Dave Fanning promoted to Lunchtime

Long_Wave

Broadcasting giant Dave Fanning will be on 1pm/3pm Sat & Sun from next weekend on 2fm

EmmetSpiceland

Long_Wave wrote: »

Broadcasting giant Dave Fanning will be on 1pm/3pm Sat & Sun from next weekend on 2fm

I stopped listening to 2FM when they got rid of his evening show.

Sleeper12

Long_Wave wrote:

Broadcasting giant Dave Fanning will be on 1pm/3pm Sat & Sun from next weekend on 2fm

How is that a promotion?

Max Headroom

More sideways if anything...anyway who's going to be listening to the radio once the rugby starts in February. ...:P

robo

That's not a promotion - agree with other poster that less will listen at lunch time than at 9am. Will it still be the same type of show - cos Louise McSharry is taking his slot & says on her social media that she is doing more chat than on her week night evening show

Clonmel1000

Max Headroom wrote: »

More sideways if anything...anyway who's going to be listening to the radio once the rugby starts in February. ...:P

Me for one.

galwayllm

Do people still listed to 2fm?

Last time I listened to 2fm was about 15 years ago

Sleeper12

galwayllm wrote:

Do people still listed to 2fm?

When Gerry Ryan died is the day the music died for me as far as 2fm goes

Addle

I’ll miss Dave in the mornings.
Louise has big shoes to fill.

NIMAN

Will he be allowed to play his own choice of music, or will he have to play the radio friendly cr@p that's usually on during the day.

ford fiesta

why couldnt they have given mcsharry 1 to 3pm and left Dave alone at 9am?

robo

galwayllm wrote: »

Do people still listed to 2fm?

Last time I listened to 2fm was about 15 years ago

The only show I listen to is Dave's show

Long_Wave

Sleeper12 wrote: »

How is that a promotion?

The Saturday show with Will Leahy had 250k+ listeners in that slot in 2006.

worded

Used to listen to the rock show way back.

I’d record a lot of the shows and listen to them afterwards. Recording the xmas top 100 was always a challenge as it was spread out over several days.

He introduced me to such a wide variety of bands.

I cant help about the shape I’m in ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8RhZDGLEXM

Class DJ

vriesmays

Is he still doing his awful fab 50.

shockwave

Dave should move on hes just plodding along now, a change of station would do him good.

ford fiesta

I am guessing the current talk/music format will be gone from Dave's show.
I can't see Dave airing interviews of Pete Best or Roger Waters or archives of Rory Gallagher at that time of the afternoon on 2FM.

I think with the direction 2FM have been pushing in the last few years, it will be simply Dave showcasing new Irish music only with some interviews of such young artists for 2 hours Sat and Sun.

paddylonglegs

Interested to hear what the format will be for the new show, it’s an odd time that starts to fill up with sports reports around then. Have always enjoyed dave in the mornings on weekends, nice time to listen when cooking breakfast and a coffee

rapul

Ah that's bad news, the only time I listen to 2fm is for Dave the legend Fanning on weekend mornings, terrible new time slot

AwaitYourReply

Dave Fanning has done such a lot on 2FM down through the years for nurturing and showcasing the Irish music scene.

This does NOT seem like a promotion - it is probably ensuring he fills a gap in the schedule.

Unfortunately, he has been pushed around and no longer has a stable slot. I can recall him over on RTÉ Radio 1 for a short period when RTÉ Radio 1 launched "Drivetime with Mary Wilson" - It was originally promoted around three leading RTÉ personalities (i.e.) Mary Wilson, Des Cahill with Drivetime Sport @6:30pm and Drivetime with Dave Fanning at 7:00pm which had introduced a music element although; Mary Wilson became the show with her team of leading reporters and Des & Dave were quietly phased out after a while.

https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2006/0815/407607-rte/

Dave Fanning eventually returned to 2FM and I recall he used deputise a lot for the late Gerry Ryan in the 9am-12noon weekday morning slot on a regular basis. Dave had a stint on 2TV for a number of years on Sunday mornings and also does his movie reviews even to this day. I honestly think the current younger target audience cohort listening to 2fm no longer appreciates Dave Fanning and he would be better off in a slot on a station that he enjoys and the audience benefits in the current climate. RTÉ Gold should switch to FM (not close) and 2fm should switch to digital/online and Fanning should have a specialist slot on authentic Irish Rock both new emerging and also classic Irish Rock from the vaults.

