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giveitholly

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Dermot and Dave another week off, seriously what's the point of having a show. That's literally 4 weeks off, and a few days aswell taken off since Christmas.

And to take that head wrecker off her own show to replace them is a terrible idea, her nonsense is hard enough to listen to her in he afternoon. This station is going downhill quickly and I think it'll be too late before they realise it

+1

adr_sullivan

Ursus Horribilis wrote: »

I went into shows and it was still there.

Appearing as a blank page for me now


https://www.todayfm.com/The-Sunday-Business-Show/listen-back

Ursus Horribilis

adr_sullivan wrote: »

Appearing as a blank page for me now


https://www.todayfm.com/The-Sunday-Business-Show/listen-back

Same here. I listened back last night and the page must've still be cached on my phone when I checked earlier. It'll be like the show never existed on the station. Hopefully it'll do well as a podcast.

EPAndlee

I'm sure Dermot & Dave are entitled to days off like the rest of us. Surely it makes more sense to put in someone like Claire Beck in for Dermot & Dave

Ultimate Seduction

EPAndlee wrote: »

I'm sure Dermot & Dave are entitled to days off like the rest of us. Surely it makes more sense to put in someone like Claire Beck in for Dermot & Dave

Of course, but they are literally taking a week off every month since Christmas. If it's not both of them it's one Not ideal for national radio.

threein99

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Of course, but they are literally taking a week off every month since Christmas. If it's not both of them it's one Not ideal for national radio.

EPAndlee

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Of course, but they are literally taking a week off every month since Christmas. If it's not both of them it's one Not ideal for national radio.

I know I would do that if I could get away with it

Ultimate Seduction

threein99 wrote: »

I'm not wrong.

threein99

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

I'm not wrong.

Whether you are wrong or right doesn't bother me, what baffles me more is why would you care so much if two lads off the radio who you don't seem to like take time off ?

Ultimate Seduction

threein99 wrote: »

Whether you are wrong or right doesn't bother me, what baffles me more is why would you care so much if two lads off the radio who you don't seem to like take time off ?

I do like the show. I just can't understand why or how they take so much time off. Then they seem to just wing it with replacements. I don't recall any other presenters on any station take as much if any time off.

Prime time radio too

Itssoeasy

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

I do like the show. I just can't understand why or how they take so much time off. Then they seem to just wing it with replacements. I don't recall any other presenters on any station take as much if any time off.

Prime time radio too

RTÉ radio 1 on line one.

Ultimate Seduction

Itssoeasy wrote: »

RTÉ radio 1 on line one.

That is one station I don't think I've ever listened to apart from the hurling once or twice a year.


Who did the 12-2 slot today?

statto25

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Itssoeasy wrote: »

RTÉ radio 1 on line one.

That is one station I don't think I've ever listened to apart from the hurling once or twice a year.


Who did the 12-2 slot today?

Paula McSweeney

Ultimate Seduction

statto25 wrote: »

Paula McSweeney

So 3 shows messed around because 1 goes on holidays. Seems to be that they wouldn't run a lemonade stall never mind a national radio station.

statto25

statto25 wrote: »

Paula McSweeney

it got worse than Muireann

johnire

Not possible.

Esme Faithful Locomotive wrote: »

it got worse than Muireann

Itssoeasy

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

That is one station I don't think I've ever listened to apart from the hurling once or twice a year.


Who did the 12-2 slot today?

It still doesn't mean that the fact you said today fm presenters take more time off that any other station isn't correct.

Radio5

Is Ed Smith replacing Louise Duffy for the duration of her leave or will it be week by week I wonder.

Sad to see the Sunday Business Show gone. They seem to be going all out for 'personality' radio now.

BPKS

Radio5 wrote: »

Is Ed Smith replacing Louise Duffy for the duration of her leave or will it be week by week I wonder.

Sad to see the Sunday Business Show gone. They seem to be going all out for 'personality' radio now.

A few years ago they had Sam Smyth on Sunday morning. In recent years they had the Business Show followed by Neil Delamere.

These were all grand easy listening shows for a Sunday morning - to have on in the car if you were going to a match or having in the background while you were reading the paper or making the Sunday morning fry.

