Didn't know he's group operations director, himself and Foley are good friends
At least 10 minutes of Ian Dempsey’s extra hour will be filled by him explaining how the “Waffle” game works and how many dings you need, followed by a clip of a recent winner to prove the game isn’t a fix. Then followed by another few minutes for the obligatory plugs for the Cash Machine and Sky programmes.
When a piece is pre recorded and inserted into a show. The pre record could be the day before, an hour before the show, could be just before it's played. Easy to spot in breakfast radio as there will be a noticeable lack of time checks or audience interaction (text read out etc).
For example, say the cash machine amount is a bit of a tongue twister. A presenter could record the link to the amount, the number to text and the T&Cs while the news is on, play it and his or her first song and come in live after the first song.
I can imagine they'll definitely be a yesterday on Giftgrub feature on Dempseys 6AM hour
That's interesting that Ed Smith goes back that far. I don't think he was presenting all that time though.
Apparently Gift Grub has been around a long time and may go back to when Mark Byrne presented on Today FM. This means that Mario Rosenstock is there longer than Iano. It is easy to forget about Mario in that context as he did not have his own show at all until much more recently.
Pamela Joyce and Paula McSweeney are the same person. Same voice.
Can't stand either of them so I guess Today FM will never be an option for me. Only Foley would entice me and he's only on 2 hours a day.
The foundation is place now for a post Dempsey today FM with a 6 to 9 breakfast slot
Quite like Pamela Joyce, think she'll come into her own a bit more on lunchtimes. Foley is 2 until 4:30.
Think the schedule change has the potential to be quite good if given the time to bed in. Would expect them to tweak their weekend schedule again in the not too distant future.
When does this new schedule start? Did I miss a start date on their announcement?
Are they playing the same interview again for some reason?
February
Yes. I've stuck on Spotify. I mean, wtf? I can understand repeats - but within the very same programme?!
That’s a tough slot for Paula with two small kids. Then again the early morning slot would have been as well. Her poor fella!
Ferg is back on today anyway. Which would certainly suggest the parting is amicable.
I'm not so sure, have you seen his twitter
Just looked. Clearly stung by it alright. Blowing the top and going out with a hissy fit wouldn't have done him any favours though so he kinda has to be professional. He's not a big enough name for that. He'll never get a bigger or better job than this one. I don't know how he got it in the first place tbh.
Maybe Danny boy in 2fm would give him a gig on the big station ?
Happens very often now. They used to repeat their celeb interviews the next day but now can't wait. They could just leave it at mentioning the podcast, but they're not producing enough content to cover 3 hours
If presenters around the country are able to fill three hours a day, how can two presenters and a producer (is there a second producer too?) not find a way to fill three hours? It’s outrageous when you think of it
Pam Joyce and Paula mac I use to like, but after time I just find them way too giddy and talking deliberate shite to fill the gaps.
Where is Ed Smith gone? ? Hope they haven't got rid of him one of a v few actual decent DJ left on Irish radio.
I guess Ed isn't mentioned as his show is unaffected by the changes, same with The Last Word.
Raging they didn't put Ray Foley in at 12. There's a huge gap between 12 and 2. I've been listening to Moncrieff at 2 the last few years but will go back to Foley. If he'd been at 12 it would have been a great days radio. Dempsey, D&D, Foley, over to Moncrieff then 30 minutes to kill before Cooper at 4.30
Foley has spoken about his mental health in podcasts, he said he felt worthless doing lunchtime on today FM from 2006 to 2012 because people used to say to him that he didn't have any listeners of his own, only Ray Darcy listeners who couldn't be bothered to turn off.
the poor lad😏
Congratulations. This comment made Paula's Instagram!
And next post was an insult and she calls it misogyny...sigh
...yeah, it was.
Thats because it was.
If she was a man would there be a remark about ‘his poor wife’?
For some reason, I doubt it very much.
And was razorblunts comment in this thread misogyny?
If McSweeney was a man, would there be any comment about "his poor woman"? Comment #6944
I like Paula. I hear about an hour of her early breakfast. She’s bubbly and lively and gets you going in the morning. I’m not sure how that’s going to transition to evening when people are winding down after the day. It’ll be a challenge to change the pace. Pamela will be good at lunch I think- I hope. Anyone has to be better than Mairead.
Ian is grand - soothing voice and I like him. Mario and gift grub have had their day though - it’s painful at times. Needs to be retired.
Delighted Fergal is going. Same thing every day, nothing new. Feigned nostalgia and ‘isn’t is great to be Irish’ sh**e. Used to enjoy Foley but haven’t heard since he left Todayfm previously and I’m 10 years older now.
I love D&D. Or, I used to love D&D. Lately find myself switching over more often. Repeated interviews - constantly. Same old, same old. Show is getting tired. They’re in bad need of new ideas.
But the biggest thing by a country mile making me switch the dial at the minute is this bl**dy cash machine. I cannot bare it and all the bl**dy pushing of it - constantly. I’m irrationally annoyed about it.
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