If they were to leave to 2FM, where then?

Declan A Walsh

After looking at the other threads about 2FM, I wondered about the stations that would suit its current presenters if they were to leave (voluntarily or otherwise).

Here is what I have come up with. I have decided to make it more challenging for myself by only allowing each presenter one station to go to.

So...

Hector - LMFM - His style of presentation and allusions to all things country would fit in better here and of course he is from Navan, one of the towns covered by this franchise.

Ryan Tubridy - Lyric FM - I think it suits his light conversation and music taste.

Colm Hayes - Radio Nova - From what I know about him, I think he would fit in very well with its style of music and would bring him back to the days when music was an important part of his programs.

Larry Gogan - "Classic Hits" 4FM - Self-explanatory really.

Rick O'Shea - Today FM - He could present some slightly left-field hip type music show, such as KC used to do and Colm O'Sullivan does now.

Dave Fanning - Radio Nova - It would have to be a late-night albums-oriented show like Pat James's "Off The Record" (his old rock rival from his pirate days!).

Cormac Battle - Phantom FM - A return to his radio roots.

Dan Hegarty - Phantom FM - ditto.

Jenny Greene - Spin103 - She has that style of delivery and music taste which fit into the station for the younger audience.

John Clarke - "Classic Hits" 4FM - He would just present the same show as he does now in a more suitable type of station - music-wise and audience-wise.

I don't know about the others really.

What does anyone else think?

mike65

Tubers would flee the country for a gig with Radio Norfolk BBC radio two I think.

armchair fusilier

mike65 wrote: »

Tubers would flee the country for a gig with Radio Norfolk BBC radio two I think.

Would he fare better there than has at 2fm though? I'm not so sure he would. The natives were getting restless the last time he filled in for Evans.

gavindowd

Wasn't Jenny Greene on SPIN in its early days?

Most of those presenters won't want to leave for local/national stations, there's no way they'll get money anywhere near their current rate.....

Hector in LMFM?!? - They don't have anywhere near the budget and he does his 2fm show from Galway so I can't see him moving.....

Plus, Dan Healy is not going to do that much of an overhaul of the station, he won't let go of all the presenters.... The only three 2fm presenters you haven't mentioned that I can think of are Louise Hegarty, Damian Farrelly and MR. SPRING

robinph

mike65 wrote: »

Tubers would flee the country for a gig with Radio Norfolk BBC radio two I think.

Please don't send him this way. Maybe leave him doing Radio Shetland or something far away, but nothing that anyone else would have to listen to.

flazio

Hector may well return to iRadio.

Fresh Pots

gavindowd wrote: »

Wasn't Jenny Greene on SPIN in its early days?

Fm104 before 2fm, might have been with spin beforehand.

Declan A Walsh

gavindowd wrote: »

Wasn't Jenny Greene on SPIN in its early days?

Most of those presenters won't want to leave for local/national stations, there's no way they'll get money anywhere near their current rate.....

Hector in LMFM?!? - They don't have anywhere near the budget and he does his 2fm show from Galway so I can't see him moving.....

Plus, Dan Healy is not going to do that much of an overhaul of the station, he won't let go of all the presenters.... The only three 2fm presenters you haven't mentioned that I can think of are Louise Hegarty, Damian Farrelly and MR. SPRING

The idea of this thread was what station a 2FM presenter would suit/fit if they were not with 2FM anymore. It has nothing to do really with whether or not Dan Healy gets rid of them himself, or indeed if they decide to go. It also has nothing as such to do with salary expectations or affordable budgets.

It is simply a fun/fantasy idea: Leaving aside practicalities, what stations would suit each of the presenters if not with 2FM?

It also does of course give some food for thought as people ponder on 2FM's future.... a form of brain-storming if you want to look at it that way.
It may happen of course that in some cases it makes practical sense as well. But that is just pure coincidence when it does happen!

My examples given at the beginning were just a sample. But I will try a few more. I don't think Jenny Greene was with Spin. That's another personal challenge for myself - to come up with stations that they were not with previously.

