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Galway bay fm

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  • 04-09-2023 9:50pm
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    Mf 265
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭


    Where is molly in morning gone to, is he coming back to galway bay?



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    #2
    fergiesfolly
    Registered Users Posts: 3,375 ✭✭✭fergiesfolly


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058312308/galway-bay-fm

    Hello Molly's friend?



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    Breaston Plants
    Registered Users Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Breaston Plants


    With the help of God he won't.



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    topcat77
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    Fun fact: "Molly in the morning" would mean having some MDMA (Ecstasy) in the morning in some parts of the world.



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    CuriousCucumber
    Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭CuriousCucumber


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058312308/galway-bay-fm

    Hadn't he handed in his notice to do some freelance work just as Covid hit, and came back fairly quickly.

    I wonder were his plans just delayed because of Covid, and now he's giving it a go?

    Used enjoy him in the morning. Haven't really listened to Galway Bay FM since he left


    Edit:

    Just saw a job advertisement on Twitter for a morning radio presenter on Galway Bay FM. Presume that's for his replacement



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    westgolf
    Registered Users Posts: 828 ✭✭✭westgolf


    Kinda linked, noticed the newsreader is doing the sport on the breakfast show now. No separate presenter like ollie used do. So maybe a new programme is in the offing ?



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    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users Posts: 8,397 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    The new morning show host will be Garry Curran.

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    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



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    00s anorak
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭00s anorak


    Surprised that it hasn't been mentioned here that Keith Finaghan announced a couple days ago that he his "retiring" at Easter, I didn't know that he had stood down as CEO in spring 21, I guess all the Covid mania in the news at the time put that under the radar. It's never easy staying on as a presenter after stepping down as boss, just ask John Clarke!



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    what_traffic
    Registered Users Posts: 4,967 ✭✭✭what_traffic


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121698456#Comment_121698456

    If one wants to hear the man himself announce it.

    https://galwaybayfm.ie/galway-bay-fm-news-desk/keith-finnegan-to-retire-from-galway-bay-fm-in-april-after-34-years-of-broadcasting/




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    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users Posts: 8,397 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    Keith left the CEO role and now he's leaving altogether.

    Katie left

    Molly left very abruptly and there was never a mention of it at the time or since

    There was a new girl in the afternoon last year, Barbra something or other, an Irish surname and she disappeared overnight without mention.

    Ollie is looking to run for election.

    Something smells of unrest of some sort in the camp.

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



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    sgthighway
    Registered Users Posts: 1,540 ✭✭✭sgthighway


    Who is running it now?



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    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users Posts: 8,397 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121702170#Comment_121702170

    Cormac O Halloran is the CEO, it's owned by The Connacht Tribune Group.

    Truth be known though, it's run by the GAA ;)

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



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    spurshero
    Registered Users Posts: 1,786 ✭✭✭spurshero


    It’s a very poor channel … hasn’t modernised at all . Bar the sport offers very little .



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    sgthighway
    Registered Users Posts: 1,540 ✭✭✭sgthighway


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121703640#Comment_121703640

    The guy in the morning before 9 is a million times better than the lads before him.



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    Homelander
    Registered Users Posts: 4,412 ✭✭✭Homelander


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121703868#Comment_121703868

    Not sure I would agree it hasn't modernised obviously being local radio they will aways have to play to the audience but it's definitely infinitely better than it was.

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    zell12
    Registered Users Posts: 25,092 ✭✭✭✭zell12


    Dunno, nothing has really changed in 24 years

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    #17
    smurf492
    Registered Users Posts: 639 ✭✭✭smurf492


    More like 35 years...started as radio west in 1989 changing to Galway bay FM in '93



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    bobbyss
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121703640#Comment_121703640

    That's the sense I have of it as well. That presenter on Saturday or Sunday morning playing country and western has been doing that for as long as I can remember. I presume the market is strong for it and they have done the research. it takes her about 10 minutes to get all the requests for one song and seems to talk like we are a bunch of hillbillies out cutting the bog.

    I can't recall Keith himself asking tough, tough questions of anyone. It was always 'How are Ya Tommy ?' Again they must have spent on the research but I can not recall any change in that programme in the last 50 or 60 years he has been presenting it. No change of presenter has been needed or called for from anyone as far as I can tell.



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    Mrs OBumble
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    I've not seen the stats, but have been told that radio is pretty much a dying medium: the kids are all streaming the music they want, and improved literacy means that having the death notices read out isn't as important any more.

    So I wouldn't be expecting any innovation.

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    ford fiesta
    Registered Users Posts: 3,531 ✭✭✭ford fiesta


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121724571#Comment_121724571

    It was not 1993 - as far as I remember, Radio West (the Galway version, not the Mullingar superpirate) ceased in May 1990. The next licenced station to fail was Century in Nov 1991.

    So was there a time gap or dead air between Radio West closing and the re-launched Galway Bay? Or was it Radio West one day and GB FM the next day?

    Gone gradually over the past 5-10 years are Jimmy Norman, Jon Richards, Donal Mahon, Keith Finnegan and Ollie Turner who made up the bulk of the daytime schedule for around 25 years.

    Nowadays, with a schedule like this, it's no wonder a lot of people tune into neighbouring Mayo's Mid West Radio instead of GBFM.

    https://galwaybayfm.ie/shows/



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    Djcon
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Djcon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122272374#Comment_122272374

    I seem to remember a short period between Radio West and Galway Bay FM where they went by "Galway 95.8 & 96.8 FM", a bit of a mouthful if I am not misremembering it.



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    Homelander
    Registered Users Posts: 4,412 ✭✭✭Homelander


    Ollie Turner isn't gone, heard him yesterday. Never listened to Midwest in my life to be fair but looking at their schedule I don't see any obvious reason it would be "better". They have country music in the middle of the day which seems definitely like it's catering to the older crowd.



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    JoeA3
    Registered Users Posts: 7,441 ✭✭✭JoeA3


    I'm pretty sure it went from "Radio West" to "The new Galway Bay FM" almost overnight. And this was definitely circa 1992-1993.

    I don't remember any or very much down-time between the 2. I do remember the listenership figures for the original incarnation were abysmal for whatever reason and compared terribly to the nearby Mid-West and Clare FM. I'm not sure how the name-change made the difference because I don't think they changed the format/schedule or presenters line up very much in that transition. Possibly switched a bit more to music driven shows and fewer talk shows.

    Nowadays, with a schedule like this, it's no wonder a lot of people tune into neighbouring Mayo's Mid West Radio instead of GBFM.

    This is nothing new. GB FM, irrespective of presenter line-up has never catered for the kind of market that Mid-west serves (almost wall to wall country n' Irish music). GB FM has never played that kind of format, outside of a few specialist shows. GB FM has always been more of a "Classic Hits" music format, although recently on the few occasions I've tuned in they seem to have gone a touch more modern, more Today FM style than Classic Hits.

    My own parents would regularly tune into Mid-West radio over GB FM for decades, purely for the "music" (terrible IMO, but each to their own!). However they would tune back to GB FM for the local news, local sports news, death notices, etc.



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    #24
    smurf492
    Registered Users Posts: 639 ✭✭✭smurf492


    Not that Wikipedia is a definitive source but they have a Galway bay FM page which says '93. Can't link at the moment



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