Ronan Collins show 10am to 1pm weekdays on RTE Gold

23-02-2023 09:07AM #1

Starts March 1st. One thing that sticks out is that Collins obviously has an older fan base then who RTE Gold have previously appealed to. https://twitter.com/RTEGold/status/1628676826980573185?cxt=HHwWgoCz4b28nJotAAAA

GSF · 23-02-2023 09:18AM

And maybe Dave Fanning from 4 🤔

gipi · 23-02-2023 09:42AM

So he'll be in direct competition with his successor on RTE radio 1? Surprised that the radio mandarins allowed that!

rino87 · 23-02-2023 10:16AM

So taking a step back by going from a one hour daily show, to a three hour daily show? This will hardly be live.....

GSF · 23-02-2023 10:20AM

According to Will he will be live

rino87 · 23-02-2023 10:24AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120278311#Comment_120278311

Surprised by that, but happy!

Terence Rattigan · 23-02-2023 10:25AM

Still only available on tinternet? was great on DAB in the car.

Expunge · 23-02-2023 10:33AM

He'll be voicetracked after a few early live outings.

So, they're now spending a relative fortune in wages on a webstream that is NOT a radio station. Will there be a multi-million Euro marketing and promotion campaign to back it up?

To what end?

What the hell is all this for? Is this even a thing RTE should be spending money on?

By the way, this is not a criticism of Collins, Leahy, Rick or any of them. The likes of Sunshine, Q102 etc. should be breaking the door down looking for them - not mothballed with licence fee money. Not even on the radio. This is wrong.

Glaceon · 23-02-2023 10:36AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120278360#Comment_120278360

I'd much rather spend my licence fee money on Gold than 2FM. At least the former plays a lot of music that you won't hear anywhere else. It deserves a more accessible slot on some sort of radio platform.

23-02-2023 10:45AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120278360#Comment_120278360

The problem is that the independent stations in Dublin aimed at the over 45s don't seem to want to spend any money on recruitment. Sunshine has had the same lineup consisting of about 4 djs since about 2011, Q102 has the same DJ on from 5pm till Midnight. Nova did take a punt on hiring John Clarke but it didn't work out

Expunge · 23-02-2023 10:45AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120278369#Comment_120278369

Well, yes, that's the point.

But there's not a hope in hell the independent sector will stand for an RTE Gold regular radio service own it's on FM frequency. So, increasing amounts of public money is being spent on this webstream, primarily because managers elsewhere don't want these presenters on their 'regular' services anymore - including Ronan Collins.

Why retain talent at quite a bit of expense when they're not broadcasting or being properly promoted?

It looks anti-competitive.

Glaceon · 23-02-2023 11:20AM

The commercial sector have gotten lazy. They know that they can keep doing the same old boring thing because nobody else will be licensed to take them on. The refusal to grant any DAB licences is the real anti-competitive thing to me.

Ronan himself has said that he received plenty of offers from other stations but all with the same "we'll tell you what to play" rule. He'd be wasted on a programme like that.

GSF · 23-02-2023 12:23PM

Why the endless obsession with FM? The world has moved on.

Glaceon · 23-02-2023 12:34PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120278787#Comment_120278787

Ease of access. Plus I still have problems with streams rebuffering while travelling.

Furze99 · 23-02-2023 12:56PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120278787#Comment_120278787

We don't all live in 5G or the infamous 'National Broadband' land......

So will take quite a while for the world to move on!

23-02-2023 01:15PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120278295#Comment_120278295

This whole thing should prove beyond reasonable doubt that the media lies

GSF · 23-02-2023 01:44PM

He hadn’t even started yet so you can’t prove he’s not live unless you have a Time Machine

ford fiesta · 24-02-2023 12:24PM

Strange taking Rick off 10 - 1 and putting him on 1 - 4. Rick is very popular in that slot with the WFH listeners that used to listen to him in the 00s on 2FM.

You would think Ronan would be better suited to the 1 - 4 slot

channelsurfer2 · 24-02-2023 12:56PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120283260#Comment_120283260

i thought that myself. the music rick plays is completly different to what Ronan Collins played in his R1 slot so a lot of listeners are gonna be confused when they hear Ronan play country songs if he sticks to what he did on R1.

24-02-2023 12:59PM

Better than the music choice of Louise Duffy. Looking forward to the switch.

Larbre34 · 24-02-2023 01:04PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120278924#Comment_120278924

Neither does the UK population, but they invest in DAB offerings regardless.

25-02-2023 08:25PM

Ronan hasn't done 3 hours a day, 5 days a week of live radio since about 1982, this is a massive increase of work for a man who announced in December that he "decided to step back"

rino87 · 26-02-2023 09:04PM

Plenty of time for Alice's Restaurant.....!

TheRiverman · 26-02-2023 09:11PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120278787#Comment_120278787

A lot of people still have shite internet service.

27-02-2023 12:04PM

RTE Gold isn't even listed in the RTE guide which I always thought was a missed opportunity for some minimum basic advertising. I'd wager a lot of Ronan Collins fans are RTE Guide buyers