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Irish radio is awful

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,421 ✭✭✭projectmayhem


    mr_disc wrote:
    The amount of stations is another problem, im in galway and only have effectively only 3 music stations to pick from ( 2FM, TodayFM, and Galway bay FM ).

    HELP !!!:(

    it's not the number of stations, it's the variance of music. i'm in dublin and can't count the number of music stations we have, but all of them are effectively the exact same.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Atlantic252....there's a memory and a half...I recall hating that station back then, but looking back it was pretty good, even if it was just a rolling loop of 50 tracks.
    I think the ads are one thing that really f*cks up Irish radio...they're of dire quality and tend to be on waay too much...I know they're a necessary source of revenue but they could at least have some sort of moratorium on how often each are played in a day...and get rid of that T&C's apply and financial regulatory bollocks.

    Anyways, I'm an hour into the essential selection with Pete Tong, then it's the rap show with Westwood at 9, reggae dancehall at 11, and the D'n'B show with grooverider at 1am...quality.


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


    it's not the number of stations, it's the variance of music. i'm in dublin and can't count the number of music stations we have, but all of them are effectively the exact same.
    Dig around - there's some interesting legal community stations including Near, DCAL and Anna Livia who provide a refreshing alternative.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭mr_disc


    Dont see any of it improving though.. in fact quite the opposite.... :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10 BWood


    Wertz wrote:
    Anyways, I'm an hour into the essential selection with Pete Tong, then it's the rap show with Westwood at 9, reggae dancehall at 11, and the D'n'B show with grooverider at 1am...quality.

    Im listening to that to....i was listening to Scott Mills' wonder years before then....which was great...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3 Fungiii


    need more lisences given out


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Chillwithcian


    Whatever about RTE, im sick of wall to wall pop music on 98fm/104fm and all the other 25-35 stations plasterd around the band scans, we need some proper alternitave stations!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,421 ✭✭✭projectmayhem


    Dig around - there's some interesting legal community stations including Near, DCAL and Anna Livia who provide a refreshing alternative.


    i'm a northsider (shwar, etc.) so nearFm and dcal don't reach my eardrums unless it be dark afaik.

    as for anna livia, the sheer unprofessional nature of the on-air staff annoys me to no end. if you can't chatter for 3 minutes without having any dead air, then radio isn't for you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 944 ✭✭✭Big Balls


    Whatever about RTE, im sick of wall to wall pop music on 98fm/104fm and all the other 25-35 stations plasterd around the band scans, we need some proper alternitave stations!!!

    You may be sick of it but FM104 is the most listened to music radio station in Dublin. They must be doing something right.

    You want alternative music/alternative stations, that's fine, but appreciate that many of FM104's listeners don't.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭muletide


    cant wait for newstalk to go nationwide I always have it on when I am near the pale - some great shows on it and no Shakira


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Chillwithcian


    Big Balls wrote:
    You may be sick of it but FM104 is the most listened to music radio station in Dublin. They must be doing something right.

    You want alternative music/alternative stations, that's fine, but appreciate that many of FM104's listeners don't.
    To be fair though, the majority of FM 104's listners are in the 20-35 age bracket which means that they will play the top 40 tracks to suit the advertisers. My point is that the BCI should not be favouring giving licences to these type of stations because they will know that they generate more revenue. I accept your view though, some people only like to listen to that praticular type of genre and thats fine as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,421 ✭✭✭projectmayhem


    Big Balls wrote:
    You may be sick of it but FM104 is the most listened to music radio station in Dublin. They must be doing something right.

    You want alternative music/alternative stations, that's fine, but appreciate that many of FM104's listeners don't.

    yup, and that's what Fm104 is for. we have fm104, why do we need spin (which got a dance license in the first place afaik), 98FM and all the other stations that do the exact same thing in the exact same city?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    The problem with a lack of alternative music content on stations is that mainstream becomes so much the norm that most people simply don't realise what they're missing out on....who honestly wanst to be bombarded by the same selection of generic stuff day in day out, and have it only change as record companies dictate what enters the charts and ultimately what gets played?
    Popular chart music has it's place, even on my holier-than-thou BBC R1, but it's balanced and offset by other genres even during daytime airplay...the most alternation our home stations seem to get at peak times is playing some 80's oldies that we've all heard a hundred times.
    Sticking your figurative neck out and playing something a bit left of field, a bit metal, or a bit electronic will not have listeners turning off in their droves...who knows, you might actually atract listeners since you're deviating from the apparent norm as broadcast by every other station out there...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Chillwithcian


    Wertz wrote:
    The problem with a lack of alternative music content on stations is that mainstream becomes so much the norm that most people simply don't realise what they're missing out on....who honestly wanst to be bombarded by the same selection of generic stuff day in day out, and have it only change as record companies dictate what enters the charts and ultimately what gets played?
    Popular chart music has it's place, even on my holier-than-thou BBC R1, but it's balanced and offset by other genres even during daytime airplay...the most alternation our home stations seem to get at peak times is playing some 80's oldies that we've all heard a hundred times.
    Sticking your figurative neck out and playing something a bit left of field, a bit metal, or a bit electronic will not have listeners turning off in their droves...who knows, you might actually atract listeners since you're deviating from the apparent norm as broadcast by every other station out there...
    yeah, i agree with you compleatly!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,421 ✭✭✭projectmayhem


    Wertz wrote:
    The problem with a lack of alternative music content on stations is that mainstream becomes so much the norm that most people simply don't realise what they're missing out on....who honestly wanst to be bombarded by the same selection of generic stuff day in day out, and have it only change as record companies dictate what enters the charts and ultimately what gets played?
    Popular chart music has it's place, even on my holier-than-thou BBC R1, but it's balanced and offset by other genres even during daytime airplay...the most alternation our home stations seem to get at peak times is playing some 80's oldies that we've all heard a hundred times.
    Sticking your figurative neck out and playing something a bit left of field, a bit metal, or a bit electronic will not have listeners turning off in their droves...who knows, you might actually atract listeners since you're deviating from the apparent norm as broadcast by every other station out there...

    absolutely. i'd like to see some figures for how popular internet radio is in ireland, as i find that's fantastic for getting a brilliant mix... but naturally, it lacks DJ's and whatnot.


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