CLASSIC HITS OR 4FM

JDxtra · 29-10-2018 11:36am

No matter which way they slice and dice it, it'll look bad. Maybe change it to just "HITS"?

Ted Plain · 31-10-2018 1:56am

Dreadful change, I have to say.

CLS HITS

It's like that even on the fancy car radios which show the name of the song being played.

Have they also changed their 'Classic Hits 4FM' jingle? I liked that, I have to say. Nice retro sound to it! It reminds me very much of the one of a (now defunct) MOTR station I used to listen to when I lived in Germany called MDR LIFE.

I always toggle between 4FM and Nova and I'm happy at that. I don't mind a bit of Boylan, except when he goes off on one about anti-vaxxers yet again. His heart is in the right place, though. Love it when texters troll him saying that he's on 300k a year and he always falls for it. :pac:

Saturday (and Sunday) evenings on 4FM is the absolute business. Uninterrupted music.

A strict diet of 4FM and Nova means never having been exposed to One Direction and the likes!

Change 'er back to 4FM, guys!

Safe to say, I'm a 4FM fan. All radios in the house and in both of our cars are set to it!

Rubberchikken · 31-10-2018 2:20am

Think as a radio station its just ok.
Thetes a bit too much chat, and inane chat at that, for my liking.
Never listen to niall boylan. Couldnt take that tbh.
I tune out when the pair on the weekday early mornings start.

VCR repair man · 17-11-2018 11:25pm

Classic hits is such a stupid confusing name for a radio station, especially a radio station with 6 hours of talk per day.

Maz2016 · 18-11-2018 12:02am

This name change is a disaster,Classic Hits 4FM was way better

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 18-11-2018 1:34am

Dreadful rebrand.

CLS HITS looks so unprofessional.

decky1 · 18-11-2018 1:51am

vince wrote: »

The face book page heading is now just classic hits. Is it winding down or somthing i dont get niel boylans night time hours being cut. Sounds awful all those repeats on random nights. Perhaps he got a wage cut for less hours.

Niall hours cut NOooooooooooo love this guy , wish he 'd get a talk show on tv not afraid to speak out.

ford fiesta · 18-11-2018 2:27am

Hunky Monster wrote: »

Dreadful rebrand.

CLS HITS looks so unprofessional.

4FM was a terrible name to start with anyway.

Rds should just read CLASSIC or CLASSICS

Maz2016 · 18-11-2018 1:17pm

ford fiesta wrote: »

Rds should just read CLASSIC or CLASSICS

Yeah, agree looks tatty

jrmb · 30-11-2018 12:40pm

It showed up on my phone this morning as "CL****S" xD

fryup · 12-03-2019 7:05pm

why do they always have the news on 2 mins to the hour??

i find it annoying as i keep adjusting my watch:mad:

Don Duck · 25-12-2020 12:04am

"classic Hits" is an awful name for a Radio station and the few people that I know who listen to it still call it 4fm

Antenna · 02-03-2021 3:02pm

ford fiesta wrote: »

Rds should just read CLASSIC or CLASSICS

RDS station name now being changed to "CLASSIC "

Glaceon · 02-03-2021 4:32pm

Antenna wrote: »

RDS station name now being changed to "CLASSIC "

Was just about to post that, the PS name changed yesterday.

ford fiesta · 02-03-2021 5:09pm

Don Duck wrote: »

"classic Hits" is an awful name for a Radio station and the few people that I know who listen to it still call it 4fm

"Classic Hits" is a very popular name for oldies/CHR formats in many countries.

JDxtra · 02-03-2021 6:46pm

turbocab · 02-03-2021 8:48pm

Don Duck wrote: »

"classic Hits" is an awful name for a Radio station and the few people that I know who listen to it still call it 4fm

classic hits that only start in 1980 and beyond.there is still an audience for 60s and 70s music,thats ignored by them

Tails142 · 03-03-2021 4:23pm

Classic hits 98fm... Wait what?

ford fiesta · 03-03-2021 5:42pm

turbocab wrote: »

classic hits that only start in 1980 and beyond.there is still an audience for 60s and 70s music,thats ignored by them

many stations are not playing as much 60s and 70s now as they used to on their daytime playlists, such as BBC Radio 2

marno21 · 03-03-2021 7:26pm

94.8 and 95.4 in Cork have changed, 97.4 is still CLS HITS. 97.4 is also the only one of those carrying track information for music via RT+.

