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I might be understanding of this if it was a big name and the show was four hours long but when the show is so short, it’s hard to justify. The likelihood of the same people hearing the interview twice is very high

Lots of gaps in their schedule these days, with shows not having what seems to be a permanent DJ - judging from their official website/listings. Is there a shortage of presenters out there?

Was looking for some details, and found this news piece from 2015. Not much stuff lasts on this channel at the weekends at all.

I thought the schedule was full again now? It’s all over the place sure, but it’s full

The radio would often be put on when getting the kids ready for school in the morning, and I notice this past week that there is a massive push for the Gift Grub tour. Getting some amount of free advertising on Ians show.

He talks so much about GG over the years, I always assumed he had a financial stake in it, rather than being the presenter of the show its on.

....with the agreement beforehand that he won't do an impression of Ray.

The algorithm really needs a good kick up the hole. Meh chart songs mixed with meh chart songs from 2003 does not make for good listening.

All musical integrity is lost in the station, apart from the 2 hours of glorious tunes from Ed Smith and Claire becks Irish show on a Sunday. there is only so much daytime music people can listen to. Surely the cash machine has drummed up enough cash to get a txfm station going again? Or maybe just Ed playing constantly 24/7? That would sort everything out.

8 Radio - https://8radio.com/ - is working for me. Occasionally on FM, always online - it's been doing great for me as an alternative when Ray Foley comes on, or before Ed starts.

I can't stick the Ray Foley show - fog horns and singing donkeys over and over again, and agree with the previous poster that the show hasn't changed since last time. I'd love to see Ed Smith get this slot.

When will I learn? Their show was on when I came back from lunch and instead of switching, I left them on. Only to have Foley talk across snippets of two Pulp songs. Though he was going to play Shatner's cover of Common People, but no, he talked over that, too. Lesson learned. Radio off, record player on. Foley is not more entertaining than Pulp - or Bill Shatner - whatever he thinks!

Anyone listen to Today XM lately? Might be just my browser but it’s repeating the same thing every 10 seconds or so (and not a standard today xm song) Iv tried it on 2 browsers on 1 computer, and on my phone, so I don’t think it’s isolated.

anyone else getting this problem?

Just tried it on the Today FM app. Got an ad for the Opel Grandland, twice, then a voiceover saying "What is this" over music, just repeating.

So she's gone back to the numbers that Mairead Ronan had up to March '21, during a time when everyone's figures dropped a good bit due to - as the 2FM bosses are saying in all the press releases - people going back to offices, post-Covid. Gaining or losing up to ~10,000 seems to be the norm for JNLRs.

Can't argue with a net gain of 15,000 over the six months for Ray Foley, though. Obviously the great Irish public's tastes are very different to me. I want music and a bit of light banter, maybe, in the background, while I work away - not f'n 'boing' sound effects like he was messing with today, had to mute the show during a phonecall. Thankfully I've found 8 Radio - now I just need to remember to switch to it every day after lunch!