Has Today FM Gone Down The Toilet?

josip · 05-11-2023 11:47PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121328151#Comment_121328151

If anyone is bored, or just open minded, install the Radio Garden App and using the map listen to any Radio station from anywhere in the world.

I have a soft spot for Italian pop or US college rock, but it can take a few taps before I find a station playing them.

As regards the OP's Today FM topic, Matt is the only one I'd listen to during drive time. Although I still miss Eamo from that slot and it took me a while to accept Matt.

squonk · 06-11-2023 09:00AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121330161#Comment_121330161

Not in the least personal. I don’t know who the DJ is. He’s doing the job his employer requires of him and good luck to him. I have no personal grudge towards the guy. I already said you can’t judge a station on a snippet but I’d listened to other pieces of other shows on occasion and the station seemed to have changed from what k remember. Earlier when the station launched there was a passion about the presenters and the music being played. I haven’t heard this lately. It’s not aimed at any one presenter or show so you’re wrong.

Declan A Walsh · 06-11-2023 10:06AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121330221#Comment_121330221

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121330682#Comment_121330682

@josip - good call on Radio Garden. There is a great variety there, including some good online Irish stations.

@squonk - not sure why you did not put your original post on the existing Today FM thread, rather than opening a new thread.

IUA14 · 07-11-2023 05:03PM

Ah well many more turned the dial back to Today FM so it all worked out.

DBK1 · 08-11-2023 01:16AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121329081#Comment_121329081

Someone from today fm must be reading boards!

I made about 4 trips in the car yesterday and twice I heard Sinead O’Connor songs on today fm.

ofcork · 11-11-2023 07:19PM

Used to be good when you had dempsey darcy ray foley tony fenton and phil cawley there.

its_steve116 · 11-11-2023 07:43PM

I'm under the impression Pam Joyce doesn't want to continue with radio at all. Today FM is a national station so they could have easily let her do a show from a Galway studio.

JDxtra · 13-11-2023 06:48PM

They have some old songs on heavy rotation. Examples include Madonna "Hung Up" and The Killers "Somebody Told Me". These get played most days and it's getting quite annoying.

It's like listening to a jukebox with 100 old songs in it.

Kaybaykwah · 13-11-2023 07:05PM

The radio down the toilet isn’t the issue.

It’s the flushing that is too short to improve the sound of it.

tinytobe · 28-11-2023 07:09AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058321152/has-today-fm-gone-down-the-toilet

I think lot's of people in Ireland don't listen to terrestrial radio anymore. Smartphones offer more, DAB+ was sort of "banned" or badmouthed in Ireland and FM isn't enough for today's audience and interest.

Also, ever noticed the absence of adverts for radio stations? Remember when on Dublin busses, there were ads for FM104, 98FM, Q102, Today FM and sometimes Spin FM? All gone.

It's possible there is no money anymore to be made in radio as it's more and more limited.

JDxtra · 30-11-2023 12:07PM

Why can Today FM not get the audio levels correct for those giving traffic or sports reports? Drives me crazy that that their voice is so low when they first come on air and then is gradually increases.

It sounds like they are Harry Potter working under the stairs trying to keep quiet.

“Ahh sure, leave it to the audio processor to take care it” seems to be the approach taken. Has been happening for months if not longer.