jrmb wrote: » I remember the year or two before it became the short-lived "TeamTalk 252". The presenters, news, advertising and phone numbers all suggested that it was a British station. Originally it was a joint project of RTÉ and RTL from Luxembourg. RTL is still huge in other European countries.
A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: » Whatever about being a red pill, Atlantic 252 was a rare example of a clever, forward-thinking, commercial success at RTE. .
A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: » Whatever about being a red pill, Atlantic 252 was a rare example of a clever, forward-thinking, commercial success at RTE. I'd like to see RTE gear themselves more to an international market with streaming services. Something like an English-language version of ARTE, the French/German taxpayer-funded cultural channel which is available for free around the world. It's not only an important cultural export for France, in particular, but it also raises commercial revenue. Ireland has an unusually enormous diaspora, and this should be seen as an asset that's waiting to be exploited. If not for TV, then for radio. An RTE World Service for Irish life and culture, basically.
Moon_shoes wrote: » 20 years ago, I was working on a building site, one day in the canteen, one of the lads put on Atlantic 252 and I mentioned how Atlantic 252 was an Irish based, RTE controlled operation, well they all laughed at me as if I claimed to have been abducted by aliens.
Dtp1979 wrote: » What is the phrase that pays?
byte wrote: » I listen to long wave radio, Atlantic 252?
alzer100 wrote: » As much as I liked Atlantic 252 especially in its early years, it wasn't really an original idea or thinking outside the box with respect to its format, sound and target audience as far as RTE was concerned. Its concept was born from Dublin's super pirates of the late 1980's, namely Sunshine 101 and Super-Q102. RTE were just able to bring that particular "sound" to a wider audience in the UK and it worked (for a couple of years anyway).
Declan A Walsh wrote: » It's true that it drew it's concept from the superpirates, and, indeed, some of the presenters from those stations turned up on it. But it was different from the existing RTE stations and the new commercially licensed stations in a few ways.
Declan A Walsh wrote: » It's true that it drew it's concept from the superpirates, and, indeed, some of the presenters from those stations turned up on it. But it was different from the existing RTE stations and the new commercially licensed stations in a few ways. 1. It was the only example of a joint venture between RTE and an outside company, i.e. RTL, the owners of Radio Luxembourg. 2. One of the big USPs was the fact that it was broadcast on long wave. When the station started in 1989, practically all cars in Ireland had a long wave option as did shop radios. It was accessible throughout most of Ireland and there was no issue about retuning. 3. It played a lot more music than any of its other licensed competitors - the superpirates wall to wall music concept indeed. It did not have any 20% news remit. There were some news headlines but they took at most 5 minutes, if that! 4. It was unusual in that the major target audience was the UK, even though it was broadcasting from Ireland. 5. There were a lot of UK voices and some American ones too.
Infoanon wrote: » It sounded like a pirate station and that was not accidental.Charlie Wolf is the American voice you refer to and he had made his name on the UK pirate ship station Laser 558. Basically he was to do on Atlantic what he had done on laser and the impression of being a maverick station blasting in from the Atlantic was all part of Atlantics marketing. It was a huge success until FM came of age in the UK and rules on talk content where relaxed .
Dtp1979 wrote: » https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGEfbzPqtGc
alzer100 wrote: » Have not looked at the video yet but all I can remember are those names from the early days...Sandy Beach, Dusty Rhodes, Robin Banks, Batman Gomez etc. Rick O'Shea came on board after around '92, '93 (I think). I stopped listening at that stage as the format was starting to change. In 1991, I actually purchased a very expensive portable Sony LW radio, it was about the size of a Walkman but had SW and LW tuners so I could listen to Atlantic 252 when on the move! I know, I know... sad! But for me it really was the best CHR station around at that time.
Declan A Walsh wrote: » Some more of the funny names on Atlantic 252: Cousin Brucie, Jo King, Wayne Scales, Pizzaman, Bam Bam, Dickie Bow, Annett Curtain, Dan the Hitman, Desperate Dan and Hollywood Haze.
alzer100 wrote: » I remember a great weekday ineup in and around 1991 consisted of: 6 or 7am -10am Charlie Wolf 10am - 1pm. Henry Owens / Al Dunne 1pm - 4pm Kevin Palmer 4pm - 8pm Dusty Rhodes 8pm - 12am Sandy Beach I recall the daily break in transmission at 7:pm (I think) as they would change over to a lower powered transmitter for nighttime broadcasting.
Declan A Walsh wrote: » I remember all those presenters. Kevin Palmer made a half-hearted attempt at a funny name by calling himself Captain Kevin! In the first year, Atlantic 252 used to close down at 7pm every evening. Incidentally, the very first breakfast presenter was Gary King. He announced his arrival with "Mine will be the first voice you will ever hear"! Charlie Wolf started off as the drive time presenter that finished off the day's broadcasting at 7pm. "Captain" Kevin did a stint at breakfast along with newsreader Andrew Turner (ex BBC Radio 1 and Laser). At one point, there was a female newsreader who adopted a funny name - can't remember either of her names!
Declan A Walsh wrote: » I did a quick google and I came up with Becky Chippendale, who I remember. But she was a co-presenter rather than a newsreader. I'm pretty sure there was a female newsreader who changed her name to make it sound funny.
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