2fm - New schedule coming

Or having enough knowledge of the music scene to then bring these new artists / music to the fore, knowing how to piece together different songs together to form a good mix/flow, how to first of all know the intro/outro of different songs, and how to properly utilize these to talk over. Just for a start.

Newstalk - PLAY

Today FM - WIN

iRadio - YES

98FM - CASH

Red FM - RED

Spin 103 and South West - SPIN

Wouldn't touch that competition if it was free entry. The amount of rubbish they force the presenters to come out with to promote it is woeful, and to make their jobs depend on it is depressing.

Speaking of depressing. Is that alcoholic "comedian" Stafford confirmed?

This should really be the end of Lottie "I only got this job because of my Daddy" Ryan. Fair play to the bosses for dropping her. She is useless and can't talk about anything outside RSVP and giggling about some Z list celeb. No talent, presence or charisma. If she stays there just to empty the bins at 3am she's going to look like the most pathetic employee on the planet. Read the room girl and close the door on your way out!

He did a series for RTÉ called It Takes Two.

It's funny how a lot of nepo-babies try hard to distance themselves from their parents, they might change their surname, hide their background for as long as they can get away with, or just constantly remind everyone how they made it on their own merits. Not Lottie though, usually the first mention of her father comes within 2.5 seconds of the first mention of her name, she really is tied to him and everyone knows she'd be nothing without him. Even after her sacking, her "sources" were straight out with the "Gerry would have been devastated to hear this." She really has absolutely no identity of her own - and she's made no effort to build one either.

If she doesn't like people telling the truth about her nepotism being the only reason she works in radio, she is free to get a job down in Spar or Aldi stacking shelves 9 to 5.

She has arrested development in 2fm, leaving radio might be the best thing that she could do. It would give her a chance to step out from her father's shadow and go her own way. She is a choreographer and make up artist afaiaa, maybe build a career in those or go back to college and retrain.

Can't believe with the changes announced for RTE today, that this money-pit shitshow of a station continues.

Zero need for it.

or actually try to improve her abilities/skills, and not coast on her surname, but sure why start now

Gareth moved to Radio 1 in 1997, it was a bit of a strange move if I recall, Gaybo was beginning his wind-down and Gareth took on 2-3 of his shows per week and Gay continued to do 2-3 shows.

Tony Fenton then moved into Gareth’s 3-5 slot (he used to call it 3-5 LIVE!). Dusty Rhodes took over Tony’s Hotline at 7pm (later renamed “Most Wanted”, but imo it was never the same without Tony).

Then in early 98, Barry Lang departed entirely and Aidan Leonard took his drive time 5-7 slot.

In Summer 98, Iano famously handed his notice in but they showed him the door immediately. Gareth was brought back from Radio 1 as his breakfast replacement.

I don’t think this schedule lasted more than a year or 18 months or so. By late 99 or early 2000, Gareth had moved back to afternoons again, Tony made way and took the 5-7pm slot and Damian McCaul took breakfast.

And as we all know, that pattern continued into the 2000’s, with numerous schedule changes every other year at least! The settled period of the 1990’s was never repeated.

Yeah the Hotline was never the same when they changed it to a 2 hour slot for “Most wanted”. Yes it ended around 2003, both Dusty and Tony left 2FM around the same time I think.

Yeah McCaul’s stint in Breakfast didn’t last long either. He was replaced by Tubridy’s “Full Irish”.