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    #4712
    AlgerShane
    Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭AlgerShane


    Looks like Lisa Gernon is back filling in for Greg on Nova Nights. Only a matter of time now before some of our old favourites including Peter Devlin and Liam Quigley follow suit... :rolleyes:


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    #4713
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    There needs to be a weekly metal show.


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    #4714
    AlgerShane
    Registered Users Posts: 106 ✭✭AlgerShane


    Lewis_Benson wrote: »
    There needs to be a weekly metal show.

    Tony Ainscough’s show is as close to one as you’ll get !


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    #4715
    its_steve116
    Registered Users Posts: 2,447 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    AlgerShane wrote: »
    Tony Ainscough’s show is as close to one as you’ll get !

    Or a classic rock show for that matter.


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    #4716
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users Posts: 6,017 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Declan A Walsh wrote: »
    With the arrival of Jim McCabe in April, he will be adding to the number of presenters on Nova that have gone through Dublin's 98FM at some or point or other in their careers. Besides Jim, they include Marty Miller, Dee Woods, Pat Courtenay, Greg Gaughren and Ruth Scott.

    With Lisa Gernon back, covering for Greg Gaughren, that's a lot of ex-98FM presenters on Radio Nova.

    While I am at it, the following current Nova presenters did presenting stints with Dublin's FM104: Jim McCabe, Marty Miller, Dee Woods and Greg Gaughren. Not quiite as much as 98FM! CEO Kevin Branigan was Production Director for FM104.
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    #4717
    Max Headroom
    Registered Users Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    Declan A Walsh wrote: »
    With Lisa Gernon back, covering for Greg Gaughren, that's a lot of ex-98FM presenters on Radio Nova.

    While I am at it, the following current Nova presenters did presenting stints with Dublin's FM104: Jim McCabe, Marty Miller, Dee Woods and Greg Gaughren. Not quiite as much as 98FM! CEO Kevin Branigan was Production Director for FM104.

    It's sad that almost anyone involved in irish radio have very little interest in the music they play, googling info is cheating ,eh Marty...!!....with the exception of specific shows....its just a job to most of them...
    John Clarke,Pat James, et al are a dying breed it seems....


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    #4718
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    its_steve116 wrote: »
    Or a classic rock show for that matter.

    They play classic Rock already throughout the day.
    The one thing they dont play is any form of metal.
    They probabaly Consider sweet child O mine death metal.


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    #4719
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    Max Headroom wrote: »
    It's sad that almost anyone involved in irish radio have very little interest in the music they play, googling info is cheating ,eh Marty...!!....with the exception of specific shows....its just a job to most of them...
    John Clarke,Pat James, et al are a dying breed it seems....

    Well, it is just a job really.


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    #4720
    Max Headroom
    Registered Users Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    Lewis_Benson wrote: »
    There needs to be a weekly metal show.

    Why..?


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    #4721
    FanadMan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    Max Headroom wrote: »
    Why..?

    Because there are a lot of us around the country that are metalheads.....and I don't mean that we regard Metallica as the pinnacle of music, some of us are into the heavier stuff.

    Take the FB group Ireland Metal Heads for example. They have over 14000 members. Granted, some of them aren't Irish/living in Ireland, but there are a lot of us about. And some of them are in Irish metal bands. There's everything talked about - old metal tracks and bands, new stuff etc.

    We are a pretty much ignored genre, and Nova could do worse than to get us onside.


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    #4722
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    Max Headroom wrote: »
    Why..?

    Why not?
    No station in The country plays any metal apart from one small regional station in the west that I know of.

    It would be a breath of fresh air to get a 2 or 3 hour weekly show dedicated to playing new and old metal music.


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    #4723
    Max Headroom
    Registered Users Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    I like metal too..but to expect nova to even consider a specialist show..they hardly play Lizzy any more...and Rory? forget it...:rolleyes:..more chance on Lyric fm tbh....:)


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    #4724
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,710 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Lewis_Benson wrote: »
    No station in The country plays any metal apart from one small regional station in the west that I know of.
    the moshpit, 10pm, fridays on dublin city FM.


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    #4725
    Max Headroom
    Registered Users Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    Lewis_Benson wrote: »
    Why not?
    No station in The country plays any metal apart from one small regional station in the west that I know of.

    It would be a breath of fresh air to get a 2 or 3 hour weekly show dedicated to playing new and old metal music.

    Nova/Hayes got rid of any devil influenced music and DJ's from fm....Pat James while not a metal show contained plenty of rock......Tony's show will be the best you can hope for....


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    #4726
    Lithium93_
    Registered Users Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    FanadMan wrote: »
    Because there are a lot of us around the country that are metalheads.....and I don't mean that we regard Metallica as the pinnacle of music, some of us are into the heavier stuff.

    Take the FB group Ireland Metal Heads for example. They have over 14000 members. Granted, some of them aren't Irish/living in Ireland, but there are a lot of us about. And some of them are in Irish metal bands. There's everything talked about - old metal tracks and bands, new stuff etc.

    We are a pretty much ignored genre, and Nova could do worse than to get us onside.

    If that's the FB group I think it is, it's a **** show worth avoiding, guy who started it banning anyone with anything negative to say. You're not allowed say a band is ****. You have to be "positive bro". Question anything and you're banned.


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    #4727
    its_steve116
    Registered Users Posts: 2,447 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    Lewis_Benson wrote: »
    They play classic Rock already throughout the day.

    Examples please?


