odyssey06 wrote: » Loving the Top 100 Cover songs of all time, some covers by George Michael (I Can't Make You Love Me) and Paul Weller (Thinking of You) I'd never heard before
deise man wrote: » Totally agree. It was really enjoyable. I wonder if rte gold would get more listeners than lyric if it was on fm?
alzer100 wrote: » I still think that of all the Irish based "classic hits" formatted stations RTE Gold seems to have the most comprehensive playlist of all I have great respect for Mike Moloney and for putting together goldradio.ie and I know it's early days but listening to the station over the past few days the playlist strikes me as being a bit too bland. I think a lot of this comes down to royalty payments for a private commercial venture. All independent commercial stations seem to store a music library of about 600 to 800 .
Infoanon wrote: » Music library size has nothing to do with Royalties - it's not eg a television model. Commercial radio stations have a very selective playlist based on their audience preferences - the playlist is heavily researched and allows for little or no deviation by the presenter / DJ. The commercial 'Gold' stations eg Capital in the UK or WCBS in New York work of a playlist of 750 songs max and it is normal th hear a track played multiple times in the day. RTE Gold is not running as a commercial station which allows greater flexibility in what gets played - afaik there are very few restrictions on the RTE Gold playlist. If in a fantasy world if RTE Gold was to go onto FM then in time it would move to a very reduced commercialised playlist.
Mickey Mike wrote: » RTE Gold so get many many more listeners if on fm instead of Lyric, it would be a bold and brave move and worth it if RTE did, and put Lyric online.
ka2 wrote: » I’ve noticed this morning that the text number has changed. Instead of the usual 087 number it’s 51554. Seems like a bit of a backwards step to me because you have to text it, can’t use WhatsApp on a shortcode.
Red Fred wrote: » I noticed the 51554 number on Gold's website but am confused because as far as I remember that is/was Lyric's text number.
Mickey Mike wrote: » Is the future of RTE Gold secure? now that Gold Radio has failed, I see RTE TV advertising new programs to start on RTE radio 1 extra.
Greatest Hits wrote: » The future of RTÉ Gold should have nothing to do with Gold Radio’s unsuccessful launch. Looking through some of the posts on this board recently and you'd swear there were no Irish digital alternatives to RTE Gold – there are, and its growing all the time. Greatest Hits launched on May 1st. We're far from the finished product, but have big plans, and are steadily increasing listeners. It's a hard slog, but very rewarding as numbers climb. The overall quality of digital stations has improved in recent years. The 90s Network, All Gold, 8Radio, All 80s, Zenith, GCR, Radio Leinster, and our sister station Country Hits are nice Irish alternatives. I hope for those involved with RTE Gold. at very least, it continues online. It’s a shame Gold Radio didn’t work out, and I wish Mike Moloney well with his new venture. Quality stations, with top broadcasters will simply move more and more people online, until it inevitably becomes the dominant platform (Up to 58% now in the UK – albeit way ahead of us with DAB) Greatest Hits - Feel Good Flashbacks greatesthits.ie
zorro2566 wrote: » That’s great to have more choice! What is the web stream urls for the Greatest Hits and Country stations? I’d like to add them to my Internet radio. You should get them added to the Frontier Nuvelo database which serves Roberts Stream Internet sets!
Guramoogah wrote: » I usually listen to RTÉ1 but in these sports-less days of Covid-19, RTÉ Gold is broadcast on RTÉ1 on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. I was listening today as I prepared my evening meal and there was a fella named Rick O'Shea playing a song called 'Disco Inferno'. Surely this song was (unofficially) banned from all Irish channels following the Stardust fire in 1981 which took the lives of 48 young people. I realise that O'Shea was probably only a young child at the time of the fire but surely he must have heard of the events or seen it on Reeling In The Years? I still cannot believe that this song was being played today on the main national radio station, where it could be heard by any of the relatives or friends of all of those who were incinerated in that fire. Insensitive behaviour or just pure ignorance?
TheBMG wrote: » You need to talk to Joe
Simon201 wrote: » Loving Keith in the afternoons, I'm sure his humour goes above the head of some but he plays some great gold stuff! He was good on Spin but the other fella seemed to be in control? Wonder if didn't really like playing the young stuff on Spin?
Declan A Walsh wrote: » You've never hear of Rick O'Shea before?? Or maybe that was just a turn of phrase. Before he became a mainstay of RTE Gold, he was with 2FM for a number of years.
Declan A Walsh wrote: » You've never hear of Rick O'Shea before?? Or maybe that was just a turn of phrase. Before he became a mainstay of RTE Gold, he was with 2FM for a number of years. That would be Keith Walsh, also from 2FM. The "other fella" he used to present with on Spin is Joe Donnelly. They reunited for a while on Phantom, a station they had also been on previously as a pirate.
ford fiesta wrote: » Keith walsh is still part of the 2FM schedule...Sat and Sundays 5pm to 7pm
Tork wrote: » Didn't Today FM have a show called Disco Inferno years ago?
