Culchies have a lot to answer for.
I really really don’t understand how he’s getting those listeners. Each to their own I suppose!!
Are we any wiser as to who is doing lunchtime now? It might have been mentioned on Mairead's last show but I made sure the radio was tuned to something else
Nothing permanent until the new year.
Jessica Maciel will be holding fort until Christmas.
Her of the extraordinarily strange accent.
Iv thought this before, is it not just a south county Dublin/greystones/radio type of accent?
I guess Today FM are currently short of swing jocks? Clare Beck is currently doing Sunday drive since Phil Cawley left in addition to to her own Saturday night 9pm show and Pamela Joyce does Sunday to Thursday 7pm, so who'll do Jessica's Sunday afternoon shift, unless she works 7 days in a row.
I'm surprised and slightly disappointed that Today FM have gone all in on this poxy 'Cash Machine' as the more poppy/younger stations have.
Every time I hear a mention of it, that's that station off.
All the stations in the bauer family have been doing that all year, they can't live on HSE advertising alone you know
It's on Newstalk as well "across the Go Loud Network". It is funny to hear Shane and Ciara in the mornings say that Barry Dunne (he of 98FM) will be calling someone at 3pm! I think the stations owned by Bauer Media, including Today FM, don't have a say in the matter.
Thanks. I had no idea who this Barry Dunne was, thought he advertised cleaning products or something.
Barry Dunne has been with 98FM since 1996. Before that, he was involved with a number of Dublin pirates.
A lot of Newstalk listeners outside Dublin have probably never heard of Barry Dunne or 98fm, indeed a lot of average listeners don't even understand that all these radio stations are owned by the one company and broadcasting from the same building
Wait, does that mean a Today FM listener in Dublin could be called by Spin South West. That'd go down well with their listeners.
They’re all called by Barry in Dublin as he’s a representative of Bauer and then the call is packaged for each station. Nobody outside of Bauer knows which station each winner is from (and nobody cares either).
Seemingly a lot of people who actually enter the competition don't care about it either considering the number of people who don't even know the cash amount that was announced that morning. Why enter a comp and not follow up on it?
Are there many of those? I don't hear the call every day, but every one I have heard has either rung out before it was answered, or they've won the prize. The one exception was one numpty who said he was too busy to take the call. I've never heard anyone get the amount wrong.
Im done with this "Bauer Group"....
Today fm is barrelling down hill - Too many women that sound the same, and men that laugh uncontrollably at their co presenter.
2fm is the same ...
I hope 4fm and Nova dont go like that ..... (4fm for breakfast (because the others are septic) ->10 change to Nova.)
I listen to them now online .
I heard one get it wrong, he had the previous days amount.
Ouch! You'd be sick, wouldn't you... that close to a few grand!
I only remember there being one or two where they didn't know the amount. There was one guy this week who wasn't completely sure but I guess you'd never think they're actually gonna ring
I wonder what the demographic was of the audience that voted "Bad Habits" as the Ian Dempsey Show song of the year, and "Aisling and the City" as the book of the year?
Today FM must be delighted that the choices were so predictable.
Steve Wall formerly of the Stunning had a good tweet yesterday.
I wonder did that John Cladell fella see it. Not that it would make a blind bit of difference.
Is the Cash machine a constant now at the station, or is it only up until Xmas or something?
Jez, it is getting really annoying. It is pushed so hard by every single show now, means I don't keep TodayFM on much any more.
It is not Today FM specific. It is mentioned on all the other stations owned by Bauer Media, i.e. Newstalk, 98FM, Spin103 and SpinSW. It is usually Barry Dunne of 98FM who makes the phone call in the afternoon. When they mention on Newstalk the phone number to text, they invariably also say something along the lines of "available throughout the Go Loud network".
Ian would occasionally play the occasional belter but there's absolutely no variety now. He must not have any say in what he can play.
Bad Habits as song of the year says it all
Ok. It's just that TodayFM is the only one of those I can receive on my FM radio. For some reason, it doesn't pick up Newstalk.
I did realise that they are all part of that big group, so I assume they are pushing it as hard?
Is there an end in sight?
He doesn't, AFAIK. None of them do, up until 10pm. Honourable exception, Dermot & Dave's Cheese or Cracker.
Bad Habits as "song of the year" is entirely understandable, though - it's one of the top selling singles of the year, it spent 11 weeks at number 1. I mean - it might not be to the taste of anyone who posts on this thread on boards, but we're clearly a minority of the music-listening public. Who else are people who listen to chart music all day going to vote for?
I would imagine it’s here to stay, or some variation of a text comp at least. It must take in a huge amount of money as there were a couple of people in my old office entering regularly.
All the stations are pushing it very hard. I’ve heard the presenters on Spin sell how to enter twice in one hour before. I wonder if any of the presenters are sick of it and would be looking to move.
Average listenership, say 100,000 each during the day for Today FM, Newstalk, Spin, 98FM, Spin SW - do they have any other stations? So 500,000 listeners/day? (I'm assuming most people just stick the radio on in the morning and leave it on). So if only 1% of listeners enter the competition, they've taken in €12,500. They seem to pay out around €5k on average (accounting for days where nobody wins) so they're up nearly €7500 a day. If 2% of listeners enter, they're up nearly €20,000.
I'd say yes, the presenters are well sick of it, but it's not going anywhere.
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