Beat 102-103

abouttobebanned

The TV3 of local radio. With the exception of the old skool show on a sunday afternoon, this is without doubt the biggest mess of a station I've ever encountered.

The news readers (at least the one I've just heard) sound like they're in 1st Class reading Ann & Barry aloud to the class.

The music is horrible, the ads are constant and in your face.

(The great idea was to sell advertising to companies at a discount as long as they paid for a full year. This means that we get to hear the same ads, from the same businesses, constantly, all year long)

Crap like the Beat Tweet is cringe worthy as we get to listen to whatever crap celebrity has waffled about next.

Like TV3, it is a fountain of unoriginality, drowning the region in mediocrity.

ziedth

I quite like beat breakfast TBH but I very rarely listen to the radio. MP3 players put an end to it.

Doylers

abouttobebanned wrote: »

The TV3 of local radio. With the exception of the old skool show on a sunday afternoon, this is without doubt the biggest mess of a station I've ever encountered.

The news readers (at least the one I've just heard) sound like they're in 1st Class reading Ann & Barry aloud to the class.

The music is horrible, the ads are constant and in your face.

(The great idea was to sell advertising to companies at a discount as long as they paid for a full year. This means that we get to hear the same ads, from the same businesses, constantly, all year long)

Crap like the Beat Tweet is cringe worthy as we get to listen to whatever crap celebrity has waffled about next.

Like TV3, it is a fountain of unoriginality, drowning the region in mediocrity.

They have the odd good tune on but they do play the same songs about 10 times a day. Better to be like TV3 then RTE my friend,

KevIRL

Irish Beats is a good show, showcases some good Irish music.

CardBordWindow

Sitec wrote: »

The place I used to work had this station on for the entire 39 hour week, used to drive me crazy. Not hearing it was one of the upsides of being made redundant!

The three idiots on in the morning boil my blood. The news is a joke, more interested in talking about what Shakira's dog was wearing than delivering any real news.

They play the same music in a constant loop basically all day.

Pure shite!!

Jaysus they are head wrecking!! Can't stand them.

abouttobebanned

Doylers wrote: »

They have the odd good tune on but they do play the same songs about 10 times a day. Better to be like TV3 then RTE my friend,

You must be joking? Unless you're a fan of soaps, reality shows and every bit of crap that comes from America...

kryogen

I enjoy Rob O Connor occasionally, but I am more a Today FM kind of guy, Beat is on as a last resort in the car/kitchen.

shockwave

Its supposed to be a young peoples station hence the sh1te music, showbiz gossip and lack of any real news.

I would fill up my earholes with superglue before I'd listen to it.

wobbles

Its a shocking excuse for a station alright. Im sure there are good people/shows on there, but they are hidden among the other ****e

Nypd

I listened to last weeks news last night on the station.
They must have patched the wrong recording into the pre recorded show.
It had me scratching me head.

cocoshovel

Yeah its a dire station alright, and they're alwyas making mistakes when reading out the news that I dont think they even notice. They often talk about threads on After Hours too iirc, or that could be a different radio station.
I worked at a place that was playing Billy Mcarthy every morning, and it wasnt any better I can tell you. I live up in Kilkenny, and most places play the Sue Nun show which I can assure you is 100 times worse than any radio show in Waterford.

membersonly

abouttobebanned wrote: »

You must be joking? Unless you're a fan of soaps, reality shows and every bit of crap that comes from America...

People in "liking different things" shocker..

callaway92

shockwave wrote: »

Its supposed to be a young peoples station hence the sh1te music, showbiz gossip and lack of any real news.

I would fill up my earholes with superglue before I'd listen to it.

This. I'd imagine their target audience is 13-23 (leaving college age)

abouttobebanned

membersonly wrote: »

People in "liking different things" shocker..

Nice.

But seriously..TV3?!

mike65

What's particularly galling (and this is a general point) is that once a station gets its licence it'll never lose it short of some sort of propriety scandal. The actual content doesn't matter a jot - just get on air and its happy days forever.

MitchKoobski

mike65 wrote: »

What's particularly galling (and this is a general point) is that once a station gets its licence it'll never lose it short of some sort of propriety scandal. The actual content doesn't matter a jot - just get on air and its happy days forever.

