Thoughts on radio shows

Haven't ventured over to 2FM since Gerry Ryan died.

I scanned on to 2FM on Monday morning last, looking to see if there was a mention on any station, of why I was stuck in standstill traffic on the N11. It was a head-wreck for the few minutes that I endured it.

The 'gang' were talking about the resignation of Spanish football president Luis Rubiales and it was like listening to an audio 'Peter & Jane' book - absolute simplistic drivel. When someone mentioned that the kiss scandal had taken away from the fact that the Spanish women's team had won the world cup, the main presenter expressed astonishment and said that she did not know that fact and she was only aware of the kiss scandal itself, as a specific incident.

As the OP has already said, this also sounded absolutely false and totally insincere and I didn't believe that she was not aware of Spain winning the tournament. I would hope that a prominent presenter on a station that had extensively covered the tournament (where the Irish national team had competed), would have had a basic level of awareness about it, such as who had won. I am sure the Spanish win must have been reported and discussed previously on the breakfast programme. She may have been trying to express sarcasm to support the theory that the kiss incident had eclipsed the win, but it certainly didn't come across as that.

That was enough for me and I scanned on. I don't like being taken for a fool by people making up stuff for reactions. It was the audio equivalent of posting for likes and LOL's. I know I am well out of the 2FM target demographic for listeners, but good luck to our future generations if this is what they are being served up as either fact, or entertainment, or some weird hybrid abomination of both.

Dave Fanning's weekend show was the last good thing about 2fm I'm sorry to say.

2fm is drivel. I’m not sure there’s a single presenter or show on the station that I’d be sad to lose if the station was shut tomorrow.

Someone should ring in and ask them is the video below ok?

I didn't listen to it when he was alive either.

I think if Irish radio presenters stopped trying to be funny it would be a lot better, they aren't comedians so why do they think they are funny?

Did u ever listen to RAy DRcy. . The only time that he is not laughing , giggling to anything anybody said and to things he himself said is when he is taking a break for a breather between giggles laughs. That helps to fill in the minutes and run down the clock . What also helps to run down the clock is when he repeats statements he makes on numerous occasions on every show. There must be thousands in Ireland who could do at least as good a job - —IF NOT BETTER - for less than half of what he is being paid. SO roll on to the end of his current contract. It will be reveting to see what KB will do with him

I don’t listen to radio and haven’t for years for that very reason. Presenters acting like teenagers and thinking they are funny when they are not.

Dermot left about a month ago.

Exactly.