Sure he has a regular spot on Newstalk on a Saturday morning (Baur owned also)
Best case scenario: Anton Savage on after Ian, Dermot and Dave lunchtime, Pamela Joyce for afternoon, Matt 4:30 to 7, Ed in his old 7-10 slot (but then who gets 10 to midnight? It's not Christmas yet so they're not bringing Paul back!) I'd settle for Fergal being moved to evenings (he's not so bad when he's not doing the content creation thing).
Worst case scenario: Jeremy Dixon and/or Adrian Kennedy given any front of house slot.
Another 2-3 women on instead of D&D today ............
"what is this Xmas about........ Common triggers ..... know the warning signs .... "
Jeebus H Chroist .....
This station is finished.....
They're not going to bring Anton Savage back. We're unlikely to ever find out what led to his departure but it wouldn't surprise me if his show was canned. The JNLRs after Ray D'Arcy left weren't good at all. Don't forget his day job is PR so we got his spin on it. I used to like him when he stood in for Ray D'Arcy and had Ray's team to bounce off. Somehow the show didn't work so well when he got the gig permanently and there was too much false laughter from him. He's better suited to presenting current affairs IMHO.
If the station was finished, the ratings would've gone through the floor long ago. Many listeners, it would appear, are happy to listen to this sort of shoite.
Once MR leaves, I would be expecting "24 TODAY Hits in a row" from 12 to 2 pm with no presenter required.....
Don't be silly. You need a presenter to tell you once an hour about the cash machine competition and how to enter and be sure to listen in after 3 and we really want a winner today...
Some of the former Radio Ireland/Today FM presenters and the stations that they are with now:
Phil Cawley - South East Radio
Declan Meehan - East Coast FM
Jim O'Neill - East Coast FM and online station More Music Ireland
Tommy Greene - Today FM
Marty Miller - Radio Nova
Paul Power - KFM
Ann-Marie Kelly - Midlands 103
Anton Savage - Newstalk
Ray Darcy - RTE Radio 1
Philip Boucher Hayes - RTE Radio 1
Mark Cagney - Newstalk
Tom Dunne - Newstalk
Ray Foley - Red FM
KC - Cork's 96FM
Stephen Keogh - Tipp FM and online stations Greatest Hits Ireland, SK Media and Country Hits
Robbie Irwin - online station More Music Ireland
Teresanne O'Reilly - WLR
The station is still flogging that Today FM School of Radio . If you're teaching people how to "create cut-through content for your own company or personal brand", having a RoboDJ during a peak daytime timeslot isn't a good look. Even if they reduced the salaries they paid to new presenters, there will always be people who want to get behind the microphone on a national radio station.
@Declan A Walsh You forgot the most iconic voice of a Saturday. Michael McMullan. Where's he these days?
no, that was Tracey Lee
Re Michael McMullen, he does not seem to have any radio gig, which was what I was concentrating on. I did not think of him, though!
Can't find anything linking Tracey Clifford directly to Today FM, and I did not hear about any involvement with the station by her. Incidentally, her Linkedin page does not even mention her involvement with 2FM!
I should mention that former Today FM presenters Nails Mahoney and Tracey Lee do podcasts with their company OnAirCoach.
Ray Foley used to ring Tracey Clifford every Friday for a dance song recommendation. She was working for Spin at the time I think. That's her Today FM link.
Any idea what Ann Gleeson is up to these days?
Here's another name - John Kelly. He was one of the original presenters on Radio Ireland with his Eclectic Ballroom show which carried over to Today FM the following year. His main radio gig these days is with Lyric FM.
Another one is Eamon Dunphy, the original presenter of The Last Word, who has his podcast The Stand.
There's also Karl Tsignidos, who used to present The River of Soul. These days he presents on Dubin City FM.
It's no wonder he moved from Today FM to RTE:
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/kelly-makes-the-cut-as-film-makers-strike-gold-26845019.html
That article said he was happy to take a cut with RTE, so I don't understand your comment!
my point is, based on his 2007 RTE salary I am sure he was given a good offer when he joined RTE some years earlier...
Donal Dineen has a podcast Make Me an Island. I see mention of him presenting The Small Hours on online station Dublin Digital Radio - not sure if that is current.
Another former Today FM presenter - Enda Caldwell. He always has a number of projects on the go, but as regards current radio jobs, he is involved with New York's Pulse 87, Thialands' Surf 102.5, Fuengirola's (Spain) 93.6 Global Radio and Switzerland's Radio Morcote International, and this does not include his voiceover work!!
Hard him, for the first time in a long time, doing the voiceover for the WC Qualifications highlights on VM last night
P.s. It's Moychael McMullan
Ah I remember Moicheal, he use to host the soccer phone-in show on Saturdays. He'd let the caller have his say and then sneer and argue with them til they hung up.
For all the shite there is still Ed Smith. He played Foals, The Rakes and Idles all in a row. He's some man
Michael McMullan was co presenting the Snooker Scene podcast until the official governing body got him in for their own podcast.
And kept trying (badly) to let on that he didn't support Orsenal.
When he finished up, a certain Michelle McMullan started doing the news.
Teresanne OReilly is with Spin now ?
I looked her up on the internet and I see that she went from Beat to Spin 1038 and Today FM in 2013. In 2015, she left Today FM for WLR. Has she come back since to Spin, or did you get the sequence mixed up?
I had a look on her socials and I can't see any link to radio now. I've never heard her on Spin anyway.
Tresanne left WLR afternoon show last year and left radio altogether and started her own business
Thats a pity, she was very good!
Liked her voice and her easy going manner behind the mic.
