2fm - New schedule coming

Shan Doras

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122229121#Comment_122229121

So not even a full week into the "summer schedule" there are already several presenters on holiday/in a different place on the schedule. Typical RTE

dulpit

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122229140#Comment_122229140

Is it possible that the summer schedule wasn't planned for until a bunch of presenters left within short period of time? And existing holidays would still need to be respected then...

Tork

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122229071#Comment_122229071

Girls her own age? She turns 39 later this year and is old enough to be the mammy of some of 2FM's listeners.

DangerMouse27

I did say, and younger. And whoever voted for her in DWTS.

I did hear from someone before that worked in RTE, that the phone lines (text I presumed) lit up when she was on different shows. Its a metric they will use to measure audience interests and whether its pos or neg engagement, its still engagement.

DangerMouse27

Exactly. Just timing. Laura Fox started and then left for her holidays.

I like it. If its one step closer to respecting contractors. And by contractors, I also mean producer's, editors, etc. Diverging again here.

Anyone else bothering to tune in? Hurling on the ditch?

rino87

I listened to drive today anyway. Fcuk me it was piss poor.

Actually no, maybe it wasn't. Production etc was fine. It was just incredibly boring. Lotties accent for a few hours is a thing to behold...... I'll never subject myself to that show again. Friday drivetime is supposed to be fun FFS.

radiotrickster

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122233110#Comment_122233110

I listened for about half an hour during the week and they barely spoke to each other. Lottie introduced a song, the song played, David introduced a song, the song played.

It turned out to be a requests hour but there was one song they must have cut 90 seconds in because it was time for the 5:30 headlines. I’d hate to request a song, actually get it played and then have it cut short to hear the news.

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122229071#Comment_122229071

Do you have figures for the DWTS podcast?

DangerMouse27

FIgures? as in, the numbers of people who listen? Nope. Do you?

It charts well when the TV show is on, but it's topical. She definitely has a DWTS following and that's undisputed. She did win it.

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122241188#Comment_122241188

I wouldn't have asked if I did. I don't but I am always surprise when people say something is doing well, the audience is good. You say it charts well, on which platform?

TV3 had a habit of saying audience figures were good, or that they had even doubled, double from what?

its_steve116

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122255730#Comment_122255730

TV3 has not existed since 2018; we have Virgin Media Television now.

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122255757#Comment_122255757

I was actually talking about TV3 back then but and here's something for the books

VMTV ONE - full name TV3 Television Network Ltd

VMTV TWO - full name Channel 6 Broadcasting Ltd

VMTV THREE - full name UTV Ireland Ltd

I think FOUR and More come under ONE!

DangerMouse27

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122255730#Comment_122255730

Are you just being a bit pedantic? It's on Apple Charts and in Ireland, its in the top 2/3 when the show is on. I get that you are deeply mistrusting of Rte or official figures. But let's not go around the houses. This is about the new radio schedule.

A poster had questioned her popularity. And from various metrics, she's popular in certain circles.

RoTelly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122256887#Comment_122256887

Thanks. Also as you say it could just be DWTS. I imagine the 2 hosts are both replaceable, maybe even Lottie gets that job!

flazio

Just to clarify, Laura isn't on holiday, she's filming Ireland's Fittest Family.

Kingslayer

There was silence on 2fm this morning for about a minute after I switched on, then it came in halfway through a song. I thought a special recording was meant to kick in automatically if there is that much dead air.

flazio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122261706#Comment_122261706

Mistakes happen. One time Carl Mullan was on early weekend breakfast and there was about two minutes of dead air at the start, well we say dead air what had actually happened was he put the wrong studio live. It was just before Dan Healy took over so whoever was head at the time got woken up at home by an automatic Dead Air alarm. When he heard what had happened he just laughed it off. I reckon it was out of relief, because Carl would have been on his own in there at that time and dead air might mean a medical emergency with the presenter and nobody to call an ambulance.

rino87

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122262213#Comment_122262213

Didnt know Carl was there that long. When did he start on weekend breakfast?

Chun the Unavoidable

Back in the 70s there was a fault and RTE 1 (tv) failed to air for a few hours on January 1st. The TV critic Kevin marron wrote that he thought it was their new year's resolution but sadly it wasn't.

