Non-Stop 90's

Funnyonion79

Ah I loved this station! It was the soundtrack to my teenage years!

Rock Solid

Funnyonion79 wrote: »

Ah I loved this station! It was the soundtrack to my teenage years!

It's not the end ...

Lovely Bloke

Rock Solid wrote: »

It's not the end ...

It's not over, not over, not over, not over yet.

Pulse played that as their very last song back in the day.

Lovely Bloke

jaysis, just looking at the facebook page, I didn't realise Terry Fitz was on the air there.

That's a proper blast from the past, he was in my school, few years ahead of me, I remember him going on Blind Date

Infoanon

Lovely Bloke wrote: »

It's not over, not over, not over, not over yet.

Pulse played that as their very last song back in the day.

Was the last song on Pulse not a Michael Jackson song with Tony Dixon the on air presenter ?

JDxtra

"Not over yet" was used in the closedown promo.

hustlergraham

I remember hearing an ad on the station by a famous car dealership, that's played on the licenced stations. Then thinking to myself, well it won't be long before they go. They must have been making a fortune.

It was a great station. The jingles were cool also. From what I hear they are just going to be online only. Which is not so bad. I'd still tune in anyhow.

They've put a post on Facebook today, reporting that they've expanded to Dundalk, Drogheda and Sligo. As well as a shortwave frequency! Doesn't sound like a station that's closing in a week!

hustlergraham

Karsini wrote: »

They've put a post on Facebook today, reporting that they've expanded to Dundalk, Drogheda and Sligo. As well as a shortwave frequency! Doesn't sound like a station that's closing in a week!

True, but just for this week only. Close on FM is October 31st.

JDxtra

Going down in a blaze of glory is the phrase I heard today...

StaticNoise

In fairness, well done to the guys on their temporary expansion.
As it says on their Facebook page:

107.1 FM Dublin City & Country
104.2 FM Across the North East (Dundalk/Drogheda)
87.7 FM Across the North West (Sligo)
6205 KHz SW Across Ireland & UK
Smart phone apps.

Proper work and dedication being put in by these guys!

dxman105

Also on Medium Wave. Blaze of glory would be right

Rock Solid

dxman105 wrote: »

Also on Medium Wave. Blaze of glory would be right

99.5 NINETIES in Dublin

PL259

Why are so many stations relaying the 90s? There the reason there's been so much trouble over the last few months, All the other Dublin pirates are off today because of them. They got greedy and that's it in a nutshell.

When they came on air first they were great & doing something nobody else was doing.
There downfall was when they changed the music policy to play songs that were played on mainstream radio.

Kensington

PL259 wrote: »

Why are so many stations relaying the 90s? There the reason there's been so much trouble over the last few months, All the other Dublin pirates are off today because of them. They got greedy and that's it in a nutshell.

When they came on air first they were great & doing something nobody else was doing.
There downfall was when they changed the music policy to play songs that were played on mainstream radio.

Wouldn't call it greed, more trying to get as much exposure to their cause as they can before they go off FM fully - which in fairness they do have a very good point to make... A number of stations (including Phantom) carried out a similar exercise in the immediate days after "Black Tuesday" back in 2003.

I don't think they're necessarily going about their whole cause the right way though... especially over on their Facebook page. Some very deliberately provoking posts against other stations and a fairly big ranting episode against some unknown radio station some weeks back (some of which has since been deleted).

That sort of carry on will really undermine their case if they do go before the BAI and ComReg and attempt to convince both that they're a professional operating outfit worthy of an FM license...

JDxtra

Hearing reports of Ninties on... Virgin Media!

Infoanon

JDxtra wrote: »

Hearing reports of Ninties on... Virgin Media!

Channel 935....

TallGlass

Infoanon wrote: »

Channel 935....

Anyone able to get a picture of that. Brilliant !

So they got a visit last Friday from ComReg. I can't understand why 4FM give such a ****, there a multi city operator! If there caring about a pirate in Dublin, then I seriously worry for that station.

I'll be downloading the app and plugging it into the aux in the car, there music really is what I like.

