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The official Christmas FM thread
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Had some problems with the winds taking down some masts two days ago but these got fixed relatively fast.
I'm live now for turkey time on the radio (yes we are live on Christmas Day!). If you want to hear anything for your Christmas backdrop sound track let me know!
Tomorrow is our last day, so thanks in advance for tuning in and for those of you who made donations to Aware, our charity partner for 2013.0 -
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Fantastic news!
Great cause, do so much good work for one of the most overlooked sections of society.
Christmas fm put this up on their facebook page and the most liked comment was christmas is all about kids you should have picked a kids charity.
It's this type of ignorance that makes charities like age action get overlooked. Fair play for Christmas fm for giving me a great spotlight.0 -
Christmas fm put this up on their facebook page and the most liked comment was christmas is all about kids you should have picked a kids charity.
It's this type of ignorance that makes charities like age action get overlooked. Fair play for Christmas fm for giving me a great spotlight.
Probably made by the sort of facebook crusaders who didn't bother their ar*e to vote on the Children's Referendum :mad:
Amazes me how generation now think old age will never happen to them..... :rolleyes:
Well done Christmas FM....
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I hope this will get a better rotation that it did last year .... it's such a lovely song.
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Can't wait for Christmas FM. The one thing that annoyed me last year is that I sent in a couple of texts and they weren't read out, or if they were it was after I turned off the radio over an hour later. That put me off texting again. Also when people request songs the DJs always responds with a generic 'I'm sure we can get that on for you later' or whatever. I understand that there's probably a playlist already set up but every once in awhile I'm sure one of the texts matches up to the next song on the playlist so it could be read out just before the next song.
And let me be the first to ask for no Christmas Shoes.
Other than that I've really enjoyed listening over the years. My highlight last year was when Johnny Vegas was in the studio.0 -
Will your feet not get coldBobblehead Panda wrote: »Can't wait for Christmas FM. The one thing that annoyed me last year is that I sent in a couple of texts and they weren't read out, or if they were it was after I turned off the radio over an hour later. That put me off texting again. Also when people request songs the DJs always responds with a generic 'I'm sure we can get that on for you later' or whatever. I understand that there's probably a playlist already set up but every once in awhile I'm sure one of the texts matches up to the next song on the playlist so it could be read out just before the next song.
And let me be the first to ask for no Christmas Shoes.
Other than that I've really enjoyed listening over the years. My highlight last year was when Johnny Vegas was in the studio.:D (da dum tish) 0 -
Let me be the second to ask for no Christmas Shoes. :pac:Bobblehead Panda wrote: »And let me be the first to ask for no Christmas Shoes.
I think positive stories about how Age Action has helped people and the positive work they do would be good, as opposed to too many 'sob stories', so to speak. People want to feel like their money will actually make a difference.0 -
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Bobblehead Panda wrote: »Can't wait for Christmas FM. The one thing that annoyed me last year is that I sent in a couple of texts and they weren't read out, or if they were it was after I turned off the radio over an hour later. That put me off texting again.
And let me be the first to ask for no Christmas Shoes.
Thanks for the feedback - First off let me apologise. I agree its frustrating when you text in and I have to put my hands up and say this one is a balance that we've found hard to get right. Although some will undoubtedly disagree with how we work it, I'd like to explain our though process and why sometimes songs don't get played immediately (sometimes at all).
Firstly we try to get a consistent feel for the music and we do this with play lists and song limitations. Before anyone points out that My Friday night show is very different to the playlist, its one of the exception to the otherwise rule. Friday night is for parties hence always upbeat. DJ's do have the freedom to rotate in some requests ofcourse. But if a song is on low rotation, it absolutely can't be played within 8 hours of its last play etc. High rotation songs shouldnt be played anymore than once every 3 hours - this is to stop every show sounding like Mariah Carey, Wham and The Pogues on a tight loop.
