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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes at 2FM

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    Pulse8
    Registered Users Posts: 550 ✭✭✭Pulse8


    Dermot & Bernard for breakfast, Colm Hayes goes to drive & Will Leahy shafted to weekends


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    JUILLIARD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭JUILLIARD


    Pulse8 wrote: »
    Dermot & Bernard for breakfast, Colm Hayes goes to drive & Will Leahy shafted to weekends

    What about the red daddy ?


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    Wellyd
    Registered Users Posts: 1,046 ✭✭✭Wellyd


    I'd actually be disgusted if Will Leahy got shafted to the weekends. I love listening to him in the evenings. Especially criticising people's choices for the special song!


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    heybaby
    Registered Users Posts: 1,125 ✭✭✭heybaby


    2Fm poaching Ian Dempsey to do the breakfast show maybe


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    Fresh Pots
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,234 ✭✭✭Fresh Pots


    heybaby wrote: »
    2Fm poaching Ian Dempsey to do the breakfast show maybe

    Thats hardly a step in the right direction in fairness. They need some new young blood in there.


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    July Rain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 196 ✭✭July Rain


    Hector and Larry gogan are getting axed and Tubridy (who has lost the most listeners in the history of the station) stays. Very unfair !


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    GSF
    Registered Users Posts: 1,655 ✭✭✭GSF


    The one thing Tubridy did well was Breakfast on 2fm. The sensible solution would be to put him on from 7-9am and then some new blood at 9am


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    eoinkoenig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭eoinkoenig


    Dermot Whelan and Eoghan McDermott will get shows I reckon.


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    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    eoinkoenig wrote: »
    Dermot Whelan and Eoghan McDermott will get shows I reckon.
    Is he leaving 98?


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    eoinkoenig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭eoinkoenig


    Sulla Felix wrote: »
    Is he leaving 98?

    Not officially confirmed yet


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    hufpc8w3adnk65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,158 ✭✭✭✭hufpc8w3adnk65


    eoinkoenig wrote: »
    Not officially confirmed yet

    Is there any source too it or just unfounded rumours?


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    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    eoinkoenig wrote: »
    Not officially confirmed yet
    eh, yeah, so probably not?


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    soc160
    Closed Accounts Posts: 522 ✭✭✭soc160


    I for one can't wait to see the new schedule, there are going to be some major changes and 2Fm will finally be back to it's best.... and by "can't wait to see" I mean I couldn't care less at this stage.... and by "major" I mean minor.... and by "back to it's best" I mean worse than ever....


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    wnolan1992
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    Do I dare hope that this new schedule will bring to an end the tenure of Hector, Tubridy, Hayes and Gogan?

    Nope.

    Fiver says this "new" schedule will just involve giving Game On another hour or something.


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    heybaby
    Registered Users Posts: 1,125 ✭✭✭heybaby


    Today's Herald reporting they've spoken to Dan Healy, who has flatly denied there will be any on air personnel changes at 2fm, in fact saying both Tubs and Hector are two of the biggest names in radio. All that is needed according to Healy is a content change between 7-11am to make it more Leinster-centric.


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    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,619 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Hector pushed to a slot that he'll hate and leave doesn't make that statement a lie though...


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    eiresandra
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    heybaby wrote: »
    All that is needed according to Healy is a content change between 7-11am to make it more Leinster-centric.

    That's a strange quote. Should he not just say Dublin-centric like he means? What is Leinster-centric? After all, Hector is from Navan (Leinster) and his producer Alan is from Carlow (Leinster).

    And how is Tubridy not Leinster/Dublin centric?


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    eoinkoenig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭eoinkoenig


    heybaby wrote: »
    Today's Herald reporting they've spoken to Dan Healy, who has flatly denied there will be any on air personnel changes at 2fm, in fact saying both Tubs and Hector are two of the biggest names in radio. All that is needed according to Healy is a content change between 7-11am to make it more Leinster-centric.

