SPIN SOUTH WEST - worst radio in Ireland ??

Ryan2me

Has anybody actually tuned into SPIN South West lately?

I must say the station has actually gone dire over the last 6 months.

Although the station is independently managed from it's sister station SPIN 1038 in Dublin they have pretty much copied everything, show names, voice over artists , some shows are networked ( hit 30 na h-eireann, club educate with John Gibbons) and in the past week they have the news networked down from Dublin station, which is absolutely ridiculous as it's Dublin people reading out Dublin news for the South West. Nobody wants to know about what happened in Blanch!

Also the new jingles they have in the last 2 weeks, sound like a child made them on a casio keyboard.

Some of the on air "Talent", wouldn't even be qualified to listen to a radio.
There is Bridget who spent an hour of a show thinking her microphone was on high but it was at, I'd say 10% volume.
Don't even get me started about Nessa Harney or self proclaimed Horny Harney. That woman, supposed to be doing a "most music " request show (TRL) spends more than adequate time bullsh**ting about how she shaved her armpits that day and they were really smooth. Also referenced a text to "say hi to the lads" asked them to text back in and if "they were wearing much clothes".

Finally anybody who has managed to actually listen to a full show on SPIN south west will know that it's like if SPIN has the latest NOW! That's what I call music in their computer and just randomly play songs off that, repeating them all after about 2 hours.
I think it's a sorry excuse for a radio station and would be better if they just went off air.

Opinions???

Prop Joe

They have a market and they are actively perusing it...I dont like listening to Spin but i respect their business model

Ryan2me

Prop Joe wrote: »

They have a market and they are actively perusing it...I dont like listening to Spin but i respect their business model

At the start of their license July 2007, they were a brilliant station, even up to 2011 they were brilliant. But since then, their standards have declined.
And with their business model, I don't think their doing much business. They have at most, 12 adverts in an hour. 7-8 of these are station promos, which leaves 5 paid for adverts, which, as you can guess isn't great/

wnolan1992

Ryan2me wrote: »

I must say the station has actually gone dire over the last 6 months.

With the benefit of hindsight, it was always pretty dire.

Although the station is independently managed from it's sister station SPIN 1038 in Dublin they have pretty much copied everything, show names, voice over artists ,

It's a franchise, and this has been the same since the station began, there is no reason that they would have different names.

some shows are networked ( hit 30 na h-eireann, club educate with John Gibbons)

Hit 30 na H-Eireann (if it's the same one I'm thinking of with Donál Ó Dábhín) is the official Irish chart that a lot of regional stations use at the weekend for two hours of virtually free content.

For a station of Spin's type, I'm really surprised that more of their shows aren't syndicated. Considering the major draw of the station is its music and not its presenters, it'd be a lot cheaper just to be producing one version of a lot of their shows.

and in the past week they have the news networked down from Dublin station, which is absolutely ridiculous as it's Dublin people reading out Dublin news for the South West. Nobody wants to know about what happened in Blanch!

If they're reading out local Dublin news, then yes it's a problem, but if they're just doing the national headlines then it really makes no difference. (haven't listened to Spin's news in ages, and not in the last week).

And if it was at the weekend you heard it, then it may have been the generic news bulletins that regional and local stations use so as not to have to pay a weekend newsreader.

Finally anybody who has managed to actually listen to a full show on SPIN south west will know that it's like if SPIN has the latest NOW! That's what I call music in their computer and just randomly play songs off that, repeating them all after about 2 hours.

Pretty much. Presenters don't get to choose their playlist, and the station's audience wants Top 40 stuff. They know the majority of their audience will listen to, at most, about 2-3 hours in a row, so they work around that.

I think it's a sorry excuse for a radio station and would be better if they just went off air.

I don't. It clearly serves it's market, which is 12-25 (25 being the maximum age you really should even consider listening to the station unless you have serious problems :P). It's not to my tastes, but it's not aimed at me. I listened back when I was in secondary school and twas what I wanted.

Opinions???

To sum up, I don't like the station. I don't like the DJ's, I don't like the playlists. So I don't listen. Simple. There're enough 16 year old's out there to give them decent listenership figures. :pac:

Ryan2me

wnolan1992 wrote: »

And if it was at the weekend you heard it, then it may have been the generic news bulletins that regional and local stations use so as not to have to pay a weekend newsreader.