Mike O' Brien

Found the last 20 minutes very unprofessional for a professional set up. Sounded like they were throwing their toys from the pram. Then again I would say that!!

dxman105

I thought it was a brilliant way to go out. Things were kept very professional right up to the end. Nice to see passing mentions of other unlicenced operators and old 80s superpirates. They made these points but did not rant about it, it was done to a normal non anoraky audience. Jingles great until the very last. They have made Irish radio history.

Infoanon

Mike O' Brien wrote: »

Found the last 20 minutes very unprofessional for a professional set up. Sounded like they were throwing their toys from the pram. Then again I would say that!!

Their closedown was no different to Novas in 83 or Kiss in 94 - I would not call those closedowns unprofessional ,respect was shown to Comreg and if offence was taken at the comment re the current classic hits thats unfortunate but perhaps their annoyance with said station is understandable ??

There were 2 comments in the last 20 minutes - one which would go over most listeners heads and the classic hits comment - unprofessional ? Not in my opinion

JDxtra

A recording of the last few hours here:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34071375/NSN_Final.mp3

Note: it's a copy of the online stream, which can suffer from some skipping (FM was not affected).

end of the road

a brilliant close down, and the truth was spoken. i certainly had a huge smile on my face at the end.
the station joins the list of pro pirates who brought something different to the air. hopefully it's listeners who would have listened via fm will continue to do so online where and when possible, and the lads will keep things going.
they may have been got rid of from the fm but the people are waking up to the fact that they are being provided little to nothing of value by those stations moaning about the likes of non stop 90s.

Indie Dancer

Who was their American VO guy?

Dublins anorak

I only got to listen back to the closedown now was unable on Monday what a finish To a very professional sounding station well done guys one of the best closedowns in recent years by Broadcasting in various locations around the country and worldwide frequencies what a great achievement. Mentioning some of the great stations of past and some of the poorest today radio in Dublin is like they said full of the same content with them all watching what each other are doing 90s in my option brought originality back to Dublin radio wish them all the best in the license application will listen to the app from here on in Definitely

They're still playing the closedown announcement on their online feed. Just heard it now.

Indie Dancer

Indie Dancer wrote: »

Who was their American VO guy?

Anyone?

TallGlass

Well, nearly one week in. My god, the most boring week of radio. All pirates off, 2FM about the most I have listened to. Local radio in Dublin is awful. 4FM doesn't even come close to what 90s was. Suppose I will get my online fix :pac:

Rock Solid

TallGlass wrote: »

Well, nearly one week in. My god, the most boring week of radio. All pirates off, 2FM about the most I have listened to. Local radio in Dublin is awful. 4FM doesn't even come close to what 90s was. Suppose I will get my online fix :pac:

99.5 Kiss Fm on.

DopeTech

Article by Enda Caldwell on thejournal.ie yesterday on the current state of Irish radio.

'Irish radio needs pirate stations - the rest are too middle-of-the-road' http://jrnl.ie/3063738

nullzero

FrostyJim wrote: »

Article by Enda Caldwell on thejournal.ie yesterday on the current state of Irish radio.

'Irish radio needs pirate stations - the rest are too middle-of-the-road' http://jrnl.ie/3063738

Now Non stop 90's Soulcity and TXFM are gone I'm tuning between Nova and 4fm trying to find something that isn't boring current gen music.
Why is it that all stations take their ad breaks at the same time? Christ, radio is boring now.

end of the road

FrostyJim wrote: »

Article by Enda Caldwell on thejournal.ie yesterday on the current state of Irish radio.

'Irish radio needs pirate stations - the rest are too middle-of-the-road' http://jrnl.ie/3063738

a very good article. non stop 90s seems to have made people realise what they could have if things were different. a pirate showed the legals up to be rubbish again, as a number have done before it and will do again.

as i said before it is really unfortunate that everyone can't experience online radio. more creativity and diversity then you can shake a stick at. once you go to online radio you will never look back at the nothingness of licenced radio in ireland. i don't even own an fm radio and haven't since 2012, i don't even miss having one.

Trick of the Tail

I hear that the real reason they closed was because certain individuals in legal stations, frustrated that they were losing listeners to NS90s and by ComReg's lack of action, started reporting the station's proprietors to the revenue and to their daytime employers.

