The Louise Duffy Show - RTE Radio 1

FrancieBrady

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120495215#Comment_120495215

Well, you never quite got the hang of the auld 'thinking' before posting did you? Must try harder etc etc.

Brendan Bendar

No, I didn’t Francie, you are quite correct, can barely handle one account.

What puzzles me is how some guys and maybe gals allegedly ran eight or nine accounts on this platform

as apparently recently happened. No way could that be true, I would be sure that couldn’t happen ?

I couldn’t even run run one properly as you rightly pointed out.

Must try harder………

BPKS

Happy Monday's on a Monday afternoon on RTE radio 1. You're twisting my melon man.

2smiggy

followed by his once father in law, Donovan !!

Welsh Megaman

They call me Mellow Yellow!

QUITE RIGHTLY!!

:)

archfi

I've been tuning into this show for the past week or so, a rare decent presenter pick from RTE.

Pelvis Parsley

I really like her.

RINO87

Duuuuuuuusst in the Wiiiind 🙂

2smiggy

lovely selection of music again today

The Princess Bride

4 months in, and I think Louise's show is brilliant. Well done to her👌

limnam

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120534443#Comment_120534443

Seems we're all in shock RTE has done something right.

Have only caught the show on a few occasions in the car but always impressed by the music selection.

While on one hand I agree with Brendan. You're throwing a few songs together for an hour. How hard can it be.

But she (or someone on her behalf) seems to put a lot of work in putting together a very cohesive hour of music and she's pleasant enough to listen to.

RINO87

Yes, Roxy Music, Microdisney and Toto....today was a good day!

deise man

Was thinking the same. Music choices today were class. Had my doubts when louise got the job but I'm finding it a really enjoyable show

Brendan Bendar

The Collins cartel dissipated fairly sharpish , don’t you think?

Poor lad languishing on Gold!

Expunge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120555674#Comment_120555674

Hauld on there Bren, till we see a couple of JNLR surveys.

With the universal praise the lady is getting on this thread, I'm nervous it may not go so well for her in the listenership survey stakes.

littlevillage

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120555674#Comment_120555674

I miss Ronan Collins' show. Nice easy listening bubble gum for the mind, just what you need between 12 and 1...amoungst the hard hitting current affairs.

Not sure what the Louise Duffy show is trying to be. Today there was brand new music and what might be considered 'alternative' tracks. She seems to be auditioning to take over from John Creedon. Personally I think it's the wrong time of day, for that type of show.

irs

I'd be happy with both Collins and Duffy. Give some of the wafflers the boot.

2smiggy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120556951#Comment_120556951

ya room for them both. D'Arcy would be grand shipped to gold till whatever ridiculous high contract he is on is over

RINO87

Yep, I agree...In an ideal world we would have both.

I'm pleasantly surprised by the Louise Duffy show, but that's not to say I prefer it to Ronan's. The music choice is good (still a little middle of the road, but she's getting there), but the personality of Ronan's show is just not there. Plus you'd miss Ronan's "traditions" and some of his more off the wall choices...Yodeling for example!

Even if they reduced the actual Ronan Collins show down to one day a week, I think could have worked. But the voice tracking on Gold is not that great at all.

enricoh

Was down the country yesterday n my usual radio station was out of range. Tuned into this n was an hour of pure bliss - only down point was 2 minutes of Joe Duffy near the end of it telling us what misery he was peddling after it! Top class.

ZaK23-54

Well done Louise

So disappointed that Ronan is just bored on Gold - voice tracking is not radio.

Am I correct to say that the only live shows on Gold are Will Leahy, Rick O Shea and Micky Macs 70’s show?

ZaK23-54

Well done Louise

So disappointed that Ronan is just bored on Gold - voice tracking is not radio.

Am I correct to say that the only live shows on Gold are Will Leahy, Rick O Shea and Micky Macs 70’s show?

Furze99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120556171#Comment_120556171

Hah, you could have a good point there re Creedo!

Furze99

This lady has a problem, it's all very well to put together and play a few nice songs. But you also need a bit of character coming through. And on that score, all she comes across is as nicey, nicey. Music is OK but the rest of the package is pretty bland imho.

Expunge

Down 9000 listeners since the last survey.

In fairness she only arrived mid way through the period surveyed.

Still, there's a lot of the 'Dickie' crowd to be burned off before she can build her own audience. It'll be a bumpy year for her and her 2 producers.

Furze99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120582984#Comment_120582984

She inherits an audience from the morning current affairs show. Just a question of how many she can keep tuned in. I doubt if very many actually tune in specifically to the Louise Duffy show, she can't really build a filler slot?

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120598584#Comment_120598584

I, personally, would never listen to radio 1 day time shows during the week. She’s got me turning the dial once Pat Kenny’s show finishes.

Most RTÉ listeners never move the dial, the radio is never off. Having someone like Louise Duffy will attract new, younger, listeners and this is badly needed for when, over the next 10-20 years, those radios get turned off never to be turned on again.

Expunge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120598818#Comment_120598818

You see, the problem with this is RTE thought the same about hiring Ray D'arcy. He has lost a fair amount of listeners in that slot over the years, although he was up a little bit in that last book.

It is far from a given that Louise Duffy will even make it back up to the 220,000 odd listeners than Ronan Collins could get in the past.

She does deserve a good 24 months there to bed it down, I would think.

Expunge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120598584#Comment_120598584

You may well be right but if there are a few more of these types of losses in future books, maybe we can conclude that listeners considered it more than just a filler slot when Ronan was there.

EmmetSpiceland

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120599320#Comment_120599320

There should be a tribunal to uncover what they were thinking bringing back Ray D’Arcy.