AwaitYourReply

vriesmays wrote: »

Is he still doing his awful fab 50.

I think it was dropped as it was not on during December/Christmas just passed after many years.

ford fiesta

the fab 50 was not awful. It was essential listening in the 80s/90s.

AwaitYourReply

Sleeper12 wrote: »

When Gerry Ryan died is the day the music died for me as far as 2fm goes

Apart from the very odd piece of music, "The Gerry Ryan Show" rarely played much music. Yeah, I remember he had a few favourites like the track "I'm horny" which was funny in those days to hear on an RTÉ national radio station at that time of the morning!

Maybe you were referring to Gerry when he had a popular show called "Lights Out" from 10pm-12midnight until around February/March 1988 as this show had plenty of music. Gerry Ryan would come on straight after Dave Fanning's 8pm-10pm weeknight rock show and after Gerry's "Lights Out" you had "Nightrain" with Mark Cagney from 12midnight to 01:50am closedown! Then on weekends "Lights Out" was presented by the late Tony Fenton and "Nightrain" was presented by Mike Moloney.

Gerry was a legend in his own right as was the great Larry Gogan and Vincent Hanley on early Radio 2 and MT USA video music tv programme all those years ago.

AwaitYourReply

ford fiesta wrote: »

the fab 50 was not awful. It was essential listening in the 80s/90s.

It was highly respected in it's day - I believe the last one broadcast was in 2017!

https://fanningsessions.wordpress.com/fannings-fab-50-index/

Harry Palmr

So 2fm keeping a DJ of bus pass age, is this what the kids want or has rte decided to pursue an older demographic?

ford fiesta

The fab 50 was not on for a few years here and there lately, but I think revived ones in recent years were just pick your favourite 3 songs from 2000 onwards. That format did not last long.

ford fiesta

AwaitYourReply wrote: »

Apart from the very odd piece of music, "The Gerry Ryan Show" rarely played much music.

In the early years of Gerry's 2FM morning show there were probably around 6 songs played per hour.
By the time of his death in 2010 he would have been playing 2 or 3 songs per hour, chosen by his production team.
Ray D'arcy on the other hand would have played around 6 songs per hour while competing with Gerry on Today FM in that exact same time slot.

BPKS

I liked Daves morning weekend show, the only time I'd listen to 2FM all week as the Canadian is on Today FM and I don't like the Newstalk shows on weekend mornings.

AwaitYourReply

ford fiesta wrote: »

In the early years of Gerry's 2FM morning show there were probably around 6 songs played per hour.
By the time of his death in 2010 he would have been playing 2 or 3 songs per hour, chosen by his production team.
Ray D'arcy on the other hand would have played around 6 songs per hour while competing with Gerry on Today FM in that exact same time slot.

I don't think it was typical for Gerry to get in X 6 songs per hour even in the early days unless there was something amiss - Gerry talked a lot to his reporters Brenda Donoghue & Barbara Jordan, "Terence" (aka John Creedon) the hairdresser from Cork, funny skits/sketches commercial breaks, news. In the later years I recall him doing paper reviews which is not something he did in the early years of that show.

AwaitYourReply

Harry Palmr wrote: »

So 2fm keeping a DJ of bus pass age, is this what the kids want or has rte decided to pursue an older demographic?

I honestly think they might be bound by contract although; this is pure speculation on my part. I do not believe it's what the "kids" want as such but they probably need to accommodate him somewhere in their schedule at this time. I do not get the impression that RTÉ 2fm is in the process of changing direction right now unless we start seeing the return of Rick O'Shea and Will Leahy & others if RTÉ Gold closes down and/or RTÉ Lyric fm is downsized resulting in some job losses/retirements/redeployment.

kneemos

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

I stopped listening to 2FM when they got rid of his evening show.

