Vintage 2FM Discussion Thread

JUILLIARD wrote: »

2fm have no live programs from 10pm-6am these days.

They have no live programmes from 8pm (when Game On finishes).

Before Game On started earlier this year there was no live programmes from 7pm (Dave Fanning) until 6am (Damien Farrelly).

ford fiesta wrote: »

They have no live programmes from 8pm (when Game On finishes).

Before Game On started earlier this year there was no live programmes from 7pm (Dave Fanning) until 6am (Damien Farrelly).

Jenny Greene is live Friday/Saturday. Damien Farrelly was live on his late show also, few years back now?

Yes he also did bits on the g ryan show around the time, the 3 guys in the pub

marno21 wrote: »

Wait until the day 2FM decide enough is enough and show him the door.. "xxx is a great replacement for Colm Hayes", think outside the box JoeA3

I think you mean the 90s

He was resident on the Dublin Pirates (Nova along with others)throughout the 80s

Dom Phil Cobe wrote: »

Does anyone here remember his great lunchtime show that ran from from 87 till 89 ish ?

Yes the lunchtime sambo was part of it, two songs and a voice.

ford fiesta wrote: »

He was on the pirates up to 1987 (energy was his last)

he took over from Ian Dempsey at lunchtime 2FM when Ian went to breakfast. And the lunchtime sambo came from Ian's show.

This sounds correct. RTÉ Radio 2 fm made some minor changes when Jimmy Greeley left his old 09:00-11:30AM weekday slot as a temporary radio licence was established for: "Millennium 88FM Radio" back in 1988 as Dublin City was celebrating it's 1,000 years since being granted it's city charter status.

Following Greeley's departure from Radio 2, Gerry Ryan switched from his night-time show: "Lights Out" and a new morning programme called: "The Gerry Ryan Show" began in an expanded timeslot from 09:00-12Noon Mon-Fri circa March 1988. The show had reporters like Barbara Jordan & Brenda Donoghue and people like "Terence" (the Cork camp hairdresser) played by RTÉ Radio 1 presenter: John Creedon who used have regular slots. I think Ian Dempsey may have temporarily switched from Breakfast to Lunchtime for a relatively short period but this all changed again when a major relaunch at the station would follow 12months later in March 1989 with the "Key to the sound of 2FM" marketing campaign. Dempsey would then return to the 2FM Breakfast Show by this point if I recall correctly and The Gerry Ryan Show remained a core fixture of the relaunched station.

This was probably RTÉ 2FM Radio preparing to do battle ahead of the arrival of Century Radio, Ireland's first national independent radio station from September 1989 when Marty Whelan (ex RTÉ Radio 2) would become a direct rival (i.e.) until the eventual demise of Century 100FM Radio in late November 1991 as the station was dogged by reception problems which restricted audience reach levels which probably impacted negatively on securing adequate commercial advertising revenue.

I vaguely remember Colm Hayes doing Lunchtime on 2FM in the late 80s and then he was gone elsewhere which was a pity as he was in his prime back then in the slot. A lot of DJs came and went between 1988-1992 period with a whole new radio broadcasting regime being rolled out across the whole country.

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Fair play, up 6,000 listeners year on year in today's JNLRs.

I don't understand it myself, but maybe he is going to attract an audience.

I suppose if you can really understand what your audience wants and expects and providing it falls within your allowed remit then part of the trick is to schedule the right personalities and programme content into the right schedule order. Once you get this aspect correct, you then have some chance at increasing other shows listenership ratings too and I think this is probably what they managed to achieve following the last major re-jigging of the station schedule.

The more I think of it, Ray D'Arcy might have been a more wise choice for RTÉ 2fm at 9am weekdays X 5 mornings a week as I think he seems completely out of place for RTÉ Radio 1 at 3pm.

squonk wrote: »

I remember Colm doing an evening slot around 1987-1988. Maybe it was a temp gig but I definitely remember packing my bag after doing homework one evening with Colm on my radio in the background.

Probably filling in for Gerry Ryan on lights out??

Airchecks - available on http://aircheckdownloads.com/2FM.htm

2FM Ireland - John Kenny May 25th 1989 (4'24)

2FM Ireland - Ian Dempsey Oct 23rd 1989 (6'49)

2FM Ireland - John Kenny Oct 23rd 1989 (5'19)

2FM Ireland - Paul Scanlon Oct 24 1989 (6'22)

2FM Ireland - Nails Mahoney Oct 24th 1989 (6'11)

2FM Ireland - Gareth O'Callaghan Feb 28th 1991 (5'37)

2FM Ireland - Barry Lang May 24th 1992 (3'58)

2FM Ireland - Tony Fenton May 26th 1992 (5'25)

2FM Ireland - Ian Dempsey May 28th 1992 (12'18)

2FM Ireland - Gerry Wilson Jun 1994 (5'13)

2FM Ireland - Gerry Gogan Dec 10th 1994 (2'20)

others who were on the LIVE overnights on 2fm in the late 80s/all of the 90s were John Clarke, Mike Ryan, Suzanne Duffy, Gerard Gogan, Paul Scanlon, Nails Mahoney (briefly),
Michael Cahill, Will Leahy and Ruth Scott started there too.