Listenership figures (JNLRS) just out : Disaster for RTE

It would be more likely that she would be biding her time rather than biting it!!

Id listen to Tracey Clifford and Jenny Greene most days and there is constant ads on for the breakfast show ,just from listening to the ads i feel like throwing the radio out the window!, Doireann should of been given a chance on her own it can’t be any worse than the drivel that’s on it now.

It's funny you mention Tracy and Jenny here when the poster above mentioned most DJ's (or presenters...) not having their own unique style anymore. I have found Clifford and Greene DEFINATLEY have their own style, and must have some input into their playlists, which is very very rare on daytime radio. Maybe its why I like Tracy's show and find it to be a breath of fresh air, as I said in an earlier post.

I am going to dig a grave for myself here but my rationale is:

• Two stations is enough state controlled media through any one medium. I do not believe in overloading of "state-approved" messages. Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-vax or anything like that. I just don't like when we see the state use it's monopoly in a negative way, such as when, on TV they didn't invite SF to the debate. (I'm not in the SF camp either but I digress.)
• Competition breeds innovation and helps to advance technology and talent. I'm no free-marketer but this is definitely a proven theory. I think that if Lyric and 2FM were done away with then it would free up a listener base that could then transfer to the private stations and help to increase the competitiveness of the market. It could result in more of market for newer private stations.
• I'm a believer that the cost of the TV license, that funds these stations, is too high for the quality of entertainment that we can avail of. I would prefer to see these stations "de-funded" and all of the top talent that they have spread across the stations brought together in one place.

It's not from a dislike of Lyric and 2FM. I just think that the Irish public could probably receive more for their money.

Personally I hate those zany and wacky breakfast shows with the hosts and their fake 'bants' and even faker laughter.

The only person who does zazy radio well is Sean Moncrieff but with him it is his guests who are zany with Moncrieff providing the disbelief. His show isnt for everyone but he bounces very well off whatever zany guest they have lined up.

Do you think people were going to label you anti vaxer, Sinn Feiner or Free Marketeer if you did not make those defensive caveats?

Only a small part of the licence fee (which is the same price since 2008) goes to 2 FM, RnaG and Lyric. They are catering for minority interests, not some vehicle for state approved messages. All the broadcasters are catering for minority interests, if you look into the JNLR. RTE stations get less than 50% of the listening audience in every geography, every age group, and every time division. Even Morning Ireland is only about 11% of the available audience, over 15 years of age. The other 89% are listening to other stations, or have found a better use for their time than listening to any radio. Not much need to worry about state control.

RTÉ Radio 1

RTÉ RADIO 1 WEEKDAY MARKET SHARE 21.3% 

RTÉ RADIO 1 REACHES 888,000 LISTENERS ON WEEKDAYS  

• Morning Ireland is the most-listened-to radio programme in the country with 450,000 people tuning in each morning.

https://www.thejournal.ie/jnlr-rte-suffer-drop-in-listeners-5623623-Dec2021/

100% on RnaG and Lyric, which, in my mind are the dictionary definition of what a PSB should be - focusing on niche artistic and cultural content not catered for elsewhere and making that the core of your output, not paying mega money for social media influencers and trying to make them into stars whilst pushing out the same narrow playlists as all the commercials are doing.

2FM in its current form serves zero purpose:

• it offers nothing that isn't already well catered for by Beat, iRadio or the two Spin stations (all of whom trounce 2FM in each of their respective markets)
• it doesn't play anymore Irish music than the regionals
• it's news bulletins are the shortest on any radio station (BBC R1 haver regular fifteen-minute "Newsbeat" blocks throughout the day - big PSB fulfillment)
• they run commercials and sponsorship
• they go into automation from 10PM most evenings until 6AM the following day

and yet it requires over €10m a year to operate, over half of which comes directly from the license fee. For what?

However, rather than letting it go, I'd love to see a pop raidio format for 2FM would much better serve the PSB element than 2FM, Top 40 playlist with all presentation as gaeilge. Cut back on all the unneeded bloat like full-time entertainment correspondents who read whatever is on their Twitter and Instagram timelines for 60 seconds an hour. Don't need three presenters on a breakfast show. Put on specialist programming in the evening. Use overnights to train new talent in. Couldn't cost them anymore to put together than 2FM does today and I can't imagine the output would be any worse.

If you have Virgin Media, all of the BBC radio channels are "piped" down the cable in analogue.

The only problem with putting Ireland in is a lot of the live sports events are rights restricted. You'll need a VPN to listen to matches etc.

RTE Down listenership

RTE response = look for TV license increase to camouflage the gap indefinitely.

Main thing that galls me about radio in Ireland(lived abroad for may years USA, NZ & Australia) is the amount of ads on the "music stations" i-radio and spin etc.

End up listening to Lyric as the other stations would melt if the played a non-Irish new song.

Failing that its Tidal on the phone in the car.

saves my sanity!!!