Today FM and lack of women presenters

Itssoeasy

Was just looking at the shows tab on todayfm and the only female presenter is Louise Duffy(has she started yet ? ) on at 5am,when very few people will hear her. Is there no female presenters on Today Fm capable of doing a show or do the top brass in Today Fm not want women presenting shows ?

Weekday schedule
5am - 7am Louise Duffy
7am-9am Dempsey
9am-12MD Ray Darcy
12MD-2.30pm Foley
2.30pm-4.30pm Tony Fenton
4.30pm-7.00pm Matt Cooper
7.00pm-10pm Paul McLoone
10pm-12MN KC
12MN-2.00am Donal Dineen

The weekend schedule there isn't one female presenter on the regularly scheduled programmes.

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Itssoeasy wrote: »

Was just looking at the shows tab on todayfm and the only female presenter is Louise Duffy(has she started yet ? ) on at 5am,when very few people will hear her. Is there no female presenters on Today Fm capable of doing a show or do the top brass in Today Fm not want women presenting shows ?

Weekday schedule
5am - 7am Louise Duffy
7am-9am Dempsey
9am-12MD Ray Darcy
12MD-2.30pm Foley
2.30pm-4.30pm Tony Fenton
4.30pm-7.00pm Matt Cooper
7.00pm-10pm Paul McLoone
10pm-12MN KC
12MN-2.00am Donal Dineen

The weekend schedule there isn't one female presenter on the regularly scheduled programmes.

Don't think you'll get the answer here, only Today FM can say what the thinking behind the schedule is. Louise Duffy starts Monday, good luck to her.

What female presenters would you suggest in the place of the main daytime ones?


Ian Dempsey
Ray Darcy
Ray Foley
Tony Fenton
Matt Cooper / Last Word

zuroph

they've had a few who moved on for various reasons. Is Pamela Halton still there with Fenton? she was filling in on the last splash for a bit. there was the morning one who left ann marie kelly was it? and Alison who did the Last splash.

Tapes

I wrote a thread about this last month, Today fm keep putting the one token woman on the pre breakfast slot, Today fm has become a station full of old men, their weekend line up is the worst no changes for years

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zuroph wrote: »

they've had a few who moved on for various reasons. Is Pamela Halton still there with Fenton? she was filling in on the last splash for a bit. there was the morning one who left ann marie kelly was it? and Alison who did the Last splash.

Pamela Halton works on the Darcy show now, and yes Alison done the last splash, The Alison Curtis Show at night and earlies. AM Kelly also done earlies, and went back to Midlands 103 recently enough.

Don't think it's just Today FM, have a look at most radio schedules and it's mostly men. "They say" (whoever they are) that men don't like a womans voice on radio, and women dislike a womans voice moreso.

decies

Woman are best suited to tv,my buddy keeps on about the weather girls on that irish tv station.Nothing worse on radio to be listening to a woman trying to be cool ,just not right.

Poochie05

decies wrote: »

Woman are best suited to tv,my buddy keeps on about the weather girls on that irish tv station.Nothing worse on radio to be listening to a woman trying to be cool ,just not right.

And yet they seem to be good enough to read the news, traffic reports and do voiceovers on ads- i'm not sure i'm convinced by that old chestnut about people not liking women's voices on the radio.:rolleyes:

Sergeant

decies wrote: »

Woman are best suited to tv,my buddy keeps on about the weather girls on that irish tv station.Nothing worse on radio to be listening to a woman trying to be cool ,just not right.

Rachel English - a fantastic presenter.

Marian - For all her flaws, she remains (in my opinion) one of the best interviewers on Irish radio. Charlie Bird made a complete mess of the Joan Burton interview, where Marian in her own inimitable style would have made an attempt to coax out Joan's true feelings on not getting the Finance ministry.

Itssoeasy

elviscostello wrote: »

Don't think it's just Today FM, have a look at most radio schedules and it's mostly men. "They say" (whoever they are) that men don't like a womans voice on radio, and women dislike a womans voice moreso.

I agree the vast majority of most radio station schedules are male dominated, but MOST radio stations have a few female presenters if not on weekdays but at least on the weekends. But today fm have ONE for the whole seven days of radio. Don't know what the reason is but todayfm employ what appear to me to be capable women at producing the shows and being a big part of the success of the shows. Give them a chance is all I'm saying.

zoobizoo

.... i don't mind women on the radio who know what they're talking about i.e. Marian, the drivetime women, newsreaders, Alison Curtis but the problem is the inane presenters like Ruth Scott & the Spin FM DJs who are fairly vacuous.

Sergeant

zoobizoo wrote: »

.... i don't mind women on the radio who know what they're talking about i.e. Marian, the drivetime women, newsreaders, Alison Curtis but the problem is the inane presenters like Ruth Scott & the Spin FM DJs who are fairly vacuous.

