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RTE Gold schedule change

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  • #62
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    Doblin wrote: »
    If RTE close down the lyric FM hq in Limerick it will probably be the end of Will Leahy's RTE Radio career

    Who says the Limerick base will be shut down?..there are RTE studios in major towns and cities in Ireland


  • #63
    Dipole Keith
    Registered Users Posts: 366 ✭✭Dipole Keith


    Have to say I’m loving RTE Gold at the weekends, Nails Mahoney, Al Dunne, Michael Comyns all top notch.


  • #64
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Doblin wrote: »
    If RTE close down the lyric FM hq in Limerick it will probably be the end of Will Leahy's RTE Radio career

    RTE have studios (often in co-op with a college) in areas all over the country. Would be absolutely certain it would be retained - on the same site until it could be moved in to the media faculty of UL or LIT probably. They even have studios in Dundalk and Athlone which are both really not that long a motorway drive from Dublin!

    I think they may have got rid of Letterkenny but I'm not even sure about that.


  • #65
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    Rick O'Shea will be presenting The Book Show on Radio 1.
    Wonder this mean his hours on RTE Gold will be cut...probably!. He has a cushy number in RTE..


  • #66
    Batty Boy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭Batty Boy


    ford fiesta wrote: »
    Rick O'Shea will be presenting The Book Show on Radio 1.
    Wonder this mean his hours on RTE Gold will be cut...probably!. He has a cushy number in RTE..

    He is an ideal candidate for compulsory redundancy.


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  • #67
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Ffs, that’s bad news about Gold closing, the only thing about RTÈ that I like. It’s something that could have been promoted and put on another outlet, it will be missed!


  • #68
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,793 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Sad to see RTE Gold go. Thanks for all the trips down memory lane.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #69
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    Cant believe it..I remember John Clarke was one of the people who set RTE Gold up in May 2007.
    At that stage it had no live programming or even no pre recorded shows. Ireland Biggest Jukebox, when axed from 2FM in 2014, was the first presenter driven show if I remember correctly (albeit pre recorded).

    Gutted the station will be off the air.

    The least RTE can do now, is to continue the overnight GOLD service on RTE Radio 1


  • #70
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Would RTE Gold not get more listeners if it replaced 2fm on the FM slot?

    I think it would


  • #71
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    If you think about it, most of the songs (like them or not!) played on RTE Gold will probably never be heard on RTE Radio again.
    The other stations 2FM, Radio 1 and R Na G won't be playing them.

    Yes - you can go to other on-line stations, You Tube or Spotify or raid your music collection on CD..but here else are you going to hear Nirvana next to Roger Whittaker !!?
    But there was something handy about RTE Gold and knowing your licence fee was going towards its funding


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  • #72
    trixiebust
    Registered Users Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭trixiebust


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Would RTE Gold not get more listeners if it replaced 2fm on the FM slot?

    I think it would

    Absolutely. Not many, if any national stations are competing for a 30s & up music market. 2fm o did once, but not anymore.

    Can't believe they're closing the one rte production I actually enjoy, typical.


  • #73
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    RTE Gold is far superior than 4FM, Sunshine, Nova etc. and the locals.

    Will alluded to this yesterday talking about the other stations. You just don't get the variety of music taht you get on Gold.


  • #74
    neilgates
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭neilgates


    ford fiesta wrote: »
    If you think about it, most of the songs (like them or not!) played on RTE Gold will probably never be heard on RTE Radio again.
    The other stations 2FM, Radio 1 and R Na G won't be playing them.

    Yes - you can go to other on-line stations, You Tube or Spotify or raid your music collection on CD..but here else are you going to hear Nirvana next to Roger Whittaker !!?
    But there was something handy about RTE Gold and knowing your licence fee was going towards its funding

    Nirvana next to Roger Whittaker? If you can receive FreeDAB then Sovereign Gold is the station for you.


  • #75
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    neilgates wrote: »
    Nirvana next to Roger Whittaker? If you can receive FreeDAB then Sovereign Gold is the station for you.

    Thanks but I prefer to hear this mix of artists on RTE Gold


  • #76
    neilgates
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭neilgates


    ford fiesta wrote: »
    Thanks but I prefer to hear this mix of artists on RTE Gold

    You won't have that option soon unfortunately


  • #77
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    No Mike Moloney on this evening on RTE Gold,wonder if he is the first casualty,his name isn't on the website as well!


  • #78
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    zorro2566 wrote: »
    No Mike Moloney on this evening on RTE Gold,wonder if he is the first casualty,his name isn't on the website as well!

    I thought I heard an ad for Aidan Leonard Biggest Jukebox on Sundays (that Mike has covered since start of the summer)

    Mike had already a show 'sound of the 70s', so maybe it has something to do with Aidan returning from sick leave?


  • #79
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    Michael Cahill was presenting the Biggest Jukebox today, not Mike Moloney or Aidan Leonard.


  • #80
    SPDUB
    Registered Users Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭SPDUB


    Wavy wrote: »
    Will "full time solicitor" Leahy is pissed off because his time on the gravy train is almost up. Does he bare no shame drawing 70k per year of tax payers money ?

    How is his time on the "gravy train" almost up so that he would be pissed .

    If he's a staffer they can't just sack him


  • #81
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    Hard to believe that RTE Gold is now on the air longer than Atlantic 252 was


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  • #82
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    RTE Gold is being relayed on 1395 AM in Dublin at the moment


  • #83
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    Some Gold presenters are saying it's their final shows next week.. is RTE Gold to close soon?


  • #84
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Probably going back to their original music only format until they finally close!


  • #85
    Jonny one
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭Jonny one


    ford fiesta wrote: »
    Some Gold presenters are saying it's their final shows next week.. is RTE Gold to close soon?

    Which presenters?


  • #86
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,422 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    Jonny one wrote: »
    Which presenters?

    Eric Moore and Amanda fennelly is all I heard...But there may be others


  • #87
    avidlistener
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭avidlistener


    Long time reader but first post because avid listener to RTE gold but really love the shows at weekends. My understanding is that all the weekend presenters will lose their shows as RTE Gold will be automated at the weekends starting January. I heard yesterday that Eric’s, Marian’s and Micky Mac’s last shows are on Saturday the 28th of December and assume applies for all the weekend presenters.Really upset at this decision.


  • #88
    Jonny one
    Closed Accounts Posts: 47 ✭Jonny one


    Lol the €20 per show djs are the fullguys while Paul Crossan & William Leahy will continue to milk 68k each per year from the licence fee.


  • #89
    Darc19
    Registered Users Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭Darc19


    Jonny one wrote: »
    Lol the €20 per show djs are the fullguys while Paul Crossan & William Leahy will continue to milk 68k each per year from the licence fee.

    Can you explain how it's "milked" from the license fee?

    Seems all rte naysayers think that the only income rte has is licence fee.

    It makes up just half their income and the biggest expense on the license fee is live TV sports.
    Radio gets very little.

    Also, on circa 70k, you'd be paying about €20k tax - so their taxes are contributing to your future pension, your Healthcare, etc etc

    So let's just cut the "license fee/tax payer" bullsh1t once and for all. It's rather tedious and boring.


  • #90
    Lord Nelson
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭Lord Nelson


    In fairness, I'm just as happy with it going back to automation as the amount of mindless waffle seemed to be on the increase. The breakfast show in particular irks me.


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  • #91
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Lord Nelson wrote: »
    In fairness, I'm just as happy with it going back to automation as the amount of mindless waffle seemed to be on the increase. The breakfast show in particular irks me.

    I thought they were closing dow Gold as well as the other online stations?..I agree..I liked it a lot more when there were no presenters...


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