RTE Gold discussion thread

"I've got scchumthin' to tell you"

Gold, and other lesser stations like Classic Hits etc, they fkn love Boyzone and Westlife.
Utter tripe, but sadly, there's a listening audience for them..
There are few artists/songs I will switch off a radio station for, and both the above meet that criteria.

that’s a shame - really liked her when she presented. Hopefully will appear somewhere else on the airwaves in the new year

wasn’t she running the station with Aidan and Truffles? That’s 2 out 3 gone

would expect so - Backhurst was saying they were trying to get more leavers before end of December

she did say she really enjoyed working with Aidan so maybe his leaving has made the environment less fun

Assuming they can re deploy some of the staff working on the other digital stations to Gold after the end of December. Or maybe they want them of the books too?

pity he is not on more often on Gold (certainly he could cover for Rick a few days a week, if sports allowed him to), anyway as a DJ with a mostly a metal / rock and sports background on RTE, I thought it was funny hearing him mention daniel o'donnells birthday today, as part of the celebrity birthday slot.

Dave Fanning sounds very out of place - even for voice tracked it sounds very stale. I turn off when I hear his signature tune

I don't think voice tracking and having a script suits Dave, even though he was no stranger to it on 2FM, back as far as 2000.

The whole thing about Dave's Radio 2 / 2FM 'Rock Shows' was the unpredictability of it and of him being disorganised.

He will NEVER return to RTÉ. Full stop.

Calling Ryan Tubridy, calling Ryan Tubridy!

Please report to the Gold office in the new year.

What a curious bit of media choreography today.

It probably means he wanted to stay, when they were letting him go.

Losing his producer amanda fennelly who has left RTE, probably has something to do with it (Ronan needs a Producer and RTE don't have one to take her place). amanda put his 3 hour show together, including scripting the links.

Ronan has consistently been on daily national radio since May 1979 (since the start of RTE Radio 2).

46.5 years …Nobody else has achieved this consistent longevity!!

Jaysus, it didn't sound like there was much scripting in them links!

No wonder she left if that's what she was reduced to as a producer.

Yes. The feeling always seems to have been that outside of maybe a live breakfast show the music itself is the great attraction and presenters are an optional extra.

With the constraints on hiring, no extra allowances for existing staff, no more freelancers it doesn't look good for much expansion there in the medium term.

It doesn't look great to look for 400 voluntary redundancies, funded by the taxpayer and then pack a thing that's not even on FM with has beens and never weres.

Amanda would have chosen the songs and done much more scripting than this, each song had facts and figures etc especially on the mystery year segment. I would also assume Ronan had a sound engineer in studio with him too and someone had to clip the links and songs together…it was probably amanda who did all of this.