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Why the scare quotes around "insult". You don't regard calling someone a dose as an insult?

Well if you can't be arsed reading what I've already stated, I can't be arsed answering your questions.

I imagine PussyHands was referring to the dedicated lengthy threads on this forum to the male presenters he mentioned. Considering that Today FM has a significant number of female presenters/contributors across the schedule I don't think its unusual that this particular thread may appear to be heavily critical of female presenters.

I'd largely agree with these aside from Alison Curtis. I'm sure she's a sound person but her voice, her laugh, etc, its not my cuppa. I think its a fairly basic requirement but if you work in radio presenting - your voice needs to be really very good and appeal to a wide audience. There's too many on radio with irritating voices/accents/dictation and Alison is one of them. For balance, Matt Cooper and his current stand-in Ian Guider are 2 more.

I also like Ray Foley and his sidekick JP. They're fun, the show is generally a good listen. Whenever there is someone standing in for him its never the same and I'm more inclined to tune out.

I'm a big fan of Ed Smith (I hate that he was moved to a later slot) and Dec Pierce is brilliant at what he does too - he's managed to create a great niche for himself on the station when he could have coasted along doing filler-in's.

You: States an opinion as fact.

Me: Shows you actual evidence your opinion is incorrect.

You: "If you want to believe that..."

How are you on climate change or US Presidential elections? (That's purely a rhetorical question, I think we've established by now what we're dealing with.)

Careful...complaining about a female radio presenter's voice/laugh, that's a paddling.

FWIW, Pamela Joyce is grand, far better than Muireann who used to do similar. Fergal D'Arcy, is/was a tool, thank god he's gone. Does that count as abuse? D&D I would also classify as doses, the pair of them. Automatic switch off radio time if they are on.

Do I get a free go to slag a female DJ now, or how does this scorecard work? Can I bookmark this and come back to it in a few weeks/months if required? I need some clarification on the rules here, getting lost in a sea of eternal persecution...

You must have read my mind with all your choices!! Really well put together.

So, who is currently involved with Today FM that has had previous involvement with pirate radio? The names I have come up with are: Ian Dempsey, Alison Curtis, Claire Beck, Ray Foley, Dec Pierce and (mainly behind the scenes as Assistant Controller of Programmes) John Caddell. So, still a few there, even after all the changes it has been through (Ray Foley returned after a number of years absence of course.) I'm not sure if there are any more.

Someone who worked their way up from radio courses, pirate radio, tea boy at a radio station, through the producer role, runner, traffic report reading, weekend show etc. Those are standard radio presenters.

Someone with thousands of social media followers, podcast listeners, YouTube subscribers etc before they've ever set foot in a radio studio and wouldn't know one end of a mixing desk from the other would be a content creator.

Was wondering why there was so many comments on this thread since I last looked at it.

Is calling somebody "a dose" now classed as abuse? Mad Ted.

The only Today FM presenters who don't make me instantly turn over from the station are Ian Dempsey, Pamela Joyce, Ray Foley, Ed Smyth, Claire Beck And Dec Pierce.

They're probably trialling it to see if it's as lucrative.

But Ian Dempsey, Claire Beck and Ed Smith all get called actual radio presenters.

As far as I’m aware, nobody on Today FM fits that “content creator” criteria. They all worked their way up?