving this fellow air time, bellows George repeatedly. Come for a spin around the City with me some time and I’ll show you what I mean, says the Councillor. I wouldn’t go within a mile of you for fear of being infected by your, your fanaticism splutters George.

[Bandage]

Well this is very interesting:

INM chief made protected disclosure under whistleblower rules

[gilgamboa]

That’s an understatement

[gilgamboa]

@gilgamboa

Lots of questions. I don’t know full ins and outs but I’d imagine they wish to aquire newstalk because it will add cash flows and value to INM and that is probably the simplest way for DOB to extract the value in NT without relinquishing control over it.

Mmmmm

[Julio_Geordio]

@Julio_Geordio

As I understand it Denis does not own INM but he has 30% of the share holding and as such is in control of it. It would be very difficult given the amount of retail investors and the small stakes held by larger institutional investors to go against him.
Leslie Buckley is O’Briens right hand man, sits in the board of digicel etc. He is ridiculously conflicted in the transaction. It’s absolute madness that he was even anywhere near it. He was looking for the higher price to suit O’Brien rather than seeking to protect INM’s interests as its chairman. You can be barred from directorships for less.
O’Brien is basically looking for a company he owns 30% to buy a company he owns 100% of, at a potentially inflated price. That’s before even getting into whether Newstalk would actually be a good business for INM to buy. O’Brien is looking to do this for several reasons I’d imagine, eventually a government with some form of a spine is going to say it’s not healthy for one man to own every single national independent media news outlet in the country. This preempts that move as he doesn’t technically own INM.
Also there’s constant rumours that he isn’t the most liquid, with all his assets tied up and heavily leveraged so this was probably to free up some cash. The pulled digicel flotation was meant to have put him under a bit of pressure, though that would seem exaggerated since he’s been in no rush back to market now that conditions are better.
And maybe most importantly newstalk hasn’t really been a success for him. If he gets rid of it he won’t shed too many tears, the fact that he’ll still be more or less in control of it so that they won’t exactly look to take him on helps too.

bump

[myboyblue]

I’ve given that 2 likes.

[Julio_Geordio]

@myboyblue

I’ve given that 2 likes.

That’ll be great for my metrics. Does it count if you reply to yourself as well? I’ll be charging up the charts