Changes to 2fm for 2010

jkforde

It's GUBU how many of ye STILL listen to Irish FM music stations when web streaming is only a click away (esp. hooked up to decent speakers).... jesus lads, Irish FM music radio is dead, long live Irish FM music radio.

BBC 6 Music all the way (Phantom aren't bad).... check out ShoutCast for an amazing list of less parochial listening

Utopia Parkway

channelsurfer wrote: »

sunday world yesterday confirmed that larry gogan is coming back mon to fri to do the golden hour frmo 3 to 4.... no mention if it is part of a 2 or 3 hour block for him though..

Lord almighty he must be 97 by now. Has nobody in RTE heard of retirement?

bbability

Bond-007 wrote: »

Ruth Scott getting pigeon holed to the weekend mornings can only be a good thing.

I feel so sorry for Dave Redmond. It seems he got the raw deal and one things for sure... -1 for a Saturday and Sunday Morning from me. If you think I'm gonna tune into that wagon... forget it!:eek:

Happy Christmas Mr Mc Mahon... It may be your only one in charge of 2fm...

Slidey

It may not be all bad news, I will no longer have to suffer Tony Fenton.

I am no major fan of Larry and nearly everything he says is scripted but he sure beats Fenton.

The alternative to Fenton was Rick O Shea and his mouthy breathing noises into the mic drive me demented

anotherlostie

And yet the breakfast show remains untouched? Are their compromising photos of 2FM management in a safety deposit box somewhere?

Ruth Scott and Nikki Hayes both bumped from weekdays - does older demographic mean men only on the radio? I wouldn't be a fan of either of them, but it seems strange not to add different female presenters. And Damien Farrelly seems to have lost out too in the new no pop after 7 schedule.

RadioCity

The current evening schedule is quite good for music, but the removal of of Ruth Scott to weekends and Damien Farrelly to we don't know where for Dan and Dave, will turn away many listeners, myself included. I enjoyed the selection of music played from 7pm(now 8pm)-midnight. The new format leaves little reason for me to listen to the station.

Would the evening format not make it quite similar to the appeal of Pet Sounds (is it still called that?) on Today FM at the same time??

A quick update, Damien Farrelly is keeping his late slot, but squirelled away in an 11pm-1am slot.

jdscrubs

RadioCity wrote: »

The current evening schedule is quite good for music, but the removal of of Ruth Scott to weekends and Damien Farrelly to we don't know where for Dan and Dave, will turn away many listeners, myself included. I enjoyed the selection of music played from 7pm(now 8pm)-midnight. The new format leaves little reason for me to listen to the station.

Would the evening format not make it quite similar to the appeal of Pet Sounds (is it still called that?) on Today FM at the same time??

A quick update, Damien Farrelly is keeping his late slot, but squirelled away in an 11pm-1am slot.

That is crap that they are keeping Damien Farrelly. The man is an absolute bore to listen to. I liked the fact that they increased dave fanning to 2 hours and brought Dan on earlier from 9-11. However the fact that I have to listen to idiot farrelly when I fall asleep is something I aint happy with. Why not have Jenny Hueston on from 11-1.

As for the rest of the changes, like the fact that Rick is going back to an interactive type show as his new format was crap. Liked the old format when he asked silly questions and got people to text, email, etc in.

Like Will Leahy as well. Not sure about putting Dave Fanning on at the weekend though. Ruth Scott was fine until they put her on the Saturday show as well as the 5 evenings during the week and they people got sick of her. Could happen to Fanning as well. Not sure about Tiernan & Hector as I aint their biggest fans.

Good changes overall though.

bbability

All in all I can see what this new boss is doing. He justifying certain peoples big wages and shuffling the untouchables around.

flazio

So is there any definitive article/listing anywhere for the whole 7 days line up on 2fM

Bard

flazio wrote: »

So is there any definitive article/listing anywhere for the whole 7 days line up on 2fM

http://2fm.rte.ie/pages/newsched

thetonynator

Anyone know what the new radio schedule for 2fm will be??? any new faces???

Ronan Raver77

here you go

http://2fm.rte.ie/pages/newsched

Thread on this already..