Actually very few stations in Ireland have that freedom. Most have targets to meet for the BAI as far as content goes, like how much of what they broadcast is music and how much is talk. The licences have to be re-applied for every few years, and when they re-apply they're evaluated on how well they've been able to stay within their content limits. When you get the licence, you get it on the grounds that through a days airtime you will have x% talk radio and x% music, and once the BAI agree to it you have to stick to it until the licence runs out.

Kinda right on the scandal point though, anytime something does arise I'd say its dealt with and everyone goes on happy.

mike65

Ah cmon on now, how many stations have kept to the remit? 4FM or whatever its called this week is nothing like the station that was pitched to the BAI

Finnbar01

I can't for the life of me understand why a radio station would need a license to operate.

mike65

Bandwidth! Its precious and needs protecting you know!

MitchKoobski

mike65 wrote: »

Ah cmon on now, how many stations have kept to the remit? 4FM or whatever its called this week is nothing like the station that was pitched to the BAI

Thats the thing, not every radio station has to answer to the BAI. Its all nitty gritty and tbh I only have a basic understanding of it. Something to do with the licence you get. Never listened to 4fm, but I'm guessing they're not living up to their 'Classic Hits' promise.

Its like what you were saying above, even if they weren't keeping in their paramaters correctly, it would take something big for the licence to ever be taken away.

membersonly

Beat cater to the lowest common denominator basically, especially at breakfast time, someone has to after all.

Mind numbing TV3 celebrity tattle is here to stay, it won't be stopped, just tune out/flick to Newstalk or TodayFm. No point fighting it.

abouttobebanned

That's a very defeatist attitude.

MitchKoobski

We should start our own station! One that speaks just to the people of Waterford, brings them the pressing issues as well as some music and....aw shiiiiiit.....

Ah-Watch

Right, Looks like I'm going out on my own on this one. I actually quite like Beat. I enjoy listening to Beat Breakfast in the mornings, "Can I just saaay" Marys laugh is just too funny. I turn on Beat Breakfast before work or Capital FM (London) on my phone most mornings. I'm in work during the day and dont get to hear it during the day but fire it on again when I go jogging in the evenings for the top 7 at 7. Its upbeat and young ...

What I will say is that you would definately know when someone is filling in for another presenter, to me they never compare. While I am a fan of a certain ex Beat Presenter and ex AA roadwatch presenter there is no chemistry might you say in the mornings, between her and Mary.

I don't like Irish Beats, it does my nut in but salute them for promoting Irish music etc.

A million miles better than SPIN South West which is pure muck, your blessed by not having it broadcasted to the south east. I for one am a fan of Beat

Bears and Vodka

Don't like it don't listen?

You have a choice of at least five other different stations.

Username99

I taught I was the only one who found Beat 102-103 to be the most annoying radio station I have ever listened too. The worst part being the breakfast show, they absolutely wreck my head. I could go, on and on.....

membersonly

Username99 wrote: »

I taught I was the only one who found Beat 102-103 to be the most annoying radio station I have ever listened too. The worst part being the breakfast show, they absolutely wreck my head. I could go, on and on.....

The breakfast show is shockingly awful alright isn't it, even the ads for it would make you cringe.

abouttobebanned

I just don't get why it needs to be so formulaic. Where has all the originality gone? I know they are somewhat shackled by the need to appease advertisers and "those upstairs", but that's no excuse for the sheer mind numbing nature of most of the shows.

Also, I'm presuming (and hoping) that the girl reading the news today was new so I don't want to be too hard on her. I'm sure she'll grow into the role.

Marchandire

KevIRL wrote: »

Irish Beats is a good show, showcases some good Irish music.

Aren't you one of the DJ's oldest friends? Let's have some impartiality here, shall we? :rolleyes:


Btw: If nobody seems to like Beat FM, who exactly is their audience?

abouttobebanned

Doesn't mean he can't have an opinion.

The thing about Irish Beats, in my opinion, is that it contradicts the "target audience" that you're talking about for beat. The general beat audience love David Guetta and Rhianna, and whatever drivel they're collaborating on next. I can't imagine they'd have the attention span for new music. In the same way that bars don't showcase original bands - cause people get bored when they don't know the songs.

