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Breakfast with Ray (Foley) and Jay [Cork's Red FM, 6am-9am]

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    #6152
    EI209
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭EI209


    Somebody actually won the secret sound! Finally! It was a Yorkshire Pudding being squashed 😂
    https://twitter.com/corksredfm/status/1114083850802561024?s=21


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    #6153
    IUA14
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭IUA14


    EI209 wrote: »
    Somebody actually won the secret sound! Finally! It was a Yorkshire Pudding being squashed 😂
    https://twitter.com/corksredfm/status/1114083850802561024?s=21

    And a new one starts next week. 😱 I hate that feature and it's been done to death...surely they can do something else for a while.


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    #6154
    EI209
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭EI209


    IUA14 wrote: »
    And a new one starts next week. 😱 I hate that feature and it's been done to death...surely they can do something else for a while.

    Bring back 'The Gauntlet'


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    #6155
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,727 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    IUA14 wrote: »
    And a new one starts next week. �� I hate that feature and it's been done to death...surely they can do something else for a while.

    Not a fan of the feature and Foley was dead set against it when he joined RedFM he took the p!ss out of it continuously but his interactions with the people ringing in are brilliant, he always manages to make it fun.


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    #6156
    EI209
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭EI209


    Just heard an old Gauntlet of Ann Gleeson's from years ago and now I'm feeling all nostalgic!

    I love Breakfast with Ray and Jay, it's w great show on a good station but if I could chose one additional feature to bring back from the old Lunchtime show on Today FM it'd have to be the Gauntlet.


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    #6157
    IUA14
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭IUA14


    Its mornings like today I get the Secret Sound feature, get someone on the phone to chat and it spins off into something else. The lads had me laughing my ass off on the way to work with the Benecol stuff!


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    #6158
    hufpc8w3adnk65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,158 ✭✭✭✭hufpc8w3adnk65


    One of Rays biggest strengths is taken the most minute detail and running a tangent off it!!


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    #6159
    flangemeistro
    Registered Users Posts: 1,692 ✭✭✭flangemeistro


    IUA14 wrote: »
    Its mornings like today I get the Secret Sound feature, get someone on the phone to chat and it spins off into something else. The lads had me laughing my ass off on the way to work with the Benecol stuff!

    It's one of the main reasons I went over to KC & Ross so one good morning in 18 months isn't going to change that for me unfortunately, that along with Jay being late & not turning up, 99% female callers and prize winners, 7 o clock show plugging and Ray regularly & blatantly broadcasting from Dublin while pretending he's across the desk from Jay I just couldn't listen anymore.


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    #6160
    hufpc8w3adnk65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,158 ✭✭✭✭hufpc8w3adnk65


    flangemeistro wrote: »
    It's one of the main reasons I went over to KC & Ross so one good morning in 18 months isn't going to change that for me unfortunately, that along with Jay being late & not turning up, 99% female callers and prize winners, 7 o clock show plugging and Ray regularly & blatantly broadcasting from Dublin while pretending he's across the desk from Jay I just couldn't listen anymore.
    Ross Browne is insufferable


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    #6161
    flangemeistro
    Registered Users Posts: 1,692 ✭✭✭flangemeistro


    MrMac84 wrote: »
    Ross Browne is insufferable

    I agree but when KC can get him to take a back seat it's a great show.
    Also some of Ross's bits are genuinely funny like the Jeremy Kyle bit and Daithi O'Shea bit.


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    #6162
    Loughc
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    IUA14 wrote: »
    Its mornings like today I get the Secret Sound feature, get someone on the phone to chat and it spins off into something else. The lads had me laughing my ass off on the way to work with the Benecol stuff!

    The Benecol stuff was amazing. I feel like they had another tangent a few days ago too. Foley is really finding form again on RedFM. He really is loving radio again and it shows.


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    #6163
    flangemeistro
    Registered Users Posts: 1,692 ✭✭✭flangemeistro


    Forgot to mention the stupid o clock club which does exactly what it says on the tin. The same Stupid people texting in to get their name read out on air for some absolutely meaningless 5 seconds of fame that no one remembers or cares about.
    Was also in a different car this morning going to work and they had it on.
    Once again another female winner fest, a €400 Frank Clarke tool voucher for father's Day to a woman who didn't mention her father or get husband and another half a dozen women called out at the end of the show for next week's shows in Youghal.
    I think they've found their target demo.


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    #6164
    IUA14
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭IUA14


    flangemeistro wrote: »
    Forgot to mention the stupid o clock club which does exactly what it says on the tin. The same Stupid people texting in to get their name read out on air for some absolutely meaningless 5 seconds of fame that no one remembers or cares about.
    Was also in a different car this morning going to work and they had it on.
    Once again another female winner fest, a €400 Frank Clarke tool voucher for father's Day to a woman who didn't mention her father or get husband and another half a dozen women called out at the end of the show for next week's shows in Youghal.
    I think they've found their target demo.

    Foley has said many times he wants to ditch the stupid o clock thing but the people who like their name read out are a vocal bunch. And its 2/3 mins so not end of the world.

