Classic Hits.

JoeA3 wrote: »

Haven’t listened in a good while but I always got the impression that he is live. I’d imagine most or the content from 7am to 7pm is live. Perhaps not those repetitive “csi investigations” segments though. Time to knock that on the head if they haven’t already done so.

It's a bad jaded alright.

In the early days of 4FM, presenter Jimmy Grealey used to have a segment called psi, which stood for pop scene investigation!

Hurrache wrote: »

Dunno, I wouldn't agree, the two seem to get on well and the fun they have I think is genuine. It's the best morning show around anyway.

I know I'm replying to an old post, but it's pretty much on in our house every morning since March, it's a good escape from the misery that's been going on.

As double headed breakfast shows go its the least offensive, they play decent music and pretty much get on with it. Compared to the muck on Nova the lads are light years ahead.

The playlist is quite limited and therefore quite cheap. It's on in the backgroundat work from 7 until 3 every day, not loud enough to hear the talking but just the songs and the connection between the 7 to 7 promise and the amount of times I've heard Alanis Morrisette's biggest hit is not lost on me.

flazio wrote: »

The playlist is quite limited and therefore quite cheap. .

Most stations have a very limited playlist circa 1,000 songs but that in itself does not reduce costs.

Classic Hits has changed ownership multiple times with the fresh investment keeping it a float.

It's original contract commitments have been greatly diluted which has greatly reduced costs - talk / news is expensive. With its music policy been allowed shift to the popular classic hits format the station has attracted higher audiences.

Shared news facilities and shared studio / transmission costs have also helped.

The original financial figures where horrendous with multi million pound losses.

Getting the right line up for breakfast was a master stroke but long term it probably needs to drop the Niall Boylan 2 hour break to music to have a real chance of better ratings and survival

TheJockster wrote: »

Sure Nova and classic Hits will be the same thing soon, with the CEO and PD of classic Hits gone from last week and colm hayes from nova, dave kelly from fm104 prev and liam thompson prev from 98 taking over it's going to be a disaster. Watch them make nova go national, try get rid of classic Hits and again ruin another radio station.

Say what, Hayes has gone from Nova? Please say this is so.

prunudo wrote: »

Say what, Hayes has gone from Nova? Please say this is so.

let's see

Max Headroom wrote: »

See how long it takes for Hayes to get rid of Kelly and Thompson....P45's already filled out....;)

Aren't Kelly and Thompson going to be above Hayes? Other than board-level it seems they are set to run the operation.

Max Headroom wrote: »

The expression "..my way or the highway" springs to mind....look at the cull at nova since he took over...yes i said "took over........"

So what you're saying is the company has paid out to bring in two people with huge experience and at a huge cost, but Colm Hayes will object and the other two guys will be sacked? If that's what you are implying it's absolute nonsense, unless I'm reading wrong and you're saying Hayes is gonna get the boot, which makes more sense, but unlikely anything will happen until next year, maybe Nova will push for national.

Lord Nelson wrote: »

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Brannigan is above Hayes and look how that's worked out? Kelly should have retired on a high instead of getting involved with a lost cause.

Oh OK, I really don't know the management setup at all there, I just know Hayes joined up a few years ago as some sort of Programme Director role, but reading the press release it seemed Kelly and Thompson would be above everyone else on both stations...

Who has left their roles at Classic Hits and Nova so? Or is it just new role?