Country Radio stations stuck in the 90s?

trente

By country, I mean radio stations outside of Dublin

Seriously, changing the dial on a drive down the country you are guaranteed to come across Mike and the Mechanics, Gabriele, LightHouse Family, etc

It's like they still play tunes that they got free with a newspaper from 1998

SEPT 23 1989

its better than the cr@p thats out now

Oops69

I might drive down the country so to get the hell away from wall too wall Ed Sheeran

Euphoria Intensifies

It might be a tired format, but i suppose they give the listener what they want. It's interesting how schedules are pretty much identical wherever you go in the country - 9am-12 talk show, country music after 7 etc...

Interesting to see whether there'll be a shift over the next few years. I can't imagine there's too many people under the age of 45 listening to rural ILRs. If they want to remain remotely relevant or sustainable there will need to be a sea-change in output.

dxhound2005

Euphoria Intensifies wrote: »

It might be a tired format, but i suppose they give the listener what they want. It's interesting how schedules are pretty much identical wherever you go in the country - 9am-12 talk show, country music after 7 etc...

Interesting to see whether there'll be a shift over the next few years. I can't imagine there's too many people under the age of 45 listening to rural ILRs. If they want to remain remotely relevant or sustainable there will need to be a sea-change in output.

You don't have to imagine what the figures are, when they are published every quarter. Local radio gets as high as 61% of all listeners 15 years and over (Mayo).

http://www.bai.ie/en/latest-jnlr-figures-published-5/

Where there is no regulation the two wide coverage pirates, Radio Star Country and Radio North continue in the same way as pirates of the past reading out lists of prices from local businesses. Along with a diet of Country and Irish. But a new feature is where they sell air time to Bible Belt type preachers. It has kept them on the air for twenty years or more.

http://radiostarcountry.com/schedule/

http://www.radionorth.net/schedule.htm

gammygils

Should get stuck in the 70's or 80's. Better music

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

Still better than listening to the 'National' stations where every presenter has the same bloody Seyth Dublin accent regordless of where he or she is from...

mosstin

Last time I heard something recognisable on 2FM was back in the 90s.

The Specialist

Live 95fm in Limerick still has the same playlist today that it had 14 years ago when i worked in Dell (listening to it 12 x 4 a week on the lines). I still get shivers and a thousand yard stare when i hear Van Morrison - Brown eyed girl or the cranberries - linger. A time capsule of a radio station.

ford fiesta

I honestly don't think Sunshine Radio 106.8 in Dublin have added a different song to their 200 song playlist since they moved away fully from the country and Irish format a few years ago...apart from the odd recent Adele / Ed Sheeran song.

jaded_runner

is it me or do all local radio stations religously have country music on on saturday morning ?

The Parish Priest.

A lot of them are really good at what they do, it's not my cup of tea but country and Irish music is very popular with all age groups in many parts of the country.. The lack of country music on RTE radio is a disgrace considering how popular it is outside the pale, if Larry Gogan still had freedom to play whatever he wanted, he'd be playing Nathan Carter

Ol' Donie

ford fiesta wrote: »

I honestly don't think Sunshine Radio 106.8 in Dublin have added a different song to their 200 song playlist since they moved away fully from the country and Irish format a few years ago...apart from the odd recent Adele / Ed Sheeran song.

Is weird, they played good country stuff a few years ago (by which I mean American stuff, not the weird Nathan Carter bollocks that's "popular" among RTE program selectors these days).

But then they changed, now it's horrible, horrible easy listening rubbish.

WesternZulu

Euphoria Intensifies wrote: »

It's interesting how schedules are pretty much identical wherever you go in the country - 9am-12 talk show, country music after 7 etc...

For Mid-West it's country music all day long besides for the "hot hits hour"

Itssoeasy

I'm convinced that 96fm have a grand total of three CDs which are a couple of now that's what I call music ones from the mid ninties.

Noveight

Clare FM tend to mix it up quite nicely, wouldn't say they're stuck any further back than 2007 tbh...