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

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  • #2
    Pulse8
    Registered Users Posts: 550 ✭✭✭Pulse8


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


  • #3
    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 ?


  • #4
    Wellyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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!


  • #5
    heybaby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,125 ✭✭✭heybaby


    2Fm poaching Ian Dempsey to do the breakfast show maybe


  • #6
    Fresh Pots
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    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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  • #7
    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 !


  • #8
    GSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,765 ✭✭✭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


  • #9
    eoinkoenig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭eoinkoenig


    Dermot Whelan and Eoghan McDermott will get shows I reckon.


  • #10
    Sulla Felix
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    eoinkoenig wrote: »
    Dermot Whelan and Eoghan McDermott will get shows I reckon.
    Is he leaving 98?


  • #11
    eoinkoenig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭eoinkoenig


    Sulla Felix wrote: »
    Is he leaving 98?

    Not officially confirmed yet


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  • #12
    hufpc8w3adnk65
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    eoinkoenig wrote: »
    Not officially confirmed yet

    Is there any source too it or just unfounded rumours?


  • #13
    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


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


  • #14
    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....


  • #15
    wnolan1992
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #16
    heybaby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • #17
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,536 ✭✭✭✭L1011


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


  • #18
    eiresandra
    Registered Users Posts: 181 ✭✭eiresandra


    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?


  • #19
    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.


  • #20
    blue4ever
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭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.


  • #21
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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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  • #22
    eoinkoenig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭eoinkoenig


    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.


  • #23
    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.


  • #24
    soc160
    Closed Accounts Posts: 522 ✭✭✭soc160


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


    This might happen....


  • #25
    eoinkoenig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭eoinkoenig


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


  • #26
    July Rain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 196 ✭✭July Rain


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


  • #27
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,602 ✭✭✭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..


  • #28
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,536 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    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.


  • #29
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    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.


  • #30
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,602 ✭✭✭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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  • #31
    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.


  • #32
    July Rain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 196 ✭✭July Rain


    MYOB wrote: »
    Taxi drivers and factory workers are unlikely to be in their target audience.

    Do 25-44 year olds not work in factories or drive taxis ?


  • #33
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,126 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    But wouldn't Today FM cater for that side of an audience, ie. those who aren't keen on dance music?


  • #34
    vince
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 549 ✭✭✭vince


    Only time I listen to 2fm is that dance music while I work on fri and sat mornings and the electric disco sat evenings. One of tne best shows on radio jenny green very slick jock


  • #35
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,536 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    July Rain wrote: »
    Do 25-44 year olds not work in factories or drive taxis ?

    The target audience for RTE Gold is not 25-44 year olds. Suggesting putting RTE Gold on instead of something that a poster has expressed an obvious and personal distaste to and would be in contravention of their target audience suggests one thing only - that poster is too cheap to buy a DAB or internet radio.


  • #36
    ford fiesta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,602 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    MYOB wrote: »
    The target audience for RTE Gold is not 25-44 year olds. Suggesting putting RTE Gold on instead of something that a poster has expressed an obvious and personal distaste to and would be in contravention of their target audience suggests one thing only - that poster is too cheap to buy a DAB or internet radio.

    Yes, you're dead right I'm too cheap to buy one...cause they are soooooooooo expensive!!!!
    Lucky you, if you can buy one....:p


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  • #37
    July Rain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 196 ✭✭July Rain


    Is there any truth to an new schedule coming to 2fm or was it just the papers making up stuff ?


  • #38
    Expunge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,094 ✭✭✭Expunge


    I'd say there's some truth in it alright...
    RTE Radio producers (the 'officer class' of the company) can't hold their piss and are only too happy to leak this sort of stuff.
    With the exception of Pat Kenny leaving Radio One, which was done well away from these wastrels, all major schedule changes of the last number of years are in the papers long before they happen.

    Along with Larry, either Hector or Will Leahy will be finished as full time 2FM presenters I'd say.


