I think I'm mistaken about that. I'd a vague memory that there was one, back in the mid 90s or early 00s, but it wouldn't have been something I'd have ever voluntarily listened to, and looking online I can't find anything.
What "country" station did Communicorp have? It certainly did not have an FM-based one.
I think it's a pretty safe bet that their new midweek country show will be more early Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and LeAnn Rimes rather than Big Tom, Wee Daniel and Margo.
You’re not a listener on a Bauer Media owned station, you’re a customer.
Claire’s shows have always been great. Really makes you miss having a Phantom/TXFM/8Radio type station on fulltime FM. Or DAB but that’s probably for another thread ..
Belter of a last show from Claire Beck
final saturday soundsystem is on now.
the mostly unknown, less commercial music that is being played will never be heard on Today FM ever again.
so it is a historic show - in that alternative / specialist / new emerging 'indie' 'rock' or 'dance' music genres (previously played by Tom Dunne, Donal Dineen, Ed Smith, Paul McLoone and others) will be a thing of Today FMs past from now on. I'm not including Declan Pierce here as he does play a lot of commercial music.
Some interesting nostalgia. www.independent.ie/irish-news/radio-ireland-gets-new-name-after-losing-2m/26197972.html
Friday night 80s barely mentions the online stations, so not sure why you're saying that.
Had you ever listened to existing shows: Today FM Rocks (10pm Sun to Thur) or Today FM 80s (10pm Fri) ??
These shows promoted and created content / links around these on-line stations a lot. They are not really like regular Today FM shows that normally take requests or callers, text in your stories, entertainment news, mention cash call etc etc. The 10pm to midnight show is simply a promotional tool for go loud on-line channels content - that's mostly it and fills a gap in the already declining presenter schedule.
How is anyone going to build a following based on 1 x 2 hour show a week, where they are limited in what they can play. Stupid idea. TodayFM is gone to the dogs.
It’s country one night a week. It’s not like they’re going all-in on it.
They're going from a "rock"(*) show to Country? I mean, I know it's popular in Ireland, but… didn't Communicorp used to have a "country" station that closed down? The target audience won't be listening in to know about it. /shrug
(*) rock/Coldplay/Imagine Dragons/Blink1982… Jebus, Ed, no wonder you quit…
I reckon that is Barry Dunne's first time presenting on a national station. I looked up Ciara Revins. She is a presenter from Red FM and recently a stand-in co-host on RTE's The Today Show with Daithi O'Shea. I also looked up Clodagh Lawlor. She is a musician and a former presenter on Limerick's Live 95 and Clare FM.
I would say it’s an educated, but in my opinion, a wholly accurate guess.
Where are you getting that information from?
if the average listener is getting their hopes up about these nightly themed shows - don't too much.
the shows will be voicetracked (not live) with generic links promoting the go-loud digital stations and sampling the chilled, country, 90s or whatever stations that are on their digital platform. that's the shows purpose.
I like it.
Have Ciara and Clodagh been on before?
That's actually an interesting thing to do, alternating shows on weeknights hasn't been a thing on the station since 1997 and indeed nightly alternating shows has become very rare on Irish radio in general, Even RTE radio 1 has mostly phased it out apart from Mooney goes wild on Monday nights.
Bar the Wednesday and Sunday that doesn't seem too bad.
Is that Barry's first move to national?
Interested to see what soundtracks entails
Yesterday FM at 9pm on Saturdays with Barry Dunne, feck sake. That's the end of me listening at that time so.
Wonder is Dec Pearse staying as he was.
Mixing it up a bit
FFS, what a jokeshop of a station its turning into. So, they are going probably to get one person in to do the weekend late evening slots with Ed and Claire going? Mad stuff altogether.
Some more names came to mind since.
Tom Dunne - Newstalk
John Kelly - Lyric FM
Jim McCabe (a few gigs) - Radio Nova
Anton Savage - Newstalk
Karl Tsignidos - Dublin City FM
Colm O'Sullivan - Red FM
was clare beck's sat night show the only one left on the station that played non-chart / non-well known music ?
the only specialist show left ?
yes I know dec pierce plays dance anthems, but these are generally well known songs and I wouldnt call his shows as 'specialist'.
First time in this thread in years.....is this craic still going on?? 🙄
Eds show has been terrible the last few years, I wonder why he waited to be pushed as opposed to picking up work elsewhere? If he was staff, holding out for a redundancy package maybe??
Claire Beck's Saturday Soundsystem was the last thing I actually listened to on this station, not quite as good as the beat goes on, but it was the final bit of colour in an increasingly beige schedule.…
Today FM really now is the station for those that have truly given up on life.
Believe who?
For some strange reason she disappeared off all radio slots for a couple of years. Then she came back with a bang.
#ibelieveher
Re Mario and how long he’s been with the station, yes he’s been there longer than Iano and he talks about it in some detail in the series of podcasts they did earlier this year to celebrate Gift Grub’s 25th(?) anniversary - Gift Wrapped. Mario tells a few amusing anecdotes on that podcast. He had been doing a few sketches already but wasn’t tied to any one show. He did a bit on breakfast but also did bits with Eamon Dunphy on the last word. The station was really struggling for listeners and then the Ian Dempsey rumours started. Mario recalls that whenever Ian was due to visit the station in advance of his new show starting, out came the yellow balloons and the champagne 😅
Then the 2 of them met, they clicked, Iano wanted a comedy element to his new show, as he had the likes of “Jimmy” and zig and zag from his RTE days… and the rest is history.
