IMRO Radio Awards 2017

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Sarah McInerney - News broadcaster of the year

Ray D'Arcy - Magazine Show of the Year

RTÉ Lyric FM - Music Station of the Year.

Ha Ha Ha Ha. Those judges are some jokers alright.

More on the biggest night of the year in Irish radio - a celebration of mediocrity.

http://m.independent.ie/entertainment/radio/rte-leads-winners-at-imro-radio-awards-2017-with-eight-gold-awards-36205138.html

PeterTheNinth

Gilroy ? Sports broadcaster of the year? They can't be serious.

hopeso

I'm not surprised to see Today FM taking less awards than usual. That station is really going downhill.........

Ray D'Arcy - Magazine Show of the Year....:eek:

Faugheen

PeterTheNinth wrote: »

Gilroy ? Sports broadcaster of the year? They can't be serious.

You do realise it's based off an entry the nominee puts together off their best bits, right?

Ger has had some outstanding interviews in the last year. Lance, Cathal McCarron etc.

Joe Duffy.

Nothing at all at all for 2fm?

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Faugheen wrote: »

You do realise it's based off an entry the nominee puts together off their best bits, right?

Well then, maybe it should be known as the IMRO Flatteringly and Heavily Edited Aircheck Awards 2017.

Conservative

I don't think Joe Molloy will be happy with that bronze!

Sarah McInerney winning is off the wall (and I don't mind her too much).

Allinall

Kinda shows how out of touch the so called experts here are.

johnire

Today FM did really bad. Maybe it’ll make them see the disaster they have created.

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johnire wrote: »

Today FM did really bad. Maybe it’ll make them see the disaster they have created.

Again, as pointed out above, these awards have little or nothing to do with the daily and weekly output of Today FM or any other station. It's no reflection on the changes to the station, good or bad. It's a reflection on the quality of the entry send in to these Awards.

If it was a reflection of daily and weekly output, would Sarah McInerney be deemed Current Affairs broadcaster of the year? Doubt it.
Would The Ray D'Arcy Show be the best magazine show in the country? Not a chance.

hullaballoo

johnire wrote: »

Today FM did really bad. Maybe it’ll make them see the disaster they have created.

If you read the full list of awards, Today FM didn't do badly at all. Maybe not as many gold as in previous years but awards in almost all categories they'd want.

Radio5

hullaballoo wrote: »

If you read the full list of awards, Today FM didn't do badly at all. Maybe not as many gold as in previous years but awards in almost all categories they'd want.

Same thought occurred to me. If you landed from Mars yesterday and read the winners list you'd think Today FM and Newstalk were flavour of the month what with all the awards they've got across various categories.

More Music

Radio5 wrote: »

Same thought occurred to me. If you landed from Mars yesterday and read the winners list you'd think Today FM and Newstalk were flavour of the month what with all the awards they've got across various categories.

If you landed from Mars and read this forum you'd think all Irish radio was crap and nobody listened to it apart from a few on here.

The awards themselves are a good thing but the silver and bronze thing they introduced a few years ago is a joke.

It's a bit like one for eveybody in the audience.

johnire

I know Today FM did win here and there but it reflects very badly on them that not one presenter of day time programmes won an award and by award I mean gold-the silver and bronze are ridiculous.

Radio5 wrote: »

Same thought occurred to me. If you landed from Mars yesterday and read the winners list you'd think Today FM and Newstalk were flavour of the month what with all the awards they've got across various categories.

death1234567

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Sarah McInerney - News broadcaster of the year

Ray D'Arcy - Magazine Show of the Year

RTÉ Lyric FM - Music Station of the Year.

Ger Gilroy - Sports broadcaster of the Year

If you were to pick the worst rather than best in each of those categories you would have picked the winner of each of those awards.

fussyonion

No awards for best phoneshow?
I thought Niall Boylan and Adrian Kennedy were nominated?

hopeso

johnire wrote: »

I know Today FM did win here and there but it reflects very badly on them that not one presenter of day time programmes won an award and by award I mean gold-the silver and bronze are ridiculous.

In fairness, none of them deserve an award..... And sure even if they did win, they'd probably be too busy doing something else, and just send Muireann O’Connell along to collect it......