RTE Pulse

lostexpectation

anyone listening to this, got dab radio for christmas finally using now

ha it plays classic dance I guess mostly on the cheesy side of stuff, but a few classic like it was playing ultra flavour by heller and farley project a while ago,

its now playing
lifesigns radio edit rodd-y-ler!"

i guess it has about 50 songs on replay...

turn on mocha and all 80's and get an annoying high pitch sound in the backgroud?

L1011

Has about 5,000 songs I'd guess - goes all over the place genre wise...

JDxtra

Yeah, listening online right now - it's pretty good! Plus it has the old voice over artist from the Dublin pirate dance station Pulse FM. Nice.

Online stream here... mms://streaming.rte.ie/wmtencoder/1112.wma

daragh_k

Any of you night owls out there tonight might wanna check out Suburban Sounds myself and Ken @12am till 2am for a guest mix and interview with Niall Redmond on RTE Pulse whose show starts @10pm. Im playing Oldskool and I think Ken will be playing Oldskool and some Electro/progressive stuff aswell..

heres the link http://www.rte.ie/digitalradio/

Cheers
D

jtsuited

this thing is a right hit and miss scenario.

first time I came across it (on the upc digital radio thingamagoo on the telly), it was playing a 4 hour set from Ben Klock (was actually more amazing than you could imagine).

Next time I tuned in, it was horrendous Dutch cheese trance. The time after that, some fairly awful oldskool, and then the time after that some pretty meh tribal house.

Ronan Raver77

They seem to play a lot of varities of the dance music genre..I really need to listen more but from what i have heard its pretty good:)

FLYNN-DOG

Look at how the BBC market radio 1 compared to this tripe.....its frankly a million times better

L1011

Whats wrong with how RTE market it? Its a niche service ON a niche service (DAB) and you're comparing how they market it to BBC Radio 1, which reaches more people a week than there are on this island.

KEN.G

MYOB wrote: »

Whats wrong with how RTE market it? Its a niche service ON a niche service (DAB) and you're comparing how they market it to BBC Radio 1, which reaches more people a week than there are on this island.

Exactly………

You can’t compare Pulse to BBC radio 1 ffs. And as for them playing a variety of different genres through out the day, if you want to hear consistent play lists of the same top 40 tunes all day, tune into 104FM or 98FM

FLYNN-DOG

Think about it....Radio 1 are in Ibiza, Miami, Creamfields etc. every year. Their website is also top notch - playlists to everything thats been played recently, decent podcasts and a fairly enigmatic figurehead in pete tong. (Who imo, is the purveyor of some truly great "essential mixes".) I'm not giving out about the lack of well known presenters like R1 ie. Rob da Bank, Grooverider etc, but maybe a well known name but drive listeners to the station. Have you ever seen RTE Pulse sponsor any event? It probably is decent tbh, but right now I'm unfortunately won't listen to it on the back of it being part of RTE. Sorry.

franklyshocked

its ten to 3 on a Thursday, just hit play on the RTE Puse, sorry, Pulse link and its awful muck at the moment.
Come on lads, quality control, there's a time and place for everything. With the internet and freedom of choice, whats the attraction. I'd love to know what listenership was like seeing as half the country or more, does not have DAB coverage

L1011

FLYNN-DOG wrote: »

Think about it....Radio 1 are in Ibiza, Miami, Creamfields etc. every year. Their website is also top notch - playlists to everything thats been played recently, decent podcasts and a fairly enigmatic figurehead in pete tong. (Who imo, is the purveyor of some truly great "essential mixes".) I'm not giving out about the lack of well known presenters like R1 ie. Rob da Bank, Grooverider etc, but maybe a well known name but drive listeners to the station. Have you ever seen RTE Pulse sponsor any event? It probably is decent tbh, but right now I'm unfortunately won't listen to it on the back of it being part of RTE. Sorry.

RTE Pulse have NO advertising revenue and, like the rest of the digital services, are basically being run off 2FMs (not huge) profits. BBC R1 has a budget of about 60 million sterling a year.

You're delusional if you think you can compare them as like with like. You're even more delusional if you're going to not listen to it as they don't sponsor an event.

It has, however, carried live coverage of Electric Picnic, Planet Love and "other" events. But as you're not listening to it for a pathetic reason you'd not have known that.

