RTE Gold discussion thread

That would be fantastic! A back to back with Donal Dineen would be even better!

hard to tell if Carol is live or recorded but my guess is its like Ronan where she voice tracks a few links and the computer kicks in with the songs etc.

it sounds canned tbh

reading live texts though so it’s a trick to make live sound canned 😂

Rte gold is no longer loading on my Roberts internet radio. All other channels working perfectly. "cannot open selected media" is the error I get. Anyone else having problems?

On RTE Gold? Bit of an oxymoron!

On 2fm for sure.

Thanks a mil for the info! What a pita! Hopefully it gets sorted soon.

Brilliant suggestion..

I would also add John Connolly’s and Living in the 70’

There are so many older listeners who do not know how to get RTÉ Gold

I like John Kenny when he pops up doing the Rock Hour on Radio 1 occasionally since Covid, however a lot of the time he reverts to the same tracks and featuring the same classic albums, for example Metallica The Black Album or The Clash London calling, as with previous shows. Just an observation, not a criticism.

WIll Leahy stated this morning that he believed that Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus's song from the former's recent release "2 Wanted' would become a country classic like Rhinestone Cowboy.

Don't think so Will.....

If it's from artists who aren't aimed at 2FM listeners then I don't think it's so bad.

He plays the odd current hit, as he sees them as being 'future Gold' just like Tony Blackburn does on his BBC R2 oldies show.

RTE gold stayed in automated mode for much of the first hour of Will Leahys show this morning - perhaps linked to the crowdstrike incident. Seemed to be a playlist of 70s music. He was back on air live at 8am.

I was going through all the current presenters on the RTE Gold schedule. It looks like John Connolly is the only presenter who was not involved at some stage with any of the FM-based RTE stations or RTE television. In case you are wondering about Al Dunne, he was with RTE's then Dublin station Millennium Radio in the late 1980s. John Connolly's ABC to XTC was originally on another RTE online station 2XM, but has been on RTE Gold for some time now. The other presenters that I am aware of (and all with RTE experience), with some help from the schedule, are: Will Leahy, Aidan Leonard, Michael Cahill, Ronan Collins, Rick O'Shea, Dave Fanning, Micky Mac/Michael McNamara, Amanda Fennelly, Pat O'Mahony, John Daly, Eric Moore and Carol Moran. Are there others I am unaware of who, like John Connolly, came without previous "mainstream" RTE experience?