Why do radio stations play weird techno music on Saturday nights?

zeebre12

Several radio stations such as 2fm and Spin SW play weird techno music on Saturday nights? Anytime I'm driving or in a car with someone and this is on they just turn the radio off. What's the idea behind it? The listening figures must be very very low. Why not just play normal chart music?

Oasis1974

zeebre12 wrote: »

Several radio stations such as 2fm and Spin SW play weird techno music on Saturday nights? Anytime I'm driving or in a car with someone and this is on they just turn the radio off. What's the idea behind it? The listening figures must be very very low. Why not just play normal chart music?

It's Saturday night people going into Clubs dropping yokes oh right people do that anymore lol.

prunudo

What time on a Saturday evening? As much as I like the classics that Jenny Greene or Dec Pearce plays I find it next to impossible to hear current dance music on Irish radio.

Doctors room ghost

Radio na Gaeltacht play the weirdest music ever produced every night after 11.

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I guess they're just looking to appeal to a growing audience.

To be fair, chart music is the biggest load of tripe these days with no substance at all and all just aimed at making quick money or selling a pair of headphones, so i'd happily listen to anything else to a degree.

I'm not sure what songs are being played at the time you're referring to but there is some great electronic music out there at the minute and also a lot of ****e that would fall into the same category as the chart music I mentioned above.

California Dreamer

zeebre12 wrote: »

weird techno music

If its faster than Taylor Swift all the old people think its 'techno' :rolleyes::rolleyes:

zeebre12

zeebre12 wrote: »

Several radio stations such as 2fm and Spin SW play weird techno music on Saturday nights? Anytime I'm driving or in a car with someone and this is on they just turn the radio off. What's the idea behind it? The listening figures must be very very low. Why not just play normal chart music?

You're right, they should just play the same 40 songs that they play the rest of the week and never cater to anyone who listens to anything different.

BIGT4464

zeebre12 wrote: »

Several radio stations such as 2fm and Spin SW play weird techno music on Saturday nights? Anytime I'm driving or in a car with someone and this is on they just turn the radio off. What's the idea behind it? The listening figures must be very very low. Why not just play normal chart music?

Ya they should just continue to play the same cheese they play all day everyday

tdf7187

I didn't realise some radio stations still did this. It's a relic from the early 1990s (not that that's necessarily a bad thing).

TheBoyConor

Why is it a relic of the 90s? What was the logic to it being played at that time of evening back then?

My take on it is that it is night time at the weekend - they are not going to pay presenters/DJs to run a live show at inflated rates when listenership is at it's lowest cos everyone is out or whatever. They just stick on some playlist of obscure and, more importantly, CHEAP music tracks to fill the hours and in between adverts. It is better than the channel going off air.

RocketRaccoon

2fm have done this since I was a teen in the mid 90s, it's not a new thing. I can't imagine listenership is very high on Saturday nights so they do this and people getting ready for a night out will have it on in the background.

TheBoyConor

Maybe they used to have it as background music back in the 90s but I'd say it is few and far between these days. Aside from being in cars, I cannot remember the last time I heard anyone listening to conventional music radio stations.
Spotify n itunes it is all round these days.

I'd say it is a relic of times past. Come to think of it, most of RTE is in itself a relic of bygone times.

KildareP

Same reason why lots of stations have Irish language programming first thing on a Sunday morning or last thing on a Sunday night.

Low listenership but is part of fulfilling their license so it gets scheduled during periods of lowest listenership.

manbitesdog

They should be using these slots to test out new presenters and stuff like that. It’s such a waste.

California Dreamer

manbitesdog wrote: »

They should be using these slots to test out new presenters and stuff like that. It’s such a waste.

They do! We are not just talking about 2FM here. Plenty of stations will have younger weekend presenters who are 'cutting their cloth' on the locals in timeslots like these.

Always Tired

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

Radio na Gaeltacht play the weirdest music ever produced every night after 11.

An Taobh Tuathail, IMO it's the best radio show in the country. Might seem weird to mainstream folks used to the pish that is on the radio most of the time, but I've found lots of great artists through that show that I wouldn't have heard of otherwise. I prefer their early week shows which are more chilled out stuff, they play more, as the OP says, 'weird techno'at the weekends.