Our average listener tunes in for 17 minutes at a time. Mostly a short car trip etc. So we want them to hear a selection of songs they havent heard in a while and the high rotation popular songs - in other words a feel for what we do every 17 minutes.
But then people have texted in, making a donation and want a mention / song played. So we have two conflicts 1. No-one wants a non-stop DJ saying peoples name between every song, especially if it takes away from the music and 2. If the song has been recently played it cannot be played again.
I have the honour of spending my Christmas Day on air and with so many requests on that, one of the busiest days of the station. We get about 20 song requests for every song played. Some of them saying I talk too much reading out dedications :rolleyes:
I can't tell you how many times I've got texts in within the 3 minutes of a song just played. So regretfully those that just tunes in and texts have to be disappointed. Also Christmas Shoes, definitely wont be high rotation but due to the volume of text and the money that raises it may get some plays.
To make up for the annoyance send me your favouite 4 songs and I'll play three them on my first show.Can I suggest we do another top 10 boards.ie of favourite Christmas songs?
Love that idea. Lets do it. Anyone good with Survey Monkey / Polls and want to set that up?I think positive stories about how Age Action has helped people and the positive work they do would be good, as opposed to too many 'sob stories', so to speak.
Age action is a really positive organisation. We want to try and get some real life happy stories from its beneficiaries.0 -
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Thanks for the reply.TheCostumeShop.ie: Ronan wrote: »Thanks for the feedback - First off let me apologise. I agree its frustrating when you text in and I have to put my hands up and say this one is a balance that we've found hard to get right. Although some will undoubtedly disagree with how we work it, I'd like to explain our though process and why sometimes songs don't get played immediately (sometimes at all).
Firstly we try to get a consistent feel for the music and we do this with play lists and song limitations. Before anyone points out that My Friday night show is very different to the playlist, its one of the exception to the otherwise rule. Friday night is for parties hence always upbeat. DJ's do have the freedom to rotate in some requests ofcourse. But if a song is on low rotation, it absolutely can't be played within 8 hours of its last play etc. High rotation songs shouldnt be played anymore than once every 3 hours - this is to stop every show sounding like Mariah Carey, Wham and The Pogues on a tight loop.
Our average listener tunes in for 17 minutes at a time. Mostly a short car trip etc. So we want them to hear a selection of songs they havent heard in a while and the high rotation popular songs - in other words a feel for what we do every 17 minutes.
But then people have texted in, making a donation and want a mention / song played. So we have two conflicts 1. No-one wants a non-stop DJ saying peoples name between every song, especially if it takes away from the music and 2. If the song has been recently played it cannot be played again.
I have the honour of spending my Christmas Day on air and with so many requests on that, one of the busiest days of the station. We get about 20 song requests for every song played. Some of them saying I talk too much reading out dedications :rolleyes:
I can't tell you how many times I've got texts in within the 3 minutes of a song just played. So regretfully those that just tunes in and texts have to be disappointed. Also Christmas Shoes, definitely wont be high rotation but due to the volume of text and the money that raises it may get some plays.
To make up for the annoyance send me your favouite 4 songs and I'll play three them on my first show. All I meant really is that if a text request that is due to be read out matches up with the next song, then stick that text at the end of the ones to be read out and use it to introduce the song. I think it would make people more likely to text in, if the impression was given that requests were played the odd time. More texts = more money for the charity!
No need to play any songs for me. I love all the songs! (Apart from Christmas Shoes, obviously, because I'm not a massive weirdo. :pac:) My husband thinks it's hilarious every year when we're listening together and I know all the words to all the songs. Thanks for the offer though.
You should definitely play the top 3 Boards songs though. We could start a thread and get people to post their favourites and make a poll out of the ones that are mentioned.0 -
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I took the liberty (hope you don't mind) of setting one up here,
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=92510859#post92510859
It was your idea! And you have much much better thread organisational skills than I have. The thanks idea is great. 0 -
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