Some of these people were pirates themselves until relatively recently.

Poacher turned gamekeeper, is the phrase that springs to mind.

end of the road

Trick of the Tail wrote: »

I hear that the real reason they closed was because certain individuals in legal stations, frustrated that they were losing listeners to NS90s and by ComReg's lack of action, started reporting the station's proprietors to the revenue and to their daytime employers.

Some of these people were pirates themselves until relatively recently.

Poacher turned gamekeeper, is the phrase that springs to mind.

I knew some of the legals were ranting but jesus that is an over reaction isn't it. i can't see these people's employers or revenue doing anything and rightly so.

Trick of the Tail

Well, maybe, maybe not.

Revenue might have been told (I'm speculating) that certain individuals were earning extra income from the station.

Certain of them may be employed in jobs where an illegal activity would be incompatible with their position. I'm speculating again.

Stirring the sh1t, basically.

TallGlass

Was listening and heard Niall Boylan 4FM ripping of the backing music firstly used by AK and JD used on the phone show, get it off your chest.

I used to like 4FM and in particular Niall, nothing against Niall but I won't be listening to 4FM ever again to be honest, after there carry on with 90s.

former total

Trick of the Tail wrote: »

I hear that the real reason they closed was because certain individuals in legal stations, frustrated that they were losing listeners to NS90s and by ComReg's lack of action, started reporting the station's proprietors to the revenue and to their daytime employers.

Some of these people were pirates themselves until relatively recently.

Poacher turned gamekeeper, is the phrase that springs to mind.

Sorry now but this is absolute bollocks.

Rock Solid

former total wrote: »

Sorry now but this is absolute bollocks.

It's all true, I know the people involved in 90s

former total

Rock Solid wrote: »

It's all true, I know the people involved in 90s

It's not really credible.

That <unnamed licensed station> somehow found out where the 90s staff were working in their day jobs, phoned up and said "one of your employees is spending his free time at a pirate station".

That itself is not credible, what's even less credible is that the employers would care.

I'm annoyed that 90s is gone too, but this is nonsense.

Trick of the Tail

It's totally credible - it's no secret in radio circles who the main proponents of NS90s were.

And some employers do care that their employees are engaged in illegal activities, in case, for example, a possible prosecution might bring adverse publicity to them.

No stretch in credibility at all, especially as it's true.

Fuzzy Clam

former total wrote:

That somehow found out where the 90s staff were working in their day jobs, phoned up and said "one of your employees is spending his free time at a pirate station".

former total wrote:

That itself is not credible, what's even less credible is that the employers would care.

former total wrote:

I'm annoyed that 90s is gone too, but this is nonsense.

former total wrote:

It's not really credible.

Its very credible.
The radio world is very small and the connection between pirates and legal station is tight.
There are a couple of ex pirates in legal radio who would anything they can to destroy the pirates today.

JDxtra

Whatever happened, or whom ever wanted them gone - it has worked. Pirates in Dublin are largely obliterated. I'm sure they'll creep back over time as always.

Trick of the Tail

Well since ComReg are largely doing nothing about the Pirates, I guess some of the legals have decided to take action themselves, by whatever means possible.

Probably more efficacious than ComReg, actually.

Infoanon

Trick of the Tail wrote: »

Well, maybe, maybe not.

Revenue might have been told (I'm speculating) that certain individuals were earning extra income from the station.

Certain of them may be employed in jobs where an illegal activity would be incompatible with their position. I'm speculating again.

Stirring the sh1t, basically.

Revenue would not need to be told by a licenced station - they are very active and very capable of making their own enquiries.

What I found odd was the allegation that jamming on FM was going to commence - it has not been denied by the licenced station,

As for COMREG and lack of action - I would imagine that they are very aware of where FM sites are located and can take action when they want to - as most stations tend to close with the minimum of COMREG interference why would they(COMREG) waste valuable resources in raiding stations.

COMREGs recent activity can be attributed to (imho) - TX FMs closure, complaints from licenced stations, the success of non stop 90s and the advertising allegedly been lost by the legals in the run up to the Christmas period.