Chun the Unavoidable

on friday after 5 they have a version of the out the gap lingering on in that they play dance/EDM stuff to jig us up for the weekend. The only thing is that unlike when the 2 johnnies did it, this is very much "mum and dad" sort of stuff, quite tame. also i did notice as someone posted earlier this one/one way of presenting in that they dont actually seem to be talking to each other at all.

Sadly, David has certainly taken the "two messers" thing to heart. Shouting and screeching (I cant think of any other word) at 90 decibels is just unlistenable. Actually the "two messers" idea is something like a granny would think up for "young peoples radio" and harks back to 2fm's AnCo Radio heritage.

Newbie12345The

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122270699#Comment_122270699

I get the vibe Lottie isnt popular in the station with the other on air talent

Kingslayer

I tuned in to Lottie and Dave briefly and also picked up on the lack of real communication between them. Heard Sam and Dani on r1 this morning and it seems to flow more naturally with them.

zell12

Lottie is fuming, and if Daddy was still around he'd give RTE an ear full !!

Chun the Unavoidable

Spotted the newspaper this morning, at a glance it seems to be all about "disrespecting gerrys name" more than the merits or demerits of lottie as a presenter. If that's coming from "sources" 😉 than it reveals a lot.

It's brutal even by 2fm standards they started only 3 weeks ago.

pgj2015

I always switch stations when I hear her, few reasons, the posh southside accent, the fact she only got the job because of her dad, and she acts like a teenager the way she goes on.

Clo-Clo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122229071#Comment_122229071

First off she is nearly 40, so hardly a "girl"

My other half is her target audience, talk to her and friends and they will tell you she ruined the breakfast show when they shoved her into it and now the afternoons. Well seemingly not anymore

At least it shows 2Fm have finally had some sense

In terms of her win of Dancing with the Stars, a number of times from recollection she was in bottom and was saved by the judges. On the final it was in covid and she was pushed from every angle in the media for a least a week. RTE clearly had a plan they wanted her to win it, the other person, can't remember name but she was far superior

Clo-Clo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122296419#Comment_122296419

If she ever stop clawing at the coat tails of Gerry she might get somewhere, it's clear from article it is coming from her "team" and they have to use Gerrys name.

squonk

I feel sorry for her. She’s not in the new gig a month. It takes time to bed in and she hasn’t even had that. I haven’t listened but it does strike me that she’s the wronged party here.

You can look at it two ways. She might be crap in the slot and completely unsuited to the show but it would have been obvious beforehand that it wasn’t the place for her and she’s a known quantity in RTE as well so somebody selecting and assigning the on-air talent screwed up here.

On the other hand she was hoodwinked. They didn’t have a plan B after the exodus, threw Lottie into the slot, publicised the hell out of it to distract from the shít show unfolding and hedged they’re bets because they knew she wasn’t a fit but let her play out til they could regroup and find somebody else. That’s very shoddy practice and she should have been given time to bed in.

It does cast a light on Lottie though. Most people, if they weee dicked around like this by an organisation would likely start making exit plans. If Lottie stays now it’ll just get worse because it’s blatantly obvious now that RTE can treat her like absolute shít and she’ll stick around. I feel sorry for the woman. She likely can’t get employed anywhere else and her employer seem to be crapping all over her. That’s a horrible position to be in.

Chun the Unavoidable

i agree with you there, in fact this whole thing shows that Dan Healy is way out of his depth. Now i have never liked the way he treats presenters in the way he fires them without notice to them or indeed their audience.

It treats the presenters badly and suggests he has a "there's loads in the queue behind you" attitude but also suggets that he has no regard for the audience, just stick anyone in there.

This is a bizzare situation - it seems that Lottie was intended to be a fill in untill yet another SM person with no radio experiance was to be given a national radio gig - and a prime one at that! The problem is that DH never seems to have told Lottie this. He has lost command of the ship - if the "bullshit! bullshit! bullshit!" OTR reply of him about Jen Z leaving didnt sink him then this should.

And, no, bad as lottie may be, the answer isnt a tik tok personality. The answer is a new station manager.

Newbie12345The

you’d think they’d learn after hiring an unfunny social media comedian in Doireann - wtf is a Tik tok lip sync