Dublins Q102

fair enough. I’m Enda Caldwell.

I’m going to make a bold prediction here. Q102 may change schedule but neither live 95 and definitely not 96fm will have any schedule changes. At all. Lorraine and ross and pj Coogan will stay with 100k odd listeners they have between them. There’s simply no way that will change in the short term.

If Mallow is now shut, is the Bandon studio also shut? Where does the Sunday morning show exclusively for West Cork come from now?

John Greene left C103 also. He goes way back to when it opened back in 1990 in the Bandon Studios. Almost continuous presentation on the station, apart from a few years at Radio Kerry in between.

Yes Eric has left c103 altogether.

I understand John Greene appeared on Radio Kerry a few weeks ago deputising for the usual presenter of the Sunday 11am-2PM show..., good to see he isn't completely gone from radio

So….Q102 then…….

I wouldn’t be disappointed if they did networking with Live 95 in limerick and replaced some of the terrible shows. Live 95 is a very poor station compared to C103/96FM/Q102 etc

They are only short of leaving them off the office cleaning rota.

So where does this leave the rumours of a networked Breakfast show with C103?

Kind of a strong line up. With Kathryn at Breakfast, Ryan at mid mornings and a Dublin local news show they are going for Radio 1 listeners. I think it could work.

I wonder where Andy Preston will pop up next, He's been part of that group for around 29 years give or take.

I hope he gets a show somewhere else, He will be missed from the airwaves.

That is correct - give or take. Andy Preston came to FM104 in 1996 from the *pirates (mainly dance). I think it was around the summer, so about 28 and a half years. He was with FM104 for a number of years before moving to, what was by then, its sister station Q102.

*I think he started with Radio Dublin in the late 1980s, but he is more associated with pirates, particularly dance, in the first half of the '90s. They included Sunset, when it had gone all dance, and Sunset's successors Rhythm FM and Hot107. Along the way, he had at least one guest appearance as a presenter on non-dance Coast FM.

I believe Andy started on the long forgotten Diamond 106 and was also with LLCR in the Liberties before Radio Dublin.

If they call it Virgin Radio Dublin it would fit seamlessly with Tubridy in London and he could finally name check the station, which would seem more coordinated.

Some clever marketing of “Kathryn Thomas at Breakfast, Ryan Tubridy for your workday and Martin King at the Weekend” would be a good tagline.

It would mirror the “Chris Evans at Breakfast and Graham Norton at the weekend” ( when he was with them) tagline they used to use on Virgin Radio UK.

I could see this working.