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055763620

Slidey

thetonynator wrote: »

Anyone know what the new radio schedule for 2fm will be??? any new faces???

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Ronan Devitt wrote: »

here you go

http://2fm.rte.ie/pages/newsched

Thread on this already..

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055763620

Thanks

thetonynator

Thanks!!!

jedbartlet

Have these people ever heard of a real change... it really is time for Gerry Ryan to move on. Apart from not being worth the 500k a year he is just there too long. do they really have no one in the wings that can move in in due course. kinda like Joe Duffy was with Gaybo in the old days. He has that Evlin thing who is just unbeliveably bad on air, all while haveing a carrer brreak as a teacher! Also Nikki Hayes was just so false its not even funny, it was so bad the BCI should have taken her off air ages ago, but why do RTE do that, force people on teh public and try convince them that they are stars?? you cant make that happen its either naturally there or its not! to be honest teh rest of teh line up is not much better.

i just dont get it. RTE i guess.

Greenman

Thought Larry had retired

cashback

"Starting Jaunary 4th 2010"

How is a mistake that obvious still on the website?

Fago!

I'll be glad to see the back of Nikki Hayes. Not just cause she gots a nice arse, cause she's a terrible radio presenter. Just awful.

Richard o Shea is now up against Ray Foley. 12 till 3. I'll still tune into Foley, but I reckon he'll lose a few listeners.

Edit: I keep getting asked "Is Ray Foley moving to 2Fm???.... I heard He is!!!" too often to ignore. What's the deal?

bbability

jedbartlet wrote: »

He has that Evlin thing who is just unbeliveably bad on air, all while haveing a carrer brreak as a teacher!

The only good news I can tell u about the above named is she's up the duff so she'll be MIA for a while.


Bad news for people who don't like her (and I've yet to meet or talk to anyone that does) is that her other half is the new boss making the "sweeping changes"...

The whole thing just doesn't sit right with me at all... its all too cosy at 2fm. You can't run a business like that.

Diabhal Beag

Fago_25 wrote: »

Edit: I keep getting asked "Is Ray Foley moving to 2Fm???.... I heard He is!!!" too often to ignore. What's the deal?

Probably made the rumour up himself

RadioRetro

bbability wrote: »

its all too cosy at 2fm. You can't run a business like that.

It's been run like that since its inception. Once you're accepted as part of the RTE 'family' you're untouchable. That's why people like Dave Redmond get let go, he wasn't 'one of us'.

Real FM

So what? They turn down who they think is the best man for the job because his wife works there?

This crap about Dave Redmond not being "One of them" is rubbish. What on earth do you have that stupid statement to based on? At a time when the station is up against the wall JNLR wise and financially they're not going to get rid of presenters because they're not "One of them"

Get real.

bbability

Real FM wrote: »

At a time when the station is up against the wall JNLR wise and financially they're not going to get rid of presenters because they're not "One of them"
Get real.

Eh you get real because you have obviously not done your homework pal.

Dave Redmond (along with most other shows on 2fm on Sat and Sun) had healthy figures compared to other stations. He added more listeners to his show on the last outing. Jenny Greene, John Clarke, Michael Cahill all added listeners to there shows..

Real FM

Em, I have done my research pal.

Dave Redmond dropped 15,000 listeners to 65,000 on previous JNLRS.

I don't see what your point is about the others. John Clarke keeps a 3 hour weekend show, Jenny Greene keeps her show and Michael Cahill was actually down 21,000 for the year.

bbability

Real FM wrote: »

Em, I have done my research pal.

Dave Redmond dropped 15,000 listeners to 65,000 on previous JNLRS..

all in all he's gonna be missed. It'll be 65k more than the next quarter.

Don't forget most stations are down in overall listeners year on year.

I heard nob nation has moved to the breakfast show from today

Amz

I'm always astounded that Ruth Scott manages to keep a job on national radio. She's been bumped around so often, she must at times forget when to show up at work.

