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  • 07-03-2002 1:41pm
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    ZoneMan
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    Legal Rock Station for Dublin...is it next?

    Posted by Peter on March 6, 2002, 4:10 pm

    Is it now about time that Dublin and for that matter all major cities in the Republic had a decent Legal Rock/Alternative Station. Most major cities in other countries have this format fully catered for in legal stations. Based on the previous round of special interest licenses sought after in Dublin, rock and alternative music was significantly represented, particularly by Phantom FM. Indeed in alot of US markets of similar size to Dublin, this format is extremely popular and commercially viable.

    With X-fm and the Zone playing similar types of music, and programmes like Tom Dunne, and Donal Dineen on Today FM and the FM104 Sunday rock programme increasing in their popularity, isn't it about time that this music genre was properly catered for in a special interest license for Dublin?


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    SimonMaher
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    Evening,

    Amen to that! It really does seem that we are slipping behind in many radio formats at this stage and the Rock format is amoung the most obvious of those. Beats the hell out of all of us as to why the overlords in the BCI are unwilling to fill it.

    At the moment though, the likes of Phantom, X and more recently, the musically pleasing Zone on 102.5 are doing a good job of filling that particular gap.

    Just have to keep pushing that door!

    Regards,

    Pete Reed
    Phantom FM


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    Brian OD
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    Great post indeed but you are not the author of it. I think it would have been nice if credit had been given to the forum it was stiolen from!


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    ZoneMan
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    Apologies,

    The post came from Radiowaves.FM site.

    The responses were interesting. One view was that the popularity of rock/alternative music in legal radio is falling (i.,e Fanning, Tom Dunne and Dineen jnlr numbers) and that this format has already been tried before and failed with Capitol Radio's change in format to Rock 104. I don't believe Rock 104 was ever a genuine attempt to cater for this genre.

    Moreover according to the Grammy figures for music genre's, Rock/Alternative music sales are way up there. This is what many people are now buying and listening to. Not alone that but many alternative music acts have already broken into the mainstream (Linkin Park, the Offspring, Blink 182 etc).

    I agree with Pete wholeheartedly, the increase in stations and programmes on legal radio pushes the door even further. After all, the advent of Sunset, Pulse and the plethora of Dance stations collectively pushed the door open for legal dance radio with the impending arrival of Spin.


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