TXFM (formerly much missed Phantom) line up

Twizzler

DavyD_83 wrote: »

Where would one find this survey?

I'm not telling you because I want to win the tickets myself

Nah, it's here: http://www.txfm.ie/player/blogs/921.922.946/469

Third_Echelon

Filled out the survey and gave it to them straight.... :P

DavyD_83

Twizzler wrote: »

I'm not telling you because I want to win the tickets myself

Nah, it's here: http://www.txfm.ie/player/blogs/921.922.946/469

Thanks,
Made me realise I genuinely barely listen to TXFM anymore. I'm not even aware of half the programs listed, let alone when they are on.
Somehow Spin & Newstalk seems to be what i listen to mostly in the car; when niether are interesting me, I'll flick to TX and almost always give up on it after less than 10 minutes.
I sometimes think things are OK, then bam I realise I've been tricked into listening to Joe Donnelly by tuning in during a decent song. Either he is on the station a LOT, or just in the times I find myself trying the station. feels like 90% of the time I try TX he is on (may only notice it cos he makes me change).
Also Nadine (Naddhhine O'Regan), her show is quite good, but can't hack the way she pronounces her name. And she seems to say her own name very frequently (again, may be a case of seeming more frequent due to how irritating it is)

paulbok

After doing that survey, I'm struck with the impression that TX may close down and become an online station

Max Headroom

paulbok wrote: »

After doing that survey, I'm struck with the impression that TX may close down and become an online station

hope not...that means we'll be stuck with Nova...........:(

Liam92

Listened to Claire's SOS thingy today from 1-2, which is meant to be an all-request hour. However, playlisted songs were played?!

Unless people actually request songs that are played to death, it sort of defeats the purpose of that request hour. Same goes for Claire O'Dowd's request show on Sundays, which is just playlisted music and the odd curveball thrown in.

Twizzler

Liam92 wrote: »

Listened to Claire's SOS thingy today from 1-2, which is meant to be an all-request hour. However, playlisted songs were played?!

Unless people actually request songs that are played to death, it sort of defeats the purpose of that request hour. Same goes for Claire O'Dowd's request show on Sundays, which is just playlisted music and the odd curveball thrown in.

Yeah, after a promising start I've given up on that SOS show!

While they're generally v good for playing your requests on the station if they have what you're looking for, I find a lot of the time they don't have it. To be fair they always play another song by the artist instead if they don't have your requested one, but I find the lack of some songs a bit strange...I requested a song from In Utero one day (not a controversial one) and they apparently didn't have it....didn't make much sense to me that a station like that wouldn't have In Utero in its entirety! Kinda like a supermarket not having Cornflakes, to my mind...it'd be one of the first staples of rock music albums that would come to mind for me. Not exactly obscure stuff.

But lookit, the station does also have positives and after my horrible experience with an hour of drive time Radio Nova last week, I've reverted to TX and will be keeping my radio tuned to it most of the time! I just hope they never decide to take calls from people driving home to ramble on about the weather. Or calls from people to ramble on about ANYTHING other than music.

Max Headroom

Twizzler wrote: »

Yeah, after a promising start I've given up on that SOS show!

While they're generally v good for playing your requests on the station if they have what you're looking for, I find a lot of the time they don't have it. To be fair they always play another song by the artist instead if they don't have your requested one, but I find the lack of some songs a bit strange...I requested a song from In Utero one day (not a controversial one) and they apparently didn't have it....didn't make much sense to me that a station like that wouldn't have In Utero in its entirety! Kinda like a supermarket not having Cornflakes, to my mind...it'd be one of the first staples of rock music albums that would come to mind for me. Not exactly obscure stuff.

But lookit, the station does also have positives and after my horrible experience with an hour of drive time Radio Nova last week, I've reverted to TX and will be keeping my radio tuned to it most of the time! I just hope they never decide to take calls from people driving home to ramble on about the weather. Or calls from people to ramble on about ANYTHING other than music.

Unfair to blame the dj's (in some cases) theyre generally told what to play....and its all down to adverts anyway, you might find that your track was too long to fill the slot....