Someone should put her out of her misery and just get rid of her.

anna logg

ALL STATIONS at this time segment dropped on Saturdays...... summer and recession.

jojojo1

6AM C&JJ
9AM LUCY KENNEDY
11AM RICK OSHEA
2PM AIDAN POWER
4PM JENNY GREENE
6PM SIMON YOUNG
8PM DENIS HICKEY
10PM PHIL CAWLEY
GET RID OF D FANNING,G RYAN,
KEEP LARRY,NIKKI,SPRING,LEAHY AT WEEKEND

bbability

Has Lindi Clarke left the Breakfast Show team? I've noticed positive changes with the show as of late. Much tighter and more speech based.

patrickc

bbability wrote: »

Has Lindi Clarke left the Breakfast Show team? I've noticed positive changes with the show as of late. Much tighter and more speech based.

shes on with Will Leahy now afaik

petals

Real FM wrote: »

<snip> This crap about Dave Redmond not being "One of them" is rubbish. What on earth do you have that stupid statement to based on? At a time when the station is up against the wall JNLR wise and financially they're not going to get rid of presenters because they're not "One of them"</snip>/QUOTE]

Yeah so would it not have made more sense to keep him there since in three of his last four listenership figures he was up it was only the last one he was down in and firstly as someone else said that all stations are losing listeners and secondly from what I heard he was only one of two in 2fm that actually managed to gain listeners with some of those results!

Would have made more sense to me if they had of kept a decent presenter that has the ability to broadcast to the nation rather than the captial but there ya go!

As for other changes don't think Nikki should have been moved to weekend females are largely lacking off irish airwaves and I think they should have left her on during weekdays. She's not a bad dj by any means when you listen to some of the others out there.

Also since the changes I have largely stopped listening cos wasn't impressed by what I heard except to the last month of celebrity Sunday with Nicky Byrne and I bet they were luvin the Westlife fans in 2fm for getting the show trending in twitter three weeks in a row!!! ha ha ha

sparrowman

jojojo1 wrote: »

6AM C&JJ
9AM LUCY KENNEDY
11AM RICK OSHEA
2PM AIDAN POWER
4PM JENNY GREENE
6PM SIMON YOUNG
8PM DENIS HICKEY
10PM PHIL CAWLEY
GET RID OF D FANNING,G RYAN,
KEEP LARRY,NIKKI,SPRING,LEAHY AT WEEKEND

+ 1 except I'd substitute Ray Foley for Phil "I can't stop saying my own name" Cawley

tipperaryboy

They should give more time to Larry Gogan as he is the best and put him on in the evenings or weekend.

prunudo

bbability wrote: »

Has Lindi Clarke left the Breakfast Show team? I've noticed positive changes with the show as of late. Much tighter and more speech based.

Larry Gogan thanked her at the end of his show today, so she must be floating around between different shows.

BabyDuck

sparrowman wrote: »

+ 1 except I'd substitute Ray Foley for Phil "I can't stop saying my own name" Cawley

Dont think foley would switch to 2fm, he does nothing but slag them off on his show, Jenny Greene def deserves a weekday slot....as for poor ruth scott :eek:

coldwood92

I love tommy and hector on Saturday

MJ23

coldwood92 wrote: »

I love tommy and hector on Saturday

They're fúcking brutal. Two gobshítes from Naaaaaaavan
"c'mon lads we're havin the craic here, I'm a ginger and i think i'm funny"
Terrible, please take them off.

deadhead13

bbability wrote: »

Has Lindi Clarke left the Breakfast Show team? I've noticed positive changes with the show as of late. Much tighter and more speech based.

Yeah, she has been replaced by Gerry Ryan's producer Siobhan Hough, apparently against his wishes. I'm surprised, I would have though Gerry would have more say in the matter.

http://www.herald.ie/entertainment/tv-radio/gerrys-shock-as-righthand-woman-moves-in-reshuffle-2086663.html

coldwood92

MJ23 wrote: »

They're fúcking brutal. Two gobshítes from Naaaaaaavan
"c'mon lads we're havin the craic here, I'm a ginger and i think i'm funny"
Terrible, please take them off.

anybody got a postive review

prunudo

I have to say that i'm enjoying listening Tommy & Hector, it's better than the usual boring rubbish out there. At least they are doing something different.

I still can't understand why they put Ruth Scott on weekend mornings, cant stand her and 2fm have lost me as a listener for weekend breakfast, as I always listened before.