Thoughts on radio shows

Sunny Disposition

I listened to 2fm morning radio today. I found it strange, the presenters were talking about fairly banal stuff but were pretending what they were saying was very amusing, but it was very obvious that they were being false. Is this a thing now? I'm all for being light hearted and good humoured, like Ian Dempsey is on his programme, but I don't understand the false enthusiasm and pretending things are very funny when they're clearly not. I dunno why anyone would want to listen to that.

Glaceon

Your first sentence is the problem there. 2FM hasn't been good for 15 years or more.

Sunny Disposition

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121104868#Comment_121104868

In my opinion it'd be better if they weren't false, just talked ordinarily. Nothing wrong with being upbeat, but it really came off as very false. I presume the producers know this but still encourage it. It's just very strange. It's a type of acting and rather unnecessary.

Deebles McBeebles

Haven't ventured over to 2FM since Gerry Ryan died.

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121105097#Comment_121105097

Look on the bright side. It will never happen to you again.

Ger Roe

I scanned on to 2FM on Monday morning last, looking to see if there was a mention on any station, of why I was stuck in standstill traffic on the N11. It was a head-wreck for the few minutes that I endured it.

The 'gang' were talking about the resignation of Spanish football president Luis Rubiales and it was like listening to an audio 'Peter & Jane' book - absolute simplistic drivel. When someone mentioned that the kiss scandal had taken away from the fact that the Spanish women's team had won the world cup, the main presenter expressed astonishment and said that she did not know that fact and she was only aware of the kiss scandal itself, as a specific incident.

As the OP has already said, this also sounded absolutely false and totally insincere and I didn't believe that she was not aware of Spain winning the tournament. I would hope that a prominent presenter on a station that had extensively covered the tournament (where the Irish national team had competed), would have had a basic level of awareness about it, such as who had won. I am sure the Spanish win must have been reported and discussed previously on the breakfast programme. She may have been trying to express sarcasm to support the theory that the kiss incident had eclipsed the win, but it certainly didn't come across as that.

That was enough for me and I scanned on. I don't like being taken for a fool by people making up stuff for reactions. It was the audio equivalent of posting for likes and LOL's. I know I am well out of the 2FM target demographic for listeners, but good luck to our future generations if this is what they are being served up as either fact, or entertainment, or some weird hybrid abomination of both.

Sunny Disposition

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121105360#Comment_121105360

Isn't it awful horseshit? Pretending things you don't find surprising are shocking, pretending mildly amusing conversations are very funny. If it's to win a young audience it's not going to work, younger people aren't more likely to be fools than older people.

Homesick Alien

Dave Fanning's weekend show was the last good thing about 2fm I'm sorry to say.

Brid Hegarty

False enthusiasm sums it up. You hear radio presenters like Moncrieff go out of their way to be able to say "pardon the pun" just to fill up some extra time.

radiotrickster

2fm is drivel. I’m not sure there’s a single presenter or show on the station that I’d be sad to lose if the station was shut tomorrow.

pgj2015

Iradio is even worse. very unfunny presenters, one guy always puts on this exaggerated culchy accent, like an old farmer, its pathetic and not 1 bit funny.

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121105360#Comment_121105360

Someone should ring in and ask them is the video below ok?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0vmdKMbh4U

dxhound2005

I have been listening to programmes I hate every day for years. I hope the OP will not catch this affliction.

orourkeda1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121105146#Comment_121105146

I didn't listen to it when he was alive either.

orourkeda1

I'm a radio nerd. I haven't listened to an irish radio station in about 10 years. The standard is appalling.

pgj2015

I think if Irish radio presenters stopped trying to be funny it would be a lot better, they aren't comedians so why do they think they are funny?

cj maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121104868#Comment_121104868

True , but its as bad on Today FM . I’m sick of D&D

Field east

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058313585/thoughts-on-radio-shows

Did u ever listen to RAy DRcy. . The only time that he is not laughing , giggling to anything anybody said and to things he himself said is when he is taking a break for a breather between giggles laughs. That helps to fill in the minutes and run down the clock . What also helps to run down the clock is when he repeats statements he makes on numerous occasions on every show. There must be thousands in Ireland who could do at least as good a job - —IF NOT BETTER - for less than half of what he is being paid. SO roll on to the end of his current contract. It will be reveting to see what KB will do with him

Lewis_Benson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121105097#Comment_121105097

It's what young people want these days.

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121106685#Comment_121106685

Is it like that every day?

Field east

I forgot to mention the two that come on Drivetime. Towards the last qr of the programme- or should it be called a show- they create a kind of false narrative and have a ‘ light hearted discussion on /around it and it always have to include a few giggles/laughs - kind of a false/canned laughter about it.

Count Dracula

I like the mystery train on Lyric FM

Second captains Sunday is brilliant

reclose

I don’t listen to radio and haven’t for years for that very reason. Presenters acting like teenagers and thinking they are funny when they are not.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121106743#Comment_121106743

I had heard before about giggle boxes, female co presenters who laugh at the jokes of the male co-host. I noticed in the US on a couple classic rock stations that they have what you could call a haw haw box, an older co-host who does a deep bellowing laugh at his co-host's jokes.

radiotrickster

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121106659#Comment_121106659

Dermot left about a month ago.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121106702#Comment_121106702

True, just godawful people yapping rather then having any sense of something designed to entertain.

Lewis_Benson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121109799#Comment_121109799

Exactly.

cj maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121109728#Comment_121109728

Oh . That shows how much I listen to them now

cj maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121107271#Comment_121107271

Howard Stern made millions from that. Shock Jock with attractive co-host

AllForIt

It's awful when you're stuck in a waiting room with that kind of garbage on.

TedBundysDriver

I listen to lyric FM when driving otherwise I'd smash the radio in the vehicle.

cj maxx

I turned to Newstalk but it has the same ‘cash prize ‘as today fm . Plus it’s €2 to text them for anything else so i don’t bother. Unless it’s football ( Northern Sound ) or soccer 5live or the talksport other UK channel. It depends on the signal, and im on the border.

batistuta9

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121106629#Comment_121106629

How do you know?

NIMAN

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121106702#Comment_121106702

Got news for you, young people aren't big listeners to radio any more.

Furze99

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121105097#Comment_121105097

Kinda agree and that's why I went off Mr. Ryan Tubridy after a while, likewise just false.

Lewis_Benson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121110887#Comment_121110887

You are correct, they aren't, but the eejits on the airwaves are acting this way to try and lure them into listening.

dxhound2005

The people who the radio stations pay to measure the audiences, do not agree that young people are not listening to the radio. While they do not measure below 15 year old, in the 15 to 24 age group, 66.6% listen to the radio at some time during the day. Lower in Dubin, but as high as 76.9% in a couple of the regions.

https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2023-08/JNLR-2023-2-%28AUG%2723%29-Press%20Release.pdf