Nope not at the weekend, it's the whole time now.... check wikipedia, apparently it's cost saving

I don't. It clearly serves it's market, which is 12-25 (25 being the maximum age you really should even consider listening to the station unless you have serious problems :P). It's not to my tastes, but it's not aimed at me. I listened back when I was in secondary school and twas what I wanted.

I'm 20 now and actually find I can't listen, I find that I can listen to SPIN 1038 no bother but South West it's just a sorry excuse for a station,


Oh and another complaint I have is.. the transitions from songs -jingle-song...

the song basically fades to silence, there is about half a second of dead air, then a jingle that echoes south west..south west ( which i presume the echo is supposed to be played over the intro of the song) then half a second of dead air again then the next song starts.

End of rant,,, for now

Kensington

Haven't the news scripts always come from the central Communicorp news office? Just now, instead of having a local newsreader reading the centralised script, they have their centralised newsteams reading the centralised script (98FM/Spin1038 being one team, Today FM/Newstalk being t'other).

I'd say if it wasn't for the 20% N&CA conditions layed down by the BAI, there wouldn't be a minute of news on Spin ever, just pure music. They're literally only doing lip service to meet that condition by doing the news bulletins and that mid-afternoon talk show so it's no great surprise they're trying to cut back on it tbh!

But yeah, they seem to be doing fairly OK in their target market, I guess the older we get the worse it sounds to us

jimmy2flutes

Ryan2Me, so you didn't get a job on the station? Massive chip me thinks!!!

Chavways

jimmy2flutes wrote: »

Ryan2Me, so you didn't get a job on the station? Massive chip me thinks!!!

Spin South West should be taken off the air and never spoken about again,it is so bad. Truly horrible. Have you ever listened to it?

Ryan2me

jimmy2flutes wrote: »

Ryan2Me, so you didn't get a job on the station? Massive chip me thinks!!!

Hilarious! I'd rather poke my eyes out with metal skewers that work on that station if I was even into radio work that is. I just like listening to the radio and can't stand the utter SHI!TE that is broadcast on SPIN

Ryan2me

Chavways wrote: »

Spin South West should be taken off the air and never spoken about again,it is so bad. Truly horrible. Have you ever listened to it?

Listened the other day and that Nessa Harney one was talking about how she shaved her armpits that day and they were really smooth, she then went on to burp on air and say she was "scarleh and mort" then thankfully played a song. I turned off the radio very very quickly

wnolan1992

Chavways wrote: »

Spin South West should be taken off the air and never spoken about again,it is so bad. Truly horrible. Have you ever listened to it?

Elaborate as to why it should be taken off the air? It's serving a market that very few, if any other stations in the region cater for. People listen to the station for music, nothing else.

Ryan2me wrote: »

Hilarious! I'd rather poke my eyes out with metal skewers that work on that station if I was even into radio work that is. I just like listening to the radio and can't stand the utter SHI!TE that is broadcast on SPIN

It's simple then, just listen to something else. Spin is a teen station. If enough people stop listening, then they'll be forced to improve quality. If, as I suspect is the case, the majority of their listener base couldn't give a toss what the presenters are like as long as they can hear the latest David Guetta song and get their text read out about how the Junior Cert is the hardest exam in the world, then it'll carry on.

Ryan2me

wnolan1992 wrote: »

. If, as I suspect is the case, the majority of their listener base couldn't give a toss what the presenters are like as long as they can hear the latest David Guetta song and get their text read out about how the Junior Cert is the hardest exam in the world, then it'll carry on.

You're dead right there I think... and if Mary can text in about the fella she shifted last night,

So SPIN is a station of utter ****e for people who don't give ****e

Squarewave

Peter Curtin's show is very good, I wouldn't listen to anything else on it though. It has a target audience and it offers that target audience what they want. If you don't fit into that target audience then don't listen.