Sheep Shagger · 05-03-2021 3:42pm

There's a 'programming announcement' coming on Monday morning.

Responses to social media posts say that hopefully Pj & Jim and hoping they ditch Boylan lol

Edit: Nova doing the same thing.

roadmaster · 05-03-2021 4:23pm

Would Nova & Classic hits be merging to go fully national?

Declan A Walsh · 05-03-2021 4:37pm

roadmaster wrote: »

Would Nova & Classic hits be merging to go fully national?

They can't just go off and do it. There would have be a new license advertised by the BAI and then there would have to be an application process.

Sheep Shagger · 05-03-2021 6:23pm

roadmaster wrote: »

Would Nova & Classic hits be merging to go fully national?

The thought crossed my mind but as the above poster says, it can't just happen like that. Is it possible to get a national licence confidentially (ie they've gone and secured it?)

Declan A Walsh · 05-03-2021 6:28pm

Sheep Shagger wrote: »

The thought crossed my mind but as the above poster says, it can't just happen like that. Is it possible to get a national licence confidentially (ie they've gone and secured it?)

Definitely not! That's not how it works. If such a thing happened (which it won't), there would be some serious litigation I would imagine.

What might be announced is a change of schedules and maybe some swapping of presenters. That is allowed,

Sheep Shagger · 05-03-2021 6:29pm

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

What might be announced as a change of schedules and maybe some swapping of presenters. That is allowed,

Thought so- thanks for confirming.

Presenter/ show swaps seem most likely. More shared content?

Declan A Walsh · 05-03-2021 6:32pm

Sheep Shagger wrote: »

Thought so- thanks for confirming.

Presenter/ show swaps seem most likely. More shared content?

I think that is possible. They have common ownership. They do have distinct licenses, and Classic Hits has a wider geographical area, but their music does overlap.

rmerrin · 07-03-2021 5:14pm

Swapping breakfast shows I'd imagine

Sheep Shagger · 07-03-2021 11:45pm

rmerrin wrote: »

Swapping breakfast shows I'd imagine

I hope not...

PJ and Jim more suitable to a male focused audience (Novas target?).

Sheep Shagger · 08-03-2021 9:16am

Sheep Shagger wrote: »

I hope not...

PJ and Jim more suitable to a male focused audience (Novas target?).

Noooooo

PJ and Jim are moving to Nova ans Nova breakfast moving to Classic Hits from 1 April.

Hurrache · 08-03-2021 9:32am

I presume they'll have to change their show's music content too.

Sheep Shagger · 08-03-2021 9:36am

Hurrache wrote: »

I presume they'll have to change their show's music content too.

Nothing about format changes, assume PJ and Jim just start playing Nova music etc...

Conqueror · 08-03-2021 9:36am

1st April. A Thursday. The Thursday before Easter weekend. Seems an odd day to make that kind of change...

Sheep Shagger · 08-03-2021 9:57am

Conqueror wrote: »

1st April. A Thursday. The Thursday before Easter weekend. Seems an odd day to make that kind of change...

They said a few times that its not an April fools joke...

Wheety · 08-03-2021 9:58am

Sheep Shagger wrote: »

They said a few times that its not an April fools joke...

Would be the worst ever Aprils Fools joke tbf. 3 week notice of moving to a sister station

Glaceon · 08-03-2021 10:12am

I haven't heard any mention of Colm and Lucy moving to Classic Hits, I really hope that's not true!

I saw Classic Hits posted a video of PJ and Jim's announcement to Facebook but it was deleted rather quickly. I can only guess that it was because the comments were mostly negative.

Conqueror · 08-03-2021 10:19am

Sheep Shagger wrote: »

They said a few times that its not an April fools joke...

Never said it was an April Fools joke, merely that the Thursday before Easter is a strange day to make a change affecting a Monday-Friday show.

