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    #332
    IUA14
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭IUA14


    robo wrote: »
    Well they are supposed to be announcing who has the gig this week - if its internal then it has to be between Muireann and Paula. Was Paula on this morning before Ian?

    Definitely not permanent, last week for McLoone on Mid Mornings they changed it too. Paula won't be moving she got merchandise for her early breakie show this week and doubt Muireann will get it. I'll listen in to 98FM at 4 today to see if Dara Quilty is on this week...


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    #333
    Euphoria Intensifies
    Closed Accounts Posts: 876 ✭✭✭Euphoria Intensifies


    Promos for Dara Quilty still running on 98 so I'm guessing it's not him?


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    #334
    The Parish priest
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    Ian Dempseys latest contact expires next autumn, will it be renewed ?


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    #335
    robo
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    The Parish priest wrote: »
    Ian Dempseys latest contact expires next autumn, will it be renewed ?

    Now that would be a very bold move - dunno if it is good or bad, but nobody is invincible and sometimes Dempsey can be annoying.


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    #336
    Mr Tickle
    Registered Users Posts: 1,158 ✭✭✭Mr Tickle


    robo wrote: »
    Now that would be a very bold move - dunno if it is good or bad, but nobody is invincible and sometimes Dempsey can be annoying.

    I'm really not a fan of Dempsey but based on the current decisions that are being made I wouldn't trust them to fill with anything better.


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    #337
    thesaurus2
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    The Parish priest wrote: »
    Ian Dempseys latest contact expires next autumn, will it be renewed ?

    I'd say he won't renew. The station will want him to, but my money would be on him bowing out.


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    #338
    ads20101
    Registered Users Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭ads20101


    thesaurus2 wrote: »
    I'd say he won't renew. The station will want him to, but my money would be on him bowing out.

    I hope not, but if he gets pissed off enough he'll walk.


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    #339
    Claude Burgundy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,543 ✭✭✭Claude Burgundy


    Ian has stated many times that he was hit badly during the recession with buy a villa Portugal, he's working because he has to. He can't afford to just walk away from a national station, would his salary be matched elsewhere if there's an elesewhere at all.


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    #340
    robo
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    Just heard a promo on air that D&D are announcing the new presenters for the 12pm show tomorrow at 11am - but can someone tell me who were the 2 people talking on the ad? Are they voices from another station moving into the slot?


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    #341
    IUA14
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭IUA14


    robo wrote: »
    Just heard a promo on air that D&D are announcing the new presenters for the 12pm show tomorrow at 11am - but can someone tell me who were the 2 people talking on the ad? Are they voices from another station moving into the slot?

    Oh didn't hear that...I'll have to listen out!


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    #342
    statto25
    Registered Users Posts: 3,842 ✭✭✭statto25


    robo wrote: »
    Just heard a promo on air that D&D are announcing the new presenters for the 12pm show tomorrow at 11am - but can someone tell me who were the 2 people talking on the ad? Are they voices from another station moving into the slot?

    The gent is the voice-over man they use in their ads. Dunno who the lady was. Someone from News?


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    #343
    hufpc8w3adnk65
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    robo wrote: »
    Just heard a promo on air that D&D are announcing the new presenters for the 12pm show tomorrow at 11am - but can someone tell me who were the 2 people talking on the ad? Are they voices from another station moving into the slot?

    "Presenters" as in plural??? HAS to be Foley and JP :D


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    #344
    robo
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    statto25 wrote: »
    The gent is the voice-over man they use in their ads. Dunno who the lady was. Someone from News?
    Ah right - didn't hear the voices very well so wasn't too sure who they were.


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    #345
    IUA14
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭IUA14


    MrMac84 wrote: »
    "Presenters" as in plural??? HAS to be Foley and JP :D

    Not a hope unfortunately, if it was Ann would not have left. I still reckon Quilty and Maher.


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    #346
    hufpc8w3adnk65
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    IUA14 wrote: »
    Not a hope unfortunately, if it was Ann would not have left. I still reckon Quilty and Maher.

    They seem to be the common choice. I'm guessing D&D will have the new guys in Studio and make a big song and dance about it


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    #347
    IUA14
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭IUA14


    MrMac84 wrote: »
    They seem to be the common choice. I'm guessing D&D will have the new guys in Studio and make a big song and dance about it

    Yeah I reckon so, I highly doubt it would be anyone internal...tho I dread that it could be the annoying Ferg and the too talented to be his sidekick Ed Smith...with Muireann getting the 2:30-4:30 slot.


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    #348
    wnolan1992
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    Re: Iano, for me, the sensible move would be to put him on 2:30-4:30, move Fergal to 12:00-2:30, and whoever this new show is get breakfast.


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    #349
    IUA14
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭IUA14


    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    Re: Iano, for me, the sensible move would be to put him on 2:30-4:30, move Fergal to 12:00-2:30, and whoever this new show is get breakfast.

    Dempsey is the only solid thing about the Today FM schedule the last few years, figures solid, would be a huge mistake to move him. Putting Fergal on lunchtime will finish the slot off once and for all IMO.


