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Falling Radio Figures.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,233 ✭✭✭Allinall




  • Registered Users Posts: 19,960 ✭✭✭✭recode the site


    I worked all my career in libraries. We had one particular cantankerous elderly female customer who started taking out the audio books when her sight was failing and she would naturally ask for a selection to be made for her. Each visit she reminded us that the narrator was required to be male as “I can’t bear to listen to women’s screechy voices”. 😂

    Righteous Television Events is an ace broadcasting organisation; we’ll not be hearing counter opinion, d’jya hear me?



  • Registered Users Posts: 381 ✭✭Ballycommon Mast


    I don't understand why 2fm axed breakfast republic after spending years building it up, it had 90k more listeners than the current breakfast show



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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,617 ✭✭✭cute geoge


    Interestingly I used always tune into Muireann on today fm and she was axed and I never again listened to today fm at that time I find Shay Byrne a great start to the day he really has a lovely style ,plenty of other interesting presenters on local radio for the remainder of the day .I would also like and listen to Ray Foley,John Creedon and even Pat Kenny .The main stream are definitely slipping though





  • Way back when, around the mid - nineties, FM 104 was littering pouring money into the promotion of the morning radio show on weekdays, "The Strawberry Alarm Clock" - Ads on Bus Shelters, On Billboards, etc.


    Who remembers the show now?

    Zilch. Thought so



  • Registered Users Posts: 381 ✭✭Ballycommon Mast


    Many people have said on forums over the years that the jnlrs system is a load of nonsense but I think the fact that it showed a massive drop in listenership for 2fm Midmorning when G ryan died and today FM when Darcy left proves that it is working properly.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 11,214 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Lets be honest, both incarnations are absolutely awful.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,617 ✭✭✭cute geoge


    Listening there now to barry lang on 4fm no bullsht talk only sht hot 80's one after the next .No wonder 2fm back in the day was King .No one ever beats the likes of them old lads but jim o neill was surely the best of them



  • Registered Users Posts: 15,130 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Just like streaming is killing scheduled tv, podcasts and streaming will strangle radio listenership figures. There's only a handful of must-listen shows nationally and locally, the rest is filler.



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,466 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    These days, Spotify is suggesting a playlist to me with music interspersed with news podcasts.



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,466 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay





  • Registered Users Posts: 8,122 ✭✭✭Furze99


    Re the OP, surely 2FM is dead in the water and has been drowning for years - too many similar options, many with the added benefit of a local slant.

    But I'm not sure about general talk radio - yes a good proportion can be naff and rehashing the same discussions of the day. But the point is that it requires little effort to put it on. You can work away at something productive and either not listen/ half listen or fully engage as suits. Streaming services / podcasts require more effort to organise and in latter case, probably demand more attention. Whereas you can be surprised on general talk radio, it's not always predictable. So I don't think it's day is done yet by a long way.



  • Registered Users Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Oscar Madison


    Not necessarily! I would prefer presenters who brought their own personality to radio!

    Not a contrived one, with an element of control & expectation!

    What I'm hearing on the majority of broadcasts now is like a party political broadcast!

    I travell quite a lot hrough the country & listen to various stations as I go & they are all

    beginning to sound the same!



  • Registered Users Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Oscar Madison




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