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A few of Today FM's jingles and pieces have gone OTT lately. The Top of the hour news jingle especially.

Agreed.

And it was quite easy today for once

I'm convinced that whoever puts them together hates Louise.

And Today FM are doing another poll. This time it's Today FM’s Big 500 Countdown - Counting down the biggest songs of the last 25 years. Unfortunately of course that just happens to coincide with the time period most of their playlist comes from anyway. And as usual they've "helpfully" supplied us with 51 acts and three songs by each of them that we can pick as well. That's the top 153 all sewn up then... With Bohemian Rhapsody and Cranberries not on the list, there'll be a new number one of course. But with high scoring songs last time out like, say, Viva La Vida by Coldplay (No 7) not being among the selected tracks, expect them to plummet, just like Bohemian Rhapsody went from No 1 down to No 85 from the first poll to the second.

I think this time around it's going to be very boring and unoriginal. It might get interesting near the end but, like I said, it's all sewn up.

https://vote.todayfm.com/big500

I had a long drive up the country this morning, and had Alison Curtis on for the journey. She played Sabrina Carpenter twice during her show. Yes, they were different songs and I get that Sabrina is "so hot right now", but playing the same artist twice over a three-hour show is pretty grim. I know it's a bit of a running joke that TodayFM's playlist is now pretty much comprised of Taylor Swift, Dermot Kennedy, Chapell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter and Bruno Mars, but there might be some truth in the joke.

I hate todayFMs, and Irish radio in general, obsession with competitions and giving away prizes.

Takes up a lot of airtime. I suppose it's content!

Rte also fond of the nights away in hotels.

I'd take the cash machine ads over hearing from Mick "the taximan" or the other inane callers on Classic Hits. I'm lucky that I have GBFM and the music between 12-1 is usually very good. The other afternoon hour are grand and no more or less annoying than the rest.

Any Rose Gray, Wet Leg, Lambrini Girls or FKA Twigs on their playlist?

The problem with Classic Hits is that bloody "What did Colm say to Lucy?" competition and the constant promos. You can tell at this stage that the presenters are sick to death with it as well.

I had it on for a while yesterday evening after 10PM. Louise McSharry was on playing rock cliche hits for want of a description. Putridly bad stuff that was obviously a pre recorded show. She dropped one link stating that the full version of a song was to be played only to cut it mid song; a link drops in not long afterwards bragging that she played the full track.

Classic Hits has a promo for Colm and Lucy every 10 minutes which in itself is very annoying

I used to switch off after Dave, can't stand the Louise show, then I always switched back on at 2pm for the Ray Foley show. I'm finding now that i'm switching off straight after Music Master and not switching on until 2pm and even then I might only listen for an hour and go straight to my iTunes. I used to listen to Matt Cooper but his everyday constant giving out and attacking Trump (I don't like Trump either) is getting so boring now.
The station seems to have gone to the dogs lately

They should move the hard shoulder to Newstalk. I like Matt, but I haven't listened in years. Far too negative for me

And no royalties to pay for song play.

Curious comment on the Dave Moore show yesterday about Music Master. Something like you'd need to play it this week if you want to play it in its current form and that things are changing from Tuesday on. Hmmm. I know that Eimear did all the questions and when she left there were enough questions until "April" which is now. Considering each show would have had at least 45 questions written for it, I'm guessing they're finally running out and they have no-one to carry on the question writing.