Jason Todd

I'm not a fan of Beat by any means, but I'll be defending it with this post strangely enough. I don't like the 'zany' ads/links, I think that girl who read the news this morning (the Ann & Barry style reading) is horrendous, 'Andy Mac' sounds like he just got thawed out Austin Powers style from the seventies and a lot of it is just regurgitated shyte, ie Beat Tweet, self-promotion, same songs on rotation etc, but...

what they do well, they do very very well. They appeal to their market / target audience, they use social media extremely well, the Beat fleet, the relationship between say The Beat Breakfast Crew is excellent as is the interest in them from listeners, Old School Sunday is good, Mary's Breakfast Grill on a Sunday morning is very good.

I'm a Today FM listener personally, but the missus likes Beat on at home and in all fairness they're far from the worst station in Ireland, just not everyone's cup of tea is all.

Jason Todd

abouttobebanned wrote: »

I just don't get why it needs to be so formulaic. Where has all the originality gone? I know they are somewhat shackled by the need to appease advertisers and "those upstairs", but that's no excuse for the sheer mind numbing nature of most of the shows.

Also, I'm presuming (and hoping) that the girl reading the news today was new so I don't want to be too hard on her. I'm sure she'll grow into the role.

Yeah, she does seem to be new.

Marchandire wrote: »

Aren't you one of the DJ's oldest friends? Let's have some impartiality here, shall we? :rolleyes:


Btw: If nobody seems to like Beat FM, who exactly is their audience?

I'm pretty sure Beat's audience is on Facebook right now, not Boards.ie

Max Powers

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Doesn't mean he can't have an opinion.

The thing about Irish Beats, in my opinion, is that it contradicts the "target audience" that you're talking about for beat. The general beat audience love David Guetta and Rhianna, and whatever drivel they're collaborating on next. I can't imagine they'd have the attention span for new music. In the same way that bars don't showcase original bands - cause people get bored when they don't know the songs.

abouttobebanned,
Im guessing you are over the age of 25? I listen to BEAT a very small amount, its aimed at people in the 16-25 age group i reckon, hence rubbish like rihanna, charts stuff etc etc you pointed out is what you can expect to hear in the main. Irish radio is poor in general, 2FM sucks more than BEAT, newstalk has moncreiff (usually decent light listening) 'off the ball' is simply the best radio out there for anybody with any interest in sport.

Bears and Vodka

Marchandire wrote: »

Btw: If nobody seems to like Beat FM, who exactly is their audience?

Boards.ie Waterford City forum users are not an adequate population sample.

I don't approve of their policy of repeating every chart song ten times daily but some things like the Beat Breakfast and Irish music are decent. Of course they would concentrate on the Kardashians than say Mick Wallace and would discuss music festivals rather than the Household charge. Secondary School/College population whom the station is aimed for caters for things teenagers would have an interest in and they are doing that well enough.

Mugser

Best thread on here in quite some time!!

The odd time it's on in work and I've no access to the radio:mad::mad:

What the hell does "6 in the mix" mean, I'd love to know:eek: Numptys!!

Jason Todd

Mugser wrote: »

Best thread on here in quite some time!!

The odd time it's on in work and I've no access to the radio:mad::mad:

What the hell does "6 in the mix" mean, I'd love to know:eek: Numptys!!

It means six songs mixed together, unbroken by ads or banal chat? Who's a numpty?

Mugser

Jason Todd wrote: »

It means six songs mixed together, unbroken by ads or banal chat? Who's a numpty?

I know what they think it means, but in terms of proper English, it makes absolutely no sense!!

Bears and Vodka

Mugser wrote: »

I know what they think it means, but in terms of proper English, it makes absolutely no sense!!

It's 'colloquial'/slang etc.

brian plank

i'd rather listen to bieber every 10 minutes on beat than ray d'arcy and 'hilarious' ray foley. they all play the same sh1te.

Mugser

subz3r0 wrote: »

It's 'colloquial'/slang etc.

I never heard it used anywhere else:rolleyes:

brian plank wrote: »

i'd rather listen to bieber every 10 minutes on beat than ray d'arcy and 'hilarious' ray foley. they all play the same sh1te.

What are you saying about yourself?

That station should come with a health warning and a free pack of pain-killers.

Off to take a few deep breaths!!

