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The Today fm ceo has announced major changes are coming in 17...Any predictions ? My guess cormac and daniella for breakfast, Chris and Ciara for mid morning and Ian Dempsey goes to drive time

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[Deleted User]

I'm obviously the minority, but I didn't like Neil Delamere. Found he became annoying swiftly trying to ram poor, drawn out jokes into the middle of conversations and such.

Few little laughs with him, but as a rule didn't enjoy him, and wouldn't miss him.

Is Hector still on TodayFM? That's a fella I always associate with Neil for some reason (perhaps cos they both do weekends) and a chap I can't stand at all.

Ursus Horribilis

I'm sorry to see Neil leave as well. I don't know whether he'd have been a good fit for daytime Today FM but I used to enjoy him at weekends. Hopefully he'll do well in the future and that he's not going to hang up his headphones for good.

Patty O Furniture

djemba djemba wrote: »

Neil delamare gone now.

Announced on his twitter page.

paddylonglegs wrote: »

Was he dropped? That’s a shame, his Sunday show was good, an under rated presenter imo.

Iv said it before, but he would’ve suited replacing Anton over D&D, considering D&D are obliged to conduct the the “serious” subjects, which just doesn’t suit their style. Delamare can seperate both serious and fun subjects.

Will KildareJoe take the slot :eek::(

Say Your Number

It's a shame Neil is going, really enjoyed that programme, he was excellent filling in before Anton took over a few years ago, he'd be great in that 9-12 slot, but he has a lot of things in the air, it would probably be difficult for him to commit to it, like when Al Porter was presenting he wasn't there half the time, would probably be the same story with Neil, hope he pops up somewhere on radio in the future.

TheDavester

ButtersSuki wrote: »

That's very unfair......on some randomer off the street.

SHE'S BRUTAL. Her knowledge of TV/Films sounds like it's based on 30seconds of google research before the show, half of which she's forgotten before the segment starts.

its like her music show, she wiki's something about the tunes to sound knowledgeable ...

wnolan1992

mollser wrote: »

Gosh I thought they'd see sense and give Neil the morning slot with d&d back to lunch. He was their last someway inteligible presenter even with one show a week. Station can be pretty good off peak time but day time awful.

Can't understand why all the stations are chasing the yoof market, the least likely to listen to radio. Big gap there for 30 to 50s as mentioned. Would love a crack at it!

To be fair, that is what they're licenced for. It's not Today FM's call what demographic they target, they're contracted to provide a service to a particular group.

And assuming their licence was renewed last year on schedule, they've another 9 years to go targeting this demographic before there's any window of opportunity for change unless the BAI do something drastic.

davef1000

flangemeistro wrote: »

But seriously did you hear him read out the message yesterday live on air blowing his own trumpet once again, saying how he isn't you're generic Radio DJ as he has Dept!!!

Which department is that, exactly?

mollser

Gosh I thought they'd see sense and give Neil the morning slot with d&d back to lunch. He was their last someway inteligible presenter even with one show a week. Station can be pretty good off peak time but day time awful.

Can't understand why all the stations are chasing the yoof market, the least likely to listen to radio. Big gap there for 30 to 50s as mentioned. Would love a crack at it!

EPAndlee

How many times has today fm talked about Dermot Bannon this week? Must be 5 or 6?

paddylonglegs

djemba djemba wrote: »

Neil delamare gone now.

Announced on his twitter page.

Was he dropped? That’s a shame, his Sunday show was good, an under rated presenter imo.

Iv said it before, but he would’ve suited replacing Anton over D&D, considering D&D are obliged to conduct the the “serious” subjects, which just doesn’t suit their style. Delamare can seperate both serious and fun subjects.

blackbox

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Posted before I read this thread, seems alot of people aren't happy with the news or radio in general.

... and a big mistake losing Anton.

djemba djemba

Neil delamare gone now.

Announced on his twitter page.

Ultimate Seduction

Posted before I read this thread, seems alot of people aren't happy with the news or radio in general.

Ultimate Seduction

Due to a change of job, I have been listening to the radio alot latley. What age is today FM aimed at these days? On the hourly news bulletins all day today, the headlines were..

CERTAIN HAIRCUT BANNED FROM SCHOOL

KYLIE JENNER TWEETS THAT SHE DOESNT LIKE SNAPCHAT

The same 10 chart songs played every single day. And the cheesy cheddar chat shows, how cringey. Today isn't the only one, 2fm is gone the same way. Horrifying stuff there's no national station aimed for the 30 -50 year olds?

gamecube

wnolan1992 wrote: »

As you mention Gift Grub there, I started listening to it again this year via the podcast.

Since January 1st, in my opinion, there have been five top quality sketches. 5 really well written, genuinely funny, well put together pieces.

For me, it's sort of confirming my suspicion. Their insistence that GG be on 5 days a week has seriously diluted it. I don't think it's that Mario has "lost it" or whatever, I think it's just he's asked to produce too much content for it to be consistently high quality.

How can Ian Dempsey breathe new life into the show?

Would he be really missed if Today fm replaced him?

The show is so stale now

[Deleted User]

I often be out in the car and I cover a lot of the Country, so Today FM would be my go-to radio station as i generally get a consistent and decent signal with very little cutting out or static.

I don't mind some of it. I actually quite like Fergal D'arcy (although i'd listen to the radio for a week, once every 5-6 weeks, so maybe he's just not over-exposed in my life. My opinion might differ if i was listening every day, all the time).

Anyway, one of the things that I find annoying is on Muireann's show. Last time i was listening properly was about 3-4 weeks ago. She spent most of her show talking about how people can't pronounce her name. Would make for a funny 3 minute skit, but it was kept going for a full week. :rolleyes:

The other thing that bugged me was her stupid competition (possibly called Brain Drain, but I'm open to correction on that). Name 5 things in 10 seconds. Making it impossible for a person to win by picking obscure random things that the average person wouldn't know (name 5 world war II battles, for example). Maybe if it was name 5 counties, or five car brands or such, but it was way too difficult.

Add to that, Dermot/Dave with their word guessing nonsense (A is a B C).

As a casual listener with little knowledge of the behind the scenes workings, it gives the impression that the station are strapped for cash and are afraid to give out money as prizes, so the competitions are made deliberately difficult.

It's hard to believe it's the same station that ran the 'you do the maps' contest with 10k being given away each week (maybe that's why they're reeling back with the cash give outs?! :P ).

You'd still miss Anton.

I've no interest whatsoever in sport, but I find Matt Cooper is alright for the first half of the show (before it turns to sport).

MikeyTaylor

Nerdlingr wrote: »

Just listened to Louise duffys intro into her programme lost in music there...and once again she can't string two words together without making a mistake. Every single time.
Can anyone recommend another radio station? I think im done with today fm.

8Radio.com.

EPAndlee

I find Today fm only gets good after the weekdays daytime sh!te. Been enjoying Declan Pierces show on Saturday evenings

Nerdlingr

Just listened to Louise duffys intro into her programme lost in music there...and once again she can't string two words together without making a mistake. Every single time.
Can anyone recommend another radio station? I think im done with today fm.

ButtersSuki

Nerdlingr wrote: »

This times a million!!
Why the f*ck do they even do it? "coming up, Trump on gun laws, Ulster trial and cats stuck up a tree" and then two seconds later they read the news. Just read the news FFS , we dont need an introduction!
Someone mentioned it on here before as well but Cooper's 6 at 6 is a load of rubbish too. So, lets talk about the news headlines for the next half an hour. they wipe about 20 minutes from the show with inane chat about news items. I dont know how many times they've had to cut short interviews or items because they're overrunning at 7 o clock.
Also louise duffy doing the tv / films segment now. why? might as well just get some randomer off the street as take what she says seriously.
Heard muireann doing her 'what am i thinking?' quiz earlier. God awful radio.
Add this to Darcy as mentioned rehashing "what we had in the 80/90s" schtick.
Paula McSweeney doing her name your 5 favourite chocolate bars.
Breakfast show gone stale. D&D not suited to mid morning radio.

but besides all that its grand!!! :D:pac::pac::P

That's very unfair......on some randomer off the street.

SHE'S BRUTAL. Her knowledge of TV/Films sounds like it's based on 30seconds of google research before the show, half of which she's forgotten before the segment starts.

NIMAN

And we're back on a topic....and its 6:22

So a 23min section of news, sports, traffic, weather.....too long.

NIMAN

The motoring man is coming on.......it'll be >20mins anyway

pjohnson

Oh no a Kardashian mentioned. Thats gunna trigger a lot here!

NIMAN

Lets see how long the gap is between articles on The Last Word.

Matt just finished a piece at 5:59 about school shootings in the US.

We'll see what time the next discussion starts at. I'll be back.

johnire

You have summed up Today FM perfectly in this post!
The dumbing down of the news in my opinion is just a reflection of the close alliance that Today FM have with TV3. Let’s face it their news is so lightweight and lacking in any depth it’s a complete waste of time. It does make me laugh though the way that there was always snide comments about RTÉ staff moving between radio and TV-the exact same thing happens with Today FM AND TV3.

Nerdlingr wrote: »

This times a million!!
Why the f*ck do they even do it? "coming up, Trump on gun laws, Ulster trial and cats stuck up a tree" and then two seconds later they read the news. Just read the news FFS , we dont need an introduction!
Someone mentioned it on here before as well but Cooper's 6 at 6 is a load of rubbish too. So, lets talk about the news headlines for the next half an hour. they wipe about 20 minutes from the show with inane chat about news items. I dont know how many times they've had to cut short interviews or items because they're overrunning at 7 o clock.
Also louise duffy doing the tv / films segment now. why? might as well just get some randomer off the street as take what she says seriously.
Heard muireann doing her 'what am i thinking?' quiz earlier. God awful radio.
Add this to Darcy as mentioned rehashing "what we had in the 80/90s" schtick.
Paula McSweeney doing her name your 5 favourite chocolate bars.
Breakfast show gone stale. D&D not suited to mid morning radio.

but besides all that its grand!!! :D:pac::pac::P

Nerdlingr

PhoneMain wrote: »

Was driving yesterday during the day and I realised that I've nothing to listen to from 12pm until 4.30. 12 o clock is particularly bad as I'm not a fan of Muireann's at all and I don't like Ciara Kelly on Newstalk. Don't listen to Ian anymore as it's so stale and out of date now. I was looking at my twitter this morning and I noticed Mario sent a tweet to Keith Earls & Ronan O Gara which read "Loving Keith Earls new ad on New Radio Rog". Pretty sad I thought.

