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Friday Night 80's

wnolan1992

Listening in to Friday Night 80's on Today FM this evening, and I'm getting the impression that Phil Cawley might be leaving the show? He was saying that there are "Big changes" coming, and that as soon as he knew he'd let listeners know, and basically was talking about how long he'd been doing the show and stuff...

Was only half listening, so I may have caught the wrong end of the stick here, so did anyone else hear any more of this?

I'd be very sad to see Phil leave the show, he makes long drives of a Friday very enjoyable...

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IUA14

The new boss at Today FM seems to be rubbing a lot of people up the wrong way, Phil clearly not happy...Shauna and Eoghan on Friday Night 90's cast aside, older staples of the station pushed out, Louise Duffy bumped to 7pm...interesting times. Actually on Phil, today on Louise Duffy's last show when he said "we've been talking for almost 4 mins" Louise responded "oh he'll kill us"...

wnolan1992

IUA14 wrote: »

The new boss at Today FM seems to be rubbing a lot of people up the wrong way, Phil clearly not happy...Shauna and Eoghan on Friday Night 90's cast aside, older staples of the station pushed out, Louise Duffy bumped to 7pm...interesting times. Actually on Phil, today on Louise Duffy's last show when he said "we've been talking for almost 4 mins" Louise responded "oh he'll kill us"...

Maybe pushing out the oldies and freshening things up is what's needed?

I mean, as much as I love FN80's and FN90's, and as popular as Jim O'Neill is, maybe they're aiming for a revamp of the station's identity? Let's face it, the station hasn't been doing well for a number of years now. Dempsey is stagnating, Anton's show hasn't flourished, lunchtimes have gone backwards since Foley left, mid-afternoons have been struggling since Tony's departure, Last Word is steady but like Dempsey isn't building...

Change is scary, but if it works out, the boss'll be hailed as a hero.

ford fiesta

'celebrate' is from 1990 ....;-)

wnolan1992

ford fiesta wrote: »

'celebrate' is from 1990 ....;-)

Phil rang the writer during the week.

It was written in 1989. :P

IUA14

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Maybe pushing out the oldies and freshening things up is what's needed?

I mean, as much as I love FN80's and FN90's, and as popular as Jim O'Neill is, maybe they're aiming for a revamp of the station's identity? Let's face it, the station hasn't been doing well for a number of years now. Dempsey is stagnating, Anton's show hasn't flourished, lunchtimes have gone backwards since Foley left, mid-afternoons have been struggling since Tony's departure, Last Word is steady but like Dempsey isn't building...

Change is scary, but if it works out, the boss'll be hailed as a hero.

Dempsey is solid, Cooper should bounce back next book...D&D I just don't know what they will do with them. I agree that Duffy had to be moved, horrible listenership in that slot but always enjoyed TodayFM on a Friday night if I was driving or just at home listening in! The worry I have is this new boss' only experience running a radio station was at 98FM...and look at the **** show that has been the last two years under his stewardship and schedule changes...

Bosley

I'd say the changes have been made by Martin Maguire and his assistant not the CEO.

ford fiesta

even though it is Phil, it is strange hearing the new show and some new / different music being played (albeit in a temporary timeslot)

lertsnim

Pure ****e on tonight. I won't be going back to Friday Night Anthems

Mint Sauce

Instinctively put on TodayFm on the way home tonight. Very disappointed.

wnolan1992

What's bad about it? I flicked on when I was cooking dinner and he was playing an 80's song before my radio died.

lertsnim

wnolan1992 wrote: »

What's bad about it? I flicked on when I was cooking dinner and he was playing an 80's song before my radio died.

Nelly singing that it's hot in here was the straw that broke the camels back.

wnolan1992

lertsnim wrote: »

Nelly singing that it's hot in here was the straw that broke the camels back.

Oh... oh dear... that's... not an anthem to anyone is it?

Mint Sauce

lertsnim wrote: »

Nelly singing that it's hot in here was the straw that broke the camels back.

I switched off at that point as well.

Trebor176

Now it's feckin' Lucky by Daft Punk. One of the most overplayed songs of recent times. It's probably a step back from Friday Night 80s. It is the first show, a flavour of what's to come. But, Fridays on Today FM won't be the same again for a good while.

ford fiesta

lertsnim wrote: »

Nelly singing that it's hot in here was the straw that broke the camels back.