The_Captain

They won't play the song depending on language. The station gets fined for on-air swearing I believe so anything inappropriate can't be played, and if they don't know the song, they mightn't take the chance

room_149

I'm no sound quality expert by any means, but has anyone noticed the poor audio on some of the tracks played during the day? I could have sworn Cathal Funge played 'Connected - Stereo MCs' via Youtube yesterday morning!
Joe Donnelly's gulity too- many of hip Hop tracks often sound like they are streamed/ ripped from the same source.
Before the Christmas I caught Claire Beck playing the Norman Cook remix of the Beastie Boys 'Body Movin' one afternoon and you could hear, clear as day, that she had clumsily yanked it from an old 'Heavenly Social' mix CD circa 1998/1999. Twas pretty comical as you could hear the DJ mixing in the next track (think it was an Adam Freeland one) throughout the last third of the tune & the turntable scratching throughout!!!! :D:D
It wasn't a listener request so she had no excuse to use a mix CD. A quick go on Google would have sourced a copy online somewhere or via Youtube like the other pair!!!!
They're a gas lot indeed

Twizzler

Max Headroom wrote: »

Unfair to blame the dj's (in some cases) theyre generally told what to play....and its all down to adverts anyway, you might find that your track was too long to fill the slot....

I'm not blaming them, but I do think it's pointless having a request show and then not having a lot of the songs requested or if they're being told what to play. It's only a half assed attempt at a request show then. Fair enough re the ads though, that could well be it. At least that station isn't one big ad fest...definitely not as many on it as on some other stations.

Twizzler

The_Captain wrote: »

They won't play the song depending on language. The station gets fined for on-air swearing I believe so anything inappropriate can't be played, and if they don't know the song, they mightn't take the chance

But there's no consistency in that because if you look at Chvrches - We Sink, there's an F word in line 8 and that song was played to death, and also in the Foo Fighters' Something from Nothing, the f word is in that song twice - so they should have racked up a serious bill for those two. Then they bleep it out in other songs...you couldn't miss the f word in songs that were played as much as those two were.

Max Headroom

Twizzler wrote: »

But there's no consistency in that because if you look at Chvrches - We Sink, there's an F word in line 8 and that song was played to death, and also in the Foo Fighters' Something from Nothing, the f word is in that song twice - so they should have racked up a serious bill for those two. Then they bleep it out in other songs...you couldn't miss the f word in songs that were played as much as those two were.

I think its a case of an allowance of profanities per day....

F this, F that, F your mother , get yer boll0x out of me face............:D


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English-language_euphemisms_for_profanities

whiskeyman

Just after 8pm on Sat, they got hit with a glitch and got stuck on a 'this is pogo radio' for well over a minute!!!

Every time I tune in, they seem to be having problems of some kind...

L1011

The_Captain wrote: »

The station gets fined for on-air swearing I believe

This isn't the US, so no, they don't.

ghostdancer

whiskeyman wrote: »

Just after 8pm on Sat, they got hit with a glitch and got stuck on a 'this is pogo radio' for well over a minute!!!

Every time I tune in, they seem to be having problems of some kind...

are they using different studios since the TXFM change does anyone know?
all the technical problems seem to be since then....

The_Captain

God the station is so so dull now.

"please text us"
*they read out the text with all the excitment as someone reading the instructions on wallpaper paste"
"thanks for your text, please text us"


For all their constant calls to text or tweet them, there's virtually no interaction between the presenters and the audience. Pretty much every other station in Dublin has audience members on-air over the phone talking to people or they at least discuss the messages they receive.

At this point in time, I think Joe is the best of a bad bunch. Cathal is good for mornings in the sense that you don't actually want to listen to a load of over-excited forced banter but it's still not exactly gripping stuff.
"Text in your request for song club. Up next, song club. Text in tomorrow for song club"

Vojera

To be honest, I've got my dial nearly permanently on Dublin City FM now, except for Anton Savage in the morning on Today FM. The music (and traffic updates) on Live Drive in the morning and evening are really good and there have been some interesting shows on during the day too. If there's something on I don't fancy I might stick on TXFM, or I might not. But I can't say I miss it at all.

The_Captain

Vojera wrote: »

To be honest, I've got my dial nearly permanently on Dublin City FM now, except for Anton Savage in the morning on Today FM. The music (and traffic updates) on Live Drive in the morning and evening are really good and there have been some interesting shows on during the day too. If there's something on I don't fancy I might stick on TXFM, or I might not. But I can't say I miss it at all.

I pretty much spend the day flicking between DCFM, TXFM and Radio na Life now

Twizzler

The_Captain wrote: »

God the station is so so dull now.

"please text us"
*they read out the text with all the excitment as someone reading the instructions on wallpaper paste"
"thanks for your text, please text us"


For all their constant calls to text or tweet them, there's virtually no interaction between the presenters and the audience. Pretty much every other station in Dublin has audience members on-air over the phone talking to people or they at least discuss the messages they receive.

At this point in time, I think Joe is the best of a bad bunch. Cathal is good for mornings in the sense that you don't actually want to listen to a load of over-excited forced banter but it's still not exactly gripping stuff.
"Text in your request for song club. Up next, song club. Text in tomorrow for song club"

I love Song Club as a feature, but yeah, you could pretty much write the script for what will be said when you tune in at any given time over the morning! I wonder is it really hard to get people to come on for Song Club or something when it has to be pushed that much....the mixtape thing is barely mentioned, but then they only need one person per week for that as opposed to five for Song Club. It's good that they have the mixtape people recorded now talking about their choices.