Ryan2me

well apparently I do fit their 15-34 year olds ( I'm 20), I just find that the station has crap presenters who have the personality of a leaf.
Spin 1038 in Dublin has the same target audience and I could listen to them no bother, it's just the South west one is actually useless, the presenters have no enthusiasm

marno21

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Hit 30 na H-Eireann (if it's the same one I'm thinking of with Donál Ó Dábhín) is the official Irish chart that a lot of regional stations use at the weekend for two hours of virtually free content.

The one that Spin SW broadcast is customised for Spin SW cause the presenter (Daithi O Daibhin) makes on air references to the Spin SW website. Seeing as Daithi presents his own show on Spin1038, it makes sense that a customised one is made for both stations.

The other one (Top 40 Oifigiuil na hEireann), that's syndicated across other stations is a seperate show, and is identical across stations like RedFM and Beat, and no station references are made.

Chavways wrote:

Spin South West should be taken off the air and never spoken about again,it is so bad. Truly horrible. Have you ever listened to it?

Spin SW has a market to cater for and caters for it pretty well. Its a music based station and its listeners want music, which it provides.

If it was taken off the air tomorrow, the majority of its service area would have no service to cater for the 15-34 market.

If you don't like Spin SW, simple, don't listen. There are several stations being broadcast in each area for a reason.

Chavways

I'm 18 and every time I listen to it I feel like I'm losing intelligence.

wnolan1992

marno21 wrote: »

The one that Spin SW broadcast is customised for Spin SW cause the presenter (Daithi O Daibhin) makes on air references to the Spin SW website. Seeing as Daithi presents his own show on Spin1038, it makes sense that a customised one is made for both stations.

The other one (Top 40 Oifigiuil na hEireann), that's syndicated across other stations is a seperate show, and is identical across stations like RedFM and Beat, and no station references are made.

Ah fair enough, cheers for that. Have to admit I've only ever heard the Top 30 in passing on Spin.


One thing I will praise about Spin SW, whatever they use to transmit provides way more bass than most other stations. And their dance music shows are pretty good to give them their dues.

Skuxx

Ryan2me wrote: »

Don't even get me started about Nessa Harney or self proclaimed Horny Harney. That woman, supposed to be doing a "most music " request show (TRL) spends more than adequate time bullsh**ting about how she shaved her armpits that day and they were really smooth. Also referenced a text to "say hi to the lads" asked them to text back in and if "they were wearing much clothes".

I'm not a big fan of the station, but I have to admit I love listening to Nessa Harney, she's about the only one on any of the radio stations who is bubbly and a bit of craic! She might not talk about the most complex issues, but if that's what I want I'd listen to Rte 1!!
That Spin talk show on weekday lunchtimes is completely dire, Id rather have the radio off than listen to that sh1t!!

Ryan2me

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alan1990 wrote: »

I'm not a big fan of the station, but I have to admit I love listening to Nessa Harney, she's about the only one on any of the radio stations who is bubbly and a bit of craic! She might not talk about the most complex issues, but if that's what I want I'd listen to Rte 1!!
That Spin talk show on weekday lunchtimes is completely dire, Id rather have the radio off than listen to that sh1t!!

There's complex issues and there's talking about shaving her armpits, burping on air, telling the listeners she loves notebooks then preceding to count them out on air.. she got to 7. Her conversation is base at best.
And that spin talk show.. by God it's car crash radio, instead of having a topic that would be beneficial for the listeners they discuss, "what have you found behind the back of the couch" or " do you shave your body hair", not that I want upper class RTE topics discussed but, seriously they could have something that is a little more riveting.

Ryan2me

Chavways wrote: »

I'm 18 and every time I listen to it I feel like I'm losing intelligence.

Couldn't have put it better myself ! !

marno21

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Ah fair enough, cheers for that. Have to admit I've only ever heard the Top 30 in passing on Spin.


One thing I will praise about Spin SW, whatever they use to transmit provides way more bass than most other stations. And their dance music shows are pretty good to give them their dues.

Spin SW's audio is processed differently to many other stations, it's processed to be VERY loud, which is beneficial in parts of Cork (where I am), where the weaker signal isn't a susceptible to noise and sounds cleaner.

The award for the best processing among the youth stations has to go to Beat 102 103, in North Cork it's relatively hard to pick up but sounds very nice.

