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2fm New Breakfast Show

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    #32
    louisecm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 289 ✭✭louisecm


    I'd say their "former employer" has threatened them big style with law suits for copyright etc so they're just not taking any chances. So happy to hear him though, and I think Dougy Hi-Life suits him.


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    #33
    John Mason
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    Brilliant to see Gavin aka dougie back this morning, funny then ever but i have to say the show seems to have lost something in the move, these country folk just dont get the humour, there is low flying airplanes all over the place

    its only the first week though, hopefully, it will pick up in the next few weeks :)


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    #34
    crybaby
    Registered Users Posts: 852 ✭✭✭crybaby


    pretty much the exact same show just on a different station be interesting to see how big an audience they can get though


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    #35
    HelterSkelter
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    MemEmee wrote:
    is it just me or are Colm and Jim Jam! Rubbish and annoying and almost worse than Marty...
    They were rubbish on 104 and I don't expect them to be any better now. Last thing I need in the morning is middle aged arséholes trying to be young, trendy and funny (which they are not).


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    #36
    HelterSkelter
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    nipplenuts wrote:
    It's not just you. The show is peurile and aimed at the LCD. Always was.
    LCD????


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    #37
    DarkJager
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    I heard it this morning (having never heard their previous show), and I have to say its the first time a radio show has ever drawn a laugh out of me. That Martin "Luther" King segment was quite well done and I'll defo check it out again, at least for tomorrow.


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    #38
    motley
    Registered Users Posts: 182 ✭✭motley


    irishbird wrote:
    these country folk just dont get the humour

    It must be us country folk sense of homour :D Its sounds to me like every bad 80's breakfast show brought back to life.


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    #39
    tSubh Dearg
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 5,555 ✭✭✭tSubh Dearg


    HelterSkelter wrote:
    LCD????
    Lowest Common Denominator


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    #40
    jos28
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    motley wrote:
    It must be us country folk sense of homour :D Its sounds to me like every bad 80's breakfast show brought back to life.
    Its not just the country folk. Sounds like the worst form of pirate radio. Annoying, constantly shouting inane rubbish, definitely NOT funny.I stuck it for 4 days and had to switch the dial. I might tune back in if I hear that one of them has found a brain cell.


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    #41
    BeatNikDub
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    I like it.
    Sometimes it gets too much but i need a laugh in the morning and they have been doing that all this week.
    Just made me realise how much i missed them since the move to Kilkenny.

    They need to keep the show fresh though, they have a habit of over doing ideas and then they become stale.

    I remember Joe and Keith on Spin being quite good aswell for first thing in the morning pick me up, pity about the rest of the shows on spin.

    For the morning it used to be Ian Dempsey for me but even that is going stale at the moment, they need to up their game now, i think colm and jim him are providing some real competition.

    The "Im Locked" song was hilarious though :lol:


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    #42
    Wertz
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    BeatNikDub wrote:

    The "Im Locked" song was hilarious though :lol:

    Aye I had a good chuckle at that this morning myself.

    The 2 boys should teach 2FM how to actualy do decent jingles while they're there...cos quite patently 2FM themselves have no f*cking clue...


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    #43
    MemEmee
    Registered Users Posts: 156 ✭✭MemEmee


    Did anyonhe see review in Irish Times on Saturday. Think it nailed it. And Nob Nation. See below.


    http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/weekend/2007/0310/1173442925929.html

    Spam or ham? It's just a matter of taste

    Bernice Harrison

    Radio Review: One man's Spam is another man's ham explained the techie guy, and as reasonable as his tone was (Click On, BBC Radio 4, Wednesday), you just knew he didn't mean it. Working for McAfee, a company that produces anti-spam software, Guy Roberts's days are filled with devising strategies for blocking unsolicited e-mails offering dodgy Viagra, cut-price breast implants and instant wealth. Among the many millions of spam e-mails dumped into computer in-boxes daily, there were very few he considered to be on the truly tasty side.

    It was the last edition of the programme that, throughout its run, has managed to demystify technology while at the same time making it slightly terrifying. Every week there has been a story scary enough to bring out the Luddite buried deep within us all.

    This week we heard about the latest form of viral hijacking, whereby hackers get into a home computer, remove files and hold them hostage. One woman told how hackers broke into her computer and removed all her files - private documents, work stuff, personal details, the lot - and when she turned it on, a message popped up saying that her files would be returned to her if she went to a certain site and "bought" something. Feeling she had little choice and not wanting all her personal stuff to be floating around in cyberspace, she tapped in her credit card details, which released her files. It sounds like a subplot in a Bond movie, not an everyday hacking in Milton Keynes.

