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  • #8162
    flazio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,199 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121343368#Comment_121343368

    Other jobs are available.

    Jessica Maciel seems happy out running that tattoo shop with her husband for example.



  • #8163
    ben.schlomo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,216 ✭✭✭✭ben.schlomo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121343368#Comment_121343368

    I doubt she'll be stuck for a job. Her personal happiness is obviously worth more to her.



  • #8164
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,873 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121343288#Comment_121343288

    She was single when she started the lunch time slot. Got herself a fella in Galway and then her priorities changes. I really hope she didn’t throw away a slot on TodayFM for love, that could end up blowing up in her face.



  • #8165
    ben.schlomo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,216 ✭✭✭✭ben.schlomo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121343672#Comment_121343672

    How do you know her priorities changed when she got a fella? How do you know it's not a decision she's been contemplating a while now?



  • #8166
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,873 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121343799#Comment_121343799

    I don’t know I’m speculating like everyone can only do as no reason was given. 👍🏻



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  • #8167
    flazio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,199 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121343811#Comment_121343811

    And no reason is owed. She's a private citizen, not a public servant.



  • #8168
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,873 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121344344#Comment_121344344

    I never said she did owe anyone a reason.



  • #8169
    siblers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,569 ✭✭✭✭siblers


    Does anyone know who the one is doing the entertainment slot on The Breakfast Show this week instead of Shona? She was on a few weeks back too, she's great craic on it



  • #8170
    Joeseph Balls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,710 ✭✭✭Joeseph Balls


    Shannon, not sure of her second name.

    Used to like Paula but maybe I'm getting old but she's hard on the ears now. Very loud and hyper. She told us about her big news last night, all excited.

    She got a new office chair and finished it with 'hope you liked my news'. Id say 90 per cent of the listeners couldn't give a **** about her new chair.



  • #8171
    pjohnson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,915 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121344775#Comment_121344775

    Keenan



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  • #8172
    BPKS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,150 ✭✭✭✭BPKS


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121344675#Comment_121344675

    Different strokes etc. After hearing her a few times I turn over from that slot now and sometimes forget to turn back.



  • #8173
    Fitz*
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,917 ✭✭✭✭Fitz*


    I like Pamela Joyce, shame to see her go.


    Ray Foley & Dec Pierce were doing photoshoots recently, so maybe there is a line up change coming.



  • #8174
    radiotrickster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭radiotrickster


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121345919#Comment_121345919

    Spin recently had the photos updated on their website so it be Bauer are updating all the stations photos.



  • #8175
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,873 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    The JNLR results for the period October ’22 – September ’23 have been released, and they show that the station has a weekly reach figure of 959,000 (+21,000 BoB) of Irish adults.

    Dave Moore (9:00-12:00) has celebrated an all-time high of 227,000 listeners (+11,000 BoB), overtaking The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show as Today FM’s biggest show.

    The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show (6:00-9:00) has 225,000 listeners tuning in on weekday mornings (+4,000 BoB).

    Pamela Joyce (12:00-14:00), who recently announced her departure from the station, achieved an audience of 142,000 (-3,000 BoB).

    Ray Foley (14:00-16:30) now has a listenership of 164,000 (-9,000 BoB).

    The Last Word with Matt Cooper (16:30-19:00) has celebrated a boost in listenership to 182,000 (+7,000 BoB).

    Weekends on Today FM are led by Weekend Breakfast with Alison Curtis, which now reaches a Saturday morning audience of 192,000 (+7,000 BoB) and a Sunday audience of 166,000 (+9,000 BoB).

    Big gain for Dave Moore but big drop for Foley. Having Foley cover for Dempsey so much must be hurting his figures.



  • #8176
    TaurenDruid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,074 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121346502#Comment_121346502

    What's "BoB"?

    I have figures for July '21 to June '22, and the figures aren't that much of a change - in fact, Foley goes up from then from 143,000 to 164,000 - in fact, all the daytime shows have an increase over the June '22 figures.