Glaceon · 08-03-2021 10:48am

Just listened back to Nova online, Colm and Lucy are going to Classic Hits... well that's me gone then!

Flowergirl201 · 08-03-2021 11:06am

Glaceon wrote: »

Just listened back to Nova online, Colm and Lucy are going to Classic Hits... well that's me gone then!

That's ruined my Monday anyway. Its like they are trying to fix nova by taking classic hits best presenters. Classic hits will absolutely loose listeners in the morning now.

Lithium93_ · 08-03-2021 11:24am

Flowergirl201 wrote: »

That's ruined my Monday anyway. Its like they are trying to fix nova by taking classic hits best presenters. Classic hits will absolutely loose listeners in the morning now.

When I saw the tweet about the announcement on Friday, I assumed they'd be moving back to the 8-12 slot they had temporarily last year.

Infoanon · 08-03-2021 11:59am

Swapping the breakfast shows makes a lot of sense if it goes ahead.
Classic Hits is struggling outside of Dublin,it's listenership is static so something has to change.Colm and Lucys show originally found fame on RTE 2FM which is a national station hence placing them on classic hits,a semi national, may work.

Colm and Lucy on Nova was a bad fit from Day one - Breakfast is king in radio and a weak breakfast show leads to poor figures across the day.
With the two new radio consultants in Castleforbes they made the obvious decision to drop the failing show.
Wake up happy is popular (in Dublin ) and should prove popular on Nova.
The big question is what impact there will be on Classic Hits ?

JoeA3 · 08-03-2021 12:42pm

Oh dear. Last time I heard Colm Hayes on the radio was when he was drearily fumbling through the drive time slot on 2FM after they had booted Will Leahy. He's appalling.

Its a big setback back for Classic Hits imo.

Maz2016 · 08-03-2021 1:01pm

Oh this is awful. No way will I listen to classic hits now I don’t like Colms style

Declan A Walsh · 08-03-2021 1:04pm

Colm Hayes and Lucy Kennedy have previously been with 2FM, prior to Radio Nova. They worked separately and together during their time on 2FM. Colm has more connections with 2FM, having originally been involved with the station for about a year during the late 1980s.

Colm Hayes spent a number of years, mainly as breakfast show co-host, on Capital Radio/Rock104/FM104. He is particularly associated with the Strawberry Alarm Clock, which he co-presented with Jim-Jim Nugent. They presented a breakfast show on 2FM for a while, before Colm was moved to different slots and Jim-Jim returned to FM104. Lucy Kennedy's only connection with another station that I am aware of is when she was involved with sales for Spin103.

Colm, of course, has plenty of pirate radio experience from the 1980s. He is most associated with the superpirates: Radio Nova, Q102 and Energy 103.

Edit: On the subject of superpirates, in the early days of 4FM, there were a number of presenters that had been involved with the so-called superpirates - Dublin and elsewhere. Over the years, the number of these has dropped. Recently, there were none from that background on Classic Hits. Colm Hayes has brought that number back up to one!

chalkitdown1 · 08-03-2021 2:25pm

Aaaand there goes the last reason to listen to Classic Hits.

Unless of course you're big into Niall Boylan's particular brand of Jeremy Kyle-lite outrage hours.

Cube98 · 08-03-2021 3:08pm

Bay broadcasting paid for expensive consultants just to tell them that Hayes and Kennedy would be more suited to the 45+ music/chat licence rather than the Rock licence. ðŸ™„

08-03-2021 4:10pm

Crap, I used to enjoy Classic hits just for this show..

Sheep Shagger · 08-03-2021 4:49pm

Think I'll be listening to Nova during breakfast and CH and other stations as I do today via smart speaker outside that.

Max Headroom · 08-03-2021 7:39pm

Ah lads..give Colon and Loosey a go..sure you might like their overly scripted Benny Hill/ Chubby Brown humour....:D

Sheep Shagger · 08-03-2021 9:26pm

Strange how there's nothing on either Nova or CHs social media about the change (after posting an announcement on Friday).

The lads this morning were saying listeners had a bit to say via WhatsApp after it went public (presumably not public).

CLASSIC HITS OR 4FM

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