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    #4728
    FanadMan
    Registered Users Posts: 3,820 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    Lithium93_ wrote: »
    If that's the FB group I think it is, it's a **** show worth avoiding, guy who started it banning anyone with anything negative to say. You're not allowed say a band is ****. You have to be "positive bro". Question anything and you're banned.

    It might be a different one to what you're thinking about. Lots of people do state their minds and not get banned. There is a lot of the "positive bro" stuff tho lol.


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    #4729
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    its_steve116 wrote: »
    Examples please?

    I hear plenty of free, bad company, t rex etc on a daily basis.


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    #4730
    its_steve116
    Registered Users Posts: 2,447 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    Lewis_Benson wrote: »
    I hear plenty of free, bad company, t rex etc on a daily basis.

    What about Bastille, Imagine Dragons, Dermot Kennedy etc? Would you call them classic rock?


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    #4731
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    its_steve116 wrote: »
    What about Bastille, Imagine Dragons, Dermot Kennedy etc? Would you call them classic rock?

    Eh no.
    But you are not wrong, I do hear that crap creeping in.


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    #4732
    Endfloat
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭Endfloat


    ford fiesta wrote: »
    wasn't that the name of marty miller and joan lea's Nova breakfast show ?

    It was Ritchie and Michelle's breakfast show on Phantom.


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    #4733
    Endfloat
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭Endfloat


    FanadMan wrote: »
    We are a pretty much ignored genre, and Nova could do worse than to get us onside.

    Pretty much the same as indie music in Ireland. Some radio stations pay lip service to it by having some show on at like 2am of a Tuesday morning but if you want indie music in Ireland now, FM is not the place for you. Coupled with the death of many venues in Ireland (even before Covid, and this is certainly not going to help), Ireland is not a good place to like anything that isn't mainstream. Its all because of these bloody JLNR listenership figures, which would have you believe that if it's not popular it's not good or not worth doing.


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    #4734
    Max Headroom
    Registered Users Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    Nova managed to sink Phantom by playing "their" music and then changed their playlist to suit themselves, not their listeners...as you say the JNLR's are a joke..luckily we still have 8radio ,Zenith,6music etc...that they cant touch....;)


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    #4735
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,790 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    its_steve116 wrote: »
    What about Bastille, Imagine Dragons, Dermot Kennedy etc? Would you call them classic rock?

    I haven't listened to Nova in months... probably over a year. If they are playing the above then they are just another "pop" station playing generic pop music.
    No more of the "classic rock" nonsense.


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    #4736
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users Posts: 6,017 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Max Headroom wrote: »
    Nova managed to sink Phantom by playing "their" music and then changed their playlist to suit themselves, not their listeners...as you say the JNLR's are a joke..luckily we still have 8radio ,Zenith,6music etc...that they cant touch....;)

    I think the arrival of Nova certainly did not help Phantom, but Phantom was struggling before Nova arrived. It staggered on as TXFM until its 10 year license was due to run out and then called it a day.

    Phantom/TXFM was much more of a niche station than Nova and it's core target audience were increasingly listening to music by other means. It did lose older more general rock music fans to Nova alright.
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    #4737
    Endfloat
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭Endfloat


    I actually liked TXFM, although it was despicable how Simon Maher was treated by communicorp. Phantom was his gig, plain and simple, and it should have stayed that way. It really shows how cut-throat the Irish radio industry can be.


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    #4738
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,710 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    again, i'll go back to the lunacy of the BAI expecting 'niche' radio stations to operate without a nationwide licence. you could possibly double their listenership by allowing them to go nationwide.


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    #4739
    Joeyjoejoe43
    Registered Users Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭Joeyjoejoe43


    Haven't posted here in a while as I haven't been listening to much radio, but I had the radio on the last day in the car and was station hopping and left Nova on as there was a cracker of a tune on. So then Greg Gaughran comes on and I must say he's probably Nova's best DJ - a breath of fresh air. Delighted that they have given him the breakfast show. I have Nova on in the car now every morning rocking out to his tunes, mixed with just enough chat and current affairs.
    I had been listening to Podcasts but prefer his show for the last week. Keep up the great work Greg!


    What do the rest of ye think of Greg in the mornings?


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    #4740
    Declan A Walsh
    Registered Users Posts: 6,017 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    Joeyjoejoe43 wrote: »
    Haven't posted here in a while as I haven't been listening to much radio, but I had the radio on the last day in the car and was station hopping and left Nova on as there was a cracker of a tune on. So then Greg Gaughran comes on and I must say he's probably Nova's best DJ - a breath of fresh air. Delighted that they have given him the breakfast show. I have Nova on in the car now every morning rocking out to his tunes, mixed with just enough chat and current affairs.
    I had been listening to Podcasts but prefer his show for the last week. Keep up the great work Greg!


    What do the rest of ye think of Greg in the mornings?

    Greg is just holding the fort until PJ Gallagher and Jim McCabe start their breakfast show on April 1st. Nova's former breakfast hosts Colm Hayes and Lucy Kennedy are swapping places with PJ and Jim on Classic Hits on the same day.

    Greg has a no nonsense approach with no inane banter. It's certainly a novelty in morning breakfast shows.
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    #4741
    loyatemu
    Registered Users Posts: 14,831 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    again, i'll go back to the lunacy of the BAI expecting 'niche' radio stations to operate without a nationwide licence. you could possibly double their listenership by allowing them to go nationwide.

    how much extra does it cost to go nationwide though in terms of transmission fees? TXFM was receivable by about 1.5 million people on the east coast.


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