Has Today FM Gone Down The Toilet?

You would have been listening to the Classic 9 @ 11 which has run for donkeys years. The premise is that the hour is themed around a certain year and you guess which year it is.

The presenter would be Stephen Daly who isn’t putting on a voice. You can see from his social content that that’s just how he talks.

I would argue he’s one of the better presenters at the station. He plays the music and doesn’t try to do content for contents sake.

You were very fortunate to avoid the relentless reminders to throw your money at them for the "Cash Machine"

Ian Dempsey in the morning is like a robot he is that formulaic. A simple 2 minute segment dragged out across a half hour and several ad breaks.

It was good back when John Kelly was on, I remember the week he left when he was practically having a nervous breakdown because they were trying to turn him more mainstream. The slot after him also used to be good but now it's all dreadful. Couldn't listen to a single thing before 5pm, real knuckle dragger territory.

The only thing worth listening to is the drive time slot in the evening which is better than the insufferable Radio One news slot.

Yes, that was when it was good.

If it makes anyone feel better, FM radio is the same old drivel everywhere.

You tend to hear the same collection of songs on music stations if you listen all day. Whoever picks the playlists get all the most popular ones, and get them played ad nauseum.

So you get Sia, Dua Lipa, Ed Sheeran, Dermot Kennedy, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo etc...plus the new golden boy, Cian Ducrot.

The thing that I'd find annoying about that, can give you 2 examples.

1) when we had Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush in the playlists due to Stranger Things. We had every dj tell us how amazing she was, they played the song to death. Then few weeks later, gone. And haven't heard another Kate Bush track since on Daytime radio.

2) basically same as above, this time for Sinead O'connor. She died and they fell over themselves to say how she was a once in a generation singer songwriter, how she changed irish music. They talked and talked about her for a week, played a lot of her great catalogue of music. Couple of weeks later, gone too. Haven't heard her played on day time radio much since.

One of the most popular stations in Dublin, Sunshine, has a varied playlist. And just one Ed Sheeran song in the last couple of hours. I would like to know how people can listen to dozens of stations for hours every day to come up with the stuff which is being claimed here?

https://irishradiolive.com/sunshine-106-8/playlist

I would have said its one of the least varied playlists. Sunshine a year ago sounds the same to Sunshine today. The same Michael Buble, Ed Sheeran, Adele songs on repeat.

You must be a dedicated listerner. They know a good formula, similar to BBC Radio 2.

The same 15 every hour.

But you secretly.............."love the show ".....eh 🤣

He is awful tho...fully agree with your urge to swerve into traffic

I usually turn switch to moncrieff or else turn off radio

If anyone is bored, or just open minded, install the Radio Garden App and using the map listen to any Radio station from anywhere in the world.

I have a soft spot for Italian pop or US college rock, but it can take a few taps before I find a station playing them.

As regards the OP's Today FM topic, Matt is the only one I'd listen to during drive time. Although I still miss Eamo from that slot and it took me a while to accept Matt.

@josip - good call on Radio Garden. There is a great variety there, including some good online Irish stations.

@squonk - not sure why you did not put your original post on the existing Today FM thread, rather than opening a new thread.

Someone from today fm must be reading boards!

I made about 4 trips in the car yesterday and twice I heard Sinead O’Connor songs on today fm.

I'm under the impression Pam Joyce doesn't want to continue with radio at all. Today FM is a national station so they could have easily let her do a show from a Galway studio.

The radio down the toilet isn’t the issue.

It’s the flushing that is too short to improve the sound of it.

Why can Today FM not get the audio levels correct for those giving traffic or sports reports? Drives me crazy that that their voice is so low when they first come on air and then is gradually increases.

It sounds like they are Harry Potter working under the stairs trying to keep quiet.

“Ahh sure, leave it to the audio processor to take care it” seems to be the approach taken. Has been happening for months if not longer.

I still see ads for 2FM and Today FM. And PJ and Jim on Radio Nova. And 98FM.