I've more or less stopped listening to Today FM during weekdays now. I might tune in for a bit of The Last Word or Paul McCloone.

I wont bother tuning in on Sunday now until Eds Songs of Praise. I will listen to some of Block Rockin Beats and Kelly Ann Byrne on Saturday evenings if I'm in the car or at home.

10 years ago I would have listened to Today FM all weekdays and most weekends.

gamecube

The mission of Today FM management in 2018 is to put in presenters to make the station as s**te as possible

I just know what Mario's new Sunday show is going to be like before it evens starts

Plenty of rubbish Daniel O'Donnell impressions followed by Miriam o' Callaghan saying....genuinely!

The content of the station has nose dived big time in the past couple of years

Skid X

Sad to see the Sunday Business Show gone

I didn't listen to it every week (sometimes I wasn't in the humour for Conall O'Móráin's positivity at that hour of a Sunday) but it was different and it was an enjoyable show which presumably would have attracted an advertiser friendly audience.

His final show was passionate and demonstrated Conall's belief and enthusiasm in SMEs. He didn't criticise Today FM, save for one line about how linear talk radio is losing out to podcasts and the Internet. Passionate but professional to the end.

With every cull we lose passionate people like Conall who turn up every week because they believe in their show and their listeners. Radio is becoming more generic with every revamp and soon there won't be much left for anyone who thinks radio should be more than just background noise.

Ursus Horribilis

He also got in a dig at the show being cancelled at such short notice. Someone from the team is on his holidays at the moment and he said he wouldn't have expected the show to be cancelled while he was away. It'll be interesting to hear what the new podcast is like and how well it does in the online world.

The Mario Rosenstock idea sounds horrific, unless there are plans afoot to improve the content of the sketches. Is he trying to play catchup with Oliver Callan?

The Princess Bride

Radio5 wrote: »

Is Ed Smith replacing Louise Duffy for the duration of her leave or will it be week by week I wonder.

Yes, for all of her maternity leave.

No doubt he'll be on holidays at some point and they'll all swap around again.
Once upon a time it was Phil Cawley who seemed to be the filler-inner.

Doesn't make sense to disrupt so many shows just cos D&D on holidays.
Unless ... the bigger picture is to see the response to the different DJs in different slots to their own?
Paula Mac will be next for maternity leave, so another vacant slot in the autumn.

threein99

Muireann has been grand in the 9-12 slot this week, just shows the format of her show is pants

Ultimate Seduction

threein99 wrote: »

Muireann has been grand in the 9-12 slot this week, just shows the format of her show is pants

Na. She is pants. The whole station is pants but the idiots at work won't let me change the station

MikeyTaylor

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Na. She is pants. The whole station is pants but the idiots at work won't let me change the station

I agree. Dave Davin should have been given the slot. And as for Fergal Farcey, OH GOD. PLEASE. NO.

The Princess Bride

I happen to like Fergal and don't get the intense dislike some have for him here.

He's upbeat and friendly.
And he plays a lot of Irish bands.
I love switching on and hearing something new and good and then finding out more about them. There's a few young Irish bands I'd never have heard of, if it wasn't for Ferg.

(And I'm late 40s too, so not quite ready for the Sunday Miscellany pipe and slippers melancholic music just yet, despite assumptions.)


Kelly Anne Byrne is fab, Louse Duffy can be good too, I still listen to Ian in the mornings although Gift Grub can be hit and miss.
I'm not a huge fan of Muireann but the great thing about radio is the ability to switch channels easily.

Ultimate Seduction

Fergal is grand but I hate how often he puts on that deep voice, really irritating but I put up with it. The girl on 2fm at the same time is better I think, love pump up the slump.

johnire

That voice- yes!!!! It’s so so irritating. I call it a growl and I really just don’t get why he does it. It’s so unnecessary and sounds ridiculous.

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Fergal is grand but I hate how often he puts on that deep voice, really irritating but I put up with it. The girl on 2fm at the same time is better I think, love pump up the slump.

Breaston Plants

threein99 wrote: »

Muireann has been grand in the 9-12 slot this week, just shows the format of her show is pants

She is terrible, absolutely brutal.