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  • #902
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,833 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    hullaballoo wrote: »
    That's desperately unfair. Gavan Reilly is about as far from a tabloid journalist as they come these days. It's true he used to work for the journal and the journal is a pile of shoite but it doesn't follow that Reilly is at that level. If he was, he'd still be there.

    Imo, he's at the very least a capable deputy for Cooper but as time goes by, cooper's personal biases and the imbalance of his show make me lean towards Reilly as my preferred option for that slot.

    Reilly as a presenter is fine, however his tendency to head for lowest common denominator/sensationalist viewpoints is what sets him as tabloid in my opinion. See also, Jonathan Healy at NT.


  • #903
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    Muireann has been a breath of fresh air this week in the 2-4:30pm slot


  • #904
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    Muireann has been a breath of fresh air this week in the 2-4:30pm slot

    Her and Fergals JNLR figures will take a hammering from people turning over at 12 and not turning back at 2.30. It's what I do and most that I talk to do as well.


  • #905
    wnolan1992
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    I posted this in the Foley thread earlier, but I think it's more relevant here, just to illustrate how far Today FM have fallen from their peak in the late 00's.
    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    Looking at figures from Q3 2007. Foley had 172,000 then. Not sure if that was his peak, but he was down 17,000 on that when he left, albeit on an upward trend.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=54433741&postcount=4

    Look at those figures though. My god it was definitely a different time for Today FM... In a decade they've gone from:

    Ian Dempsey 240,000 to Ian Dempsey on 167,000 (down 73,000)
    Ray D’Arcy 249,000 to Anton Savage on 164,000 (down 85,000)
    Ray Foley 172,000 to D&D on 115,000 (down 57,000)
    Tony Fenton 143,000 to Fergal D'Arcy on 103,000 (down 40,000)
    Matt Cooper 204,000 to Matt Cooper on 132,000 (down 72,000)


    EDIT: Oh, and I'll just make an edit to acknowledge that overall radio listenership is down (particularly in that young demographic that they captured at the time) and it's also worth nothing that since 2007 they now have more competition from the Spins, Beat and iRadio who are now all taking larger chunks of that young audience. Just for balance.


  • #906
    penelope2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭penelope2012


    Tweeted a pic of my new purchased CD!! Tagged Today FM, PMcLoone, 2 FM and 98 FM so it will be interesting to see if Today FM reply to my tweet!!!
    MrMac84 wrote: »
    When you tweet them tag 2fm and a few other stations and they'll most likely all offer a few other cds... is it Paul or Paula you won off?


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  • #907
    flangemeistro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,695 ✭✭✭flangemeistro


    Did anyone hear Dempseys sly digs this morning?

    During the 7:20 gift Mario was doing a bit about the these three words quiz saying it was like one of the quizzes from 2007 where Ian said ah ya the good old days hey hey!!

    Then during one of the news segments there was a piece about stress in the work place where Paul Collins asked Ian how is stress levels were where there was another big inside joke.

    I reckon Ian is gone when his contract expires and he'll tell a few home truths before he goes.


  • #908
    Ursus Horribilis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    It'll be interesting to see what happens. With the presenters on the station getting younger, Iano's increasingly looking like a relic from the dark ages. He's probably old enough to be the dad of some of the shiny new presenters. Maybe the powers that be have another washed up boyband singer or comedian in mind for the breakfast slot.


  • #909
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Ursus Horribilis wrote: »
    It'll be interesting to see what happens. With the presenters on the station getting younger, Iano's increasingly looking like a relic from the dark ages. He's probably old enough to be the dad of some of the shiny new presenters. Maybe the powers that be have another washed up boyband singer or comedian in mind for the breakfast slot.
    They have surely used up all the potential presenters left in that slot or are they going to change the station name to Ex-Comedians FM?


  • #910
    Ursus Horribilis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    Nothing would surprise me any more. The days of presenters learning their trade on pirates/local stations is long gone.


  • #911
    The Parish Priest.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 613 ✭✭✭The Parish Priest.


    The problem for Ian is that in the past when his contract was up for renewal he was able to use the threat of returning to 2fm breakfast as a bargaining chip but now that 2fm has changed so much himself and Today fm management know that's no longer an option.


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  • #912
    Ursus Horribilis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    The Parish Priest. wrote: »
    The problem for Ian is that in the past when his contract was up for renewal he was able to use the threat of returning to 2fm breakfast as a bargaining chip but now that 2fm has changed so much himself and Today fm management know that's no longer an option.

