2 1990s songs were played on todays "All 80s Saturday" with amanda fennelly they were marc almond "days of pearly spencer" and maura o'connell "summerfly", both from 1992.
Even if the presenter/producer of the show is not familiar with the songs years, with info on songs easily accessible on the web and on playout systems, you would think errors like this would not happen.
I only tuned in twice today for a few minutes and heard these so maybe they are others from other decades ?
Drive! - thank you! I knew he had an RTE connection.
I ramber Karl Tsigdino's "River of Soul" on Today FM... what a different station it was then! I wonder was he still producing/presenting Drive! On Rte TV at the same time as being on today fm?
I Am The Greatest by A House playing now.
I am focussing on the current schedule and those names came up against some of the programmes shown on the schedule. According to his Linkedin profile, John Daly has produced programmes for RTE both on radio and television, and I was talking about any connection to "mainstream" RTE. I wasn't looking at former RTE Gold presenters, but Karl was briefly a presenter of some motoring show on RTE television.
Incidentally, I was looking at Karl Tsgdinos's Linkedin page and I don't think he updated it in a while. It still shows him as a presenter on RTE Gold. While I am there, I found a few unrelated errors. It says he started on 4FM in February 2008 - it was actually 2009 (that's when the station started!). His start and end years with Radio Ireland/Today FM should be 1997 to 2003, rather than 1998 to 2004.
John Daly and Pat O'Mahony are not part of the current schedule, if you are solely focusing on current presenters.
John was not previously on RTE radio.
Neither was former Gold presenter Karl Tsigdinos, he had no previous RTE shows as far as I know.
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?
I was delighted when I heard Will was off. As you say the music is so much better.
Al Dunne filling in for Will Leahy for the next two weeks. I have to admit, I prefer Al’s music selection, you won’t be hearing any Sabrina Carpenter or Dua Lipa!
Rick is filling in for Sean Rocks on Arena Radio 1 next Monday and Tuesday
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.
Rick O'Shea playing Lupe Fiasco 'Kick Push' followed by OPM 'Heaven is a Half Pipe'....
Keep up the good work!
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.
He regularly plays Dua Lipa, who I’d consider to be 2FM material.
If it's from artists who aren't aimed at 2FM listeners then I don't think it's so bad.
It annoys me when he plays new music. Defeats the purpose of the channel.
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.....
Ya you're right on that one... Still the novelty of hearing Slayer and Megadeth on R1 hasn't worn off !!
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.
Once they leave John Kenny and Caravan Radio in place for summer too!!
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
why arent some of the RTE Gold weekend shows/specials not also aired on Radio 1 during the night, in place of "The late debate" or on Bank Holidays such as Pat O'Mahonys "For The Record" and the recent Dave Fanning series?
Thanks a mil for the info! What a pita! Hopefully it gets sorted soon.
Yeah, same problem here and for others. Seems to affect any internet radios with Frontier Nuvola which includes Kenwood and others as well.
A thread was started here:
On RTE Gold? Bit of an oxymoron!
On 2fm for sure.
What is the retirement age in RTE ?
Its not right that presenters past this age, still continue to work and coin it.
They are shameless.
Time for younger talent to get a chance.
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?
wouldn’t be the first station to make up requests! Enjoying the tunes (I usually do) but levels and weird automation makes me suspect it’s VT’d
reading live texts though so it’s a trick to make live sound canned 😂
Various Radio 1/RTE Gold presenters said that about Ronan's show too, when he was leaving Radio 1.
