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RTE Gold discussion thread

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,452 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    On RTE Gold? Bit of an oxymoron!

    On 2fm for sure.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,134 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    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:



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭tommythecat


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

    4kwp South East facing PV System. 5.3kwh Weco battery. South Dublin City.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,618 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    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?



  • Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭ZaK23-54


    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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,649 ✭✭✭RINO87


    Once they leave John Kenny and Caravan Radio in place for summer too!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,618 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,649 ✭✭✭RINO87


    Ya you're right on that one... Still the novelty of hearing Slayer and Megadeth on R1 hasn't worn off !!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭zoobizoo


    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.....



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,815 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    It annoys me when he plays new music. Defeats the purpose of the channel.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,654 ✭✭✭its_steve116


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Glaceon


    He regularly plays Dua Lipa, who I’d consider to be 2FM material.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,618 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭zoobizoo


    Rick O'Shea playing Lupe Fiasco 'Kick Push' followed by OPM 'Heaven is a Half Pipe'....

    Keep up the good work!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 879 ✭✭✭thejuggler


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,618 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    Rick is filling in for Sean Rocks on Arena Radio 1 next Monday and Tuesday



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Glaceon


    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!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,815 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    I was delighted when I heard Will was off. As you say the music is so much better.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,208 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    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?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,618 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,208 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74 ✭✭ekkinak


    I Am The Greatest by A House playing now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,649 ✭✭✭RINO87


    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?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,208 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,618 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    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 ?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,774 ✭✭✭GSF


    Maura O’Connell was definitely released late 80s



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,618 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    It was released as part of "A Womans Heart" album in 1992



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,654 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    1990-1992 was the 1980s in all but name, in my view.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,774 ✭✭✭GSF


    A woman’s heart album was basically a compilation album of songs that’s had been previously released on other albums. I suppose you have a point if they played the version off the Women’s Heart album



  • Registered Users Posts: 5 xxnza.com


    Two certain songs from the early 90s, The one and only by Chesney Hawkes and Friday I'm in love by The Cure often get played on 80s shows and 80s stations, they were playlisted on Today FMs old 7pm Friday Night 80s show all through it's 18 year run, presumably because they sound so 80s.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,654 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    It's still the cultural 80s in my view, the first three years of the 90s.

    "It Must Have Been Love", "Show Me Heaven", "Everything I Do", "Wind of Change", "Enjoy the Silence", "Sacrifice", "November Rain", "King of Wishful Thinking", "U Can't Touch This" - all released between 1990 and 1992. To name but a few!

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  • Registered Users Posts: 18 Pat James


    Summerfly was a track on Maura O'Connell's 1989 album Helpless Heart



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,618 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    The more music drive with carol moran has no presenter this week, just wall to wall music with no 'more music drive' liners



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,774 ✭✭✭GSF




  • Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭ZaK23-54


    just listening to Micky Mac all 70’s show on RTÉ Gold..

    He played a vinyl copy of Ten to Eight by David Castle and mentioned that in the early days of Radio 2 DJ’s as well as cueing the vinyl - they also played the Adds from Carts. ‘There was no voice tracking in those days in those days’ he said. Jocks certainly earned their money then.

    I take it he hardly voice tracks the show if he includes vinyl? He must be hitting 70 so knows his seventies music 🎵!





  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,618 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    the show is not live as far as i know, although micky gives the impression it is. no weekend show on Gold is live and never was. i would estimate that micky is around 73.

    in relation to the david castles song, like a few songs on the Gold playlist, it wouldve been ripped from a vinyl record and uploaded as a file to the computer system for playout.

    RTE dont play vinyl "live" in their studios, I would say there is a turntable in at least one of their production studios in dublin for such vinyl uploads.

    I've also heard other Radio 2 dj's describe the early days and the process was that the ads were played by a technical person in another studio from cart. the dj only played jingles on cart and records.

    on the pirate stations the dj wouldve played the ads, so they did everything for playout



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 678 ✭✭✭TheBMG


    I’ve never seen that David Castles tune on CD, so it’s very possible Gold only have a vinyl rip.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,618 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    Even if it's not on CD in their library, radio stations such as Gold no longer source their songs from CDs, there are plenty of music services on line such as "ilikemusic" that will provide a song file in seconds. I'd say the David Castles song was vinyl ripped by John Clarke during his 2FM days, nowadays he'd just source the song on line.

    I'd say most of the RTE Gold playlist was built from these music providers, it's much handier than going to the physical music library finding a CD and then ripping it just for one oldie. Although I quite like the picture in my head of CDs or vinyl being used for these sourcing purposes.



  • Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭ZaK23-54


    I had forgotten how beautiful Ten to Eight by David Castle was until I heard Micky play it….earlier today.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,510 ✭✭✭cml387


    One aspect of RTE Gold is starting to annoy me…repetition.

    Saturday morning: they play Tainted Love by Soft Cell

    Saturday mid day the featured year is 1981 and they play…..Tainted Love by Soft Cell.

    Sunday Morning Ireland's Biggest jukebox they play Killer Queen.

    Sunday Afternoon the DJ chooses to play two songs by Queen one of which is …Killer Queen

    And Ronan Collins' mystery year today is ….1981. Again. So we've had Ghost Town by the Specials..again.

    In the old days this might be called "excessive rotation".



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭tommythecat


    Yes there can be a fair amount of repetition sometimes alright. I'm noticing Damn I wish I was your lover by Sophie b Hawkins a lot at the moment. Still not half as bad as other stations.

    4kwp South East facing PV System. 5.3kwh Weco battery. South Dublin City.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,208 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    You would have thought, though, that a full-time oldies station might be able to play more than one song by Soft Cell.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 74 ✭✭ekkinak


    Absolutely,

    Bedsitter, Say Hello and Torch were all top 5, (think Torch reached no. 2)



  • Registered Users Posts: 10 Guy_In_Cognito


    RTE Gold definitely suffer from repetition, I presume there's a reason for that, but as others stated, still better than other stations. Classic Hits seem to play Toto's Africa ten times a day.
    RTE Gold are very fond of You Got It by Roy Orbison, and can be a bit boy band heavy at times, but it's still by far my favourite Radio 'Channel'.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,774 ✭✭✭GSF


    I guess it’s the weekend shows not being integrated into the playlist so if they play a song as part of the chart countdown they don’t count that as a play when doing rotation. Other than that some presenters seem to have favourites that keep popping up.

    But if you only listen for an hour a day would you notice?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭zoobizoo


    I was only commenting to my wife this afternoon when I heard Toto's Africa being played on East Coast FM..... (we had heard it yesterday as well).

    "It's funny how some songs are chosen to represent the 80s... I'm sure they're playing it more now than they did back then".

    And it was probably rarely played in the late 80s and throughout the 90s.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,618 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    with so many 80s songs forgotten about during the 90s as cumbersome CDs was the main playout method, computer playout has made these songs very overplayed these days.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,774 ✭✭✭GSF


    some songs just sound better on the radio. From the chart of August 1983 for example Come Dancing by the Kinks sounds much better than Walking in the rain by Modern Romance



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,618 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    all down to personal taste, but come dancing wouldnt be the kinks finest moment.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,510 ✭✭✭cml387


    Ah ,I quite like "Come Dancing",especially if you know the rather sad story behind it.



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