2fm - New schedule coming

I'm curious as to why Beta De Silva's new music show doesn't seem to come up in conversation?

Is it cos he black?

Interesting. I have nieces and nephews who are younger but they don't listen to the radio either. If I'm carrying any of them in the car, the first thing they do is reach for my phone and stream music from that (they don't have their own phones yet). It would make you wonder why anybody on 2FM is even bothering to pay expensive presenters.

The latest rumour is that Jim Nugent, who left in 2010, could be returning to the station.

Same. I spent a very enjoyable summer years ago driving around Ireland listening to that show in the afternoon.

I think we can all agree that radio is not the primary medium of young content consumers like it once was.

I can remember in the pre internet days hearing a song on the radio and then eagerly heading into town to try to track down a physical copy. The act of acquirement was in itself a social gathering, heading on for drinks afterwards etc…

Half of the joy was discovery. The internet has kinda crushed that whimsical adventure.

This ad illustrates how much of our time hanging out in town was just browsing

Beta's show is quite good. I'm not a regular listener but I would often pop him on when Feekna is sitting in for Creedo.

At 37, I'm a bit passed the target market I'd say, but what I've heard is quite good. He plays loads of new Irish music, with a good back story to accompany new artists and how to find more of their stuff. Other than that it's mostly "that was, this is" style of presentation with none of that "OMG lads the seagulls, text us in if you ever had a chip stolen by a seagull" type nonsense.

I was in Luton at the weekend and it was full of teenagers at the Radio 1 big weekend so radio isn’t completely dead amongst teenagers ( or at least it doesn’t have to be if it’s done right)

no not necessarily. I guess Rte can’t get involved in concert weekends after the Toy Show musical disaster as they can’t be trusted not to run up a multi million liability

From having been exposed to Radio 1 when working in England I think music rather than chat being the central focus is the point.

I have LyricFM on all the time because it's mostly music. Scanning the dial while driving gets me either wall to wall 80s, Irish C&W or narcistic Dublin=Ireland non stop chat. My knowledge and appreciation of classical music has expanded in proportion to the void of music everywhere else on the dial.

Initially music was a primary focus of 2FM, chatting about youth issues expanded via Gerry Ryan show etc.. then teenagers became young adults, and then middled aged….. Radio 1 seems to keep stay focused on whatever music is relevant to a defined demographic remit, whereas 2FM keeps patronising its audience from the 90s as if it's the only audience that matters.

He doesn’t play AC/DC, Steely Dan or Fleetwood Mac so obviously not to the liking of a lot of the pale, male and stake crew who think 2FM should become another station playing dad rock.

I'd rather have The 2 Johnnies

Tracy Clifford deserves the vacant seat at the breakfast show table I think. She's been on afternoons for eight and a half years now, and I think promoting her would be a good alternative to an external hiring.

they should try and get some of the old sound of 2FM back - how about they start sprinkling the crap playlist of todays songs with 2-3 rarely heard 80s/90s songs each hour on each show and not just as a "throwback" feature

We’re going around in circles. We’re all too old to really figure it out. Even boards isn’t an 18 year olds platform so there’ll be none on here to enlighten us either.

I think that might be the problem. Everyone had an idea of what 2FM should be come. TalkSports, Youth and Classic Hits!

Why not look at it from what's new rather than what's young or a particular demographic.

Remember even with the pirate stations 2FM was competing with a very different sound, perhaps that is the problem they are competing in that Cool yuff sound that never really existed.

There are 18 - 25 who want to listen to podcasts/radio about new music and interviews with the current set of Stars, but I'd say there was always a lot more who are not and never were interested in listening to a Dave Fanning type, now they don't have to listen to talkMusic radio they can go on Spotify and just listen to their own playlist.

And while we all might be getting older, TBH, its what we are all doing.

What Irish Radio Station did you listen to yesterday? What show? What presenter?

The 2FM presenters seem to think they are well known, I would offer that nobody is well known anymore, Streaming killed the radio / tv / video star.

You also had Irish music shows, which in the case of Alan Corcoran was heavily orientated towards country; a heavy metal show; albums-oriented shows and Dial A Number One (with songs from previous decades).

That Saturday afternoon music/sports show in the early 1980s was presented by Michael McNamara (later reinventing himself as Mickey Mac!).

I am fairly certain that just after the back lash of her using RTÉ property to promote a car she moved to being a member of staff. Or I am fairly certain that this has been reported.