Traffic reports from the air, a thing of the past?

Arnie Pie, the end of an era.

The traffic reports on RTE are a complete waste of time. A junior reads out a random set of roads in red from their Google maps along with another random stop-go system in some regional town.

Absolutely useless information. Filler

does jon richards galway bay fm still go around galway city on a motorbike ?

Ha,ha,those were the days.

Live Drive on Dublin City FM is a dedicated travel show. Really helpful over the years

When 2FM ruled the Irish airwaves: RTE 2FM. AD 1993 (youtube.com)

Not sure of the name or the person, but definitely still see the Galway Bay FM bike still doing the rounds in the mornings/evenings.

Not sure Losty…. I don't think so, but I could be wrong. The memory isn't as reliable these days 😄

I am sure someone else will be along soon, to confirm.

I don't recall Capital 104 having traffic chopper reports, 4 traffic report cars driving around the city was the set up iirc

When Q102 started the Eye in the Sky it was compared to Capital in Londons service,

There was initial outrage from the usual quarters - interference to aircraft etc - and letters exchanged between Q and the Irish Times in particular.

When you think about , a 'pirate' station doing traffic reports from an helicopter owned by the son of the Taoiseach and sponsored by FIAT !, crazy days.

RTE did get the 'Eye in the Sky' grounded during the motor show- threatening to pull TV coverage , the grounding preventing. FIAT transporting clients by chopper.

Nova apparently had looked at running a chopper in the air but it never went ahead , Harry making a rare mistake, within days Q were accusing Nova of pirating their Chopper reports which led to the unusual pirates pirating headline.

so looking back - when Q102 closed in Dec 88, did 2FM start using the name 'Eye in the sky' ??

Or did 2FM and Q use 'Eye in the sky' name at the same time ??

No better man for that!

The very first thing I thought of.