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Today FM Megathread Mod warning post #1 / #1401

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,601 Testament1
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    Listening to the podcast from Wednesdays Ray Foley show where he likened the current method of programming decisions to standing outside the Today FM building after it's been doused in petrol with a match in hand :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,198 Mr Tickle
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    According to a recent report from RTE the number of people who listen to radio on a daily basis is 87%.

    Now I think that's absolute bollocks but that's what they claim.

    you have to wonder about the question asked there. and who they asked.

    I'd believe that 87% of people hear radio on a daily basis. nowhere near that would call themselves listeners.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,298 prunudo
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    According to a recent report from RTE the number of people who listen to radio on a daily basis is 87%.

    Now I think that's absolute bollocks but that's what they claim.

    I'd say its more likely that the survey revealed 'of the people listening to the radio only 87% are actually listening to the radio'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,816 Man Vs ManUre
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    It’s in the news now about Muireann getting more popular after her “I got fired” tweet. There’s a breaking article in the independent.
    Go on Muireann ya good ting!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 Ursus Horribilis
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    We'll see if online popularity translates into actual job offers.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,330 TaurenDruid
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    JNLR stats as reported by the Indo:

    Muireann O'Connell: 96,000 (+3,000)
    Louise Duffy: 29,000 (-1,000) (That must surely be a typo? It must be 129,000... mustn't it?!)
    Ian Dempsey: 179,000 (-2,000)
    Dermor & Dave: 163,000 (no change)
    Fergal Darcy: 109,000 (+3,000)
    Matt Cooper: 151,000 (-1,000)

    (Edited to add Alison Curtis)

    Alison Curtis (Saturday mornings): 133,000 (previous quarter not given)

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  • Posts: 178 [Deleted User]
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    JNLR stats as reported by the Indo:

    Muireann O'Connell: 96,000 (+3,000)
    Louise Duffy: 29,000 (-1,000) (That must surely be a typo? It must be 129,000... mustn't it?!)
    Ian Dempsey: 179,000 (-2,000)
    Dermor & Dave: 163,000 (no change)
    Fergal Darcy: 109,000 (+3,000)
    Matt Cooper: 151,000 (-1,000)

    So a presenter who gains 3,000 listeners is let go,and Ian Dempsey loses 2,000, stays where he is..Like I said in an earlier post..Radio is more about politics,than talent these days..


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 Stevieluvsye
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    So a presenter who gains 3,000 listeners is let go,and Ian Dempsey loses 2,000, stays where he is..Like I said in an earlier post..Radio is more about politics,than talent these days..

    Iano nearly has double her listeners so that's a bad comparison


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 Ursus Horribilis
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    In radio terms, would a change of a couple of thousand listeners really make that much difference?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,330 TaurenDruid
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    So a presenter who gains 3,000 listeners is let go,and Ian Dempsey loses 2,000, stays where he is..Like I said in an earlier post..Radio is more about politics,than talent these days..

    Nope. As mentioned, Ian has nearly double Muireann's numbers.

    But there's clearly an audience switching off Dermot & Dave when Muireann came on, and switching back on when Fergal D'Arcy comes on. (Or, there's a natural dip in radio listeners at lunchtime as people go out? Or a combination of both).

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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 Stevieluvsye
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    Nope. As mentioned, Ian has nearly double Muireann's numbers.

    But there's clearly an audience switching off Dermot & Dave when Muireann came on, and switching back on when Fergal D'Arcy comes on. (Or, there's a natural dip in radio listeners at lunchtime as people go out? Or a combination of both).

    67k actually switch off after D&D, wow, that's a considerable drop in numbers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,528 Claude Burgundy
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    67k actually switch off after D&D, wow, that's a considerable drop in numbers

    I was one of them, i listened for a while but i only lasted a month or two.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 Stevieluvsye
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    I was one of them, i listened for a while but i only lasted a month or two.

    I gave it a day


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,330 TaurenDruid
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    Mr Tickle wrote: »
    you have to wonder about the question asked there. and who they asked.

    I'd believe that 87% of people hear radio on a daily basis. nowhere near that would call themselves listeners.

    They're getting that figure from the JNLR (the current figure is 82%), and that comes from IPSOS/MRBI interviewing over 16,000 people every year. I've gotten a couple of cold-call phonecalls from them over the past couple of years.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,003 EverythingGood
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    67k actually switch off after D&D, wow, that's a considerable drop in numbers

    Or people start work?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,546 johnire
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    Cannot believe Darcys figures have increased by 3,000...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 Stevieluvsye
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    Or people start work?

    They finish at 12


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,330 TaurenDruid
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    johnire wrote: »
    Cannot believe Darcys figures have increased by 3,000...

    See, this is the thing. Your taste, and my taste, is not everyone else's. I find D&D hilarious. Others on here hate them. Clearly, from the figures, plenty of listeners love them. Same with Fergal Darcy (who admittedly seems to be more "marmitey" than most other presenters).

    I thought MOC was great as a presenter when she was standing in for people, but on the few occasions I caught her lunchtime show - nah, not my cup of tea at all. Obviously a lot of other people felt the same.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,937 statto25
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    Baz Ashmawy filling in for Dermot and Dave next week. This is not a drill folks, women and children first.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,597 jippo nolan
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    statto25 wrote: »
    Baz Ashmawy filling in for Dermot and Dave next week. This is not a drill folks, women and children first.

    Thanks for the warning!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,488 Bazzy
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    But then who would be on the radio to get people dancing in their kitchen, mention children, Canada, more children, Canada, being from Canada and about how she's from Canada?

    You forgot she's a twin


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 JoeA3
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    statto25 wrote: »
    Baz Ashmawy filling in for Dermot and Dave next week. This is not a drill folks, women and children first.

    On the irritation scale there's far worse than Baz already on the Today FM payroll... so it could be worse :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,816 Man Vs ManUre
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    Muireann is at the all together now festival. She’s not stuck in traffic so she must have left early. Smart girl.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 26,325 Loughc
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    Muireann is at the all together now festival. She’s not stuck in traffic so she must have left early. Smart girl.

    It’s almost like she had no where to go earlier :O


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,985 ford fiesta
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    statto25 wrote: »
    Baz Ashmawy filling in for Dermot and Dave next week. This is not a drill folks, women and children first.

    A regular stand in for tubridy and darcy on rte radio 1. Will he still stand in on rte, after moving to today fm as a stand in ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,546 johnire
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    Purely as a matter of interest has anyone any idea what a radio presenter would earn in a year? Say someone like Fergal Darcy?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 611 redbuck
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    johnire wrote: »
    Purely as a matter of interest has anyone any idea what a radio presenter would earn in a year? Say someone like Fergal Darcy?

    50k maybe?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,249 Juniper Petite Sordidness
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    probably more as he's one of the heads of the content "creation" class they do


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,937 statto25
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    statto25 wrote: »
    Baz Ashmawy filling in for Dermot and Dave next week. This is not a drill folks, women and children first.

    A regular stand in for tubridy and darcy on rte radio 1. Will he still stand in on rte, after moving to today fm as a stand in ?

    Chances are TodayFM are lining him up for a show, maybe a weekend spot and want to give him some airtime. I know he fills in on RTE, and he's shocking. Sounds like a lad reading off a script


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,249 Juniper Petite Sordidness
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    who does he appeal to????? but I could say that about Mairead Ronan too


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