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Corks 96fm is the stale bread of broadcasting.

  • 16-03-2015 6:27pm
    #1
    thedonscork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 209 ✭✭


    Today Corks 96fm was one of the only stations in Ireland that didn't broadcast the Aretha Franklin song in tribute to Tony Fenton at 2.30pm citing an email error as an excuse. Whatever ones thoughts on these tributes anyway the station itself is caught in a formulaic time warp.

    They have about 2 cds of songs which are on loop every 2 hours every single day. It's possible to hear the same songs upto 5 times during the day.

    They have the same presenters and producers for the last 20 years. The station is so unimaginative, and so stale and repetitive it's an embarrassment to broadcasting, to music and to Cork. It's refreshing to have newer stations like Radio Nova and 4fm take a bite out of their listenership figures.

    The excuse for today's tribute failure is laughable and its more likely because they've never heard of Aretha Franklin let alone Tony Fenton.


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  • #2
    Dom Phil Cobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭Dom Phil Cobe


    Even Midwest radio in Mayo played the Aretha Franklin song for Tony and they were in the middle of a country n Irish show at the time.


  • #3
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,158 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    iRadio didn't bother with the tribute either, which is a shame.


  • #4
    berger89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 387 ✭✭berger89


    apparently rte1 didnt either


  • #5
    Dom Phil Cobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭Dom Phil Cobe


    Did RTE Lyric play it ?


  • #6
    thedonscork
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 209 ✭✭thedonscork


    Dom Phil Cobe wrote: »
    Did RTE Lyric play it ?

    From what I heard lyric fm and rte gold both had the tributes.


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  • #7
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,158 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    berger89 wrote: »
    apparently rte1 didnt either
    No, they didn't, but 2fm, Lyric and Gold all did.

    I'm kinda surprised that iRadio didn't. Maybe their setup is so robotic now, that it couldn't be done...


  • #8
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Is Nova now available in Cork?


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