Still much better than the same 20 songs over and over. All radio singles now are just pop singers with a rapper feature it's mindless.

Darranj85

The only decent thing on the Radio to me is Mystery train on Lyric fm, lots of weird and wonderful stuff on the go

Beechwoodspark

Just off the top of my head

RTÉ 1
RnaG
Lyric
Rakes of local stations
Today FM
Newstalk

DON’T play techno on sat nights.

YFlyer

Do they play Gabba?

prunudo

TheBoyConor wrote: »

Maybe they used to have it as background music back in the 90s but I'd say it is few and far between these days. Aside from being in cars, I cannot remember the last time I heard anyone listening to conventional music radio stations.
Spotify n itunes it is all round these days.

I'd say it is a relic of times past. Come to think of it, most of RTE is in itself a relic of bygone times.

Maybe it's a generational thing, but I quite like listening to radio, especially if its a good dj who is into the genre of music they are playing and the interaction they bring. Beats listening to a random playlist on spotify or itunes.
There are also plenty of big name dj's who have their own weekly radio shows. Usually go out on various platforms but often radio stations will pick them up and put them into their schedules.

TheChosenOne_

Radio stations play stupid chart music all week and you have the nerve to moan about them playing techno music for a couple of hours on a Saturday night. Get a grip would ya

L1011

2fm now break their dance programming in two with an awful RnB show. If there's a any carry over audience at all for the late night sessions now I'd be amazed.

RINO87

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

Radio na Gaeltacht play the weirdest music ever produced every night after 11.

Has been doing it for 20 years and long may it continue!!

prunudo

L1011 wrote: »

2fm now break their dance programming in two with an awful RnB show. If there's a any carry over audience at all for the late night sessions now I'd be amazed.

Don't think I've listening to Mr.spring since they got rid of electric disco from 7-10 and introduced Mo. K

mooseknunkle

L1011 wrote: »

2fm now break their dance programming in two with an awful RnB show. If there's a any carry over audience at all for the late night sessions now I'd be amazed.

Mo K's show would be more suited to a Friday or Sunday night and just leave Jenny Greene and Mr Spring on Saturday nights,terrible decision to split it with an RnB show..

Radio Gold

RTE Gold even do it on Saturday nights, often it's old skool 70s, 80s, 90s and some 00s as well.

prunudo

Radio Gold wrote: »

RTE Gold even do it on Saturday nights, often it's old skool 70s, 80s, 90s and some 00s as well.

Are you sure its techno they play or is it just some mainstream dance music from those decades.

ford fiesta

prunudo wrote: »

Are you sure its techno they play or is it just some mainstream dance music from those decades.

RTE Gold play some 12" chart tracks from the 70s 80s 90s on saturday nights...reminiscent of the "12's on 2" programme on 2FM around 1987 / 88

Dr. Bre

zeebre12 wrote: »

Several radio stations such as 2fm and Spin SW play weird techno music on Saturday nights? Anytime I'm driving or in a car with someone and this is on they just turn the radio off. What's the idea behind it? The listening figures must be very very low. Why not just play normal chart music?

Cos normal chart music is $hite

telecinesk

the mo-kay show is obviously there for political reasons, nobody with a clue about music would put that schedule together, it's been done to kill off jenny and springer

Ian OB

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

Radio na Gaeltacht play the weirdest music ever produced every night after 11.

Isn't it great though?

zeebre12

GooglePlus wrote: »

I guess they're just looking to appeal to a growing audience.

To be fair, chart music is the biggest load of tripe these days with no substance at all and all just aimed at making quick money or selling a pair of headphones, so i'd happily listen to anything else to a degree.

I'm not sure what songs are being played at the time you're referring to but there is some great electronic music out there at the minute and also a lot of ****e that would fall into the same category as the chart music I mentioned above.