Not a fan of Dave,but I'd have thought he was an evening show type of of DJ. playing daytime pop on rotation isn't really his bag.

But it is RTE.

ford fiesta

Will and Rick are staff of RTE..big names on 2FM back in the day... interesting to see where they will go once RTE Gold closes...Yes Rick has a new seasonal book show on Radio 1..Will is down in Limerick and has a Solicitor day job... but wonder will they take redundancy and leave RTE.?

kneemos

ford fiesta wrote: »

Will and Rick are staff of RTE..big names on 2FM back in the day... interesting to see where they will go once RTE Gold closes...Yes Rick has a new seasonal book show on Radio 1..Will is down in Limerick and has a Solicitor day job... but wonder will they take redundancy and leave RTE.?

Why are they closing Gold? Best thing they do on radio.

They really are clueless.

irs

RTE have nowhere to put Fanning but don't want to get rid of him so this is what you get. It's awkward for RTE as they don't have a BBC Radio 2 type station for older presenters to move to but they don't help themselves with how narrow the focus of Radio 1 and 2fm are.

ford fiesta

RTE dont realise how many ex-2FM listeners are going to miss RTE Gold...especially since thousands of listeners abandoned RTE 2FM when John Clarke, Will Leahy etc finished up there.
There is certainly a huge gap between 2FM and Radio 1.

4FM, Nova and the locals etc just dont do it for that market. RTE Gold play what they want. That generation want something good back from the licence fee. RTE Gold worked with little effort.

paddylonglegs

AwaitYourReply wrote: »

I honestly think the current younger target audience cohort listening to 2fm no longer appreciates Dave Fanning and he would be better off in a slot on a station that he enjoys and the audience benefits in the current climate.

I think his weekend mornings were hitting an audience outside 2fms target market. This is reflected in the style of music dave plays, which is probably driven by him and in no way conforms to the usual day time radio. Also his guests seems to be properly researched so that they have something genuinely interesting to say. Fair enough they’re promoting a book or podcast, but the bulk of them make for good listening.

He suits a speciality show but unfortunately 2fm obviously doesnt see this as paying the bills

AwaitYourReply

kneemos wrote: »

Why are they closing Gold? Best thing they do on radio.

They really are clueless.

RTÉ was forced to announce major cutbacks due to it's poor financial situation with dwindling commercial advertising revenue, changes in how people consume media, no increase in TV Licence Fee for quite some time etc;

As part of these measures, they have been cutting some of the top earners salaries, cancelling shows/not renewing them, selling land at it's Montrose H.Q. campus on Donnybrook which will see housing built and already resulted in the set of Fair City been moved elsewhere within the RTÉ campus.

The latest cuts include further reductions in salaries, the closing of Aertel, the closing of the RTÉ Digital Radio network which includes it's involvement in DAB and with that comes the closure of RTÉ Gold amongst others. They are also said to be leaving the current premises used as RTÉ Lyric fm main base in Limerick City with services shared between Dublin & Cork.

Ideally, it would make more sense for RTÉ Gold to be broadcast on FM instead of RTÉ 2fm these days as it has a young target demographic who would probably migrate to it Online if they follow the station unlike older audiences who would be more suited to traditional sources like FM.

AwaitYourReply

ford fiesta wrote: »

Will and Rick are staff of RTE..big names on 2FM back in the day... interesting to see where they will go once RTE Gold closes...Yes Rick has a new seasonal book show on Radio 1..Will is down in Limerick and has a Solicitor day job... but wonder will they take redundancy and leave RTE.?

That's interesting as I recall Rick doing either a book or poetry series on Radio 1 in the past and I think he seemed out of place on 2FM for many years to be honest. That's not intended as a negative about Rick's abilities as a broadcaster - he was wasted on 2fm in some respects however; he also had a loyal following during his time on the station.

