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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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Limerick91

So for someone who used to like Today FM, Tom Dunne, Anto Savage, ESOP etc. what options are there now.

Doesn't need to be Irish and can be online. Cheers

TaurenDruid

RINO87 wrote: »

Ah jaysus......

Paul McLoon's show was excellent, especially the Sundays when it followed Songs of Praise (which I'll admit I did find a bit samey, I've said it here before, but still a shame to see him get shafted too).

Has Claire Beck been booted from Saturdays now too?

Actually no, I don't she has - looking again, Ed's new slot is Sunday to Thursday 10pm to midnight, so that still leaves Claire on Saturday nights.

Larbre34

You have to hand it to Today FM, their ability to kill off the diverse, distinct and different knows no bounds. I hoped for better under Bauer.

Those of us of the Phantom / TX generation who like actual music have few if any homes now on commercial radio.

Declan A Walsh

Tork wrote: »

I can see it

.................................. Another interesting one to watch will be Ian Dempsey - how long can his reputation save him for?

Pure speculation here: a new weekday breakfast show launched in autumn with Ian Dempsey moved to an early morning breakfast show slot on weekends?

Tork

channelsurfer2 wrote: »

well they have shut down access to their own twitter account.. cant get it if you search now

I can see it

I'm disappointed but not surprised to see that they've started messing around with the evening schedule. It has been a schizophrenic sort of station for a long time, catering for one sort of audience during the daytime and a different one in the evenings. I've no doubt that "they" will continue to homogenise the station until it's nothing but wall to wall "content creation" and the same 20 songs on rotation. The audience they're burning off here is the one no radio station seems to want anyway - people in their 30s and 40s. It will be interesting indeed to see how long The Last Word survives. I'm still convinced that it's only there because the BAI still wield some sort of power over the station owners. Another interesting one to watch will be Ian Dempsey - how long can his reputation save him for?

floyd333

Stange decision. I loved ESOP and PMC was a great lad for promoting new Irish Indie bands. I'm pretty much done with Today FM now. It's a station for kids who want to listen to generic pop music played by annoying influencer type presenters.

JoeA3

Also interesting that they released new cheesy promo videos / adverts this week featuring the main presenters and Ed is not in them.

channelsurfer2

deise man wrote: »

Looking on twitter the decision has gone down like lead balloon

well they have shut down access to their own twitter account.. cant get it if you search now

JoeA3

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

- they can wait for the presenter to leave because they are not happy with their new slot.

Yeah that's how I see it. A passive-aggressive dismissal really.

TaurenDruid

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Paul came back to Today FM in late 2005/early 2006 as producer of Tom Dunne's weekday show at 7pm called Pet Sounds, following a request by the latter. When Tom moved to Newstalk in August 2008, Paul took over as presenter. This became The Paul McLoone Show in September 2008. It was moved to a 9 to midnight slot in June 2012. A few years ago it was trimmed to start at 10pm. This is the slot that Ed Smith is now getting.

It was Pet Sounds that got me into listening to Today FM originally. Tom, then his show was followed by Dave Couse's Lighthouse, IIRC - great music! Then we got Paul, Ed, Claire, Kelly-Anne Byrne - I would never have pictured myself ever being into dance or disco music, but the latter two (and Dec Pierce) hugely widened my musical tastes over the last couple of years.

I'm guessing (hoping?) we're not going to get yet another "bantz" show late on a Sunday evening and I can only hope Pamela Joyce's own musical tastes differ significantly from what the daytime playlist is.

Declan A Walsh

Gremlinertia wrote: »

Jaysis can't believe P McLoone gone just like that, gutted, surely ed shouldn't be in a later slot though perhaps it's a precursor for the end of him too. After being my station of choice for a long time I might feck off to youtube now. A shame.

The cynic might say that there is a logic to moving a show to more of a graveyard shift for reasons such as:
- they can get rid of the presenter a year down the road on the basis that they are not getting much of a listenership in their newer slot.
- they can wait for the presenter to leave because they are not happy with their new slot.

Gremlinertia

Jaysis can't believe P McLoone gone just like that, gutted, surely ed shouldn't be in a later slot though perhaps it's a precursor for the end of him too. After being my station of choice for a long time I might feck off to youtube now. A shame.

Declan A Walsh

RINO87 wrote: »

Ah jaysus......

Paul McLoon's show was excellent, especially the Sundays when it followed Songs of Praise (which I'll admit I did find a bit samey, I've said it here before, but still a shame to see him get shafted too).

