Like every other radio station, an increase in numbers for the JNLR
Its an awful shame stations get so transfixed on the listener numbers and strive to be number 1 (I know its what the advertisers want). With each increase in figures, feels like they move further and further from their core objectives, in Nova's case, a rock station. I still listen, but how long before they just become the same as the rest.
Agreed but in this case the softening of the 'rock station' is clearly working for them.
woud getting a national licence make a difference? they're chasing an audience smaller than they might otherwise chase, so have less margin for profit, putting more pressure on them to eke out as big a share of that reduced audience as possible.
am i being naive in thinking that a bigger audience (with presumably bigger ad revenue) would take some of that pressure to be as lowest common denominator as possible, off them?
It's unlikely ever to happen.
If it did it would be only 4 cities like classic hits
Listening to Kieran McGuinness at the moment. Therapy? Screamager, more of that mid week please.
For a station doing so well in the ratings has it ever turned a profit in its 13 years on air?
Again, the 'softening' accusations have been going around for as long as this thread is open (now seven and a half years) and probably longer. Reading this thread, you'd swear they were playing Leo Sayer and the Lighthouse Family.
In reality, it's a safe AOR playlist that aligns with its licence, pretty much always has been, and the recent ratings gains are probably down to more mundane things like better shows. Replacing Lucy and Colm with PJ and Jim was a great start anyway.
I do think the playlist has been a little softened, not a wholesale change.
Anyone know why they would still be advertising Pay Courtney on drive while he is supposedly suspended and hasn't been on air since before Christmas?
Why is he suspended... is it because of his fake accent?
Well his Twitter account said he was suspended....
He seems to be no longer suspended ?
Pat Nav is back and running! He was on-air yesterday
Queue references to the "Mad Cow Roundabout" , "coalition of the unwilling", etc.
Yeah heard him this evening too. Find myself listening to Nova a lot more these days. The music is so much better than any other station.
Sound like an old man saying this, I found their playlist a little harsh when PJ & Jim moved across but shortly after that started listenimg to Nova pretty much all the time (was Classic Hits before).
It's rare I'd listen to radio at this hour, but after suffering through Anne Marie followed by Blu Cantrell, I thought jaysus, this is a joke! Surely now during this "commercial free" slot is when they could risk a few edgier tracks rather than going pure pop! Then I noticed the red tuning light was off, and was relieved to find Today FM had somehow cut in. Phew.
Nickelback and The Coronas, however, didn't offer much comfort when I fixed it. Not much difference to Today FM really!
Not a big fan of Nickelback myself.
What is their obsession with "You're in Love with a Psycho"? It's not even Kasabian's best song, or one of their best-known ones.
They've much better and more famous songs - "LSF", "Fire", "Empire", "Club Foot"...
I'd echo the obsession question, what is there obsession with Bob Marley songs.
Radio Nova ran The Top 50 Greatest Irish Songs Ever yesterday, as voted by its listeners. I heard some of it.
I would say that there were not really any big surprises given what is played on Nova and what people are likely to listen to. The only surprises possibly was the placings of some songs. For example, U2's One has often featured high in countdowns, including sometimes being at Number 1. This time it was at Number 12, with Where the Streets Have No Name at Number 2. Thin Lizzy's The Boys are Back in Town were at Number 49 and you might have expected that well known song to have featured much higher. The deaths last year of Sinead O'Connor and Christy Dignam (of Aslan) may have pushed their songs up a bit as well. Finally, it is no big surprise now to have The Cranberries' Zombie to top this countdown, given the amount of times it has been heard since the Rugby World Cup and more recently at the Six Nations. Before that, I would suspect that it might not even have been guaranteed a place in the Top 50.
Here is the list:
https://www.nova.ie/the-cranberries-hit-zombie-greatest-irish-song-ever-245098/
No Rory Gallagher...
course not, when was the last time you heard rory gallagher being played on nova?
Only very late at night for some reason! I even requested a song of his to one of their prime time shows but the DJ said they hadn't given him any that day.
Rory Gallagher is great but he's never going to feature highly in any poll of the general public, most people would struggle to name one song.
very true. Rory didn't really release singles, though since he passed away everyone is a fan !!
"Follow Me", "Daughter of the Everglades", "Calling Card", "Bad Penny", "Philby", "Tattooed Lady" - and that's just off the top of my head.
What is the obsession with The Great Defector? It's not even Bell X1's best song, yet it's played every day and number 18 on that list! I don't get it!
yeah but most people wouldn't be able to name one of is songs