It's not really proper music. It's loud repetitive noise that just goes on and on. Nobody would even dance/listen to it really, only the odd person. Each time it's on in the car the station is switched. They'd be better playing classic chart dance tunes.

ford fiesta

BBC radio 1 have dance on 7 nights/overnights per week (including on a Wednesday morning at 1am Annie Nightingale who is aged 79)

2fm have been doing dance for more than 25 years now at the weekends, though they went overnights with it in the late 90s.

must be a public service broadcasting thing?

end of the road

electronic music actually does have a good listenership over all, however it is mostly through the internet and pirate radio or personal collections.
i'm not sure what the exact listenership to an individual show on the irish legals would be but i suspect it must be reasonable otherwise apart from rte, stations wouldn't put such music on.

GooglePlus

zeebre12 wrote: »

It's not really proper music. It's loud repetitive noise that just goes on and on. Nobody would even dance/listen to it really, only the odd person. Each time it's on in the car the station is switched. They'd be better playing classic chart dance tunes.

Well that's completely subjective. Time moves on and people will listen to the music from their generation.

The future is now old man.

De Bhál

Weird techno, lol.

Today FM does Block Rockin' Beats on a Saturday night (I think) with Declan Pierce, he has a collection of 10 dance records from the late 90's early 00's which he sticks on...usually consisting of Faithless by Insomnia followed by three of four tracks from The Prodigy and finished with Nalin & Kane's Beachball.

FM104 do Freaks on Friday which is fairly uptempo current club music. Bit of techno sometimes

Radio na Gealtacht show called An Taobh Tuathaill is excellent on a Thursday and Friday night for some actual techno tracks.

Very little, good qualty electronic music on the national airwaves, bar An taobh Tuathaill.

If there is let me know.

RINO87

Completely agree about the current Sat night format on 2fm. Mo K's show ruins it. Off to Kelly Anne on Today fm then!
2fm used to do a full 12 hours straight of all dance tunes on a Saturday, 6 2 6, it was great!!

Is it still Mickey Mac banging out the choons on Gold at the weekends? His dance show on 2fm on Saturdays was class.... and I'm only 32!

Liberta Per Gli Ultra

GooglePlus wrote: »

Well that's completely subjective. Time moves on and people will listen to the music from their generation.

The future is now old man.

That's half true I'd say. People with a brain will listen to a variety of music from several decades and many would feel no loyalty or belonging to a particular generation.

mooseknunkle

De Bhál wrote: »

Weird techno, lol.

Today FM does Block Rockin' Beats on a Saturday night (I think) with Declan Pierce, he has a collection of 10 dance records from the late 90's early 00's which he sticks on...usually consisting of Faithless by Insomnia followed by three of four tracks from The Prodigy and finished with Nalin & Kane's Beachball.

FM104 do Freaks on Friday which is fairly uptempo current club music. Bit of techno sometimes

Radio na Gealtacht show called An Taobh Tuathaill is excellent on a Thursday and Friday night for some actual techno tracks.

Very little, good qualty electronic music on the national airwaves, bar An taobh Tuathaill.

If there is let me know.

Block rockin beats is on a Friday night now and it even has its own dedicated 24hr internet radio station,in fairness to Dec Pierce he is a decent DJ and plays a good mix of 90's and 00's tunes..

Former Former

zeebre12 wrote: »

Several radio stations such as 2fm and Spin SW play weird techno music on Saturday nights? Anytime I'm driving or in a car with someone and this is on they just turn the radio off. What's the idea behind it? The listening figures must be very very low. Why not just play normal chart music?

Why would you think listening figures would be low?

Jenny Greene's live concerts were phenomenally popular. Today FM copied the format of her show and even the time slot.

Neither of those would have happened if there wasn't a demand for "weird techno".

bfa1509

Oasis1974 wrote: »

It's Saturday night people going into Clubs dropping yokes oh right people do that anymore lol.

You need the techkno music on in case one of the yokes gets jammed in the tape hole.

Dank Janniels

Duno if they still do it but after playing all the tecno +electronic they wud play alaoda chill out music around 4+5am. Used to good way of wrapping up the night if you were staying up after a sesh or just coming in from town!!

2FM I mean

ford fiesta

Former Former wrote: »

Jenny Greene's live concerts were phenomenally popular. Today FM copied the format of her show and even the time slot.

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Radio stations around the world do classic dance shows on a sat night

California Dreamer

Radio Gold wrote: »

RTE Gold even do it on Saturday nights, often it's old skool 70s, 80s, 90s and some 00s as well.

And this is techno?