The future of RTE Radio 1 LW

2FM plays the most awful music and should be closed to save tax payer money. The station in general has gone to hell !

They just get in younger and younger people thinking this will improve ratings but it isn't working because even the younger folk think 2Fm is crap.

I've always liked Larry Gogan but I've not listened to him in a long time since DJ's are not allowed to play what they want any more which I think is ridiculous and it's damaging the radio stations by forcing DJ's to play music they think people want to hear.

The odd time I listen into RTE Gold which can play decent music and it's not news and adds every 2 mins and talk talk as some radio stations SHOULD be. And Larry plays decent music on Gold.

It's too inconvenient for me most of the time to listen to internet radio and in the car which would make the old 567 transmitter a great idea for a good station that plays music from the 50's to the 90's from the 00's on music seriously quality took a nose dive and this pop music crap is on most stations in Ireland and I hate it with a passion.

It's amazing to listen to some of the tunes some of the younger lads in work listen to and it certainly isn't that pop and RnB dirt. These lads are in their early to mid 20's. They listen to music from the 60's right up to today but mostly the turn off from them about radio is the constant bombardment of Pop and RnB and nothing else mostly especially in the more country areas.

The fundamental flaw in the licensing rules means stations must have certain material for the youth during the day time and they're more relaxed in the evening and night and that means the radio stations think that means pop music and RnB but it's only teenagers that listen to this crap and only because they think it's cool to be listening to music that's a few months old and anything older than that is for pensioners !

What should be done is a survey to find out what people want to listen to not what the networks think we want to hear !

icdg wrote: »

Mad_Lad take a warning for quite obviously not reading the post above. Next person that does not mention the words "long wave", "AM" or some variation thereof gets a 48 hour ban

I was writing my post and hit submit before I saw your post, look at the times, no need for a warning at all thanks all the same.

They were moaning today about loosing money so I bet LW 252 will be gone a lot sooner than later and 567 and 252 equipment dismantled and sold. Chinese are buying transmitters like they're going out of fashion.

Like all the land RTE are selling, it's a short term fix to a much larger problem and that is RTE as a company are dying and they now need to start researching what people want and not what they think we want. they need to think long term and not look for quick ineffective solutions.

DRM is pretty good but needs a better signal, analogue is hampered by RFI but most people don't understand that to get good Lw, Mw and Sw reception you need to get the antenna outdoors just like with TV.

Unfortunately there are no commercially available radios that decode DRM but to hear crystal clear radio from India is amazing, I've listened on my SDR and my Tecsun S2000 has a digital out for a decoder I must try out.