    I wonder is that really true though? When he handed in his notice 2FM, they didn't take it well. Wasn't he more or less frogmarched out of the building by security?


  • #913
    The Parish Priest.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 613 ✭✭✭The Parish Priest.


    Ursus Horribilis wrote: »
    I wonder is that really true though? When he handed in his notice 2FM, they didn't take it well. Wasn't he more or less frogmarched out of the building by security?

    Absolutely, he was on the verge of a deal with 2fm in 2005, he Revealed this a few months later when he was a guest on the panel with Dara Ó Briain


  • #914
    Trebor176
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,435 ✭✭✭Trebor176


    flangemeistro wrote: »
    Did anyone hear Dempseys sly digs this morning?

    During the 7:20 gift Mario was doing a bit about the these three words quiz saying it was like one of the quizzes from 2007 where Ian said ah ya the good old days hey hey!!

    Then during one of the news segments there was a piece about stress in the work place where Paul Collins asked Ian how is stress levels were where there was another big inside joke.

    I reckon Ian is gone when his contract expires and he'll tell a few home truths before he goes.

    John Clark springs to mind when he was finishing his last Jukebox show on 2FM! Though, it was a case of him jumping before he'd eventually be pushed.


  • #915
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,265 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Is the schedule changing?


  • #916
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,265 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Is the schedule changing?


  • #917
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,265 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Is the schedule changing? The app has Matt cooper on at 5:30-8


  • #918
    IRE60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭IRE60


    I'd fine that difficult that they would do that- the radio population as a whole collapses after 6/6:30 - they'd be starting the show at the last gasp and into the wake.
    As for Iano - I don't know if 2FM would want him - is he the 'profile' they are going for - but then they are in need of listeners!


  • #919
    swampy353
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 949 ✭✭✭swampy353


    godtabh wrote: »
    Is the schedule changing? The app has Matt cooper on at 5:30-8

    Would guess they screwed up the hour going forward the other weekend. They would miss a good amount of the drive time audience


  • #920
    marno21
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 14,648 Mod ✭✭✭✭marno21


    swampy353 wrote: »
    Would guess they screwed up the hour going forward the other weekend. They would miss a good amount of the drive time audience

    Gives Newstalk Drive an hour and a half head start and Drivetime (RTE R1) an hour head start. Likely an effect of the time changing as you say.


  • #921
    arch_stanton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭arch_stanton


    swampy353 wrote: »
    Would guess they screwed up the hour going forward the other weekend. They would miss a good amount of the drive time audience

    There was an update to the iOS app released this evening which is supposed to fix the time bug


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  • #922
    djemba djemba
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,606 ✭✭✭djemba djemba


    Mairead Ronan leaving now also

    https://twitter.com/cocomairead/status/851874318309097472


  • #923
    ads20101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭ads20101


    It's a bloody exodus


  • #924
    johnire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭johnire


    Rats...sinking ship springs to mind!!!
    djemba djemba wrote: »
    Mairead Ronan leaving now also

    https://twitter.com/cocomairead/status/851874318309097472


  • #925
    Jobs OXO
    Closed Accounts Posts: 887 ✭✭✭Jobs OXO


    Are they supposed to be getting Ruth Scott in?


  • #926
    The Parish Priest.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 613 ✭✭✭The Parish Priest.


    Jobs OXO wrote: »
    Are they supposed to be getting Ruth Scott in?

    Where did you hear that ?


  • #927
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    I thought Mairead was already gone! :pac: I can't keep up


  • #928
    djemba djemba
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,606 ✭✭✭djemba djemba


    anna080 wrote: »
    I thought Mairead was already gone! :pac: I can't keep up

    No she had been on mat leave up to now


  • #929
    lambayire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 924 ✭✭✭lambayire


    Yet the Chief Executive who has overseen the fiasco of the past couple of years gets to jeep his job.

    Odd.


  • #930
    IUA14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭IUA14


    lambayire wrote: »
    Yet the Chief Executive who has overseen the fiasco of the past couple of years gets to jeep his job.

    Odd.

    The Chief Exec has only been in since last May...even if it may seem like years!


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  • #931
    IUA14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭IUA14


    Have all the male presenters been given the day off? Since 9 it's been Clair McKenna, PMAC and Muireann...enjoyable listening actually! Mind you any day without Al Porter is an infinite improvement!


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