  • #8177
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,873 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121346722#Comment_121346722

    BoB I believe is book on book.



  • #8178
    5hunderball
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭5hunderball


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121346502#Comment_121346502

    It's almost as bad as his last 9 months or so on the Blast in 2006, when he'd be off almost every other week covering another show from AM Kelly at 5am to Phil Cawley in the afternoon and everything in between



  • #8179
    magnumlady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,659 ✭✭✭magnumlady


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121337278#Comment_121337278

    I hope it's not Louise Cantilon, she keeps forgetting to turn her mic off when she's prerecording bits for her weekend shows, or listening to Whatsapp messages



  • #8180
    drserious4
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭drserious4


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118575506#Comment_118575506

    Really starting to doubt the veracity of the JNLR figures, how is it that almost everyone is up? Dave Moore lost Dermot and suddenly he gains 11,000 listeners. Doubtful.



  • #8181
    Neg10
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭Neg10


    Tbf it takes approx a year to see results of a change like Dermot leaving. The figures are calculated over a longer period. I do have my own doubts about the system, but that’s not one of them.



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  • #8182
    radiotrickster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭radiotrickster


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121358944#Comment_121358944

    These ratings include the final weeks of Dermot still being there so it won’t show if there’s been a drop-off in listeners. The next book will be his first full one without Dermot but as Neg10 said, it takes a year to really see if it’s working or not.



  • #8183
    flazio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,199 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    I'm convinced Bauer don't take heed of JNLR and instead see how many Cash Machine texts it gets each hour.



  • #8184
    TaurenDruid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,074 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid


    Jebus. Ed just said his Sunday evening show's JNLR numbers doubled! Considering the new show isn't a patch on Songs of Praise, all I can do is be glad for him...

    I do find it weird, though, how the full JNLRs can't be accessed by Joe Public. All you get is whatever the press report, or a station/presenter says themselves.



  • #8185
    JoeA3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,443 ✭✭✭JoeA3


    It sounds like Dara Quilty is Pam's replacement. He doesn't sound like he's "filling in" like he usually does but rather doing his own new show.

    Or at least it seems like its his seat to lose.



  • #8186
    ILikeBoats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭ILikeBoats


    He was looking for jingle type things today alright and I thought that you wouldn't be doing that if you were temporary



  • #8187
    radiotrickster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭radiotrickster


    The lead up to Christmas isn’t a great time to launch a new show so they’re possibly waiting until January and it’ll be Dara Quilty or a rotation of people covering until then. It was the same thing with Mairead Ronan where she quit around this time of year and they announced Pamela Joyce as taking over the slot in the new year.



  • #8188
    TaurenDruid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,074 ✭✭✭TaurenDruid



    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121368171#Comment_121368171

    It's Quilty. And... I just switched off. It's not funny saying the same thing over and over and playing the same sound effect over and over, but Dara must have gone to the Ray and JP school of being annoying on the radio, and 20 "camera shutters" in a row was 18 too many. I'll be Today FM-less now from 12 until 4.30.

    (And it very nearly got switched off yesterday evening when I heard the third or fourth repeat of Ray's only hilarious anecdote about not getting an endoscopy. Oh, how I chortled...)



  • #8189
    ILikeBoats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭ILikeBoats


    There was a funny bit on Dara's show today. One of the voiceovers said "Dara Quilty...at least it's not Ray D'arcy"



  • #8190
    BPKS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,150 ✭✭✭✭BPKS


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121371001#Comment_121371001

    Maybe he went to the Dermot and Dave school of how to be annoying and repetitive. Does he keep laughing like a hyena at his own jokes?



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  • #8191
    nc6000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,272 ✭✭✭nc6000


    I know it's probably not just Today FM doing it but the number of Christmas songs being played at this stage is a bit ridiculous.



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