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Lyric FM

  • 11-01-2010 1:24pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 136 ✭✭


    never listened to it before now. But it sounds brilliant. i just wonder why so few people listen. Is it because we are a nation of talk radio junkies? We just dont do MOR music?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    What makes you think people don't listen to it?

    Did you do a survey? :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 136 ✭✭Derryleigh


    ntlbell wrote: »
    What makes you think people don't listen to it?

    Did you do a survey? :D

    No but a survery called the JNLR:) did, and it shows that they have a miniscule listenership but maybe that is the norm for a niche radio station. I dont know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    Derryleigh wrote: »
    No but a survery called the JNLR:) did, and it shows that they have a miniscule listenership but maybe that is the norm for a niche radio station. I dont know.

    I'd say it's pretty normal for the type of music played.

    I generally have to be in the right mood to listen to it.

    Is chill in the stats?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 858 ✭✭✭goingpostal


    I like Lyric a lot, but I couldn't listen to it all day, everyday. Marty Whelan does a good show between 12 and 2 everyday, he plays a good mix. John Kelly between 2 and 4 is ok, some good stuff, but a little too self-consciously out there, man.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 221 ✭✭TimmyTarmac


    I like Lyric as well. The fewer and fewer classial bits especially. The arrival of Marty Whelan playing Tony Bennett, Glen Campbell and even Phil Collins one day has me really worried though. The whole point of a service like Lyric regardless of it's audience size is that its a public service. Licence fee payers who are into serious music and the arts were guaranteed a service by RTE since the late nineties but now it seems to be changing. The MArty business seems to be the start of a morphing of the station into some smashey n nicey piece of crap and there's plenty of that on the dial already.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭honeybear


    Listening to Marty show yesterday and today (Marty not on😓) Music choices by George and Lorcan were fabulous but they both got the days dates wrong!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 642 ✭✭✭real rocker


    No Vlad this morning - only the back up kick in schedule. As George Hamilton seemed pre-recorded ( he thanked Vlad for his show ) there was no explanation offered as to the non-appearance of the show.
    Very poor performance from a national station supported by the licence fee.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,624 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    No Vlad this morning - only the back up kick in schedule. As George Hamilton seemed pre-recorded ( he thanked Vlad for his show ) there was no explanation offered as to the non-appearance of the show.
    Very poor performance from a national station supported by the licence fee.

    Why do you need live radio on a Sunday morning - traffic reports? The BBC often broadcasts recorded programs on Sundays and in the wee small hours.

    The risk of doing so is that someone big in the music business passes away the night before and of course the DJ will make no mention of it so the program will then typically be preceded by a continuity announcer informing listeners that 'the following program was recorded before the announcement of the death of xxxx'. Otherwise they're happy to let you think that the DJ is live in the studio.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,381 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    because the job of a public service radio station funded by the licence fee is to offer bit more then the other stations. so therefore things like live programing of a sunday would be 1 part of that greater offering.

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,871 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    RTE say they need an increase in the licence fee after a 10 year freeze.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭honeybear


    RTE say they need an increase in the licence fee after a 10 year freeze.

    If the Summer fare on Radio & TV is anything to go by, they should forget it-subs in for subs on Radio and repeat after repeat on TV


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭LiveRadio.ie


    Derryleigh wrote: »
    never listened to it before now. But it sounds brilliant. i just wonder why so few people listen. Is it because we are a nation of talk radio junkies? We just dont do MOR music?

    RTE Lyric FM is always on TOP 20 Irish most listened radio stations. (https://www.liveradio.ie/top-20)

    To be precise: 7th place! :pac:


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