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Thanks for the reply.TheCostumeShop.ie: Ronan wrote: »Thanks for the feedback - First off let me apologise. I agree its frustrating when you text in and I have to put my hands up and say this one is a balance that we've found hard to get right. Although some will undoubtedly disagree with how we work it, I'd like to explain our though process and why sometimes songs don't get played immediately (sometimes at all).
Firstly we try to get a consistent feel for the music and we do this with play lists and song limitations. Before anyone points out that My Friday night show is very different to the playlist, its one of the exception to the otherwise rule. Friday night is for parties hence always upbeat. DJ's do have the freedom to rotate in some requests ofcourse. But if a song is on low rotation, it absolutely can't be played within 8 hours of its last play etc. High rotation songs shouldnt be played anymore than once every 3 hours - this is to stop every show sounding like Mariah Carey, Wham and The Pogues on a tight loop.
Our average listener tunes in for 17 minutes at a time. Mostly a short car trip etc. So we want them to hear a selection of songs they havent heard in a while and the high rotation popular songs - in other words a feel for what we do every 17 minutes.
But then people have texted in, making a donation and want a mention / song played. So we have two conflicts 1. No-one wants a non-stop DJ saying peoples name between every song, especially if it takes away from the music and 2. If the song has been recently played it cannot be played again.
I have the honour of spending my Christmas Day on air and with so many requests on that, one of the busiest days of the station. We get about 20 song requests for every song played. Some of them saying I talk too much reading out dedications :rolleyes:
I can't tell you how many times I've got texts in within the 3 minutes of a song just played. So regretfully those that just tunes in and texts have to be disappointed. Also Christmas Shoes, definitely wont be high rotation but due to the volume of text and the money that raises it may get some plays.
To make up for the annoyance send me your favouite 4 songs and I'll play three them on my first show.
All I meant really is that if a text request that is due to be read out matches up with the next song, then stick that text at the end of the ones to be read out and use it to introduce the song. I think it would make people more likely to text in, if the impression was given that requests were played the odd time. More texts = more money for the charity!
No need to play any songs for me. I love all the songs! (Apart from Christmas Shoes, obviously, because I'm not a massive weirdo. :pac:) My husband thinks it's hilarious every year when we're listening together and I know all the words to all the songs. Thanks for the offer though.
You should definitely play the top 3 Boards songs though. We could start a thread and get people to post their favourites and make a poll out of the ones that are mentioned.0 -
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I took the liberty (hope you don't mind) of setting one up here,
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=92510859#post92510859
It was your idea! And you have much much better thread organisational skills than I have.
The thanks idea is great. 0 -
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TheCostumeShop.ie: Ronan wrote: »We are going live with presenters at 12 noon on Saturday.
Awesome, will be putting up the tree while listening 0 -
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StripedBoxers wrote: »Is anyone else having trouble connecting to Christmas FM on either the Android or desktop players? It's not working for me at all
iOS app isn't working for me atm, just a black screen.0 -
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TheCostumeShop.ie: Ronan wrote: »Hi CombatCow,
That should be fixed now.
One thing I need people to do is get the latest Iphone / Android App. The one from last year isnt supported and due to circumstances beyond our control we weren't able to access it to take it down or update it, so we had to run a new one. It still slightly works but not very well and cuts out often, the new version should be 100% at the moment.
As with all things we still have some minor teething problem (fewer than one might expect because the team have been incredible this year - Station Manager Dan is the man, he's working incredible hours the last few weeks).
Thanks, I don't mean to complain really as I know your all taking your own time doing this for charity
Can you post a link to the app just so we're on the right one.0 -
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Thanks, I don't mean to complain really as I know your all taking your own time doing this for charity
Can you post a link to the app just so we're on the right one.
No problem at all, the feedback is helpful and extremely valued. All details on the app, scroll down on the homepage and choose your platform IOS / Android then click the link.
http://christmasfm.com/0 -
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