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Today FM Megathread Mod warning post #1 / #1401

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    #5912
    TaurenDruid
    Registered Users Posts: 4,024 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    TaurenDruid wrote: »
    Don't even have to go searching this time. I refer you to post #5905, up the page a bit...

    I asked for that, didn't I...


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    #5913
    Dannyman76
    Registered Users Posts: 167 ✭✭Dannyman76


    TaurenDruid wrote: »
    Don't even have to go searching this time. I refer you to post #5905, up the page a bit...

    I was enjoying Pamela Joyce standing in, so your accusation of misogyny is misguided


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    #5914
    Chuck Noland
    Registered Users Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭Chuck Noland


    Was it not Jessica Maskieal standing in?


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    #5915
    Claude Burgundy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,543 ✭✭✭Claude Burgundy


    Iano is 60 tomorrow. He still sounds as fresh as he did 30 yrs ago on RTE.

    What a quality jock he is.


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    #5916
    MattressRick
    Registered Users Posts: 733 ✭✭✭MattressRick


    Tommy Tiernan on Dermot and Dave there. He's a tricky guest cos you don't know what oddball thing he'll say next. I don't know is he just gone past it or is it me, but I found him awkward to listen to more than being any way funny.


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    #5917
    PhoneMain
    Registered Users Posts: 538 ✭✭✭PhoneMain


    MattressRick wrote: »
    Tommy Tiernan on Dermot and Dave there. He's a tricky guest cos you don't know what oddball thing he'll say next. I don't know is he just gone past it or is it me, but I found him awkward to listen to more than being any way funny.

    I disagree, I thought the interview was good and I love his new podcast with Hector and Lorita Blewitt. Still havent watched the TV show.


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    #5918
    paddylonglegs
    Registered Users Posts: 3,521 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


    Dannyman76 wrote: »
    I was enjoying Pamela Joyce standing in, so your accusation of misogyny is misguided

    Pamela Joyce needs a prime time slot ASAP.


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    #5919
    castletownman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,054 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    paddylonglegs wrote: »
    Pamela Joyce needs a prime time slot ASAP.

    I think Pamela is great and deserves her own show too, but the thing I would be worried about is that they will probably "sanitise" her. She is good for telling a funny story that happened her, but if she gets a more permanent gig, she'll probably have to stick to the designated script.

    I know Muireann got increasingly annoying towards the end, but when she first came onto Today FM filling in on the odd show, she was a lot better.


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    #5920
    statto25
    Registered Users Posts: 3,839 ✭✭✭statto25


    castletownman wrote: »
    I think Pamela is great and deserves her own show too, but the thing I would be worried about is that they will probably "sanitise" her. She is good for telling a funny story that happened her, but if she gets a more permanent gig, she'll probably have to stick to the designated script.

    I know Muireann got increasingly annoying towards the end, but when she first came onto Today FM filling in on the odd show, she was a lot better.


    Muireann fell victim to the "TodayFM script" and if Pamela got a Prime slot she would have to follow the same.


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    #5921
    Tork
    Registered Users Posts: 3,270 ✭✭✭Tork


    statto25 wrote: »
    Muireann fell victim to the "TodayFM script" and if Pamela got a Prime slot she would have to follow the same.

    When Muireann first started presenting as a stand in, she got loads of praise here. It all went wrong as soon as she got a permanent show. Even well-liked presenters like Ed Smith would find themselves in the same situation. It's debatable how much autonomy any daytime presenter has. They don't have much control over the music they play. The station has positioned itself as one with top notch "content creators". As part of this branding, it makes extra money from running expensive courses to show others how to do this too. So in short, anyone on daytime Today FM will be talking blather about Tayto sandwiches and who you shifted at your debs.


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    #5922
    PsychoPete
    Registered Users Posts: 8,610 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    I turn on Dermot and Dave in the morning but at 12 I turn over to a local station that plays mostly 70s,80s,90s. I just can't be listening to the modern pop sh!te all day


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    #5923
    paddylonglegs
    Registered Users Posts: 3,521 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


    Tork wrote: »
    When Muireann first started presenting as a stand in, she got loads of praise here. It all went wrong as soon as she got a permanent show. Even well-liked presenters like Ed Smith would find themselves in the same situation. It's debatable how much autonomy any daytime presenter has. They don't have much control over the music they play. The station has positioned itself as one with top notch "content creators". As part of this branding, it makes extra money from running expensive courses to show others how to do this too. So in short, anyone on daytime Today FM will be talking blather about Tayto sandwiches and who you shifted at your debs.

    This is true, and probably why Ed Smith has such a continued following. Also that he has a say over his playlist.


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    #5924
    TheDavester
    Registered Users Posts: 3,212 ✭✭✭TheDavester


    paddylonglegs wrote: »
    This is true, and probably why Ed Smith has such a continued following. Also that he has a say over his playlist.

    theyre more lax on the shifts after 7 on the weekdays, if he was on between 7am-7pm he'd be more restricted/micro managed


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    #5925
    Tork
    Registered Users Posts: 3,270 ✭✭✭Tork


    The station is more interesting off-peak. I presume no radio station is as fussed about its ratings after 7pm.


