2fm - New schedule coming

Voice tracking isn’t the issue. Weak execution is.

Pre-recorded content works everywhere else. No one questions The Joe Rogan Experience or The Diary Of A CEO because they’re not live. They work because they’re intentional. Clear structure. Strong personality. Defined purpose

On the PD point. If presenters aren’t being air-checked regularly, drift happens. Crutches creep in. Energy drops. Safe replaces compelling. Monthly checks at minimum. Specific feedback, not vague praise. Who is the APD to Dan Healy or ops manager?

Could they ever go (or be allowed to go) advert free? There doesn't seem to be that many adverts, compared to the likes of Today FM, so could be a minimal loss.

Id say having uninterrupted shows may give them a huge advantage.

Often listen to BBC Radio 1 because I know I'm not getting hit with adverts after 3 songs and a competition for a 20euro Just Eat voucher.

You think you'll get the ball rolling in abolishing the television licence fee by getting Radio Telefís Éireann to abandon 21st century music? You think Irish tax payers want their audio entertainment to be entirely at a billionaires whim payed for by a dangerous additive lottery? You think that over one hundred thousand listeners are worth nothing to Ireland? Why isn't BBC Radio 1 under pressure?

2fm offers a choice. And while less listeners are choosing 2fm right now, that's better than no choice at all. Giving up is incredibly short sightedness and the tax payers are not getting value from a company that says the 20th century way worked, lets stick with it forever.

It is in their annual report, I believe it cost €10 - 12 m while Lyric costs about €6 - 7m, Gold is nowhere near either of those figures.

No offence to you but that sounds very like a Moya Doherty thing to say "They are not perfect".

I'd argue that you don't have to look a BBC Radio 1 as an example, but to Lyric FM and RnaG, neither have made a profit, RnaG is much like the BBC with no commerical funding (save for the PSA announcements in recent years). I can understand the cost of RnaG as it is largely a regional and talk service rather than a music one.

In reality GOLD is exactly what you are suggesting, but I agree I think there needs to be a youth service from RTÉ, but its clearly not working.

I think blaming the model for the problems of RTÉ is simple turning around and agreeing they have "existentially crisis" while failing to look at the services they are providing and which they have ultimate control over.

RTÉ 2FM was set up to be as cost neutral service to RTÉ and, IMO, with the hope it might also provide some extra funding to public service broadcasts on other RTÉ services. (Though I think it only ever broke-even).

2FM never took much of a cut, RTÉ simple pumped money into them from the license fee since 2011. Meantime its audience has depleted and lyrics has increased. And RTÉ cut in other areas.

BBC Radio 1 = 1% of total BBC budget

RTÉ 2FM = 3% of total RTÉ budget.

Though as RTÉ say you shouldn't compare them to the BBC.

I like how this thread is under 2 years old, the schedule is nearly entirely different to when it was created, and yet the title is basically constantly valid

New shakeup , still doesn't make me switch back to 2 fm

So torture everyone in the morning for another hour. How will they fill 4 hours of trying to be funny.

So it’s Garrihy I can’t make it for 9am or stay till 6pm because of crèche hours.

Can’t be seen putting back the box ticking exercise from drive to weekend again so let’s put them on lunchtime. One isn’t funny and other can’t read a text message without fumbling it.

Drive is now I can’t help but laugh at everything and Instagramer.

Are we making guesses on how long this lasts

Tracey was the only decent thing on 2FM

Garrihy must have given her rules before returning (not starting till 10am)

Beta is decent.

Id say Clifford will now go to weekends 12-3

2fm is dirt, but at least the music is a bit mixed, Today FM just sounds like you are at a poxy wedding 24/7 (mr. Brightside and Bruno Mars must be played 30 times a week)

Carl Mullan,Garrihy, Demi Isaac etc wouldn't have gotten on air 20 years ago. Todays schedule is too female led with male sidekicks

Thing is, when Garrihy left initially, she wasn't exactly inundated with offers while she was gone, and going back to 2FM had all the signs of "No one else would hire me," so how she had any negotiation power at all is beyond me. It reminds me a bit too much of Tubridy and the "We have to pay Ryan an enormous sum every year, otherwise he'd be off to the BBC," and we all know how that ended.

I'm guessing we'll have another revamp by August. But I'm sure that'll be one that works.

Originally posted this in the Gold thread by mistake.

I'd be surprised if there's a single week where all 3 breakfast presenters do all 20 hours. Most likely one or two of them does the first hour, the three of them from 7 to 9 then the early presenter leaves at 9

Dan Healy already has his excuses ready for the next 4 JNLR's sorted for when ratings are down. "We only launched a new schedule", "Not comparable as the show used to finish/end at xxx time"

If Jenny Greene or Dave Tracey are on the move then I imagine Tracey Clifford is the top name to take either place.

Dave Traceys show is basically hours of soundalike tracks, the same every week; so any change there would be nice.