Radio stations playing the same songs over and over

I could throw in FM104 and 98FM too as stations in my area. I obviously can't vouch for all stations in the country but of the ones I get, too many have American announcers or Irish twits pretending to be. The number of such stations should be 0.

And it was probably that crap "Magician" remix with its bad 90s piano, rather than the original

What do you mean by announcers? The presenters or the voiceovers in promos? 98 fm have a guy who’s very clearly from North Dublin for their voiceovers

What American voices?

Fair enough then, it must have changed in the several years I've refused to listen to either it or FM104. Classic Hits and Nova are still at it daily, so I've now started listening to them less. R na G is the only way to go now...

Bad music jokes? The Liszt is endless, it's all Bach to Bach puns. I'd fire off more only I'm Bizet and my boss would put on the Chopin block if I don't put a Holst to it.

Radio Garden - that's all you need.

You can thank/blame Mr. Todd Storz, owner of a radio station in Omaha, Nebraska for coming up with the concept in the 1950's......

"Todd Storz, operator of a daytime-only station in Omaha, is widely credited with begetting Top 40.

Ben Fong-Torres tells how Storz and his program director, Bill Stewart, noticed how patrons at a bar kept playing the same few songs on the jukebox. Stewart copied the titles on the box and came up with 30 tunes (which he later upped to 40).

When their station knocked off other programming and played the top hits of the day all day long, it went from last to first in Omaha in two years. By the early 1960s, the dominant broadcaster in almost every radio market was a Top 40 station."

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-01-25-9901250028-story.html

I will leave it up to you to look at the FM104 list and the Sunshine list to get the answer to your question for one other station. I have no way of knowing the answer for loads of stations. I get about 30 stations on FM.

Between 11 and 12 there were big gaps between songs, which given that radio is either speech or music, must have been speech segments. First song 11.11, second song 11.24. Song 11.32, next song 11.48. I wouldn't see that as a sad indictment of anything.

I said Nova and Classic Hits. Apparently 98FM doesn't do it anymore, but I stopped listening to it. In any case, even two stations in Ireland is two too many. Why do they see the need to have American rather than Irish? What is it about the Irish that more and more feel we need to use the US dialect? Teenagers today sound as if they're from Beverly Hills 90210, and no doubt exposure in the media is to blame. Whatever about Youtube and Insta, having our own local stations also choosing to go American is feeding this fire.

Takeway -> Take out

Holiday/Annual leave -> Vacation

Back garden -> Back yard

Mam/Mum/Mammy/Ma -> Mom

-ise -> ize

etc., etc.

I've nothing against Americans or their dialect, it's the fact that Irish people seem to somehow think it's trendy or whatever to speak that way says a lot about our inferior complex.

Anyway, this started off as a discussion over playlists so maybe we've gone off topic.

Sunshine classic hits seems to have about 200 songs they play on rotation every day

I think it's worse if you work in a shop and you listen to the radio every day you have no choice what you listen to. I think it was worse in the 80s some djs would use a fake mid Atlantic accent not British or Irish. At least with a smartphone you have a choice of 100s of radio stations or just listen to podcasts. I think they use usa style jingles cos it's neutral versus having a jingle in a local regional accent.