    The whole Spam/ham worldview threw some light on why the bulk of my radio listening this week wasn't entirely to my taste. RTÉ has rejigged 2FM, prompting a dutiful week's worth of tuning in - although, in fairness, I am outside the 15-35 demographic that the station is chasing.

    In an effort to shore up its falling listenership figures and to - oh dear - get down with the kids, the national broadcaster has poached a programme team from one of Dublin's independent commercial stations. For the past six years Colm Hayes and Jim-Jim Nugent have presented FM104's popular breakfast show The Strawberry Alarm Clock, and they've basically moved their programme - without the catchy title - to replace Marty Whelan in the 2FM breakfast slot.

    It's all a bit on the frantic side - chart music, celebrity gossip and non-stop banter between the presenters. For a new show it sounded oddly stale, a textbook "pop station breakfast show" with a predictable line-up of "hilarious" quizzes, prank calls and a "Kids go Crazy" slot whereby some terrified sounding child gets to do his or her party piece down the phone to the shouty prompts of Colm and Jim-Jim and the manic whispered prompts of a parent. That sort of stuff either sets you up for the day or is all so busy it makes you want to have a lie down - it's a Spam/ham thing.

    If, going by the radio scheduler's mantra of "win breakfast and you win the day", The Colm and Jim-Jim Breakfast Show catches on, it'll be good news for The Gerry Ryan Show, which follows it and whose listenership has been in decline for some time now. His show hasn't been changed in the station's rejig, but he has a new daily feature, Nob Nation (which itself has been moved around to several programmes since it first appeared on 2FM last year).

    This supposedly comic slot, by voice mimic Oliver Callan, is quite astonishingly stupid and vulgar and to say the humour is puerile is to insult schoolboys everywhere. Callan's one trick is that he can do a reasonable impersonation of Bertie Ahern.

    On Monday, the sketch was a version of the TV talent search programme You're a Star, with Callan as Ahern, David Norris and Enda Kenny, each singing about their sexual fantasies - this on a pop radio programme at 10am. Recounting the lyrics here would be to give the whole crude and pathetic sketch too much attention, but suffice to say just because Harney sounds like horny doesn't mean it should, and fat jokes are about as funny and dated as Bernard Manning.

    This week the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland ordered an advertisement for social justice campaigners Trócaire off the commercial airwaves, as it was deemed to be "political". Apparently some people took offence.

    A well-crafted ad promoting global gender equality or a Nob Nation sketch (Thursday) featuring Callan as Bertie Ahern singing "I've got one hand in me pocket and I'm playing with me 10-inch knob"? Spam or ham? You decide.


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    #44
    Wertz
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    A review by someone outside of the station's demographic? Hardly going to be favourable really now is it?
    She should just stick with Pat and Marian over on the sister station or perhaps listen to some more radio4...in fact we should all listen to some more radio 4.


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    #45
    lady_j
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    Well they have left a gaping hole in FM104 the crowd that have replaced them are rubbish. Ive listened to 104 for years, but its declined a lot lately I know switch between 2fm and today fm.


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    #46
    _Kaiser_
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    Heard Paugie (now "Gitsy") this morning.. I'm surprised they had him on though with the culchie slagging he was at :p


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    #47
    Hrududu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭Hrududu


    I liked the show when Tubridy did it, I even liked Marty. Rick and Ruth made me change channels and now these 2 are making me switch again. Two middle aged men trying to be 'crazy' and 'hilarious' and hip with the kids is not something that is new or funny. Well done 2FM for caving and catering to the lowest common denominator.


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    #48
    unklerosco
    Registered Users Posts: 7,828 ✭✭✭unklerosco


    I couldnt standy Marty but i used to do a country run n the radio in the truck would only pick up 2 fm.... I won a Marty in the Mornin Apron... I wear it with pride... Colin n Jim Jim, never liked them... Still dont. Joe n Keith r all I listen to.... Then when im in the sticks i listen to my russell brand podcasts


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    lady_j
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    Kaiser2000 wrote:
    Heard Paugie (now "Gitsy") this morning.. I'm surprised they had him on though with the culchie slagging he was at :p


    Haha didnt here it myself but gitsy is a much better name! I know loads of gitsys!!!


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    #50
    BlueSkyAngel
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    The new 2fm Breakfast is great! it's upbeat, lively and has two of Dublin's most listened to Dj's. Colim was actually a 2fm Dj in the past his Bio is on the 2fm website.