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    #350
    wnolan1992
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    IUA14 wrote: »
    Dempsey is the only solid thing about the Today FM schedule the last few years, figures solid, would be a huge mistake to move him. Putting Fergal on lunchtime will finish the slot off once and for all IMO.

    Short term, the figures on Breakfast would take a hit, yes. However, long-term, Ian is skewing way older than their target audience. He sounds tired, the show sounds tired, there's been nothing new for ages.

    For me, it's very reminiscent of Ray D'Arcy's final year, just sounds like it's ticking over, not really trying.

    IMO, it would be better to launch a new Breakfast show along with all the other changes, rather than get 12 months down the line and just as things are starting to settle you throw another grenade in.


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    #351
    Skid X
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    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    Re: Iano, for me, the sensible move would be to put him on 2:30-4:30, move Fergal to 12:00-2:30, and whoever this new show is get breakfast.

    I think it would be madness to move Ian Dempsey at the moment.

    He doesn't work as well in any other slot. He briefly moved to Lunchtimes on 2FM years ago and they moved him back very quickly.

    Also, with so much changing and so many unfamiliar voices elsewhere in the schedule the 'old' listeners need to placated for a while. Dempsey gives the daytime schedule a solid lead in and springing someone in from Spin or wherever might be the final straw for many listeners.

    If/when the rest of the schedule beds in then they should consider what they want to with Breakfast long term.


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    #352
    wnolan1992
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    Skid X wrote: »
    I think it would be madness to move Ian Dempsey at the moment.

    He doesn't work as well in any other slot. He briefly moved to Lunchtimes on 2FM years ago and they moved him back very quickly.

    Also, with so much changing and so many unfamiliar voices elsewhere in the schedule the 'old' listeners need to placated for a while. Dempsey gives the daytime schedule a solid lead in and springing someone in from Spin or wherever might be the final straw for many listeners.

    If/when the rest of the schedule beds in then they should consider what they want to with Breakfast long term.

    Didn't see it from that perspective, I guess it does make sense to keep him there to give the lead in alright.

    Long term, I think he'd be good in the Tony Fenton role though, just a straight forward this-was-this-is type show.


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    #353
    Skid X
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    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    Didn't see it from that perspective, I guess it does make sense to keep him there to give the lead in alright.

    Long term, I think he'd be good in the Tony Fenton role though, just a straight forward this-was-this-is type show.

    Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what happens next with Iano. All the noises from Today FM are about moving the station younger, if they keep going in that direction he will look out of place before long.

    As an aside, the schedule upheavals in BBC Radio 1 in the earlier 90s have some similarities to what Today FM are doing.

    This documentary about that period might be of interest to some who haven't seen it (apologies for the Dave Lee Travis photo)



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    #354
    IUA14
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭IUA14


    Skid X wrote: »
    Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what happens next with Iano. All the noises from Today FM are about moving the station younger, if they keep going in that direction he will look out of place before long.

    As an aside, the schedule upheavals in BBC Radio 1 in the earlier 90s have some similarities to what Today FM are doing.

    This documentary about that period might be of interest to some who haven't seen it (apologies for the Dave Lee Travis photo)


    I don't necessarily think it is about drastically moving the station younger so much as moving it back to what it was 5/6 years ago. The station has grown older with its audience and they need to make the adjustment to correct that.


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    #355
    lambayire
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    statto25 wrote: »
    The gent is the voice-over man they use in their ads. Dunno who the lady was. Someone from News?

    I might be wrong on this one but it kinda sounded like Adelle, previously of the Foley show.


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    #356
    Faugheen
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    lambayire wrote: »
    I might be wrong on this one but it kinda sounded like Adelle, previously of the Foley show.

    Adelle's the PD now isn't she?


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    #357
    IUA14
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭IUA14


    lambayire wrote: »
    I might be wrong on this one but it kinda sounded like Adelle, previously of the Foley show.

    You are spot on there, it's Adelle who is the female voice on that promo. They are making a big deal of it and live streaming it on Facebook...hmmm...


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    #358
    hufpc8w3adnk65
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    IUA14 wrote: »
    You are spot on there, it's Adelle who is the female voice on that promo. They are making a big deal of it and live streaming it on Facebook...hmmm...

    How many presenters out there would be instantly recognized when they walk into a room?

    Oh god it's going to be Hector isn't it.


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    #359
    prunudo
    Registered Users Posts: 7,179 ✭✭✭prunudo


    IUA14 wrote: »
    You are spot on there, it's Adelle who is the female voice on that promo. They are making a big deal of it and live streaming it on Facebook...hmmm...

    Just heard it there, seems like they're really trying to hype up the excitement which can only mean that it will be an underwhelming announcement.


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    #360
    PhoneMain
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    jvan wrote: »
    Just heard it there, seems like they're really trying to hype up the excitement which can only mean that it will be an underwhelming announcement.

    Really think it's going to PMcS, the merchandising is transferable to the daytime I think.


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    #361
    flangemeistro
    Registered Users Posts: 1,692 ✭✭✭flangemeistro


    Eoghan McDermott is off at the moment. Just saying.


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