[SJPK]

would anyone by any chance know the name of the theme tune to paul claffeys show, sounds a bit like glen millers - in the mood!, well..... same instrumentation anywho!

[Samhain]

Supposedly 60% of Adults in the region listen to this tripe - The following is from the MWR website

Midwest Radio is the second most listened to local radio station in the country, as the latest JNLR national radio listenership figures are published.
61 percent of adults, aged over 15, listen to the station daily.
While the station’s market share remains close to the top of competitive league table at 51 .1 percent.

http://www.midwestradio.ie/mwr/news/...r-results.html


This figure of 61% seems very high.....How do JNLR gather this information?

[Defiler Of The Coffin]

Do they not have any other person other than Brendan Redmond to voice the ads? It used to be that you knew you were in the west when you hit a pothole but now I know for certain I'm home when I hear golden-voiced Brendan talking up Albany's new paint range or whatever else they're flogging this week.

[StudentDad]

MWR - Bloody awful radio. I get tortured with it on a daily basis at work. I don't want to hear the obituaries, I don't want to to hear really really bad country and western music. After a while you begin to notice that the playlist never changes! The same crap, played over and over again.

SD

[nuac]

But a big proportion of the catchment population like it

[horndog80]

Well i suppose repetition is comforting to some people in terms of music, such as irish traditional music etc.. I dont particularly like the music on any of the other radio stations either, personally i like metal. I think the local news is of interest to the listeners as well. Only flaw about this station is the section in the morning where people ring in with problems, that presenter fuels the fire for the people that call in without him having proper knowledge. Apart from that it seems to hit a large radio listening audience(as background noise I'd imagine).

[StudentDad]

Originally Posted by horndog80

Apart from that it seems to hit a large radio listening audience(as background noise I'd imagine).

I think that's the main problem with most of the radio broadcasts in Ireland if not all of them - background noise! The DJ's etc can't even broadast what they want. It's all scripted redundant nonsense.

SD

[eyeinthesky]

What a way to insult peoples intellegence by publishing the last JNLR figures. How are the figures arrived at mystifies me because as some one living in the middle of the broadcast area that is not what i hear, maybe i am listening to another Midwest. A station that is always chopping and changing presenters for daily shows with sports running the news department, and weekly current affairs getting 2 30min slots on Sat/Sun from news that has already been beaten to death during the week i find very hard to accept.

[hiram]

Originally Posted by nuac

But a big proportion of the catchment population like it

Youre having a laugh are you?? The over 50's Mass going Farming Community does not constitute " a big proportion of the catchment population", now does it!

[davenachill]

Originally Posted by SJPK

would anyone by any chance know the name of the theme tune to paul claffeys show, sounds a bit like glen millers - in the mood!, well..... same instrumentation anywho!

Yes! Does anyone know this song or know where you could rip it from a old show from the website?

Would love to play it at a houseparty for the criac

[Mayo Miss]

Originally Posted by davenachill

Yes! Does anyone know this song or know where you could rip it from a old show from the website?

Would love to play it at a houseparty for the criac

It's not the exact same version but it's close enough.
Zambesi is the name of it.

[M cebee]

clicks into place immediately
-Zambezi
Awful bloody tune

[eyeinthesky]

What a shambles of a radio station. I think yesterday really showed what it really thinks of its listeners. Out of 8 presenters of regular daily shows 4 were absent. I will agree people have to take holidays and people get sick but the rostering is a joke. Only for the sports department which keeps the news department running and then has to do some of the regular daily shows as well as outside broadcasts makes me wonder how the station is run.
As a listener from its pirate days there is no comparison, the listeners knew the presenters and when they were on air. We were told when the licence was granted the station would be a better in various ways but i am afraid progress to me does not show improvement.

[ford fiesta]

Originally Posted by Defiler Of The Coffin

Do they not have any other person other than Brendan Redmond to voice the ads? It used to be that you knew you were in the west when you hit a pothole but now I know for certain I'm home when I hear golden-voiced Brendan talking up Albany's new paint range or whatever else they're flogging this week.

Brendan Redmond left Mid West Radio (and Ireland) around 5 years ago!! He definitely isn't doing ad's...

There are a lot worse local stations out there than Mid West (Shannonside, Ocean FM & Galway Bay FM)