The Beatbox with Dave Fanning

moe_sizlak

Elmo wrote: »

Music in Irish Broadcasting is very wide, because it could be any genre.

2TV for example was pop hosted by Dave who wanted to be presenting an Indie programme but enjoyed slagging off all of the pop stars and videos. Brilliant

The Beat Box was more like a morning radio show on the TV. And While I don't remember Music TV from the USA it was The Beat Box's predessor.

No Disco, Other Voices and the Last Broadcast are Indie. The Plastic Orange was also Indie music (aka Jo Maxi just a musical version)

TG4 had a dance music show a few years ago very similar to No Disco in style and RIRA. POP 4 and O Bun go Bar.

TV3 mmmmm Pop Cubed or some other show similar to RTÉ's Top 30 Hits.

And Channel 6 had Nightshift and Popscene.

And then you have Trad shows like Come West Along the Road.



But so do I e.g. Did you know The Den started on RTÉ ONE? or That Thelma Mansfeild used to present a show like Live at Three incorporating Children's TV :eek: Only just barely remember that.

yes , i too am sad enough to remember thelma mansfield presenting childrens shows , the den came along around 1986 and was 1st presented by ian dempsey , was called dempseys den back then

icdg

Elmo wrote: »

A basic History of Music TV on RTÉ i.e. Music Videos

Early 1980's Music TV from the USA
Vague memory of Larry Gogan's Golden Hour on RTE TWO
Then you have the Beat Box/2TV

2TV which I remember more had a few spin off shows such as Byanka Lykes in the Morning circa 1998 and Jon Slattery with golden oldies at night circa 1998 he did kind of top twenty shows. This was part of the new look N2, which also had Ray D'arcy interview The Spice Girls and other pop star of the time.

Do not forget Planet Rock Profiles possibly Ireland's biggest export, present by Dave Fanning and Tom Dunne.

Top 30 Hit's which had a run down of the top 30 plus top 10 album and dance charts..

Top 30 Hits was really simply the ITV Chart Show format brought up to date and with less "computer-inspired" graphics. It was a big staple of the N2 era though and a prelude to Monday comedy nights, IIRC, for most of that period.

From my memory, the Beatbox and 2TV were nearly identical other than the presenter and titles/graphics. It was certainly the same idea - a simulcast between 2FM and RTÉ2 between 11:30am-1:30pm on a Sunday. The wierdest thing about the Beatbox was how they handled the 2FM news bulittens - the YouTube video that was previously posted on this thread shows exactly how they did it and it was so wierd to see the 2FM jingles (this being the classic "Station of the 90s" era) being played on TV. It looked nothing like any other RTÉ News programme on TV, of course, because it was being presented by the radio division.

It was blatant cross-promotion for 2FM, of course, but a cheap and cheerful way to fill two hours of TV on a Sunday at a time when most people outside Dublin wouldn't have had MTV.

Bondvillain

Apropos of nothing, I recall TV3's "Pop on 3" which despite the presenter (possibly Darragh Purcell? Not sure - all I can recall is that he looked a little like Beck Hansen and spoke with William Shatner type....unnecessary.......pauses. He was Sort of a Ross O Carroll Kelly re-imagining of Antoine Du Caunes, but slowed down, and without the humour.) was actually quite decent.

There was also Echo Island, a replacement for Jo Maxi, which also featured Irish music heavily. Presented by Dara O Briain, (and on occasion (and somewhat less endearingly) by Derek Mooney, Mary Kingston and that Blaithnaid woman from Ireland's got talent) it ran for a few years in English and Irish on alternate days.

Loveless

Irishwiseguy wrote: »

BTW; Anyone here watch Other Voices? I have only seen it once and I caught Eric Bibb and Lisa Hannigan, brilliant. Anyone know when Other Voices started?

I've some footage of Beatbox and 2TV on VHS at home. Fairly sure it used to be on from 11:30am to 1:30pm of a sunday morning with the simulcast.


I was at the first series of Other Voices (and most of the others too). The first series of Other Voices was recorded in December 2002 and broadcast on Network 2 at 9pm on Tuesday 25 February 2003.