Has Claire Beck been booted from Saturdays now too?

Ever since the demise of TXFM in October 2016, Claire has been given various gigs on Today FM, often filling in. She never seemed to have a specific timeslot in the schedule for any lengthy period.

rino87

Ah jaysus......

Paul McLoon's show was excellent, especially the Sundays when it followed Songs of Praise (which I'll admit I did find a bit samey, I've said it here before, but still a shame to see him get shafted too).

Has Claire Beck been booted from Saturdays now too?

Mr.Prodston

I actually quite like the last 20 minutes of Pamela Joyce early in the morning.....

BUT!!!

Ed's Song's of Praise is a national f*cking treasure!!! At least leave Sunday night alone

Man, that's just so stupid! Ed Smith is class, and now I'll never hear him cos realistically 10pm and beyond is a pretty niche graveyard

God!

ILikeBoats

flazio wrote: »

Looking at Eds instagram story, doesn’t look like he wanted this.

Just watched it, no he doesn't seem too enthusiastic

Yoghurt87

Ed played ABBA’s Thank You for the Music at the end of last Sunday’s show. I thought at the time it was a bit ominous. Unbelievably ****ing stupid decision from Today FM.

10pm is just too late for me much and all as I love Ed. Hopefully he’ll keep putting his playlists on Spotify as I play them throughout the week. Nothing left on the station for me to tune in for now.

flazio

ILikeBoats wrote: »

What are they doing.
Ridiculous.
I'm really annoyed!

Unless Ed requested it?! Hardly

Looking at Eds instagram story, doesn’t look like he wanted this.

Declan A Walsh

Brock Turnpike wrote: »

As soon as I saw their portfolio I had a feeling they would move Today FM in that direction

I'd say Ian is next. He doesn't fit the "content creator" genre.

Are we to expect statements from various individuals to the effect that they have "decided that this is is a good time to devote more time to other projects"?

Brock Turnpike

zorro2566 wrote: »

The new owners,Bauer, acting fast with their changes! Now its just another bland chart hits station!

As soon as I saw their portfolio I had a feeling they would move Today FM in that direction

I'd say Ian is next. He doesn't fit the "content creator" genre.

Declan A Walsh

Paul McLoone goes back a long way with the station.

Paul started with Today FM in 1999 as a producer of the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show. According to Wikipedia, with Mario Rosenstock he co-created and co-write Gift Grub. He sometimes took part in it as well. I don't think Paul gets a lot of credit for his past contributions to Gift Grub.

I did not know Paul left Today FM in 2004. He did some freelance work and producing programs for tv, including RTE, and radio (Radio 1 and 2FM).

Paul came back to Today FM in late 2005/early 2006 as producer of Tom Dunne's weekday show at 7pm called Pet Sounds, following a request by the latter. When Tom moved to Newstalk in August 2008, Paul took over as presenter. This became The Paul McLoone Show in September 2008. It was moved to a 9 to midnight slot in June 2012. A few years ago it was trimmed to start at 10pm. This is the slot that Ed Smith is now getting.

Incidentally, Paul also hosted a radio programme titled Another Side on TXFM (formerly Phantom FM), which aired from 17 January 2015 to 2 July 2016.

BPKS

Today FM has replaced Anton Savage with Mairead Farrell and Paul McLoone with Pamlea Joyce in recent years.

That just sums up where the station is going.

[Deleted User]

The new owners,Bauer, acting fast with their changes! Now its just another bland chart hits station!

statto25

The station needs to decide what it wants to be now. Moving Ed to the graveyard only leaves Matt Cooper as a fly in the content creator ointment. From this thread it's obvious that there is a market for a station like TodayFM used to be. Talk, topics, chat and music with a mix of latest and older "classics"

siblers

That's a joke. Today FM really is gone to the dogs

ILikeBoats

It's from this Sunday too, not even a goodbye ESOP

deise man

Looking on twitter the decision has gone down like lead balloon

Declan A Walsh

Are there any links to the new schedule or its announcement?

JoeA3

I'm so disappointed for Ed on that decision. If anything the guy deserved a more prime slot but they appear to have shafted him into the graveyard slot. The only show on the station worth tuning into and they've gone and replaced him with one of their Pamelas (I still can't tell the difference between any of the identikit female robo-jocks they have).

ILikeBoats

What are they doing.
Ridiculous.
I'm really annoyed!

Unless Ed requested it?! Hardly