As goes "Well known presenters", theres Pulse DJs who would be very well known in their respective fields in Ireland. By direct comparison I only heard of Grooverider when he got convicted in the middle east... but I know he's well known in his specific genre.

Real FM

I think its complete b0llox to compare the two. BBC Radio 1 is one of the biggest radio stations in the world, RTÉ Pulse has been live and not even on FM since December.

I've been listening since it kicked off before Christmas and yes I know the day time is playlisted but the evening presenter shows are brilliant. Just think, these presenters are doing it for nothing at the moment and in the last month they've managed to interview guests and have mixes from the likes of Judge Jules and Sander Van Doorn...for example I heard a live mix from Armin Van Buuren last night.

Some might say that the music is too varied, but just check out the schedules and follow the show/genre that you like. Its a hell of a lot better than the pirate ****e we always hear where DJs play solid trance or house the whole time.

Keep up the good work guys.

Executive Steve

franklyshocked wrote: »

its ten to 3 on a Thursday, just hit play on the RTE Puse, sorry, Pulse link and its awful muck at the moment.
Come on lads, quality control, there's a time and place for everything. With the internet and freedom of choice, whats the attraction. I'd love to know what listenership was like seeing as half the country or more, does not have DAB coverage

that's just it - they have very little concept of what they're trying to do with it - they just have a rake of 90's chart house on shuffle for half the time the station is going because they're frightened housewives at home won't tune in otherwise

the evening schedules are a lot more diverse and it's a credit to them for that, but surely the whole point of the station is to celebrate and promote underground dance music rather than tuck it away in the wee small hours of the night when everyone's gone to bed?

also - the look and layout of their website and publicity is shockingly bad, it looks like a community radio station from Leitrim

not to mention the whole "music for the millenium people" thing... criiiiinge.

L1011

Is that tagline not off the old Pulse FM, along with nearly their entire liners/beds/everything else package?

The daytime schedule needs sorting and I suspect it'll be done sooner or later.

Ronan Raver77

[cm]tyranny wrote: »

the evening schedules are a lot more diverse and it's a credit to them for that, but surely the whole point of the station is to celebrate and promote underground dance music rather than tuck it away in the wee small hours of the night when everyone's gone to bed?

I don't think they have the studio space during the day to do the shows.That's why its automated till 6 i reckon.
Here's a story i read in the Indo.
FOUR new RTE radio stations are now available to more than 85pc of the population, after the national broadcaster inked a deal to get the channels onto NTL and Chorus' digital platforms.

The new stations include RTE Choice, a speech-driven channel that compliments Radio 1; RTE Junior, aimed at 2 to 12-year-olds; RTE 2XM, which acts as a sister station to youth station 2fm; and 24-hour dance station RTE Pulse.

The four stations are already available online and can be heard on special digital (DAB) radios in the Greater Dublin area, the North East Coast and Cork and Limerick cities, where RTE's DAB trials continue.

Meanwhile, commercial broadcasters are hoping to get back into the DAB market this summer after leaving RTE's trial last year.

Dusty Rhodes Digital Radio Ltd is pressing ahead to set up his own trial which will include four of his stations plus four commercial stations.

Rhodes confirms that plans are being evaluated by the Broadcasting Commission at the minute, with a decision "hoped for in the summer".

SOURCE: http://www.independent.ie/business/media/rte-radio-launches-stations-on-digital-platform-1710176.html

Ronan Raver77

MYOB wrote: »

Is that tagline not off the old Pulse FM, along with nearly their entire liners/beds/everything else package?

The daytime schedule needs sorting and I suspect it'll be done sooner or later.

Yes old pulse liners/tagline package:)

L1011

Its not even only done from RTE Dublin either, there are shows going live from a number of the regional/foreign studios. Know Athlone, Belfast and London are used.

Main reason theres nothing during the day is that the jocks are, currently, unpaid. And have day jobs...

Real FM

I just saw on Res Advisor that John Kerrigan is doing a 6 hour Planet Love after party on Pulse on Saturday night with Tidy DJs, Ben Stevens, Alan Pullen, Andy Farley, Frank Farrell, Paul Glazby, Lisa Lashes and Vinyl Groover...not too shabby at all!