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MikeyTaylor

When Johnny Bowe moves to FM104 who do you reckon will take over Riffs & Refs? My money is on Conor Irwin

Max Headroom

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

When Johnny Bowe moves to FM104 who do you reckon will take over Riffs & Refs? My money is on Conor Irwin

Nah...Dee Woods....or that Aussie wan...:p

99nsr125

FanadMan wrote: »

And his own site I think. But that's not the point - it's the dumbing down and turning of Nova into yet another crappy pop station.

You are entirely right
The playlist is terrible since the beginning of August

For the first time in years the car radio is now set to Beat

DopeTech

Probably in a minority here but I'm actually liking the music changes. It is becoming a bit more easy listening though so I can definitely see them abandoning 4fm when the licence runs out.

Max Headroom

Sir Dosser wrote: »

Probably in a minority here but I'm actually liking the music changes. It is becoming a bit more easy listening though so I can definitely see them abandoning 4fm when the licence runs out.

You mean less heavy metal i.e Bastille, 2door cinema club, the coronas...:P

Baz Luhrmann...on a rock station...seriously

Max Headroom

mmm.........a quote from the PD on a rock station...says a lot really...:rolleyes:

“I joined Nova for a particular reason, to be successful while creating professional, sophisticated music radio,” said Hayes in a statement.

MikeyTaylor

99nsr125 wrote: »

You are entirely right
The playlist is terrible since the beginning of August

For the first time in years the car radio is now set to Beat

Beat 102 103? They're not in the same area as Nova!

neris

wtf is with pat courtneys dodgy sounds and the aul fellas and aul ones ringing like their his best mates and havent seen him they lefty the pub last night

Max Headroom

Funny you mention that..I was listening to Steve Lamacq this evening..he had a chap ring in for the good day bad day segment...totally interesting and humorous and a great track at the end of it.....6music is for music lovers
Nova is a joke and an insult to Irish radio imo...

Infoanon

the 7 o clock news played out at 2pm today......after a few news reports Pat C kicked off his show early - these playout issues seem to be never ending at Nova lately.

FanadMan

Infoanon wrote: »

the 7 o clock news played out at 2pm today......after a few news reports Pat C kicked off his show early - these playout issues seem to be never ending at Nova lately.

It's all the pop music they're playing. It's corrupting the systems.

MikeyTaylor

FanadMan wrote: »

It's all the pop music they're playing. It's corrupting the systems.

I wish we had a PROPER classic rock station in Ireland. Not a pop one masquerading as a rock one like Nova

Max Headroom

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

I wish we had a PROPER classic rock station in Ireland.

We did once it was called Nova....few years ago now..:o

Infoanon wrote: »

the 7 o clock news played out at 2pm today......after a few news reports Pat C kicked off his show early - these playout issues seem to be never ending at Nova lately.

Now thats what you call old news....

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MikeyTaylor wrote: »

I wish we had a PROPER classic rock station in Ireland.

I agree i think there is a market for a national rock station so lets hope Nova get the go ahead from the BAI to go national. We nedd more choice outside of the main populated counties like Dublin, Limerick, Cork, and Galway. Where I live choice is very limited and It's been like this for years. It looks like DAB is a dead duck as far as offering choice so maybe there is enough bandwith on fm for new or existing radio stations to expand.

MikeyTaylor

Aisha Angry Reggae wrote: »

I agree i think there is a market for a national rock station so lets hope Nova get the go ahead from the BAI to go national. We nedd more choice outside of the main populated counties like Dublin, Limerick, Cork, and Galway. Where I live choice is very limited and It's been like this for years. It looks like DAB is a dead duck as far as offering choice so maybe there is enough bandwith on fm for new or existing radio stations to expand.

If Nova is to go national I suggest it goes back to its roots. I used to like it but it has gone downhill in the last two or three years.

Former Former

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

If Nova is to go national I suggest it goes back to its roots. I used to like it but it has gone downhill in the last two or three years.

Really? You never mentioned it.

griffin100

I had forgotten how genuinely sh!te Colm Hayes is.

MikeyTaylor

griffin100 wrote: »

I had forgotten how genuinely sh!te Colm Hayes is.

Has Johnny Bowe left yet?

Max Headroom

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

Has Johnny Bowe left yet?

Guess so...

Infoanon

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

If Nova is to go national I suggest it goes back to its roots. I used to like it but it has gone downhill in the last two or three years.

Its listenership figures say differently

(though wish they would fix the playout errors - news and music combined at 10pm Sunday night....)

MikeyTaylor

Infoanon wrote: »

Its listenership figures say differently

(though wish they would fix the playout errors - news and music combined at 10pm Sunday night....)

The rise in listenership is probably because they sold out and became just another pop station. We need TX back.

MikeyTaylor

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

The rise in listenership is probably because they sold out and became just another pop station. We need TX back.

Its not as pop as 2fm or todayfm,lots of classic tracks on it throughout the day! It will do great if Nova goes nationwide!