    As for the 'female winner fest'...well for a fathers day prize its statistically more likely to be women entering no? So female winner seems about right. And it's the same on any radio show across the country for any family related prizes. Secret Sound winner in April was a lad if it makes ya feel better.


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    #6165
    Chip Whitley
    Registered Users Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭Chip Whitley


    I was reading recently that Ray has taken the plunge and now rents an apartment a stonesthrow from the Red studios Monday to Friday. Fair play, drives back to Dublin on a Friday then to host the Six O'Clock Show on TV3/Virgin.

    Fingers crossed that should he have more free time during the week now that he might return to podcasting.


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    #6166
    Loughc
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    Chip Whitley wrote: »
    I was reading recently that Ray has taken the plunge and now rents an apartment a stonesthrow from the Red studios Monday to Friday. Fair play, drives back to Dublin on a Friday then to host the Six O'Clock Show on TV3/Virgin.

    Fingers crossed that should he have more free time during the week now that he might return to podcasting.

    Unfortunately he’s been renting that apartment for over two years. So there’s no sign of NTN coming back. JP and Adele and nordy Eoin are all too busy


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    #6167
    Testament1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,578 ✭✭✭Testament1


    Loughc wrote: »
    Unfortunately he’s been renting that apartment for over two years. So there’s no sign of NTN coming back. JP and Adele and nordy Eoin are all too busy

    Even worse is that there's no sign of the old episodes online, only listened to them the once, why the hell didn't I download em!!!!


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    #6168
    gamecube
    Registered Users Posts: 364 ✭✭gamecube


    Chip Whitley wrote: »
    I was reading recently that Ray has taken the plunge and now rents an apartment a stonesthrow from the Red studios Monday to Friday. Fair play, drives back to Dublin on a Friday then to host the Six O'Clock Show on TV3/Virgin.

    Fingers crossed that should he have more free time during the week now that he might return to podcasting.

    Six O'clock show is only on Mon-Thur now, so when Ray drives back to Dublin Friday he is going straight home.


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    #6169
    Chip Whitley
    Registered Users Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭Chip Whitley


    I went back and checked the article I had read. It was from September 2017! D'oh!


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    #6170
    IUA14
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭IUA14


    Interesting events at Today FM...Muireann 'fired' in her own words and Mairead Ronan taking over. Louise Duffy out too. Still the same boss there who screwed over Foley when he left 98.


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    #6171
    buster180
    Registered Users Posts: 558 ✭✭✭buster180


    IUA14 wrote: »
    Interesting events at Today FM...Muireann 'fired' in her own words and Mairead Ronan taking over. Louise Duffy out too. Still the same boss there who screwed over Foley when he left 98.


    Thats terrible. The station started to go downhill after Foley left for 98fm. Also getting rid of Anton Savage was massive mistake. The new bloke in charge of the station seems to be a bit of a tool.


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    #6172
    jackmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭jackmcc


    "The new bloke" has been ruining the station for a few years now. It's not the presenters that the issue, its the person running the station.

    Anyway, did anyone here the podcast Ray did on the RedFM feed? It was just a long ad for the centre parks thing, but still great to hear him off the leash a little, without breaking for music or ads.


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    #6173
    hufpc8w3adnk65
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    How’d the lads fare in the JNLRs?


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    #6174
    IUA14
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭IUA14


    MrMac84 wrote: »
    How’d the lads fare in the JNLRs?

    No idea, Red saying its number 1 across the whole day still including breakfast and 96FM saying KC is 5k listeners ahead (in what category I have no idea)...somehow I don't believe that given it would be a massive swing book to book. Might find out tomorrow in the Examiner or Echo or Red FM usually give figures in their bulletins.


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    #6175
    Itssoeasy
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    Loughc wrote: »
    Unfortunately he’s been renting that apartment for over two years. So there’s no sign of NTN coming back. JP and Adele and nordy Eoin are all too busy

    yeah as head of programming on Today Fm and is helping drive that station into the ground.


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    #6176
    IUA14
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭IUA14


    By way of an update:

    https://twitter.com/rayfoleyshow/status/1156984657646407681

    96FM just say that KC and Ross are the most listened to but no figures.


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    #6177
    Loughc
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    IUA14 wrote: »
    96FM just say that KC and Ross are the most listened to but no figures.

    Most listened too in over 65 age category?


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    #6178
    IUA14
    Registered Users Posts: 900 ✭✭✭IUA14


    Loughc wrote: »
    Most listened too in over 65 age category?

    Judging from the BAI graphics they put out that's about the only category they are ahead of Red


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    #6179
    Loughc
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    IUA14 wrote: »
    Judging from the BAI graphics they put out that's about the only category they are ahead of Red

    And the least attractive from potential advertising buyers.


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    #6180
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,437 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Loughc wrote: »
    IUA14 wrote: »
    96FM just say that KC and Ross are the most listened to but no figures.

    Most listened too in over 65 age category?
    At some point 96fm will have to get more than the couple of now that’s what I call music CDs that make up their music library.


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    #6181
    hufpc8w3adnk65
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    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    At some point 96fm will have to get more than the couple of now that’s what I call music CDs that make up their music library.

    Send all complaints to HollywoodSteveHayes@96fm.ie


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