Not Phil's fault. Tuned in here and there...Is the show voicetracked?? No doubt when it moves to a later time it will be.

There are some current chart songs being played too !, which are way worse than Nelly which is 15 years old!

sonic85

What happened with Shauna and Eoin? That was a great show with a great rapport between the presenters. Great music too.

Were they shoved out or did they want to leave? Rarely listened live but I always downloaded the podcast and listened in work or when I was doing stuff in the shed or around the house. They'll be sorely missed

Trebor176

sonic85 wrote: »

What happened with Shauna and Eoin? That was a great show with a great rapport between the presenters. Great music too.

Were they shoved out or did they want to leave? Rarely listened live but I always downloaded the podcast and listened in work or when I was doing stuff in the shed or around the house. They'll be sorely missed

Most likely they were moved aside for Friday Night Anthems. Muireann O'Connell is on now, so maybe she will be permanent in that slot? Yes, I miss Shauna and Eoin too, and they were a great duo. I'm sure they'll pop up somewhere again at some stage. But, at least they still have other roles.

lmimmfn

Stopped listening to Today FM since DOB but I'd still listen to Fri night 80's, really enjoyed it. Heard this Anthems thing on the drive from cork today, switched it off after 15 mins. I'm out!

Declan A Walsh

Trebor176 wrote: »

Most likely they were moved aside for Friday Night Anthems. Muireann O'Connell is on now, so maybe she will be permanent in that slot? Yes, I miss Shauna and Eoin too, and they were a great duo. I'm sure they'll pop up somewhere again at some stage. But, at least they still have other roles.

What are the other roles that Shauna and Eoin have?

Trebor176

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

What are the other roles that Shauna and Eoin have?

I mean roles away from presenting. As far as I know, Shauna is a researcher on Ian Dempsey's show, but does other work in the station. Eoghan works in Joe.ie, and I think is a contributor to a couple of shows. I'm sure they do more than that.

jca

South east radio started their own Friday night 80's tonight 8:30 to 11:00 presented by Jimmy Ryan, very good I must say.

lertsnim

ford fiesta wrote: »

Not Phil's fault.

Not suggesting that it is. However I will not be listening to it again unless I hear from people in a few weeks that it has improved.

wnolan1992

Trebor176 wrote: »

I mean roles away from presenting. As far as I know, Shauna is a researcher on Ian Dempsey's show, but does other work in the station. Eoghan works in Joe.ie, and I think is a contributor to a couple of shows. I'm sure they do more than that.

Shauna was referred to as doing social media stuff for the station on NTN a long while ago.

TheRiverman

Listened to some of Friday Night Anthems this evening,one great song Born To Run by Bruce Springsteen,the rest ****.I changed to John Creedon show on RTE Radio 1,he had some guy totally unknown to me called Marc O'Reilly from Waterford on,his "music/singing"really lost me,total weird rubbish.I went from there to Midlands 103FM,a bit of diddly-aye and old time waltzing there.Pretty dire Friday night radio:(:o

Radio Gold

RTE Gold tonight started an 80s show on Friday's between 8 and 10pm with Al Dunne presenting, if anyone wants any 80s music, Sounded good with no adds It is Called Al Dunne's 80s.

jimmyw

I dont like this anthems thing-a-ma-gig,eighties or nothing.Have to wait for Oliver Carroll's "Totally Eighties" on Wlrfm from 6-8 Saturday nights I am afraid.

zoobizoo

Can't say ths I'll miss the show.

While I'm a big fan of 80s music, the choice of songs was too repetitive and from a limited number if artists.

I don't think that I ever heard a song where I went "wow, I totally forgot about that tune".

I watch the repeats of TOTP on BBC 4 and there was so much good interesting music happening back then.

Friday Night 80s was basically the biggest bands doing their biggest hits.

Cliff Walker

Change was long overdue but then they went and did something stupid and put something dull bland lazy and voice-traced on instead.

mayway

Bring back Friday Night 80s!!! What are you thinking of getting rid of it????

sonic85

And Friday Night 90s too while they're at it