Classic Hits 80s on Temporary FM Licence

All 80s is much better. It pops up on FM in Dublin every now and then. A lot of lesser known songs and a good few Irish ones too. I don't know of any other 80s station that plays Bagatelle and Johnny Logan.

I've had a listen to this 80s Station, it is a bit of the same songs that you would on other Oldies Stations. Interestingly since Classic Hits 80s went on air RTE Gold are now playing a lot more 80s songs than before.

Exceptionally disappointing so far , the same 80s hits on high rotation, they even managed to repeat the same Kim Wilde show at 10am on both Saturday and Sunday.

The objective is to raise the profile of Classic Hits 80s , the problem is that this is an online service in amongst many hundreds of '80 stations.

What is the usp of CH 80s , a missed opportunity imho

Though four of "the rest of the Christmas FM frequencies" would have expanded availability across the Classic Hits (ex 4FM) service areas: the two for 'commuter belt' areas of counties near Dublin (88.1/99.5), north Cork, and the one in Clare. A total of 8 transmitters of what XMAS used, though I presume 4 was a compromise.

It was the same weekend just gone... repeating the same Kim Wilde show. Whatever about repeating it say, Saturday morning and Sunday night, to repeat two mornings in a row is poor programming.

At least the "Now" albums have some lost classics on them

Regarding Now 80s TV channel mentioned above, some unusual stuff pops up on that, I flicked it on this evening and playing was 'The Chicken Song' !

It's Free To Air satellite but has to be manually tuned in on Sky boxes in ROI (not on EPG), search for tuning details

Another 80s music channel has recently appeared, also FTA, called That's 80s and a sister channel called That's 60s with 60s music. The ad breaks happen on both these at the same time with the same ads!

I heard them playing 19 by Paul Hardcastle yesterday which was a change.

Have heard Lionel Richie's 'All Night Long' every day.

For locations where it is very easy to have a radio , for example workplaces , but difficult to have access to a streaming device that could cover an entire area .

That's the way it has been used in my workplace the last month

Yep, it was only on a 30 day temporary FM licence so it's gone now. Still available online though.

Correct.

The Now albums simply reflected what was successful over a 4 month period. The tracklist was also determined by whoever EMI, Virgin and from late 80s, Polygram could licence. Whereas CBS, WEA and BMG ran the rival Hits franchise. Both series include plenty singles that were popular at the time but are rarely heard today. Unlike any Irish radio programme dedicated to the 1980s.

These all seem to operate from the same pool of predictable tracks with a serious amount of cherrypicking. I tried pitching a Forgotten 80s show to my local station and the response was “Maybe songs are forgotten for a reason”.