MikeyTaylor

zorro2566 wrote: »

Its not as pop as 2fm or todayfm,lots of classic tracks on it throughout the day! It will do great if it goes nationwide!

Yeah it will be great if TXFM comes back and goes nationeide.

Max Headroom

MikeyTaylor wrote: »

Yeah it will be great if TXFM comes back and goes nationeide.

It would be nice to hear TXFM or just an irish rock station done properly..for adults by adults...:P

wnolan1992

Max Headroom wrote: »

It would be nice to hear TXFM or just an irish rock station done properly..for adults by adults...:P

Dig into the pockets then, because it appears no one can actually make a decent business out of that.

TX, Nova, 4FM, Red FM - how many more examples will it take before people start to accept that maybe - just maybe - there aren't enough people in Ireland to support a licenced, niche commercial radio station on any sort of scale?

I mean, seriously. Y'all want TX back, but evidently it wasn't making money and had very few listeners. Nova's gone more mainstream (according to the thread, I don't listen to the station) and figures are on the up. 4FM tried to be a classic station, had to go more mainstream to survive. Red was a youth station, went for the 96FM audience to survive long term.

FanadMan

wnolan1992 wrote:

Dig into the pockets then, because it appears no one can actually make a decent business out of that.

wnolan1992 wrote:

TX, Nova, 4FM, Red FM - how many more examples will it take before people start to accept that maybe - just maybe - there aren't enough people in Ireland to support a licenced, niche commercial radio station on any sort of scale?

wnolan1992 wrote:

I mean, seriously. Y'all want TX back, but evidently it wasn't making money and had very few listeners. Nova's gone more mainstream (according to the thread, I don't listen to the station) and figures are on the up. 4FM tried to be a classic station, had to go more mainstream to survive. Red was a youth station, went for the 96FM audience to survive long term.

Think Nova need to sell to RTE to get a niche licence - only way that Gold and RnG are still going strong

end of the road

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Dig into the pockets then, because it appears no one can actually make a decent business out of that.

I mean, seriously. Y'all want TX back, but evidently it wasn't making money and had very few listeners. Nova's gone more mainstream (according to the thread, I don't listen to the station) and figures are on the up. 4FM tried to be a classic station, had to go more mainstream to survive. Red was a youth station, went for the 96FM audience to survive long term.

TX, Nova, 4FM, Red FM - how many more examples will it take before people start to accept that maybe - just maybe - there aren't enough people in Ireland to support a licenced, niche commercial radio station on any sort of scale?

or it could also be the fact that we have a regulator and regulations which are obsessed with keeping stations on at any cost, who's concern is about financials and business rather then providing good radio and letting the market decide whether it lives or dies. the system only allows for 1 type of business model, IE the full commercial service requiring big money to run and which isn't cost effective for anything outside something playing pop music. apparently at one stage phantom was close to making a profit (confirmation needed) so if that was indeed the case, then there is a chance at least things might have been different if we didn't have a system obsessed on financials and outdated business models and which left the business side of things to (well) the businesses rather then the regulator.
txfm (previously phantom) clearly had some audience as it lasted 10 years on air as a licenced station, however expecting it to be on a par with the big commercials and to operate the same business model was going to fail in the end and it did. using the audience as the excuse is simplistic as the current regulatory framework doesn't allow stations to operate on a model suitable for them. with a market driven framework where stations live or die and tough, which operate on the best business model for them rather then one dictated down from the regulator, then ultimately it will be down to the audience as to what stays on air and doesn't. if a station is licenced for a particular format then it is either forced to stick to it or it goes off air. otherwise scrap formats altogether and let them play whatever they want, seeing as that is what eventually happens anyway.
as for red fm, they should be forced back to targeting the youth market or taken off air.

Max Headroom

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Dig into the pockets then, because it appears no one can actually make a decent business out of that.

TX, Nova, 4FM, Red FM - how many more examples will it take before people start to accept that maybe - just maybe - there aren't enough people in Ireland to support a licenced, niche commercial radio station on any sort of scale?

I mean, seriously. Y'all want TX back, but evidently it wasn't making money and had very few listeners. Nova's gone more mainstream (according to the thread, I don't listen to the station) and figures are on the up. 4FM tried to be a classic station, had to go more mainstream to survive. Red was a youth station, went for the 96FM audience to survive long term.

I know what you're saying but Nova is playing more or less the same type of stuff now that TXFM were playing...will Nova suffer the same fate..??..or will they go even more mainstream and be just another radio station..

Infoanon

Alas more automation problems on Nova last night - the 'classics' with Steve Downes suffered multiple dead air moments, cuts in the wrong place and gaps between speech and music - it sounded very unprofessional a word not normally associated with Nova - Groucho please fix !

FanadMan

Infoanon wrote: »

Alas more automation problems on Nova last night - the 'classics' with Steve Downes suffered multiple dead air moments, cuts in the wrong place and gaps between speech and music - it sounded very unprofessional a word not normally associated with Nova - Groucho please fix !

Lots of them in the middle of the night too - songs stopping mid track and dead air.