radio nova

It was a breath of fresh air when it started.
Now it's gone very stale, same songs over and over and over again.
It's also gone more middle of the road, very similar to Today FM now.
If it had any balls it should model itself on Planet Rock in the UK.

Mr Snow wrote: »

why what is your faviotue.?

I think you've just invented a new word. Whatever it is, I like it!

I actually think the music has got better compared to a couple of years ago, of course it be nice to have it more like planet rock but let's face it, this is Ireland and it would never work, too niche unfortunately.

Nova used to be really good but in the last couple of years it's U2 every hour and then hipster rock and one or two classics.

This is the top 20 listner voted songs from earlier this year

20 Black Sabbath Paranoid
19 Meatloaf Bat Out of Hell
18 The Doors L.A. Woman
17 The Clash London Calling
16 U2 One
15 Foo Fighters Times Like These
14 Thin Lizzy The Boys Are Back in Town
13 Red Hot Chilli Peppers Californication
12 The Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter
11 Free All Right Now
10 Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit
9 Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
8 Kings Of Leon Sex On Fire
7 The Beatles A Day in the Life
6 Oasis Wonderwall
5 John Lennon Imagine
4 Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb
3 Queen Bohemian Rhapsody
2 AC/DC You Shook Me All Night Long
1 Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven

The way it is going you'd be lucky to hear one of the top ten once a day. AC/DC used to be played regular (yes, I am a big fan) but now they seem to be relegated to the Friday Night Rock Show.....which is just more of the same stuff as during the day.

Half heard an ad today that they are taking Friday Night 80s from Today FM. Does this mean they are getting rid of Alice Cooper?

Had the full list of the listener poll emailed to me by Pat Courtnay when it came out (wasn't in country to hear it). Still have it on my desktop (that's where I got the Top 20 above).

They need to get back to their roots - classic rock. Forget the crap going now that classes themselves as rock - Bastille etc. Way too much of that and less real stuff. Even if they started playing more 60's - outside of what they rarely play, it would be an improvement.

Plus, where is the old Irish stuff? There is no Horslips, Mamas Boys, Lizzy (apart from the very rare play). I've lost count of the times I've requested Horslips or Mamas Boys - never played Only times I've heard them on the radio is on Late Date on Radio 1

It's one of my favourite stations anyway. Anytime heading to Dublin, it's tuned in around Mullingar. Coming back I'm somewhere around Longford before I lose the signal. Happy out with that.

Play it quite a bit on the internet too.

Scanning the stations without looking you can always tell its Nova from what's playing, Queen, Springsteen, U2 etc etc, it's gone very predictable.
The odd time they will play something different, but then its back to the usual suspects. I have always wondered if it is to do with licencing or just the orders from above as to what they can select from.

Mr Snow wrote: »

did chris barry do a talk show or muisc show?

what was the frist line up?

was it available all over ireland?

what was the first song play?

any more info i should can you let me know

thanks for your feedback

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Nova_(Ireland)

http://www.irishpirates.com/nova_jingles.htm

They have a heavy rotation of the exact same songs. I turn it on in the morning, boom. Same song they played yesterday, turn off. Try again tomorrow.

Kensington wrote: »

The breakfast show is bordering on insufferable, all they ever seem to be discussing the last few months is how Marty and Dee are having a baby.

Yes, it is wonderful and genuine congratulations to them both, but having the entire show and every single topic of conversation revolve around that is really wearing thin.

They may be thinking that if it worked for D'Arcy on TodayFM (somehow) it might work for them. Just wait til the running, porridge, running talk starts.

Loved it when it started up. Don't see the point now. Handier to just burn a cd of the same 20 songs and stick it on shuffle.

Also wouldn't have to listen to Sharon Ni Whatserface, with her feckin' a-dees an' nine-dees...