Anyway:

Mr. Spring - FM104 - a late weekend night dance show of course, in a similar vein to Freaks on Friday presented by Al Gibbs.

Damien Farrelly - Today FM - early early breakfast show.

Will Leahy - Limerick's Live 95FM - Drivetime of course, keeping up his solicitor's practice in Limerick!

Donal Dineen - Lyric FM - It already allows John Kelly to have an eclectic program.

Ruth Scott - FM104 - She could present a program with a mixture of chart music and celebrity gossip.

Having never actually heard Louise Hegarty and barely heard Paddy McKenna, I would have to leave them to someone else. There are a small few others left too.

Davis Murphy

The dole office

heybaby

Why presume that any sacked 2FM talent will surface anywhere ? Why should they ? The general consensus is that the majority of them are performing poorly so why would they be rewarded with another job on another national or local station ?

On a side note Listened to hector at length this morning, Ive said it before and i'll say it again, he's not the right fit for a national station, he spent 10 mins talking about bypasses and foster and allen ??!!??? and the rest of the time shouting and hollering !!!! hector would be great on Galway Bay Fm or Midlands 103 or stcik him back on iRadio but his Schtick is just too parochial / rural minded to appeal to a national audience. 2FM is dying in Dublin, without Dublin a national is going nowhere, just look at 4FM. By all means have a mix of voices on 2fm but there has to be balance.

neris

Larry Gogan off to retirement

Bucktan

Hector youth shows on RTE RNAG, Will Leahy Clare FM, Larry Gogan Late Date on RTE R1

chef without a plane

On the opposite side of this coin, who would people have as there ideal replacements? A fantasy 2fm team if you will.

smurfs5

chef without a plane wrote: »

On the opposite side of this coin, who would people have as there ideal replacements? A fantasy 2fm team if you will.

A student radio award winner for Early Breakfast from 4-6:30, Ray Foley for breakfast, Louise Duffy or Nessa Harney for mid-mornings, Brian and Dara for afternoons, Eoghan McDermott on Drivetime, a request hour between 7 and 8 and then specialist through the night (KC from 8 and Claire Beck from 10 perhaps with the focus purely on new music and live sessions).
Then from 12-2, documentaries, new DJs (like the BBC's In New DJs We Trust) etc. and from 2-4, specialist shows for different genres each night e.g. Hip Hop, R 'n' B, Drum 'n' Bass, Grime, House, Dubstep, Punk, Rock.

Friday and Saturday Nights would be all about dance music. The likes of Steven Cooper, John Gibbons, Orla Feeney, Tom Lavin and Pete Maguire would get shows and from 1am, RTE Pulse would be syndicated on 2FM.

For weekends, Chris Greene, Fergal D'Arcy (I'm not a fan but his JNLRs are strong), a chart show on Sunday afternoons with Nick Karkazis and Lauren Kelly perhaps?. Also, from 4 on Saturdays, a show like Dance Anthems with Danny Howard on BBC R1 to get the Saturday night party mood going.

You can tell I haven't thought about this much.....:P

That is what I envisage as a succesful 2FM.

Declan A Walsh

Folks - you are missing the point of this thread. There are already threads on this forum about what's wrong with 2FM and/or how to improve it.

As I already emphasized in my second post, the idea of this thread is to come up with stations which would suit current 2FM presenters were they to leave. It was inspired by those other threads of course. It's more of a fun exercise, although it could be instructive. I gave plenty of examples already in this thread.

I wear socks

Colm.Hayes Radio Nova, Dave Fanning RTE Radio 1, Rick O Shea 4fm, Ruth Scott Sunshine 106.8, Will Leahy Limericks live 95.

Euphoria Intensifies

Dave Fanning to a rebranded Arena in September? Could see it happening myself. Rick O'Shea is too good for 4fm.

ofcork

3 year old thread and colm hayes is gone!!

marno21

All of these lads would be perfectly suited to an Irish Radio 2 if there was one, pity the nearest equivilant (4FM) is run on an absolute shoestring budget.