And that spin talk show.. by God it's car crash radio, instead of having a topic that would be beneficial for the listeners they discuss, "what have you found behind the back of the couch" or " do you shave your body hair", not that I want upper class RTE topics discussed but, seriously they could have something that is a little more riveting.

I agree with that statement, and the fact is that they'd get rid of that show in an instant if they could, but as long as the BCI speech rule applies, they will have to have a talk show like that, and by the looks of it, they don't really give a toss about it and it's scheduled for when the majority of listeners are in school etc.

highlydebased

Spin has become truly awful as of late. They seem to have a few new presenters on who seem to do an awful lot of humming and hawwing over the names of the same few songs they play over and over.

Ryan2me

highlydebased wrote: »

Spin has become truly awful as of late. They seem to have a few new presenters on who seem to do an awful lot of humming and hawwing over the names of the same few songs they play over and over.

Ya agree with that

end of the road

they have club educate on at the weekends, that and their other dance shows are okay musically all though their presenters are good. the rest is carcrash radio, i'm in their targit audience but technically not in their broadcast area but can pick up their transmitter on 94.7 very clear.

Ryan2me

Yeah , a lot of people tend to like those type of shows but personally, not my cup of tea.

smurfs5

I can't understand why they don't take Indie Disco from SPIN 1038. I think it is the best specialist show on 1038 and the presenter, Claire O' Dowd is excellent at finding great new music for the show.

MyOpinion

Ryan2me wrote: »

well apparently I do fit their 15-34 year olds ( I'm 20), I just find that the station has crap presenters who have the personality of a leaf.
Spin 1038 in Dublin has the same target audience and I could listen to them no bother, it's just the South west one is actually useless, the presenters have no enthusiasm

You were the same guy giving out about news, dublin accents etc. then you say you prefer listening to dublin???
Yes they have the same target audience but they are different markets (so in a way its a different audience)
Then you say the presenters have the personality of a leaf? Dude, go listen to some local radio around ireland. you'll soon take that comment back.
They have bags of personality-your just pissed that your not working there.

end of the road

MyOpinion wrote: »

your just pissed that your not working there.

or maybe he just doesn't like the presenters. doesn't mean he is jealous or pissed because he isn't working there.

MyOpinion

end of the road wrote: »

or maybe he just doesn't like the presenters. doesn't mean he is jealous or pissed because he isn't working there.

he sounds like he has a chip on his shoulder.
either he didnt get a job there or they didnt play his song and he's still annoyed!
There's lots of choice out there. if you dont like it then turn off!!
what's funny is for a boy who HATES the station so much, he sure listens quiet a bit with his quotes of various presenters and indepth views on everything relating to spin south west.

If you hate it then why do you listen TW?

madmuffin

MyOpinion wrote: »

he sounds like he has a chip on his shoulder.
either he didnt get a job there or they didnt play his song and he's still annoyed!
There's lots of choice out there. if you dont like it then turn off!!
what's funny is for a boy who HATES the station so much, he sure listens quiet a bit with his quotes of various presenters and indepth views on everything relating to spin south west.

If you hate it then why do you listen TW?

Haha I have to say Im enjoying these posts, Sur if he didn't listen he would have nothing to give out about, for someone who hates it he looks like he has done a project on SPIN.

TBF SPIN SW is a station for 15 to about 30 not 15-90 whether ya like it or not the Stations figures seem to be doing quite well, presenters sound fine to me can't really say anything much about that and as for the music is that not what SPIN is about Chart no??

goldensyrup

I don't really know where i stand on spin SW. On one hand I actually think Antoinette Gleeson was quite good as a presenter. but then on the other hand i HATED the 5 word weather, irritating american accents, and the news, last week Aras an Uachtaran was actually referred to as "the presidents big gaff", also I have to turn of the radio anytime nessa harney comes on. I listened to a few of her shows and found her presenting style to actually be nauseating. the pitch of her voice is very irritating. the first 5-10 minutes of the show is usually a round up of her day where she says things like "God I had such a craving for curry today....so I got a takeaway.....I ate it all *suppressed burp*...... Now i feel very bloated and gassy........*another burp, unsuppressed this time* God im so embarrassed...Im blushing....