Are radio stations gone to the dogs?

Barry_Scott

George the Gnome should be given a full time radio show, what a legend!

JennyMaguire

Chris Eubank is a big fan of the so-called "****e radio shows" in Ireland...

iRadio (both 102104 and 105107) are great for light entertainment

Wertz

JennyMaguire wrote: »

Chris Eubank is a big fan of the so-called "****e radio shows" in Ireland...

...and people say boxing doesn't damage the brain, eh?

A Neurotic

Used to have to listen to Ruth Scott at work.

Ruth. F*cking. Scott.

Degsy

I was in the gym the other day and they had the radio on..there was this asshole of a woman with a poxy,put-on D4 accent spouting the most inane,pseudo transatlantic tripe i've ever heard..
"Oh my God..i'm just loving the randomness of these texts..so random".
I felt like killing somebody for an hour afterwards.

Tzetze

My radio is always tuned to LyricFM.

JK Ensemble, Reels to Ragas, Jazz Alley, Magic Carpet, Nova, The Blue of the Night, In Tempo, Lyric Lunchtime. A great quality of programming.

G_R

Ray Foley on Today FM isnt bad (he's away for 2 weeks so dont listen in just yet)

his podcast is quiet good aswell, always has me laughing

Ardent

Matt Cooper's The Last Word on Today FM is the only thing I listen to on the radio. Everythig else is sh*te.

Ziggurat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5f_gbzo4Q0

Bluesmirnoff

El Siglo wrote: »

Whatever about the 'local' stations being shite (Midlands Radio 3 is probably the worst), but these so-called 'national' broadcasters are God awful. I remember going to school, 4-5 years ago on the bus, and there seemed to be much more music etc... on the radio, it was pretty decent. Now, listening to the radio, it's like as if DJ's have given up on playing decent music with people using their ipods for that and are going for a more talk radio in order to add something different to listeners etc...
Chart music as well, Jesus it's awful so it is, imagine on the way to work the other day the best music (when it was finally played) on the radio was David Bowie, with "Ziggy Stardust" from 1972 (excellent song, but it shows how bad music standards are nowadays). I hope to God, somebody comes up with a radio station 'My Ipod Playlist FM' - entirely dedicated to music, no competitions or bullshit chit chat, just music of different varieties. Now, that would be worth a listen!:D

The balance of music and talk owes more to regulation than to individual choice at stations. There's a 20% current affairs requirement (more for some licences) and music stations tend to fill it with any sort of waffle that can loosely be termed as current affairs. Likewise with genres of music, this is all laid down when the contract is signed with the BCI.

As for Midlands Radio 3 being the worst local station, Shannonside easily claims that 'prize' yet their listenership is pretty good. KFM and East Coast usually down the bottom of the list. Midlands has improved a lot over the last few years. Live 95 and Tipp FM have amazing listenership.

A Neurotic

Tipp FM makes me die inside. I hate everything about it. The DJs. The music. The ads. Godawful.