Lite FM Compromised

rymus · 04-03-2004 04:23PM

Originally posted by OmeGar
only problem was how small there playlist was. that's why (IMHO) the station was loosing listeners.

Rather like RedFM in Cork then... "Yea we only play stuff from the late 90's and 00's" Tossers! They weren't long realising that this seriously restricted their playlists though. Hearing the same pop drivel 6/7 times in the space of a couple of hours wasn't uncommon. Thankfully they started playing 80's stuff too, although oddly enough they're still completely shìte

Genghis · 04-03-2004 04:29PM

I think that is another crowd. Although they are also a Northern Irish group, they appear from their website to be more 'British' than 'Irish' in their outlook (as opposed to UTV who actively view themselves as an all-island group).

Genghis · 04-03-2004 04:32PM

Originally posted by rymus
Rather like RedFM in Cork then... "Yea we only play stuff from the late 90's and 00's" Tossers! They weren't long realising that this seriously restricted their playlists though. Hearing the same pop drivel 6/7 times in the space of a couple of hours wasn't uncommon. Thankfully they started playing 80's stuff too, although oddly enough they're still completely shìte

Reminds me of how 2FM decided a few years back on the occassion of their 21st anniversary that they would not play anything that pre-existed it (i.e. before c.1980). That one quietly vanished also.

ballooba · 04-03-2004 04:35PM

Originally posted by Genghis
I think that is another crowd. Although they are also a Northern Irish group, they appear from their website to be more 'British' than 'Irish' in their outlook (as opposed to UTV who actively view themselves as an all-island group).

I think the fact that they use L'Derry instead of Derry gave that away.

Fabritzo · 04-03-2004 04:46PM

Arrghhh Mahna Mahna :'(
The rds on the station says MUPPET

Genghis · 04-03-2004 04:47PM

Yeah, that plus on the conact page they give a heap of phone numbers, all with the prefix for within NI. International customers please dial 0044, etc, but not the 048 version which would be applicable from ROI. Also they are based in the Waterside, iirc this is the unionist part of Derry.

Going OT here, but does anyone know if in the North if the seperate communities have seperate licensed stations?

ford fiesta · 04-03-2004 05:28PM

Red FM do sneak in a few hits from the 80s..LISTEN at 10am weekdays they have a retro hour

A few oldies on the radio is no harm...IF RTE 2FM started playing new hits and R n' B ****e all day, it would loose listeners by the tens of thousands...Look what happened BBC Radio 1 in the Mid 90s, got rid of all the old DJs (Simon Bates, Dave Lee Travis, Alan Freeman, Bruno Brookes) started playing "new" music, within a few months it lost a few million listeners.

The old Lite FM was great, I hope the all new Q-102 will have a good mix and remember the one of the biggest radio stations in Dublin in the 80s was the old Q-102, involving Scott Williams whose head of the new station as well, where loads of now big time DJs became household names(Aiden Leonard, Gareth O'Callaghan, Al Dunne)

Everyone loves oldies on the radio...:)

eth0_ · 04-03-2004 05:37PM

Originally posted by Genghis
International customers please dial 0044, etc, but not the 048 version which would be applicable from ROI.
Going OT here, but does anyone know if in the North if the seperate communities have seperate licensed stations?

048 is not the international prefix though, is it! Saying that hardly makes them hardcore Brits, does it...

As for licensed stations...eh no...you think we have Catholic FM and Proddy FM?
There are a few community stations, same as you have in Dublin with Radio Na Life etc etc

Genghis · 04-03-2004 05:56PM

My apologies, EthO, one time, afaicr, you could not dial an NI number with the 0044 prefix from Ireland, you had to swap the 028 for 048. That is what I meant by my point - that they had given the number reach them from everywhere but ROI. Having dialled them myself, I stand corrected.

No offence intended at the query, it perhaps came across as a little naive. I know that the regional press in NI is very much sectarian, along with many other parts of daily life in NI, my query was simply whether this was so in local radio broadcasting.

eth0_ · 04-03-2004 06:00PM

Originally posted by Genghis
My apologies, EthO, one time, afaicr, you could not dial an NI number with the 0044 prefix from Ireland, you had to swap the 028 for 048.

Heh no need to apologise :OP

shabbyroad · 07-03-2004 12:31PM

<<yawn>> it's been done before. Either Radio Nova or Sunshine did it about 20 years ago.

Listened to Q102 a bit later that day and it's gawdawful... more of the same auld shíte that passes for broadcasting in this country

...back to my iPod I go...

eth0_ · 07-03-2004 12:49PM

hahah, Emma Ledden, Ray Shah, Dusty Roads, what a motley crew of has-beens and never-were's!

This station sounds just fscking AWFUL.

oneweb · 07-03-2004 12:51PM

It was only a matter of time (read:years) before they had to stop calling themselves "Dublin's new 102.2 - LiteFM".

Lite FM Compromised

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