  • #39
    Skid X
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    Dan Healy says no Presenters are leaving.

    http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/hector-is-not-getting-the-axe-says-2fm-boss-29757165.html
    “Hector to be axed? You might as well have said Hector picked to play for Ireland by Roy Keane,” Mr Healy said. “This is nonsense. I personally rang Hector this morning to assure him that he was not being axed.” Dan Healy told the Herald. ...


    “You have to think about the presenters and their presenters and their families reading this and then hearing friends and neighbours.
    “It's absolutely horrendous for good guys doing their job well,” he said.

    So there you go. He won't (or can't) make any changes to the on-air personnel.

    It's almost as if he blames the public for not tuning in, not the Presenters.

    You would wonder if he ever listens to the programmes. With a handful of exceptions they just aren't good enough.


  • #40
    July Rain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 196 ✭✭July Rain


    Skid X wrote: »
    Dan Healy says no Presenters are leaving.

    http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/hector-is-not-getting-the-axe-says-2fm-boss-29757165.html



    So there you go. He won't (or can't) make any changes to the on-air personnel.

    It's almost as if he blames the public for not tuning in, not the Presenters.

    You would wonder if he ever listens to the programmes. With a handful of exceptions they just aren't good enough.

    Didn't Healy say recently he wanted to make the morning schedule more dublin friendly ? Hard to do that with Hector.


  • #41
    Heym
    Registered Users Posts: 13 ✭Heym


    "This is nonsense.."

    Yeah right. Let's see what news breaks this weekend shall we !


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  • #42
    hufpc8w3adnk65
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    Heym wrote: »
    "This is nonsense.."

    Yeah right. Let's see what news breaks this weekend shall we !

    Insider info? He never said he wouldn't move his slot.


  • #43
    July Rain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 196 ✭✭July Rain


    MrMac84 wrote: »
    Insider info? He never said he wouldn't move his slot.

    I reckon from Healys comments Hector is staying on breakfast. I can't see where else in the schedule he would go.


  • #44
    hufpc8w3adnk65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,158 ✭✭✭✭hufpc8w3adnk65


    July Rain wrote: »
    I reckon from Healys comments Hector is staying on breakfast. I can't see where else in the schedule he would go.

    Friday nights from 3-5am would suit him IMO


  • #45
    barryd09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭barryd09


    So, Lottie Ryan...

    Whos responsible for that then?


  • #46
    michael999999
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭michael999999


    barryd09 wrote: »
    So, Lottie Ryan...

    Whos responsible for that then?

    She is all that is wrong with rte!

    Little or no talent, and only there because of who she is related to!

    A waste of a radio slot and licence fee money.


  • #47
    barryd09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭barryd09


    michael999999 wrote: »
    She is all that is wrong with rte!

    Little or no talent, and only there because of who she is related to!

    A waste of a radio slot and licence fee money.

    BRING BACK BAZ AND LUCY :D


  • #48
    zoobizoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,739 ✭✭✭zoobizoo


    barryd09 wrote: »
    So, Lottie Ryan...

    Whos responsible for that then?

    HEard her once a couple of weeks back....

    Found her very amatuerish. Not that every DJ has to sound like a pro but they must have some competance.


  • #49
    July Rain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 196 ✭✭July Rain


    http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/major-sponsorship-deal-boosts-tubridy-29762816.html


  • #50
    mikom
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    July Rain wrote: »
    http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/major-sponsorship-deal-boosts-tubridy-29762816.html
    "We're close to finishing a major deal with a sponsor for Ryan's show which will be worth a big chuck of money," Mr Healy told the Herald.

    Chuck money at it in the hopes of reanimating the corpse.


  • #51
    bureau2009
    Registered Users Posts: 637 ✭✭✭bureau2009


    barryd09 wrote: »
    BRING BACK BAZ AND LUCY :D
    While the entire nation can see the sheer weakness of Lottie Ryan's presentation skills I would N E V E R go so far as to resurrect Baz & Lucy - definitely the worst radio in the world ever (except of course for Marty Whelan:mad: )


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