Broadcastonfm wrote:

Personally I've switched off . The song repetition is no longer funny . And I really don't care for the endless rubbish from Breakfast or Sinéad . And the musical knowledge of some of their presenters is shocking

Caught a few minutes of a show that I think was called 'Off the record'. Guy had decent knowledge/research, and it seemed to be about playing lesser known album tracks.

Don't listen often enough to look up when it's aired, though...

For me, the best presenters on at the minute are Pat James and John Clarke - they have a real love for their music and know their onions!

Grolschevik wrote: »

Caught a few minutes of a show that I think was called 'Off the record'. Guy had decent knowledge/research, and it seemed to be about playing lesser known album tracks.

Don't listen often enough to look up when it's aired, though...

Off the Record is on Sunday nights from 9pm to 1am. The presenter is Pat James and he certainly knows his stuff. He has his regular loyal listeners who are on the same wavelength (if you'll pardon the pun!). He was involved with a number of the smaller Dublin pirates from 1978 to 1988 and, invariably, presented "Rock Shows". Kevin Branigan gave Pat his big break in 2008 - 20 years later! - when he gave him a spot on his temporary-licensed rock station 949 The Rock. Pat must have passed the test because he was given a gig with Nova when it launched in 2010. Along the way, Zenith Classic Rock (south-east on-line station) availed of Pat's services for some of their temporary license runs.

It's hard to believe Off the Record is on the same station as most of the other shows! That said, it's difficult to keep the audience (and the advertisers) without playing the more accessible radio-friendly tracks. Two exceptions are: 1. John Clarke on Sundays, who seems to play whatever he feels like - some well-known tunes and some forgotten gems and 2. "The Rock Show" (!) with Tony Anscough on Friday nights, which has a harder edge and is much more album-driven.

I think there is room for more adventure and variety in the playlist - how about dropping in the odd lesser-known track by a known act, for example? I thought that was the point of the Nova Randomizer. I think Nova should drop the "inane chat" in the morning - there's enough doing it elsewhere and the novelty has definitely worn off!

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

The first announcement of the "Super6" is that Tim Kelly will present an 80's show on Friday nights. That's all well and good and I am very happy for Tim.

But where does that leave Jack Hyland, who used to present Friday Night 80s and 90s, before Alice Cooper came along in the exact same slot - 7pm to 10pm. Lately, I have heard Jack Hyland standing in for his fellow ex-Phantom presenter Sinead Ni Mhordha, when she was off. Is he involved in the background (real name Moss Breathnach), or have Nova got rid of him?

Well??

Unfortunately they have to have their fingers in a lot of pies to keep the listener-ship figures up. So I'm not surprised they're jumping on the EP bandwagon.
Have they every acknowledgeday or played The Strypes as a matter of interest?

If stations were allowed operate without the two ridiculous BAI limits - Irish content and news/current affairs - they would have more playlist freedom and vastly lower costs. We might be able to support niche stations then.

The reality is that commercial radio in Ireland is wholly married to narrow business models, ridiculous impositions from the BAI and wholly divorced from creativity and innovative output.

What made Zenith Classic Rock so appealing to me, was growing up in the radio-starved South East. Being in that unique spot I had the choice of: Radio for old men, a schizophrenic BBC-R1 knockoff, classic music, Gaelic, the jack-of-all-trades national commercial station, MTV-Lite, the ILR and their nearby clones in two adjacent counties. A whole lot of sod all choice right there.

When 4FM launched I thought, oh maybe this could be interesting, except it managed to skip the south-east entirely, almost as if a local station there didn't want any competition.

So finding Zenith on a temp license was a breath of fresh air, and it's a sorely missed opportunity on the BAI to have granted them a "special interest" license because they are a niche station and wouldn't have attracted the same level of advertising support, they would have been far closer to a community or hospital license in their operation.


I had higher hopes for Nova and at least unlike RadioRock, it's not geoblocked when I travel abroad, but it isn't the same sound that started six years ago even if it beats out the others in Dublin for me on my commutes.