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What station would you work for? Why?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 murphy54


    none because them are comercial


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭Sizzler


    Q102
    Newstalk...cos its a cowboy laidback operation and Denis O'Brien is an investor in it so its bound to do well :)


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,676 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    Sizzler wrote:
    Newstalk...cos its a cowboy laidback operation and Denis O'Brien is an investor in it so its bound to do well :)

    lol and today's listeners peaked at .... 2


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭Sizzler


    Q102
    2 ? Does that include the security guard in their reception ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 944 ✭✭✭Big Balls


    I think it's very ignorant of you to write off Newstalk like that.

    They clearly have more than "2" listeners and there's a lot to be said about their demographic which might not be snotty nosed Boards.ie keyboard junkies who don't want to know about a radio station if it isn't churning out non stop rock but none the less, has listeners that ads can be sold to.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,585 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Big Balls wrote:
    I think it's very ignorant of you to write off Newstalk like that.

    They clearly have more than "2" listeners and there's a lot to be said about their demographic which might not be snotty nosed Boards.ie keyboard junkies who don't want to know about a radio station if it isn't churning out non stop rock but none the less, has listeners that ads can be sold to.

    You're obviously connected to the station with that kind of spirited defence.

    Will you get Orla Barry to play something for me ma?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭Ruby-J


    TODAY FM
    giftgrub wrote:
    I'd be curious to know what you think working a radio station is actually like

    I work on air in one in Dublin, (one of the main ones) and to be honest its just like any other job,

    you go in, do your bit, try to keep the boss off your back and then go home. its not rocket science.

    When i was trying to get into radio i thought it would be crazy and wacky all day long, its just not the case, at the end of the day, a commercial radio station is just that, a commercial enterprise there to make money.

    Are you serious? My course director keeps telling us that radio is whacky and alot of fun, you're free to do your thing etc.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 702 ✭✭✭roxy


    Pirate Station
    Ruby-J wrote:
    Are you serious? My course director keeps telling us that radio is whacky and alot of fun, you're free to do your thing etc.

    hmmm I'd have to agree with GiftGrub to an extent. I think if this is the only thing your course director has drilled into your head then, well, (s)he's not exactly misleading you, but he isn't being as realistic as (s)he could/should be.

    It's logical really: at the end of the day, everyone in the station has a job to do, and there is a particular product/service which has to be created. Continually. And consistently. To a high standard.

    You know that scene in a Simpsons episode where Bart visits the offices of Mad magazine? The door swings open and it's complete nutball chaos inside? Well, I've always taken that to be a sarcastic joke by the Simpson's writers...and I think you can safely apply the same thing to commercial radio.

    Yeah it's great craic, and in a lot of ways it can be much more fun than working in a deskjob (provided you enjoy radio). But when you tune in at the end of the news, and you hear witty, carefree banter being volleyed back and forth between the presenter and the newsreader, you might think "God, what a great job". But you have to remember that the same newsreader will then have to go back to their desk and calmly concentrate on their work until the next bulletin. They're not going outside to bounce around in circles on a pogo stick. Same goes for producers or anyone else - they're working under pressure to get their job done in a very specific timeframe - they're not exactly running around whooping and whipping each other with teatowels. Not ALL the time anyway. :)

    I'm not trying to be po-faced at all, and I doubt giftgrub was either. Just making the point that stations don't run entirely on wackiness and good times. IF it comes across that way on-air then that just means you're listening to a professional! A pro will make it sound light and carefree (if that's what's called for) and he (or she - god, check out the sexist pig) is certainly never going to let on that 10 seconds earlier he was nearly about to poke out his producer's eyes with a blunt stick! It comes down to hard work in a pressurised environment. Not that it isn't fun, it's just not necessarily a round-the-clock party.

    Hope this helps! :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,309 ✭✭✭giftgrub


    Ruby-J wrote:
    Are you serious? My course director keeps telling us that radio is whacky and alot of fun, you're free to do your thing etc.

    if my previous post came across as bitter and negative, thats not how i meant it...i think i have a great job, i dont work too hard, get paid ok and i do something i'm interested in

    as for being free to do your own thing...forget about it.

    if for example a jock was to go off on some vague link about boiling eggs, or decided to bring in their personal creedence records to play during drive time...you can bet your ass there'd be a fairly sharpish meeting with the PD

    its all about format...stick to it, "free to do your own thing" isnt professional and runs the risk of turning peoople off...the more people turn off the less ad revenue, the less ad revenue the less people with jobs, you get what i mean?

    things are fun in work, but there is a limit, its a place of work at the end of the day


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭Ruby-J


    TODAY FM
    aww cool thanks guys. hmm gives me something to think about. i now about sticking to a format etc and following a playlist. thats fine yeh just i thought that it was more light hearted then anything. at least i hear the truth now before i land myself in the industry!!!! hehe:D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 944 ✭✭✭Big Balls


    You're obviously connected to the station with that kind of spirited defence.

    It's that ignorant attitude that makes comments like the above appear.

    I've never worked for Newstalk, or Denis O'Brien.

    I do however work for a radio station in which there's very little you could write off about the listenership figures.. so I know a thing or two about radio and how hard people work in certain parts of the industry and the stupid comment of "does that include their security guard?" is unwarranted.

    No skin off my nose, I still work for a station with big audiences, I just don't like to see blatant ignorance posted up as fact.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,585 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Big Balls wrote:
    I do however work for a radio station in which there's very little you could write off about the listenership figures.. so I know a thing or two about radio and how hard people work in certain parts of the industry and the stupid comment of "does that include their security guard?" is unwarranted.

    But it still makes you come across as someone who's tetchy, defensive and who's just had a sense of humour failure.

    Even those working at Newstalk would have laughed at that comment.

    Newstalk is a great station, it just needs to iron out it's afternoon and nighttime programming.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 944 ✭✭✭Big Balls


    But it still makes you come across

    The day I start worrying what other people think of me, you'll be the first to know.
    it just needs to iron out it's afternoon and nighttime programming.

    Where did you say you were a Programme Director again?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,585 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Big Balls wrote:
    The day I start worrying what other people think of me, you'll be the first to know.

    Where did you say you were a Programme Director again?

    Are you always that humourless and tetchy, or is it just a phase?

    My opinion counts as I am a Newstalk listener.

    Newstalk is pretty good on the whole, but just needs a little fine tuning of its late morning and nighttime schedules.


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 5,555 ✭✭✭tSubh Dearg


    Pirate Station
    Lads, a little more civility please. Attack the post not the poster.


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