I wouldn't mind if they had people on more often talking about music, but ONLY music - I really don't want to hear people doing traffic/weather/general malarkey like on Nova.

room_149

Twizzler wrote: »

I wonder is it really hard to get people to come on for Song Club or something when it has to be pushed that much....the mixtape thing is barely mentioned, but then they only need one person per week for that as opposed to five for Song Club. It's good that they have the mixtape people recorded now talking about their choices.

I like Cathal's show on the main, but for some (still unknown) reason the 'Tale of the mixtape' feature irks the hell out of me!! Perhaps it down to those listeners coming across as being a little bit on the smug/ self satisfied side each morning or maybe its just me being a stupid krank!

Twizzler

I know I've said this before, but it really makes me laugh when Joe reads out the shxte texts from listeners. He read out one this evening from someone who said "You haven't a bloody clue...go off and play your Hozier records" and just the way he read it out make me burst my arxe laughing...I'm sure the others all get those kinds of texts too but they don't read them out. Maybe it was one of those "You had to be there" moments, but I found it very funny anyway - not what was said to him, just the way he reacted. At least he can laugh at himself!

The first birthday is coming up in March....wonder will they have any decent competitions running? Did anyone here win the survey tickets?!

Birneybau

The problem is he really doesn't have a clue compared to yer John Caddells and Richie McCormacks.

Also, that James Bay song is pure pop, surprised they haven't started playing Ed Sheeran.

Max Headroom

Its funnt how people either love or hate Joe....I find him easy to listen to, funny at times , whereas i cant stand Courtenay on Nova and NEVER listen to him , maybe i should never meet Joe....:)

The_Captain

To be fair, Joe makes it clear that he enjoys his metal. I get the feeling he's just playing what he's told to play and they probably aren't allowed to go on a "everything is crap except for Bob Dylan" style rant now.

It used to be great when you got bored in the afternoon and you could just start texting in requests to John to play Bon Jovi and hear him get wound up

There's an awful lot of Ed Sheeran esque stuff on now though.

Pudsy33

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that that James Bay song is the bane of my existence.

Twizzler

Pudsy33 wrote: »

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that that James Bay song is the bane of my existence.

They've just played it Not my thing either. Didn't mind it so much the first 100 times, but now....
Also very, very fed up of Bad Believer. It's the new Chvrches Dead Air.

Yeah, Joe is definitely an opinion divider. I personally really enjoy his show. He seems to randomly play songs I love too, like Sultans Of Ping Armitage Shanks and Leftfield Inspection (Check One) the other day. I'd imagine most of the presenters aren't too keen on a lot of the poppier playlisted songs either. They're probably slaves to the wage to an extent like the rest of us at the end of the day...I know I'd prefer to play a certain amount of records on the radio that I like and some that I don't like as much rather than do a lot of other jobs. We should remember too that the presenters survived the Phantom cull....I'm sure they're anxious to keep their jobs after witnessing the carnage in Feb 2014. I personally think they are all for the most part doing a good job. My quibbles are minor ones!

Liam92

It's as if TXFM do not know what their specific niche/genre is yet. You have the pop stuff like James Bay then the monotonous indie like The New Pornographers. Then they play the likes of AC/DC's last single and then they are treading on Nova's territory.

Whoever is the head of music needs to just sit down and choose a playlist that suits their musical modus operandi.

(Also, Paul Donegan needs to stop covering every single absent presenter's show. Surely there are others to fill in?? His niche is clearly more grunge/pop-rock and I think Nova would be more suited to his style of presenting.)

Twizzler

Tonight has been a good night. 45 mins of Physical Graffiti on Revolver, Sam from Interpol on Songs In The Key of Life (which I listened to yesterday, but left it on again tonight) and now the other side of Blur with Paul McCloone, which I hadn't heard before (it was broadcast yesterday). Excellent evening of tunes.

Max Headroom

Twizzler wrote: »

Tonight has been a good night. 45 mins of Physical Graffiti on Revolver, Sam from Interpol on Songs In The Key of Life (which I listened to yesterday, but left it on again tonight) and now the other side of Blur with Paul McCloone, which I hadn't heard before (it was broadcast yesterday). Excellent evening of tunes.

I listened to that interview with Sam.....I thought it was so typical when he told the story of meeting Bonio at a gig (which they were a support act) and Bonio didnt know who he was....i'm suprised he didnt have tha sh1t kicked out of him for getting so close to the God........:rolleyes: