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The Parish priest

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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ford fiesta

music discussion going on about the moment on the last word, sounds like they all haven't a clue, though think that they do.

john caddell is one of them and declared to his fellow contributor "you're a music nerd, I am a music nerd"

the female contributor said in relation to kate bush (in typical I havent a clue style):

"i remember when i was 7 and i heard a kate bush CD and thought to myself i never had heard music like this ever before"

she must have listened to so much music before she was 7!!

Ursus Horribilis

I fear group think has sunk in here and even Matt has succumbed to it.

Pussyhands

As I said re the Moncrieff show, reading out texters funny texts doesn't make the presenter funny!

aroundthehouse

Pussyhands wrote: »

Susan keogh pushing her stupid feminist agenda again today with the book review.

The last word yesterday evening was beyond a joke, I turned on the car just in time to hear her on about having more women on the boards of companies, then 20 minutes later whilst flicking through the stations she was on about eddie the eagle who died of natural causes (wtf?) and then it was onto baby on board badges.... how the heck is the head of programming or even a producer not pulling her up on this?

razorblunt

I'm not a daily listener of TodayFM, I'm in the UK but catch it when I'm working from home for the day. So D&D don't bother me as they're perfect to drop in on now and then every couple of weeks. But yer one Muireann is a bit of a pain in the hole. The show relies way too heavily on text in topics and her fake laugh at the abysmal Gift Grub this morning was pathetic.

EPAndlee

aroundthehouse wrote: »

Muireann has her own show but she still fills in for Iano and D&D, whats the story here?

It probably just suited her because she is on tv3 in the evening

prunudo

whiterebel wrote: »

. Its getting harder and harder to figure out what their target audience is.

Depends who they're trying to pitch their advertising slot too!

whiterebel

I'd say they are trying out for the next batch of changes. I don't know why, Phil Cawley was fine filling in for Ian, he should have done the full 3 weeks. Its getting harder and harder to figure out what their target audience is.

aroundthehouse

Muireann has her own show but she still fills in for Iano and D&D, whats the story here?

aroundthehouse

TheDavester wrote: »

what's her background, is she actually a journalist or was she only a news reader beforehand (and seems to be how she got in)

and it seems she's coasting off the time she was "trolled" on the internet imho looking up on her on the web

HA! I thought the very same, she got "trolled" and used it to make a name for herself and her feminist agenda

prunudo

statto25 wrote: »

Muireann is in for Ian folks. I'm not a fan of her show but it's a shambles that although she has her own slot on the schedule they continue to use her to fill in for other presenters.

It seems to be a thing with the newer and younger presenters. Its like management want everybody to be the same and easily inter changeable between shows, saves them getting too big for their boots and being individual. The social media outrage with the likes of Anton and Will Leahy can't sit too well with those higher up.

The Princess Bride

It's very odd.
That's 3 different presenters to replace him.
Phil Cawley was so easy going, don't know why he couldn't have done the 3 weeks.

statto25

Muireann is in for Ian folks. I'm not a fan of her show but it's a shambles that although she has her own slot on the schedule they continue to use her to fill in for other presenters.

TheDavester

JoeA3 wrote: »

She’s not even qualified to do the show in its entirety ffs! She had to hand over the reigns to the sports guy after 6 yesterday and let him finish the show.
If the topic isn’t some feminist issue or inane Love Island type conversation, she’s outside her comfort zone by miles.

what's her background, is she actually a journalist or was she only a news reader beforehand (and seems to be how she got in)

and it seems she's coasting off the time she was "trolled" on the internet imho looking up on her on the web

prunudo

TheDavester wrote: »

Lack of options I guess , Gavin left, hugh lenehan (not sure spelling) is barred from the times issue and it seems their hiring plan is to promote news readers and road traffic readers

Both those 'options' are male and it seems that radio station management have become obsessed with gender quotas/balance even if that means filling slots with poorer quality presenters.

JoeA3

She’s not even qualified to do the show in its entirety ffs! She had to hand over the reigns to the sports guy after 6 yesterday and let him finish the show.
If the topic isn’t some feminist issue or inane Love Island type conversation, she’s outside her comfort zone by miles.

TheDavester

dominatinMC wrote: »

I still can't understand how the management at Today FM think that Susan is the best option they have to stand-in for Matt. I realise that TLW isn't what it used to be, but she drags it down to a whole new level of mediocrity.

Lack of options I guess , Gavin left, hugh lenehan (not sure spelling) is barred from the times issue and it seems their hiring plan is to promote news readers and road traffic readers

dominatinMC

Pussyhands wrote:

Susan keogh pushing her stupid feminist agenda again today with the book review.

I still can't understand how the management at Today FM think that Susan is the best option they have to stand-in for Matt. I realise that TLW isn't what it used to be, but she drags it down to a whole new level of mediocrity.

hufpc8w3adnk65

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

When the station was at its strongest, it had programmes that had their own identity. Ray D'Arcy isn't to everyone's taste but his personality and music choices were stamped all over his show. The late Tony Fenton did his own thing too as did Ray Foley. I'm of the belief that it doesn't really matter who's behind the microphone these days. The presenters no longer appear to have any control over the records they play and they're all talking the same inane shyte all day. You could issue Feargal D'Arcy, Muireann and D&D with their P45s in the morning, replace them with uber cool former TXFM presenters and still end up with the same awfulness. Someone has come up with a formula for how the station should sound now and the current presenters are pieces of the jigsaw.

This!!! X 1000000000000000000000

Pussyhands

Susan keogh pushing her stupid feminist agenda again today with the book review.

EPAndlee

bidiots wrote: »

Maybe, just maybe, everyone here is getting older and not the target demographic. Radio evolves but, its a dying art.

I only have the radio on at work for background noise, if I actually want to hear good music I'll throw on Spotify

loumasry

bidiots wrote: »

Maybe, just maybe, everyone here is getting older and not the target demographic. Radio evolves but, its a dying art.

Maybe but the numbers say no. The consistent growth of Newstalk and Radio 1 (and to a lesser extent 2FM) shows that there are ears out there. Today fm is just sheeyte these days no matter what your age.

bidiots

Maybe, just maybe, everyone here is getting older and not the target demographic. Radio evolves but, its a dying art.

_Brian

Ray Darcy had gone off the boil before he left, he was getting far too caught up in talking about himself and his porridge.

I really think Ian is just passing his peak too, it’s sad as he’s been a Trojan presenter all along but I feel recently it’s not just as strong as it was.

Mario was too late getting his own show, he’s been about too long as a 3 minute gag which itself is getting old hat.

TodayFM were just fools to loose Anton Savage, it was a monumental cockup that they’re still struggling to resolve.

It’s gone from a strong “must listen to” station to mediocre background noise. I drove much of the day for a living and was a compulsive TodayFM listener, now I tune in an odd time and listen to audiobooks instead.

EPAndlee

There's a good few stations like that, even if you put on 2fm you get awful presenters, the same rubbish pop music and bombarded with pointless celebrity news every hour of the day

Ursus Horribilis

When the station was at its strongest, it had programmes that had their own identity. Ray D'Arcy isn't to everyone's taste but his personality and music choices were stamped all over his show. The late Tony Fenton did his own thing too as did Ray Foley. I'm of the belief that it doesn't really matter who's behind the microphone these days. The presenters no longer appear to have any control over the records they play and they're all talking the same inane shyte all day. You could issue Feargal D'Arcy, Muireann and D&D with their P45s in the morning, replace them with uber cool former TXFM presenters and still end up with the same awfulness. Someone has come up with a formula for how the station should sound now and the current presenters are pieces of the jigsaw.

gamecube

Johnjustjohn - You totally hit the nail on the head there!

It was a station we all never turned off a couple of years ago.

A great lesson indeed that should be thought in collage.....how to turn a great station s**t in 3 easy steps!!

Brendan Bendar

Great first post.

I’ll finish reading next week.

Keep up the good work

johnjustjohn

I’m just jumping in here to show my appreciation for this thread. It’s really amazing to read from the beginning how badly things have gone for Todayfm when it used to be such a giant. Reading back over all the posts, it’s like watching a car crash in slow motion. It’s sad for the people involved but you can’t look away.

Like many on here I was a big Today fm fan a few years ago and we always had it on in work from Ian Dempsey all the way through to Matt and there was rarely a day when something didn’t happen that would make us laugh or argue or turn it up to hear what they were doing. It was must listen stuff and it always seemed like it was a fun station that understood its audience. No chance would we listen to 2FM and the local stations here are rubbish. From what I remember it seemed like everyone else was listening to it too. Things like Shave or Dye and the like were absolutely massive and it was like the station was a part of the life of the whole country. That was only a few years ago. Anyone would have thought the station was bulletproof but listen to it now and it’s an embarrassing pale imitation of its former self. Ian is still going strong but all the rest of the day is like inane childish unfunny text garbage. Whatever they have done to the Last Word is just weird. That show used to be the essential show to hear Matt attack government ministers and intelligently do the news. Dumbing down is putting it mildly. It sounds like his scripts might be written in crayon. Dermot and Dave, Fergal, Muireann are all the same naff DJ talking about the same rubbish of the day. And not getting into all of the Al Porter resignation but there couldn’t have been a less suited presenter for Today fm. What the hell happened to it? Every decision is a bad one. Listenership figures today again show that 2fm are beating them now. Its laughable.

We very rarely put it on now but we often mention how it’s a pity there’s nothing else around like it was. Finding this thread it’s amazing to see that I’m not the only one. Is that same boss who was mentioned in the first post still there? This thread should actually be used in colleges to teach people how to take such a phenomenally successful business and just totally trash it in a couple of years. Amazing stuff.

aroundthehouse

griffin100 wrote: »

You haven't listened to Mario Rosenstock's new show then. I was in the car on Sunday morning and gave it half an hour. Sweet jaysus twas dire. Guests forcing themselves to laugh at his impressions and voices.

D&D I don't mid actually, I find they can be funny sometimes. I enjoyed their interview with the downhill speed skier this morning.

Ah i thought it was a good show with the exception of the snotty english auld lad who was some sort of gold expert, i dont like louis walsh but i enjoyed the interview