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    #51
    bbability
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    I'm glad to see that not everyone likes them. I'd be worried if EVERYONE did. As for that review in the Irish Times last weekend, the only thing that the reporter hit on the head was that 2fm are moving back to their proper demographic, 15-34 year olds.


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    #52
    Cork
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    Hrududu wrote:
    Well done 2FM for caving and catering to the lowest common denominator.

    For a state owned radio station - people should expect better.

    2fm has been dire for so long.

    When has this station ever anything approaching intelligent or tought provoking programming?
    2fm are moving back to their proper demographic, 15-34 year olds.

    Why should the TV liclence payer be even funding a niche station then?

    15-34 year olds are better served by the likes RED Fm etc.


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    #53
    Echelle
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    Listened to that dreadful programme for about 5 minutes at 8.30 yestertday. I found it really annoying and so full of sound effects that really only create noise. They seem to have a telephone call- in seeking to find the noisiest child. Yesterrday , for God's sake, they had a child answering obviously rehearsed questions and then got the kid to scream into the phone. WHO FINDS THAT REMOTELY FUNNY, AMUSING OR WORTHWHILE?


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    #54
    Big Balls
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    Hrududu wrote:
    Two middle aged men trying to be 'crazy' and 'hilarious'

    Jim is barely in his 30s.

    I don't think they TRY to be funny. They ARE funny. If there's a few low lying aeroplanes over your head, don't come on and slate a show because "they're middle aged". You couldn't even get that bit right!!!!


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    #55
    bbability
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    Cork wrote:
    Why should the TV liclence payer be even funding a niche station then?

    We don't. 2fm is totally self funded by its advertising.

    Once again may I remind the few that don't like the new format that it has been at the top of the ratings in Dublin for nearly 10 years so it can't be that bad.;)

    Loved that prank call yesterday morning with yer man from Naked Camera LOL


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    Peter Collins
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    nipplenuts wrote:
    It's not just you. The show is peurile and aimed at the LCD. Always was.

    Agree completely. Irish breakfast radio is absolutely dreadful...to think the Brits have Wogan and Jonathan Ross and we have to listen to those two pr*cks


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    Liam Byrne
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    it has been at the top of the ratings in Dublin for nearly 10 years
    That has actually been part of its problem - between the ads with no "01" prefixes and the discussions about what's on "in town", it's regularly perceived as a Dublin station that just happens to be available nationwide.

    Interestingly, in my rare and unwarranted eavesdropping sessions on Newstalk, the same accusation could be levelled at them.

    The difference is that Newstalk is in transition from being a Dublin station; RTE 2 was never (meant to be) that, and so has no excuse.


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    Cork
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    bbability wrote:
    We don't. 2fm is totally self funded by its advertising.

    Once again may I remind the few that don't like the new format that it has been at the top of the ratings in Dublin for nearly 10 years so it can't be that bad.;)

    10 year old formated radio - I'd expect better from a state owned radio station.

    I am not saying that there is not a market for this type of programming - but why RTE don't try something half intelligent.
    to think the Brits have Wogan and Jonathan Ross and we have to listen to those two pr*cks

    There is more choice on the radio dial than "2fm New Breakfast Show" nonsense.


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    #59
    Foolitz
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    Well, it didn't take too long for the begrudgers to appear!

    I think Colm & Jim Jim are doing a great job and it's obvious many many people think so too. Wogan and Ross were also called pr**s when they first appeared. It's hilarious that people want something 'more intelligent' yet resort to name calling like that.

    I see their new podcast went into the chart in the top 5..... yeah, nobody likes what they're doing :rolleyes:

    Well done Colm and Jim!


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    extraice
    Registered Users Posts: 160 ✭✭extraice


    2fm is state owned and will never be any good when you have a guy that old hills still putting out tunes like he was a 20 year old in a pirate radio station
    2 fm going back in time not with the whast happen to day Larry Gogan nice guy should be on one

    when and if it happen Digital Broadcasting (hopefuly the Bci wont get there hands on it we many be able to listen to what we want )
    look at the bbc radio 1 with it good line up and music what happen to the 6 tp 6 on sat nights now have lot off radio station via sky and would list to them be for any station . In the car would be mps r 2 dayfm

    Was in Spain and had to drive and listen to los40.com now that a radio station and have via 19.2 astra

    2fm is a young station 16 - 35 and like 35 60 age group let young people in there to run it

    jurdy


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    superdudeman007
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    MemEmee wrote:
    is it just me or are Colm and Jim Jam! Rubbish and annoying and almost worse than Marty...
    There was too much "comedy" on in the mornings anyway. Why can't they just do something in the style of drivetime programmes in the morning? Same listeners so why not the same style?


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