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The Parish priest

The Today fm ceo has announced major changes are coming in 17...Any predictions ? My guess cormac and daniella for breakfast, Chris and Ciara for mid morning and Ian Dempsey goes to drive time

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Tork

An Irish music show is a ratings killer anyway, so putting it into that graveyard slot won't make much difference. It's clearly some sort of box-ticking exercise so they can satisfy the BAI. It's no different to The Last Word which they'd scrap in a heartbeat if they could.

TaurenDruid

Tork wrote: »

An Irish music show is a ratings killer anyway, so putting it into that graveyard slot won't make much difference. It's clearly some sort of box-ticking exercise so they can satisfy the BAI. It's no different to The Last Word which they'd scrap in a heartbeat if they could.

Why would they scrap one of their most popular shows?!

TaurenDruid

Dannyman76 wrote: »

An odd time to have it on but he's only replacing robodj at that hour

https://twitter.com/TodayFM/status/1378434880430821376

It's only on for an hour!

ford fiesta

It's like the Dublin stations such as 98FM putting an hour of Irish music on at 3am!

its_steve116

Tork wrote: »

An Irish music show is a ratings killer anyway, so putting it into that graveyard slot won't make much difference. It's clearly some sort of box-ticking exercise so they can satisfy the BAI. It's no different to The Last Word which they'd scrap in a heartbeat if they could.

Personally, I think Irish music is more deserving of airplay/support than its British and American counterparts, but each to their own.

Quite frankly, I'm tired of the same British/American artists being played every hour on the radio. I'm especially sick of Drake

pjohnson

We need Wim Hof to join Dermot and Dave every week :pac:

TaurenDruid

pjohnson wrote: »

We need Wim Hof to join Dermot and Dave every week :pac:

Who knew that a side-effect of immersing yourself in the cold was that you lose the ability to speak AND INSTEAD JUST SHOUT ALL THE TIME!

robo

its_steve116 wrote: »

Personally, I think Irish music is more deserving of airplay/support than its British and American counterparts, but each to their own.

Quite frankly, I'm tired of the same British/American artists being played every hour on the radio. I'm especially sick of Drake

Once they take Dermot Kennedy & Gavin James off the hourly loop, cos that is the only Irish music they play mainly:rolleyes:

pjohnson

TaurenDruid wrote: »

Who knew that a side-effect of immersing yourself in the cold was that you lose the ability to speak AND INSTEAD JUST SHOUT ALL THE TIME!

Poor feckers eardrums probably frozen solid.

siblers

That new Fergal D'Arcy show is the exact same generic ****e he plays during the week

I wonder does he get paid more for doing an extra show

TaurenDruid

siblers wrote: »

That new Fergal D'Arcy show is the exact same generic ****e he plays during the week

I wonder does he get paid more for doing an extra show

Is it not all Irish?

Chuck Noland

siblers wrote: »

That new Fergal D'Arcy show is the exact same generic ****e he plays during the week

I wonder does he get paid more for doing an extra show

Was it live or voice tracked?

mugsymugsy

Chuck Noland wrote: »

Was it live or voice tracked?

I only caught the end. Didn't sound live. Also he was covering for a slot this afternoon live so really doubt unless he lives and sleeps at the station.

Tork

It's a box ticking exercise for the station so they're doing this with the least possible effort. The only surprise here would be if it was being presented live.

siblers

TaurenDruid wrote: »

Is it not all Irish?

Not from what I heard, unless the first hour is

Sounded pre recorded, don't think there were any texts or emails read out

statto25

siblers wrote: »

Not from what I heard, unless the first hour is

Sounded pre recorded, don't think there were any texts or emails read out

It's only an hour from 8 to 9 I thought?

retalivity

statto25 wrote: »

It's only an hour from 8 to 9 I thought?

He was on from 12-4, covering for someone. I was driving all afternoon, every time I flicked back to Today FM he was there.

TaurenDruid

siblers wrote: »

Not from what I heard, unless the first hour is

Sounded pre recorded, don't think there were any texts or emails read out

So you're talking about the afternoon show he was covering for, then? Yep, that'd be whatever the algorithm is picking, then. The Sunday morning one is supposed to be just Irish music, but it's only a) an hour, and b) bloody early, so I've not heard it yet.