TallGlass

Infoanon wrote: »

COMREGs recent activity can be attributed to (imho) - TX FMs closure, complaints from licenced stations, the success of non stop 90s and the advertising allegedly been lost by the legals in the run up to the Christmas period.

Absolutely cringe-worthy reading this, am I right in saying we are in the year 2016?

I would not put it past the so called 'legal' stations. For example Adrian K/Jeremy, been whipped off air on FM104 because he was in talks to move to 98FM then been basically handed a ban by FM104 to work on air for 6 months with garden leave I think it was called.

I suppose its not bad that there is some regulation in radio, as some of these 'legal' stations sound like they would fill up a jerry can down the local Topaz with a 10er petrol if you get where I am going with this one. Disgraceful.

marsbar1

end of the road wrote: »

FrostyJim wrote: »

Article by Enda Caldwell on thejournal.ie yesterday on the current state of Irish radio.

'Irish radio needs pirate stations - the rest are too middle-of-the-road' http://jrnl.ie/3063738

a very good article. non stop 90s seems to have made people realise what they could have if things were different. a pirate showed the legals up to be rubbish again, as a number have done before it and will do again.

as i said before it is really unfortunate that everyone can't experience online radio. more creativity and diversity then you can shake a stick at. once you go to online radio you will never look back at the nothingness of licenced radio in ireland. i don't even own an fm radio and haven't since 2012, i don't even miss having one.

Online radio is nothing. You need a unlimited data plan (very expensive) , you have to faff with a mobile and plug it into your car radio. 90s success would never have happened if it wasn't on FM. Now its off FM and online only they might as well not bother. This is not some anoraky statement - it's the way things are in 2016 and are likely to be for many years to come. FM is real radio. Digital (inc DAB) is not.

end of the road

marsbar1 wrote: »

Online radio is nothing. You need a unlimited data plan (very expensive) , you have to faff with a mobile and plug it into your car radio.

it's a small problem but data plans are going to get cheeper and technology will become easier.

marsbar1 wrote: »

90s success would never have happened if it wasn't on FM. Now its off FM and online only they might as well not bother.

why. should all the other online stations shut up shop as well? after all they aren't on fm, so they may as well not bother, right?

marsbar1 wrote: »

FM is real radio. Digital (inc DAB) is not.

radio is real radio. whether it is fm or online or digital.

TallGlass

marsbar1 wrote: »

Online radio is nothing. You need a unlimited data plan (very expensive) , you have to faff with a mobile and plug it into your car radio. 90s success would never have happened if it wasn't on FM. Now its off FM and online only they might as well not bother. This is not some anoraky statement - it's the way things are in 2016 and are likely to be for many years to come. FM is real radio. Digital (inc DAB) is not.

Online radio is not nothing and real radio is online in various forms of media not FM. What's stopping online stations from reaching the masses is let's face it car manufacturers sticking with cheaper FM units for cars, but this will change and as the car becomes part of the IOT (internet of things) you'll soon find FM been decimated and it won't be long then until mobile operators are bidding for licences to use the spectrum for what ever geneation of mobile network is needed.

TallGlass

And just to back up my post above you can see what the likes of Netflix, Amazon etc.. have done to traditional TV they have whipped the floor with the traditional thinking. Sooner the better IMO, you might find RTE and the likes breaking a the steams and becoming content only suppliers to Netflix and the likes, just hopefully the tax payers finally get a release from that gravy train.

TV3 is doing well now, but not so long ago it was nearly turning into a studio only setup for producing and selling it's content. The same will happen to FM.

marsbar1

I agree that traditonal broadcast TV is outdated. But you still need an internet connection, a fast one at that. And netflix is not free. You can't compare changes in TV to radio. To be successful, radio needs to be free at the point of delivery and until your mobile internet is unlimited and cheap, the idea of internet radio competing with FM radio is decades away. There is no sign of this happening, in the past few years unlimited data plans or even generous ones have been disappearing fast and going up in price. They used to be 10 euro a month, they are now more like 50. That is not going in the right direction.

You might like to fantasise that your internet station is a success but your dreams you describe are decades away with no sign at the monent of ever happening. FM is king.