Have both spin and 98fm left the malt house ?

Itssoeasy

I knew spin had left as it was over their presenters social media about moving to Marconi house, but I was looking at 98fms Snapchat from this morning and the studio looks different. The red room of doom wasn't there.

Anyone know if they have moved as well ?

IUA14

Itssoeasy wrote: »

I knew spin had left as it was over their presenters social media about moving to Marconi house, but I was looking at 98fms Snapchat from this morning and the studio looks different. The red room of doom wasn't there.

Anyone know if they have moved as well ?

Yup, both stations now located in Marconi House with Today FM and Newstalk. Must be cramped in there now...Dempsey made reference to it this morning and the new layout too.

Itssoeasy

IUA14 wrote: »

Yup, both stations now located in Marconi House with Today FM and Newstalk. Must be cramped in there now...Dempsey made reference to it this morning and the new layout too.

Ah cheers. So there is today fm and newstalk are on two Floors and was txfm on a seperate when it was on air ?

IUA14

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Ah cheers. So there is today fm and newstalk are on two Floors and was txfm on a seperate when it was on air ?

I think TXFM was co-located with Today FM. Not sure how its arranged in there now as I know Communicorp were cutting back on their Communicorp One staff who are also based there.

Itssoeasy

IUA14 wrote: »

I think TXFM was co-located with Today FM. Not sure how its arranged in there now as I know Communicorp were cutting back on their Communicorp One staff who are also based there.

Jesus I always thought TXFM or phantom in old money was "upstairs" yeah it seems like four radio stations into a space that probably wasn't designed for four.

L1011

Building was designed to house Today and 104 when owned by EMAP. It now has four stations wedged in. Even with the ever deeper shared ops between them it cannot be nice!

Clearly 104 never operated from there, as the sale and split happened before the move.

thesaurus2

It's pretty abysmal in Marconi at the moment. Morale at an all-time low and show teams even more competative than usual thanks to the new tenants. Really cramped over 2.5 floors. I imagine this must be what the Irish Independent building is like.

Faugheen

thesaurus2 wrote: »

It's pretty abysmal in Marconi at the moment. Morale at an all-time low and show teams even more competative than usual thanks to the new tenants. Really cramped over 2.5 floors. I imagine this must be what the Irish Independent building is like.

Do you work for one of them or know someone who does?

They must be cutting back big time in Communicorp if they can fit everyone in.

reg114

Wonder would Communicorp sell one or more of their stations, are any of them profitable? Clearly they are cutting back big time.

ford fiesta

Was the malt house 98s 2nd location.?...the first being the old q102 studios in mount street? If so they must have been in the malt house for well over 20 years.

wnolan1992

Of the four stations, would Spin be the only one that's doing reasonably well at the moment? Today and Newstalk obviously having problems in listenership and identity, how's 98 doing? Haven't really heard much about it since Foley left and I lost interest.

You'd imagine there must be/will be some serious job losses in terms of marketing, sales, social media, etc if they're now all in the one building...

thesaurus2

Faugheen wrote: »

Do you work for one of them or know someone who does?

They must be cutting back big time in Communicorp if they can fit everyone in.

Ha, I'm there a good bit, put it that way..

Losty Dublin

Faugheen wrote: »

Do you work for one of them or know someone who does?

They must be cutting back big time in Communicorp if they can fit everyone in.

The owners of Malt House are redeveloping the building for residential use.

There's been a lot of cutting back behind the scenes within the group, mainly in sales. On air staff are getting a little worried and word has it that there will be a big change in 98 before the year is out.

KReid

Losty Dublin wrote: »

The owners of Malt House are redeveloping the building for residential use.

There's been a lot of cutting back behind the scenes within the group, mainly in sales. On air staff are getting a little worried and word has it that there will be a big change in 98 before the year is out.

The word where exactly...

reg114

Heres a thought, would it not make sense for 98fm to merge with Spin, create one large station? The lines between both have blurred alot and it would save them alot of money with reduced production costs staff layoffs.

wnolan1992

reg114 wrote: »

Heres a thought, would it not make sense for 98fm to merge with Spin, create one large station? The lines between both have blurred alot and it would save them alot of money with reduced production costs staff layoffs.

No IMO.

1) They're two different licences. One to cover the youth population, one to cover an older audience. Merging will mean both audiences lose.
2) SPIN is (to my limited knowledge of the Dublin market) doing well, 98 isn't. Why mess with a successful station that has been serving its audience really well over the years?
3) BAI would likely never allow it.

If t'were me, I'd sell 98 and focus on the two nationals and the SPIN stations.

MikeyTaylor

Dara Quilty is making a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT at 4:35pm. One he reckons is more important than the Sheeran tour dates!

The Big Slide Home is coming back!

ford fiesta

ford fiesta wrote: »

Was the malt house 98s 2nd location.?...the first being the old q102 studios in mount street? If so they must have been in the malt house for well over 20 years.

That's correct. They were based at 8 Upper Mount Street for the first few years. Moved to the Malt House around 1994 or so.

ford fiesta

Karsini wrote: »

That's correct. They were based at 8 Upper Mount Street for the first few years. Moved to the Malt House around 1994 or so.

thats a long time these days for one station to be based in a studio location

98 must have had a lot of archives, music library and equipment, have they taken anything with them to marconi house?

PAKNET

ford fiesta wrote: »

thats a long time these days for one station to be based in a studio location

98 must have had a lot of archives, music library and equipment, have they taken anything with them to marconi house?

They were one of the first adopters in this country of computerised playout weren't they? Their entire music archive is most likely sat on a computerised storage array which can be easily synced to a second site and then cutover to live with no noticeable disruption to on air playout.

KReid

PAKNET wrote: »

They were one of the first adopters in this country of computerised playout weren't they? Their entire music archive is most likely sat on a computerised storage array which can be easily synced to a second site and then cutover to live with no noticeable disruption to on air playout.

Nothing you wouldnt fit on a hard drive these days. Sure its just a matter of downloading and uploading again.

L1011

ford fiesta wrote: »

thats a long time these days for one station to be based in a studio location

98 must have had a lot of archives, music library and equipment, have they taken anything with them to marconi house?

Music library would fit on a two disk RAID1 array - CDs are not retained anymore. There were already spare studios in Marconi for them to be wedged in to so they wouldn't have had to take kit with them.

dabfan

PAKNET wrote: »

They were one of the first adopters in this country of computerised playout weren't they? Their entire music archive is most likely sat on a computerised storage array which can be easily synced to a second site and then cutover to live with no noticeable disruption to on air playout.

I think the first station to run music for playout on Hard drive was Shannonside/Northern Sound - using Radiomation - and then Limericks 95

ford fiesta

Think Atlantic had a playout system in around 1994 1995.... cartouche? But continued to use tape carts and cd carts.

back to 98...what did they do with their cds, carts? ....if a station does not require these physical formats are they not donated to a national sound library, as what happens in uk...think Capital london donated their reel to reel tapes to the sound archives when they moved location....studio sessions, interviews etc.