And what about the vacuous presenters who are male? Most pop music-driven radio programming is utterly inane and gormless, and it doesn't matter what gender the presenter is.

whatlliwear

Ya there really is a shortage of female presenters!
But Louise Duffy I dread to think what she'll be like!

ShagNastii

DP sorry

ShagNastii

Think this is just whine for whines sake. The Today FM shows listed all have a great involvement of females. Ok they are named after the "main" name which so happens to be a guy.


Take the Ray D'arcy show for example you have Muiread and Jenny make up a huge part of the show.

Ray Foley has Anne Gleeson and Adele. Both cornerstones in the show.

The only other show I listen to is Matt and I just find he is Todayfm's Pat or Miriam. A top class political journo who is great to listen to.

The only argument you could bring up is Alison Curtis getting shafted for KC or Paul Mc.

Bard

decies wrote: »

Woman are best suited to tv,my buddy keeps on about the weather girls on that irish tv station.Nothing worse on radio to be listening to a woman trying to be cool ,just not right.

I really don't mean to be rude... but that's the biggest pile of arse I've read in a while. A large proportion of the best presenters I know are women.

Quite often gender has nothing to do with it, especially when you've a passion for the job.

That said, I'll be doing an in-depth analysis (surveys and interviews) over the summer for a dissertation which concerns gender balance, specifically in radio newsrooms in Ireland... the results may surprise some.

BrianD

The conventional wisdom is that both men and women both prefer to listen to men on the radio. Apparently, this is backed up with research but I have never seen it nor have I ever found it!

As Miriam O'Callaghan alluded to recently, presentation is a role that often doesn't favour women particularly when they decide to have children. This will be denied in all quarters but I think it's fair to say it's an underlining factor.

On the topic of female presentation, Phantom has almost an entirely female roster from 6am to 7pm. The only bloke is Richie McCormack on the Pure Morning breakfast show for 4 hours and even then it's a co-hosted show.

bureau2009

There was a new female presenter on Today FM today!

I was heading to the airport early this morning and a Louise Dunne (I think!) was doing her very first show on the 5 to 7 am slot. She said she was formerly of AA Roadwatch.

I thought she was very listenable and this was a strong showing for a 1st show. Good luck in your career Louise!!

Itssoeasy

Close it was Louise Duffy. I thought she was easy to listen to and she might do well. I didn't listen live(it's my day off) but used to listen back thing on my iPhone.

bureau2009

Sergeant wrote: »

Rachel English - a fantastic presenter.

Marian - For all her flaws, she remains (in my opinion) one of the best interviewers on Irish radio. Charlie Bird made a complete mess of the Joan Burton interview, where Marian in her own inimitable style would have made an attempt to coax out Joan's true feelings on not getting the Finance ministry.

She's terribly expensive though, her salary is as obscene as any property developer. Let her feck off, hopefully RTE will NOT renew her contract and we will not have to either pay her or listen to her self importance!!!!!

Ferrier

To get back to the main point of this thread, it remains a disturbing fact that Today FM is the only national station which has never had a female presenter from 7am to 7pm apart from the odd "sitting in."
Today fm seem to think the role of women in programming is to giggle at the male presenters inane witterings.
Still - Today's loss is other stations gains:
A M Kelly went to Midlands, Alison to Phantom, Bernie Jameson (former Today newswoman) is on Spirit, and Breffni Clack went to Nova.

zuroph

Ferrier wrote: »

To get back to the main point of this thread, it remains a disturbing fact that Today FM is the only national station which has never had a female presenter from 7am to 7pm apart from the odd "sitting in."
Today fm seem to think the role of women in programming is to giggle at the male presenters inane witterings.
Still - Today's loss is other stations gains:
A M Kelly went to Midlands, Alison to Phantom, Bernie Jameson (former Today newswoman) is on Spirit, and Breffni Clack went to Nova.

they've also barely changed their line up in the whole time they've been operating though, and have put the strongest talent they can into each slot to compete against rivals, so its really not a case of sexism, just strong business management.

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Ferrier wrote: »

To get back to the main point of this thread, it remains a disturbing fact that Today FM is the only national station which has never had a female presenter from 7am to 7pm apart from the odd "sitting in."
Today fm seem to think the role of women in programming is to giggle at the male presenters inane witterings.
Still - Today's loss is other stations gains:
A M Kelly went to Midlands, Alison to Phantom, Bernie Jameson (former Today newswoman) is on Spirit, and Breffni Clack went to Nova.

Also, from what I understand, it was also a business decision to move Alison, and AM Kelly moved as she didn't want the early mornings with a new babóg.