Jason Todd

brian plank wrote: »

i'd rather listen to bieber every 10 minutes on beat than ray d'arcy and 'hilarious' ray foley. they all play the same sh1te.

You're dead to me.









:pac:

nkay1985

I absolutely hate Beat but I guess I'm not supposed to like it. It's for a certain type of person and I'm not, and never had been, it! They play pop practically 24/7, they concentrate on tabloid-style and celebrity "news". It really is lowest common denominator stuff but there's a market for it so why blame them, I suppose.

ComfyKnickers

What's the problem here? So some people don't like Beat. Doesn't make it crap. Just means it's not to your taste. I don't listen to Radio 1 or Lyric FM, doesn't mean they're a heap of trash, it's just not what Im into! Beat is specifically geared towards a relatively young audience. Personally I listen to Beat Breakfast in the morning, then at 9 I turn on Ray D'Arcy and coming home I put on 2fm. Three stations there, wow, big deal!!! Certain programmes and dj's probably annoy all of us but to brand a whole station crap because you're not into its content it a bit ridiculous!

abouttobebanned

Not really. It's crap..from the management, down to the advertising, news and programming department. Not a bit ridiculous to label something exactly what it is.

But of course that's just my opinion. Of which I'm entitled, and have many. Want some more? The news and star is a rag of a paper. The munster express is run be people who are too old to know what sells papers nowadays. I could go on an on...but you know what? These are just my opinions. Your opinion is that everything is great. Fair play to ya. Can't beat a pair of comfy knickers.

ComfyKnickers

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Not really. It's crap..from the management, down to the advertising, news and programming department. Not a bit ridiculous to label something exactly what it is.

But of course that's just my opinion. Of which I'm entitled, and have many. Want some more? The news and star is a rag of a paper. The munster express is run be people who are too old to know what sells papers nowadays. I could go on an on...but you know what? These are just my opinions. Your opinion is that everything is great. Fair play to ya. Can't beat a pair of comfy knickers.

Everything is great? Where exactly did I say that?

strangepaddy

abouttobebanned wrote: »

The TV3 of local radio. With the exception of the old skool show on a sunday afternoon, this is without doubt the biggest mess of a station I've ever encountered.

The news readers (at least the one I've just heard) sound like they're in 1st Class reading Ann & Barry aloud to the class.

The music is horrible, the ads are constant and in your face.

(The great idea was to sell advertising to companies at a discount as long as they paid for a full year. This means that we get to hear the same ads, from the same businesses, constantly, all year long)

Crap like the Beat Tweet is cringe worthy as we get to listen to whatever crap celebrity has waffled about next.

Like TV3, it is a fountain of unoriginality, drowning the region in mediocrity.

i couldnt agree more. well said!!!!

abouttobebanned

I've upset a few people though, which is always fun. Hi membersonly!

Jason Todd

abouttobebanned wrote: »

I've upset a few people though, which is always fun. Hi membersonly!

abouttobebanned, I more often than not enjoy/agree with your posts, but imo you're waaaay off the mark with this thread. The station might seem like a big steaming pile of **** to you and I, but it's not crap to the many many people who frequently listen and if we didn't have Beat we'd be saying how a place of our size should have something alternative to WLR FM.

Like I say, I'm not a regular listener but I appreciate the fact they do what they do well and they also give businesses in the South East an extra platform to advertise that they might not be able to afford on a national station.

abouttobebanned

I don't agree with you, but I'll fight to the death your right to say it!

They do what they do, but they do not do it well. There are a lot of people on this thread who are either involved with the station or are friends with people that are. I actually know quite a few people who work there too, and I'm sure they've read this thread but don't particularly care either way.

There are some DJs working there that have managed to build up fairly big, unsubstantiated egos, and there are other guys there that do excellent jobs, and just go about their business week to week.

This is just a personal opinion of mine - I think they could do a lot more to maintain the young audience but also appeal to the late 20s and 30s market too.

paul-2008

This thread is completely pointless.. go find out what the age of the people that use the Waterford City forum are and then go check what age group Beat Fm is aimed at.. I'm pretty sure you'll soon see why this thread is so one sided.

abouttobebanned

I dont think it's one sided at all. And it can't be thy pointless if it's four pages long and you have replied to it.