But the thing that's annoying me most about Today FM now is the news. I despise this 1 word headline thing they do at the top of the news and the way they always have to have some fluff news piece, typically involving the Kardasians or some goon like that.

Oh to be back in the days of Ian when he was still fresh, D'arcy when his show was a bit of craic, Foley, Fenton and Cooper, the golden era.

This times a million!!
Why the f*ck do they even do it? "coming up, Trump on gun laws, Ulster trial and cats stuck up a tree" and then two seconds later they read the news. Just read the news FFS , we dont need an introduction!
Someone mentioned it on here before as well but Cooper's 6 at 6 is a load of rubbish too. So, lets talk about the news headlines for the next half an hour. they wipe about 20 minutes from the show with inane chat about news items. I dont know how many times they've had to cut short interviews or items because they're overrunning at 7 o clock.
Also louise duffy doing the tv / films segment now. why? might as well just get some randomer off the street as take what she says seriously.
Heard muireann doing her 'what am i thinking?' quiz earlier. God awful radio.
Add this to Darcy as mentioned rehashing "what we had in the 80/90s" schtick.
Paula McSweeney doing her name your 5 favourite chocolate bars.
Breakfast show gone stale. D&D not suited to mid morning radio.

but besides all that its grand!!!

:D:pac::pac::P

wnolan1992

PhoneMain wrote: »

Was driving yesterday during the day and I realised that I've nothing to listen to from 12pm until 4.30. 12 o clock is particularly bad as I'm not a fan of Muireann's at all and I don't like Ciara Kelly on Newstalk. Don't listen to Ian anymore as it's so stale and out of date now. I was looking at my twitter this morning and I noticed Mario sent a tweet to Keith Earls & Ronan O Gara which read "Loving Keith Earls new ad on New Radio Rog". Pretty sad I thought.

But the thing that's annoying me most about Today FM now is the news. I despise this 1 word headline thing they do at the top of the news and the way they always have to have some fluff news piece, typically involving the Kardasians or some goon like that.

Oh to be back in the days of Ian when he was still fresh, D'arcy when his show was a bit of craic, Foley, Fenton and Cooper, the golden era.

As you mention Gift Grub there, I started listening to it again this year via the podcast.

Since January 1st, in my opinion, there have been five top quality sketches. 5 really well written, genuinely funny, well put together pieces.

For me, it's sort of confirming my suspicion. Their insistence that GG be on 5 days a week has seriously diluted it. I don't think it's that Mario has "lost it" or whatever, I think it's just he's asked to produce too much content for it to be consistently high quality.

PhoneMain

Was driving yesterday during the day and I realised that I've nothing to listen to from 12pm until 4.30. 12 o clock is particularly bad as I'm not a fan of Muireann's at all and I don't like Ciara Kelly on Newstalk. Don't listen to Ian anymore as it's so stale and out of date now. I was looking at my twitter this morning and I noticed Mario sent a tweet to Keith Earls & Ronan O Gara which read "Loving Keith Earls new ad on New Radio Rog". Pretty sad I thought.

But the thing that's annoying me most about Today FM now is the news. I despise this 1 word headline thing they do at the top of the news and the way they always have to have some fluff news piece, typically involving the Kardasians or some goon like that.

Oh to be back in the days of Ian when he was still fresh, D'arcy when his show was a bit of craic, Foley, Fenton and Cooper, the golden era.

johnire

Her show is really bad.Its like she’s still doing temporary cover for someone else.
I can’t see her lasting long in that slot. She’s hard work to listen to. She’s just so over the top and has the most irritating habit of repeating words and sentences over and over again. Her favourite words seem to be amazing and wonderful ! Everything and everyone is AMAZING and WONDERFUL!!!!!!

djemba djemba wrote: »

I would be a fan of Muireann but today one Of The competitions was what am I eating for lunch today. Almost up there with a former presenters who had a competition of what am I thinking

johnire

Isn’t he absolutely dreadful?! Everything is “back in the day”. He’s built his career on that rubbish. And what’s with those stupid voices and over pronunciation he puts on?
I get the impression too that Ed Smith get so embarrassed by the yawn inducing stories he comes out with.
It’s awful radio-definitely not for the national airwaves.

MrMac84 wrote: »

He’s Rubbish! Completely useless! With his put on accents and over announcing of the number 3! As soon as I hear that stupid intro i scramble to the dial to turn him off! He’s a culchie that should be on local radio somewhere! Not a national afternoon show. T-Bone is turning in his grave I’d guess!