RTE Gold discussion thread

I was listening to John Connolly this evening with his ABC to XTC show. He thanked Amanda Farrelly for the previous three hours. The problem is that I happen to know that she was not presenting the afternoon show as I caught the last 20 minutes of it and the presenter was Erik Threlfall! This is the problem with pre-recorded or voice tracked programs.

Gold putting Dave Fanning on nightly now from 6-8pm from today. Long time coming as I thought this was in the plan for over a year. It would be a full schedule except Carol Moran is off and replaced by automation

Yes rick promoting it but not saying hes live. Must be doing his links then autotrack playing music. I dont think dave is rte staff despite all the years service so probably just doing it for a few auld shillings unless im wrong

last nights 1st song was The Maverick’s- National Express so it’s seems like the standard playlist

yes sorry. Don’t know I keep mixing those 2 up in my head.

Didn’t get a chance to listen beyond the 1st song to his show and didn’t get a chance to listen yesterday either. I’m guessing it’s done in a similar way to Ronan Collins show - a few features, a lot of songs back to back and a few long links in between these music sets?

It's great that there are presenters up til 8pm now daily.

Rick, Carol, Dave, it's a good mix for the afternoon/evening.

I'd love if there was a later slot as well, something similar to Late Date on RTE1, but I can always just listen to Late Date on RTE1 😀

I’d be the same. Not questioning his pedigree but I’d prefer Drivetime til 7 and not Fanning at 6pm

Dave would be MUCH better suited to 8pm to 10pm (like his Rock Show mostly was on 2FM), though my guess is that RTE Radio don't want the similar enough audiences diverting from John Kelly on Lyric or John Creedon on Radio 1.

wouldn’t be surprised if everything from 9am onwards was. The tell was probably the emergency tape kicking in.

Erik is is for Amanda again on the "All 80s Saturday" - as he is an 80s music aficionado he plays a much better selection.

Erik is in for Amanda again on "All 80s Saturday" playing the brilliant Ofra Haza - Im Nin'Alu (where else would you hear this on Irish radio in 2025)

On a side note, I wonder will any of the Gold presenters take up the RTE redundancy later this year and will there need to be a re-shuffle of schedule ?

I would be fairly certain that Aidan, Will, Rick, Michael Cahill, Amanda, Erik Threlfall and Carol Moran are RTE staffers.

I thought the same when John C said it just there - it wouldn't sound out of place on ABC to XTC and by the way it's Kon Kan !!

At one stage, the Radioplayer app had live track info when nothing else did. But I just tried it now and it didn't.

listening to the top 100 piano songs from last Monday. Not a bad list. Bit obvious having Billy Joel, Queen and Elton John at the top of the list but I suppose the positions don’t really matter, it’s a list of 100 songs that could be in any order. Only one Ray Charles song though! On the plus side no bloody Oasis