    If disappointing ratings ensue he might have to change his mind.


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    blue4ever
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭blue4ever


    eiresandra wrote: »
    That's a strange quote. Should he not just say Dublin-centric like he means? What is Leinster-centric? After all, Hector is from Navan (Leinster) and his producer Alan is from Carlow (Leinster).

    And how is Tubridy not Leinster/Dublin centric?

    If your reach looks like this:

    CO. DUBLIN 7%
    REST LEIN. 13%
    MUNSTER 11%
    CONN/ULST. 13%

    I be concentrating on the Capital and not outside it.


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    Skid X
    Registered Users Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    heybaby wrote: »
    Today's Herald reporting they've spoken to Dan Healy, who has flatly denied there will be any on air personnel changes at 2fm, in fact saying both Tubs and Hector are two of the biggest names in radio. All that is needed according to Healy is a content change between 7-11am to make it more Leinster-centric.

    online version here

    http://www.herald.ie/news/2fm-chief-denies-he-is-planning-to-axe-presenters-29728694.html

    Instead of going crazy and chucking everyone out, what we are going to do is build our content. Look at the two presenters we have in the mornings – Hector and Ryan Tubridy. You couldn't get bigger names," he said.

    They might be 'big names' but they are in charge of radio shows which very few people find entertaining. If anything the presenters high profiles are an indictment of their shows poor fortunes - most people have probably already tried Hector and Tubridy's shows and didn't like what they heard.

    I really can't see how 2FM are going to make a serious improvement in their fortunes without personnel changes.


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    eoinkoenig
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    Skid X wrote: »
    online version here

    http://www.herald.ie/news/2fm-chief-denies-he-is-planning-to-axe-presenters-29728694.html




    They might be 'big names' but they are in charge of radio shows which very few people find entertaining. If anything the presenters high profiles are an indictment of their shows poor fortunes - most people have probably already tried Hector and Tubridy's shows and didn't like what they heard.

    I really can't see how 2FM are going to make a serious improvement in their fortunes without personnel changes.

    What does 2fm have in common with Mark Knopfler? It's in dire straits.


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    eoinkoenig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭eoinkoenig


    MYOB wrote: »
    Hector pushed to a slot that he'll hate and leave doesn't make that statement a lie though...

    Hector's show is stupid, in my honest opinion. 'Nuff said.


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    soc160
    Closed Accounts Posts: 522 ✭✭✭soc160


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=024NoCsITGE


    This might happen....


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    eoinkoenig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭eoinkoenig


    It looks as if Dan Healy doesn't care if his shows get low listenership.


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    July Rain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 196 ✭✭July Rain


    Larry Gogan was moved to weekends before, from 2007-2009.


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    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    They should scrap the idea of post 90s music..

    Why don't they relay RTE Gold at the weekend nights instead of that awful dance music? It would sure attract a bugger audience than those bought in dance sessions..


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    L1011
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    ford fiesta wrote: »
    They should scrap the idea of post 90s music..

    Why don't they relay RTE Gold at the weekend nights instead of that awful dance music? It would sure attract a bugger audience than those bought in dance sessions..

    Not appropriate for its target audience.


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    Jimmy Garlic
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    eoinkoenig wrote: »
    Hector's show is stupid, in my honest opinion. 'Nuff said.

    I hear it is played in Guantanamo Bay. Worse than water boarding.


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    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    MYOB wrote: »
    Not appropriate for its target audience.

    I doubt anybody is listening to that dance music at 4am on a Sunday morning! At least the taxi drivers, factory workers and insomniacs would appreciate RTE Gold more..


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    L1011
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    ford fiesta wrote: »
    I doubt anybody is listening to that dance music at 4am on a Sunday morning! At least the taxi drivers, factory workers and insomniacs would appreciate RTE Gold more..

    Taxi drivers and factory workers are unlikely to be in their target audience.


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