I think Will Leahy may have been practising as a solicitor in Limerick on a full-time basis back in the days when he used only present on Saturdays on 2FM. He also works on the Rose of Tralee festival show for RTÉ tv each August.

AwaitYourReply

paddylonglegs wrote: »

I think his weekend mornings were hitting an audience outside 2fms target market. This is reflected in the style of music dave plays, which is probably driven by him and in no way conforms to the usual day time radio. Also his guests seems to be properly researched so that they have something genuinely interesting to say. Fair enough they’re promoting a book or podcast, but the bulk of them make for good listening.

He suits a speciality show but unfortunately 2fm obviously doesnt see this as paying the bills

The only way you could get Dave Fanning to blend in better on a station like 2fm in the current climate is during a slot in the schedule where the younger target market are NOT inclined to tune in. Maybe this is how this particular time slot was assigned although; it still looks completely out of character in the 2fm of 2020. Dave could have been used much better in the last 15+ years as he probably has moved on from his rock show days.

Dave should have been given a chance to take over Gerry's slot back in the day as he had held the fort so often for Gerry and could have brought his own stamp on the show in time. And yes, the show would not have been Gerry's style and the audience would have dropped but this would happen to a certain extent anyway as listening habits and audience demographic changes over time.

kneemos

AwaitYourReply wrote: »

RTÉ was forced to announce major cutbacks due to it's poor financial situation with dwindling commercial advertising revenue, changes in how people consume media, no increase in TV Licence Fee for quite some time etc;

As part of these measures, they have been cutting some of the top earners salaries, cancelling shows/not renewing them, selling land at it's Montrose H.Q. campus on Donnybrook which will see housing built and already resulted in the set of Fair City been moved elsewhere within the RTÉ campus.

The latest cuts include further reductions in salaries, the closing of Aertel, the closing of the RTÉ Digital Radio network which includes it's involvement in DAB and with that comes the closure of RTÉ Gold amongst others. They are also said to be leaving the current premises used as RTÉ Lyric fm main base in Limerick City with services shared between Dublin & Cork.

Ideally, it would make more sense for RTÉ Gold to be broadcast on FM instead of RTÉ 2fm these days as it has a young target demographic who would probably migrate to it Online if they follow the station unlike older audiences who would be more suited to traditional sources like FM.

Gold FM would be a no brainier. However you just know they'd screw it up with DJ's endlessly talking.

I reckon 99% of 2FM's listeners would prefer not to hear what Billy and Jenny( or whoever they are)think about every inane topic that enters their vacuous heads. Yet they insist.

AwaitYourReply

kneemos wrote: »

Gold FM would be a no brainier. However you just know they'd screw it up with DJ's endlessly talking.

I reckon 99% of 2FM's listeners would prefer not to hear what Billy and Jenny( or whoever they are)think about every inane topic that enters their vacuous heads. Yet they insist.

I think they are probably trying to appeal to the "LOVE ISLAND" brigade - I found myself having to politely sit through a few minutes of that show last night and I just could not believe it's as popular as it's said to be. It all seems so vain and pointless drivel but maybe many of the younger generation just see it as fun and an escape. I for one could not watch it again and that's what comes to mind if I tune in to some shows on 2fm in recent years excluding the late great Larry Gogan, Dave Fanning. I suppose I'm showing my age as I used enjoy watching tv series: Melrose Place as a twenty something but to be fair we had much less by way of light entertainment all those years ago as less choice and cost of living was not cheap relative to basic wages/overheads even in those days of the early '90's. It was cable tv, pub with smoking all around you, cinema in an age before broadband internet was the norm, smartphones, streaming, Netflix, Air BnB, cheap air travel etc;

ford fiesta

The Dave slot on Sat..Sun is the longest running (2014) on the current 2FM schedule

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ford fiesta wrote: »

The Dave slot on Sat..Sun is the longest running (2014) on the current 2FM schedule

It has been my favourite show on 2fm since Chris & Ciara left their nightly slot at 10pm & became dull & boring on weekends at 11am.

I hope that Dave's show doesn't change format from what it is now.

