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Vintage 2FM Discussion Thread
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"THIS IS JK ON THE RADIO!" in a dirty scouse accent. It was an amazing show. The notion of an Irish underground scene had never crossed my mind until I heard John Kenny utter the words "black metal band from ... Drogheda"
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ottostreet wrote: »Is that Peter Collins who went on to Formula 1 commentary?
The one and only.
A few tit bits to add to all of this....- 2FM News didn't run with sport for several years. John Kenny took on a sports news desk role around Spetember 1992.
- JK also asked as a fill in for Gareth O'Callaghan when he took ill in the mid 90's; Aidan Leonard also took on some fill in shifts for Gareth.
- Brian Carthy used to read a gig guide on the country show as well as Fr. Brian.
- Gerry Wilson's Dial a Number 1's list appeared in Saturday's Evening Press. As a result, virtually all the calls would come in from the Dublin area, the Press being almost exclusively sold in the city.
- Electric Eddie was a mainstay name drop in promotions and especially for 2FM's Beat On The Street. Bizarrely, he never had a regular show on the station and was seldom used on air.
- Over night shows seemed to have little in the way of a set playlist and as such the music was very ad hoc depending on who was on air. John Kenny's overnight on Saturday AM was a classic rock show from 1AM-3AM. John Clarke often concentrated on album tracks on his show.
- 2 FM's overnight programming got a plug at the end of tranmission on RTE television. Invariably, this featured a mugshot of the likes of Mike Ryan, Gerry Gogan, Mike Moloney and Suzanne Duffy. Gerry Wilson seems to have had a proverbial face for radio; his picture often never appeared up
Ironically, he actually worked as a continuity announcer on RTE TV as well! - Many of the graveyard DJ's appeared daytime as the man "back at base" whenever the Roadcaster was on the road; this involved playing ads, mixing in live callers, bringing in the news and going out live in the event of a breakdown.
- 2FM seemed to have been the biggest winner out of the closedown of Pulse FM in May 1999 as it took on some of it's talent on air. A cynic would say that it was to impede the impending new youth station from hiring these DJ's. If it was then it was a futile move as Spin's launch was delayed due to a court case over the licence application process.
- On Atlantic, they had live DJ's spinning overnight for most of it's run, it was called The Big Mattress. Some big names did this gig for the craic but all of them are sworn to secrecy, they know why they are
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Losty Dublin wrote: »Bring back the RLO Night Network. Shudder to think, I almost ended up working on it
haha, don't forget the hourly bulletins from INN!!0 -
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ford fiesta wrote: »The 'dial a number one' list appeared in the RTE Guide, I have a few copies from that era, as well as the evening press.
The 2FM overnights were great and would hand over to Ian Dempsey at 7am, any song could be played and in the absence of 24 hour tv and not many people having TV multi channel, it really was the only 'Live' programming available on any medium (excluding FM104). Long before the internet also.
The 'Live' overnights ended in 1999, with 'World web radio' and anyone who was a regular listener before, knew instantly that something was different when the links seemed rehearsed. Gerry Wilson was the main presenter of this.
2FM daytime around that time was not heavily playlisted either, think that's only happening now.
98FM were live at night though some night's they broadcasted clutter free. When they were on air Century were live during the night; I am sure that some of the locals were as well.
I had forgotten about the RTE Guide listing Dial a Number 1 0
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