BPKS

Really enjoyed Eds Songs of Praise tribute to Kurt Cobain last night.

I think I'll be listening back to that show many a time.

ButtersSuki

Jennifer Gannon on The Last Word just now said that the return of Love Island is the best news she’s had all year and she’d be happy to stay in Lockdown as long as she has Love Island.

Also, in #woke news, Love Island is now going to accept applications from gay, bi, transgender, gender fluid people and everyone and everything in between. Totes amazeballs.

pjohnson

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Jennifer Gannon on The Last Word just now said that the return of Love Island is the best news she’s had all year and she’d be happy to stay in Lockdown as long as she has Love Island.

Also, in #woke news, Love Island is now going to accept applications from gay, bi, transgender, gender fluid people and everyone and everything in between. Totes amazeballs.

Yeah I wouldn't have thought Love Islands target audience was anything other than straight horned up teens/middle aged women.

Tork

I almost choked on my dinner when Jennifer Gannon said Love Island had moved from being a tacky show to a cultural phenomenon. When did this happen? I'm not sure which is funnier. Her delusions about Love Island or how seriously she takes herself.

irs

Haven't listened to The Last Word in about a decade so I don't know know anything about Jennifer Gannon but from the description here she reminds me of certain Americans on twitter who worship tacky corporate entertainment, particularly stuff aimed at children while dismissing everything else as racist or sexist. They use "woke" language but are just shills. I doubt if Gannon is a shill but she's probably just copying them.

ButtersSuki

irs wrote: »

Haven't listened to The Last Word in about a decade so I don't know know anything about Jennifer Gannon but from the description here she reminds me of certain Americans on twitter who worship tacky corporate entertainment, particularly stuff aimed at children while dismissing everything else as racist or sexist. They use "woke" language but are just shills. I doubt if Gannon is a shill but she's probably just copying them.

This is Jennifer Gannon the tv critic who has never seen The Sopranos, The Wire, or Breaking Bad.

And who said Toy Story 4 is racist.

I’m not making those up btw.

Chuck Noland

ButtersSuki wrote: »

This is Jennifer Gannon the tv critic who has never seen The Sopranos, The Wire, or Breaking Bad.

And who said Toy Story 4 is racist.

I’m not making those up btw.

3 of the greatest tv series of all time and she hasn’t seen them? Yet she is falling over Love Island? Makes sense... like an ashtray on a motor bike!

statto25

ButtersSuki wrote: »

This is Jennifer Gannon the tv critic who has never seen The Sopranos, The Wire, or Breaking Bad.

And who said Toy Story 4 is racist.

I’m not making those up btw.

I had to google the Toy Story thing.....stop the world....im getting off immediately

TheDavester

ButtersSuki wrote: »

This is Jennifer Gannon the tv critic who has never seen The Sopranos, The Wire, or Breaking Bad.

And who said Toy Story 4 is racist.

I’m not making those up btw.

Its sad Matt Cooper doesn't call her out / challenge her on her nonsense, once a great interviewer and didn't give interviewees a free ride now reduced to this....did Trump ruin him

Saorsat

TaurenDruid wrote: »

Why would they scrap one of their most popular shows?!

The same reason they scrapped the Anton Savage show, (which had 30k more listeners than the last word) it's very expensive to produce, advertising revenue for traditional media is in rapid decline. Not to mention that If the last word was scrapped it would allow Newstalk take on RTE Radio 1 head to head instead of splitting the listenership.

Johnthemanager

Saorsat wrote: »

The same reason they scrapped the Anton Savage show, (which had 30k more listeners than the last word) it's very expensive to produce, advertising revenue for traditional media is in rapid decline. Not to mention that If the last word was scrapped it would allow Newstalk take on RTE Radio 1 head to head instead of splitting the listenership.

Ya, it'll be hard to see the new owners keeping 2 drive time tallshows on at the same time. Could see matt shifted to newstalk, and a music slot taken the 4.30-7 slot on Today FM

Tork

I don't think they can shift The Last Word. The station is still subject to the criteria laid down by the BAI.