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    #5926
    TaurenDruid
    Registered Users Posts: 4,024 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    TheDavester wrote: »
    theyre more lax on the shifts after 7 on the weekdays, if he was on between 7am-7pm he'd be more restricted/micro managed

    Agreed on all counts. Ed, Paul McLoone, Claire Beck, Dec Pierce, and previously the likes of Kelly-Anne Byrne, Dave Couse, even going back to Tom Dunne - the music is ten times better after 7pm.


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    #5927
    robo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,791 ✭✭✭robo


    Since working from home since last March, I am listening to less of TodayFM cos I can't stand their mix of music & some Mondays I listen back to Ed Smih's Songs Of Praise show rather than the radio. I just don't get the choice of music that they mainly play - there is no mix & even Ed on a week night playing the new crap - its not his taste, but he does play a better mix than the rest of the daily crowd.
    Like do the kids actually listen to the radio or is it mainly over 30's?


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    #5928
    Chuck Noland
    Registered Users Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭Chuck Noland


    The music on today fm changed a bit before Xmas. Since January it’s changed a lot. A lot more 90s and 00s and a lot less imagine dragons and things. It’s much much better


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    #5929
    gourcuff
    Registered Users Posts: 295 ✭✭gourcuff


    first time trying dermot and dave its definitely very dub centric.. the anto and deco sthick maxed out... think i will be turning the dial after today..


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    #5930
    Claude Burgundy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,543 ✭✭✭Claude Burgundy


    TaurenDruid wrote: »
    Agreed on all counts. Ed, Paul McLoone, Claire Beck, Dec Pierce, and previously the likes of Kelly-Anne Byrne, Dave Couse, even going back to Tom Dunne - the music is ten times better after 7pm.

    The music is better if you like the music. I personally do, but i understand its all about appealing to the masses and advertising.


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    #5931
    TaurenDruid
    Registered Users Posts: 4,024 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    gourcuff wrote: »
    first time trying dermot and dave its definitely very dub centric.. the anto and deco sthick maxed out... think i will be turning the dial after today..

    Lol, don't let Dermot hear you - he'll have Noni after you to stab ye! Limerick, that well know suburb of Dublin... ;)


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    #5932
    redbuck
    Registered Users Posts: 611 ✭✭✭redbuck


    Heard Fergal D'arcy's show for the first time in about 3 years yesterday, he was playing older music from the 90's and 00's and not much of his usual shtick, is this the norm now?


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    #5933
    statto25
    Registered Users Posts: 3,839 ✭✭✭statto25


    redbuck wrote: »
    not much of his usual shtick


    Did he not do a piece on what annoys you about driving a different car to your own?


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    #5934
    ILikeBoats
    Registered Users Posts: 2,441 ✭✭✭ILikeBoats


    redbuck wrote: »
    Heard Fergal D'arcy's show for the first time in about 3 years yesterday, he was playing older music from the 90's and 00's and not much of his usual shtick, is this the norm now?

    They were playing a lot of older music yesterday as part of "beating Blue Monday"


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    #5935
    Chuck Noland
    Registered Users Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭Chuck Noland


    They’ve been playing lots of older music recently. Interested to see if it continues


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    #5936
    paddylonglegs
    Registered Users Posts: 3,521 ✭✭✭paddylonglegs


    Chuck Noland wrote: »
    They’ve been playing lots of older music recently. Interested to see if it continues

    Creates a bit more interest and probably suiting their main target audience - who seem to be 25 - 50 years. It dilutes down playing the new releases on repeat which is welcomed...


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    #5937
    Montage of Feck
    Registered Users Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭Montage of Feck


    The very noticeable change in the playlist is very welcome, now if Dermot and Dave could steer away from the eoghan mcdermott esque direction of late.

    🙈🙉🙊



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    #5938
    redbuck
    Registered Users Posts: 611 ✭✭✭redbuck


    ILikeBoats wrote: »
    They were playing a lot of older music yesterday as part of "beating Blue Monday"

    Thanks, I won't be tuning back in so if it was a one off event.


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    #5939
    redbuck
    Registered Users Posts: 611 ✭✭✭redbuck


    statto25 wrote: »
    Did he not do a piece on what annoys you about driving a different car to your own?

    I never heard that part thankfully.


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    #5940
    TaurenDruid
    Registered Users Posts: 4,024 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    Mairéad's 'Let it Rip' was laugh out loud funny today. Letter: L.

    "Part of the ear you'd normally get pierced?" "Labia!"


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    #5941
    RINO87
    Registered Users Posts: 2,443 ✭✭✭RINO87


    This new playlist is FAR more palatable! Its the first time in years that I've chosen to leave daytime today FM on for more than a few minutes.
    It's piped in work, and it was driving me insane to hear dance monkey or watermelon sugar every time I took off my headphones....


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