2fm - New schedule coming

If she ever stop clawing at the coat tails of Gerry she might get somewhere, it's clear from article it is coming from her "team" and they have to use Gerrys name.

i agree with you there, in fact this whole thing shows that Dan Healy is way out of his depth. Now i have never liked the way he treats presenters in the way he fires them without notice to them or indeed their audience.

It treats the presenters badly and suggests he has a "there's loads in the queue behind you" attitude but also suggets that he has no regard for the audience, just stick anyone in there.

This is a bizzare situation - it seems that Lottie was intended to be a fill in untill yet another SM person with no radio experiance was to be given a national radio gig - and a prime one at that! The problem is that DH never seems to have told Lottie this. He has lost command of the ship - if the "bullshit! bullshit! bullshit!" OTR reply of him about Jen Z leaving didnt sink him then this should.

And, no, bad as lottie may be, the answer isnt a tik tok personality. The answer is a new station manager.

you know she doesn’t have any self respect but why would she give up a over 50grand a year ( being conservative on that figure) contract

It's hard to tell if it will be as bad, Lottie is not a DJ, she never was. Hence why they have dropped her from one show to another and then back into minimal slots for years

This TikTok person could be 100 times better but I doubt she will be any worse

I know absolutely nothing about this TokTok person either but perhaps she will be better. Every presenter has to start somewhere and with a bit of practice (and training?) she might be perfectly fine. Lottie, unfortunately, is a known quantity. I wonder why they gave her this radio slot in the first place, and why they've yanked her from it so quickly. It is humiliating and even though I don't rate her as a presenter, I feel for her today. Was she so bad that they felt she couldn't be left on the air? Were they negotiating with replacements behind the scenes all the time? Did they lead her to believe it was going to be a longer gig? Perhaps she saw this as her big break - finally!

I think it’s disgraceful treatment of Lottie.

She was a contractor last year during her Toyota car advert in the RTÉ car park period, that would have been the time to make the decision not to renew it.

A lot of assumptions here..a career built pretty much solely around her dad's name supported by constant puff pieces from friendly rag mags when she does the most mundane thing, extremely tiresome.

She has been well paid for very little over the years I wouldn't feel too sorry for her tbh....

maybe, but is one of the two biggest slots on 2FM the place to find out? God be with the days that newbies be tested out of an evening slot or weekend breakfast - in the days that getting a 2FM slot was the actual pinnacle and you hadn't done years elsewhere beforehand (like Doireann did tbf).

it just sounds like DH is just screaming "get me someone young and popular!!!" and dropping them into the slots. He must have one hell of a production team in there.

And all she will end up doing is the usual "whats's your best ice cream/holiday/tv ad" links anyway.

It's a fair comment that 2FM is no longer the pinnacle. Certainly, it's not the high point of an influencer's career. It's a great way to up their profile, thanks to the exposure they'll get on RTE. It's not a good recipe in the medium to long term because you can't see any of these people staying around for the long haul.

2FM could do something radical and hire good young presenters from local radio. Mix up the music selection more, cut out all that "mad for the craic" and be a solid youth station. Young people can listen to all the comedy and chatter and messing they want on their smartphones. Maybe they might like to listen to music with a bit of curation and presenters who aren't trying to be comedians. 2FM is simply reheating what they're getting online anyway.

2FM could, but they won't, they hire the likes of Lottie because of her father. Or Doireann because she is part of the larger RTE family. Then try to paint it up as a new hire

Actually going for the Two Jonnies and Trapp is a total break from the norm

I expect the pressure is on in RTE and 2FM could be shut down tomorrow and nobody would give a sh*t, well apart from all the highly paid people in it like Lottie

She was terrible at her job, what exactly did you want them to do?

The fact more people could have predicted she was terrible in the first place shows how poor 2FM judgement is putting her into the role in first place

That’s the point though. The 2FM brass knew what Lottie could and couldn’t do. If she was unsuitable for the position she shouldn’t have been offered it in the first place. If Joe is a woeful chef but John, the restaurant manager promotes Joe from the dishwashing to senior chef and most of the food starts coming out either undercooked or burnt to a crisp, who’s at fault? John surely. I think if you promote someone into a position then you need to offer them support to meet the standards required or give them the chance to try and meet the standard before either demoting them or terminating the door.

Dan Healy has really fúcked up here by promoting Lottie to a position he, you could argue, knew she wasn’t suitable for and then pulls her without due time to find her feet. Lottie’s old man was litigious but he was a trained solicitor. I can’t see Dan Healy having much of a leg to stand on if Lottie decided to air her grievances in a workplace tribunal.

Newstalk are doing a daily Love Island/ entertainment slot on Pat Kenny. Would Lottie be interested in that?

Is she actually officially going or is it just paper talk/ rumours. Nothing official as I can see. Either way, she'll be zero loss, one of the most irritating voices on radio.