AwaitYourReply

ford fiesta wrote: »

The Dave slot on Sat..Sun is the longest running (2014) on the current 2FM schedule

I would not have known this. I've not been a regular listener of 2fm for quite a while as I cannot identify with the personalities or content nowadays. I would probably listen more regularly if RTÉ Gold was on the FM dial as I like a break from speech/talk radio every now and again. I don't mind DJ's having the odd bit of chat/interaction but I feel lost whenever I tune in to 2fm so I stopped listening to the station that was once regarded as Ireland's Number 1 for music!

I then switched to Today fm although; when that station dropped Friday Night 80's and Jim O'Neill I lost interest and even Ian Dempsey's Breakfast Show has grown repetitive and could do with a reboot while they still have a sizeable audience share. I used enjoy Ian's show in the mornings on 2FM and for many years on Today fm along with The Last Word with Eamonn Dunphy at the helm.

I tend to spend most time these days listening to RTÉ Radio 1, NewsTalk and Classic Hits (ex-4FM) and the odd time I might also tune into our local radio on Cork's 96fm, Cork's REDfm and C 103fm to catch up[ on local news.

ford fiesta

between 4fm/classic hits and RTE Gold, I know which one I'd choose!!

AwaitYourReply

ford fiesta wrote: »

between 4fm/classic hits and RTE Gold, I know which one I'd choose!!

You would choose RTÉ Gold every time!!!

AwaitYourReply

I used really enjoy the original 4FM when it first launched - it was like a mixture of BBC Radio 2, old RTÉ Radio 2fm featuring Jimmy Greeley and a hint of RTÉ Radio 1 with the late Derek Davis (who used regularly fill-in for Joe Duffy on Liveline some years ago), Tom McGurk (who used fill in for Today with Pat Kenny during Summer leave and David Harvey a former RTÉ One tv continuity announcer back in the day.

Declan A Walsh

AwaitYourReply wrote: »

I used really enjoy the original 4FM when it first launched - it was like a mixture of BBC Radio 2, old RTÉ Radio 2fm featuring Jimmy Greeley and a hint of RTÉ Radio 1 with the late Derek Davis (who used regularly fill-in for Joe Duffy on Liveline some years ago), Tom McGurk (who used fill in for Today with Pat Kenny during Summer leave and David Harvey a former RTÉ One tv continuity announcer back in the day.

4FM had an interesting lineup alright. Jimmy Greeley was back to being a music presenter, like his days on RTE Radio 2 and Millennium Radio. He was eventually to return to the role of newsreader, like his days on 98FM. Tom McGuirk was the drive time presenter. He had to play the odd bit of music between the chat with the guests! Derek Davis presented a show on mid-morning Sundays. It was a good current affairs program. He sometimes stood in for Tom. Damien Kiberd was the lunchtime presenter. David Harvey was a weekend presenter but increasingly stood in for Damien, until it became permanent. Niall Boylan effectively replaced David Harvey. There were a number of different specialist music shows as well. Quite a different station for sure. Gareth O'Callaghan was the last of the original presenters to leave what was now known as Classic Hits...unless you count weekend presenter Owen Larkin who left for a while and then came back again; he only left last year!

Unless 2FM is about to be rebooted as some kind of hybrid RTE Gold and 2XM (people have forgotten about that digital station), Dave Fanning does look somewhat out of place at that time of the weekend. Nighttime 2FM suits him best for his kind of music, but it still is not ideal, given the changes in 2FM. I wonder what will happen next.

worded

Can someone put a link to Daves podcasts for his new show and if possible the old shows ?

Thanks

ford fiesta

It has been quite a few years since Dave Fanning has had a music show slot. In latter years of the show, in around 2011 - 2013 his 8 to 10pm show on 2FM was pre-recorded.
Hope he gets to revive this show on 2FM, but I doubt this will happen.

ford fiesta

This new schedule only refers to Saturday from this and Twitter sources...So what is the schedule for Sundays?

https://www.rsvplive.ie/news/tv-film/2fm-announce-brand-new-saturday-21305780