Episode 1 The Frames
Episode 2 Damien Rice
Episode 3 Interference
Episode 4 Damien Dempsey
Episode 5 Nina Hynes
Episode 6 Josh Ritter
Episode 7 Compilation featuring Jerry Fish and Katell Keineg
Episode 8 Mundy
Episode 9 Maria Doyle Kennedy
Episode 10 Mark Geary
Episode 11 Compilation featuring Paddy Casey, Roesy and John Hegarty
Episode 12 emmett tinley
Episode 13 Compilation featuring Ronan Ó Snodaigh, Martin Finke, Barry McCormack, Paul Tiernan and Ger Wolfe

Loveless

Bondvillain wrote: »

Apropos of nothing, I recall TV3's "Pop on 3" which despite the presenter (possibly Darragh Purcell? Not sure - all I can recall is that he looked a little like Beck Hansen and spoke with William Shatner type....unnecessary.......pauses. He was Sort of a Ross O Carroll Kelly re-imagining of Antoine Du Caunes, but slowed down, and without the humour.) was actually quite decent.

Darragh Purcell did present Pop On 3 around 2001, have some footage recorded at home. It was sponsored by Playstation and remember them playing the likes of Bell X1, Cornelius, Pavement and Yo La Tengo....

Elmo

Bondvillain wrote: »

Apropos of nothing, I recall TV3's "Pop on 3" which despite the presenter (possibly Darragh Purcell? Not sure - all I can recall is that he looked a little like Beck Hansen and spoke with William Shatner type....unnecessary.......pauses. He was Sort of a Ross O Carroll Kelly re-imagining of Antoine Du Caunes, but slowed down, and without the humour.) was actually quite decent.

Long before I hated TV3, when I was giving them a chance. That guy irrated the hell out of me I am sure their is a thread on here with me giving out about him.

Or remember the Pepis Chart show.

RINO87

Did no disco not start during the summer, years and years ago, in the same slot as the beatbox (filled in for it during the summer), with donal dinneen presenting it, before it moved to what i think was a wednesday nite slot?

Elmo

RINO87 wrote: »

Did no disco not start during the summer, years and years ago, in the same slot as the beatbox (filled in for it during the summer), with donal dinneen presenting it, before it moved to what i think was a wednesday nite slot?

I wouldn't say so, Beatbox/2tv was usually was replace by sport.

icdg

Bondvillain wrote: »

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There was also Echo Island, a replacement for Jo Maxi, which also featured Irish music heavily. Presented by Dara O Briain, (and on occasion (and somewhat less endearingly) by Derek Mooney, Mary Kingston and that Blaithnaid woman from Ireland's got talent) it ran for a few years in English and Irish on alternate days.

I wouldn't call Echo Island really a replacement for Jo-Maxi - Jo-Maxi/JMTV was firmly aimed at a teenage audience and aired at 18:00 wheras Echo was more an Irish version of Blue Peter, for older children and aired at 16:30 or thereabouts.

Elmo

icdg wrote: »

I wouldn't call Echo Island really a replacement for Jo-Maxi - Jo-Maxi/JMTV was firmly aimed at a teenage audience and aired at 18:00 wheras Echo was more an Irish version of Blue Peter, for older children and aired at 16:30 or thereabouts.

It was aimed at a younger audience but it basically kept much of the format of Jo-Maxi. RTÉ didn't replace Jo-Maxi rather they choose to go for a similar show for a younger audience. The closest thing to Jo-Maxi was Echo Island but yes a different time slot and a different audience.

Bondvillain

icdg wrote: »

I wouldn't call Echo Island really a replacement for Jo-Maxi - Jo-Maxi/JMTV was firmly aimed at a teenage audience and aired at 18:00 wheras Echo was more an Irish version of Blue Peter, for older children and aired at 16:30 or thereabouts.

17.30 (because of interference from the dept of Education over the News.) ... same topics, different presenters. Pretty much the same show, according to the production team. Trust me.

Worked on both.

Elmo

Bondvillain wrote: »

17.30 (because of interference from the dept of Education over the News.) ... same topics, different presenters. Pretty much the same show, according to the production team. Trust me.

Worked on both.

Echo Island was on at around 16:30.

The shows that replaced Jo Maxi where far more educational than what replaced them at 6.

Irishwiseguy

Thanks again to everyone who submitted their knowledge and opinions on the subject. An invaluable source of help.

Thanks again.:D

Elmo

Irishwiseguy wrote: »

Thanks again to everyone who submitted their knowledge and opinions on the subject. An invaluable source of help.

Thanks again.:D

what are your conclusions?

AnonoBoy

No Disco never was on a Sunday. It started in a late night slot and stayed there through three presenters - Donal Dineen, Uaneen Fitzsimmons and Leagues O'Toole.