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Anyone from 4FM reading ?

  • 25-04-2011 8:30pm
    #1
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭


    Guys, in general I love the station, but for God's sake stop cutting decent songs in half or worse at the top of the hour - and elsewhere!

    Last night I heard Donald Fagen come on and turned up the radio to enjoy it, only for it to be unmercifully cut after 35 seconds! :mad:

    I turned off as a result.

    Today an Alison Moyet song got cut after about 2 mins and it was the FIRST song after the news.

    The aim to play decent stuff that other places don't play is great, and commendable, but remember that if you play it and someone does love it, cutting the bollox off it will just piss those people off.

    It's unforgiveable, and will lose ye listeners.


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  • #2
    GSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭GSF


    They cut a song just before the 9pm news. It was so short they could have used the clip for a beat the intro competition.


  • #3
    Big Tone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭Big Tone


    Sounds horrible, careless radio!

    They may as well hand their licence back to the BAI if that's the case and not wwast any more time or money, if that's what they're trying to save because it's not listeners they're trying to save and keep.


  • #4
    Fuzzy Clam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,293 ✭✭✭Fuzzy Clam


    Is Kevin Brannigan involved with this station now?


  • #5
    Kevin joyce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 67 ✭✭Kevin joyce


    Fuzzy Clam wrote: »
    Is Kevin Brannigan involved with this station now?

    Yes he owns 99 percent of it


  • #6
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Thats a lot of crap to own.

    Sounds like the station is barely running on bare bones. Your average bedroom pirate treats music far better than many a so called professional station./


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  • #7
    Bard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    Technically, Bay Broadcasting (which Kevin Brannigan co-owns - I believe) own 99% of 4FM.

    http://www.sbpost.ie/mediaandmarketing/4fm-must-make-listenership-gains-says-radio-authority-53242.html


  • #8
    RadioRetro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,090 ✭✭✭RadioRetro


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Guys, in general I love the station, but for God's sake stop cutting decent songs in half or worse at the top of the hour - and elsewhere!
    [SNIP]
    It's unforgiveable, and will lose ye listeners.

    It certainly is, especially at just 35 seconds! As one who's earned his living in radio for more than twenty years I wouldn't have believed that that sort of thing would go on in an amateur/pirate station, let alone a professional outfit before you pointed it out.


  • #9
    RoundyMooney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭RoundyMooney


    I gave up on listening to them last week, after persevering for quite a while.

    It's the same songs over and over anyway, bar the fillers at the end of the hour, which tended to be quite good, for the few seconds of play they got.

    Obscure mid chart blandness from the eighties doesn't cut it for me, must be cheaper to pay the rights on it, I guess.


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