2fm - New schedule coming

I did say, and younger. And whoever voted for her in DWTS.

I did hear from someone before that worked in RTE, that the phone lines (text I presumed) lit up when she was on different shows. Its a metric they will use to measure audience interests and whether its pos or neg engagement, its still engagement.

I listened to drive today anyway. Fcuk me it was piss poor.

Actually no, maybe it wasn't. Production etc was fine. It was just incredibly boring. Lotties accent for a few hours is a thing to behold...... I'll never subject myself to that show again. Friday drivetime is supposed to be fun FFS.

Do you have figures for the DWTS podcast?

I wouldn't have asked if I did. I don't but I am always surprise when people say something is doing well, the audience is good. You say it charts well, on which platform?

TV3 had a habit of saying audience figures were good, or that they had even doubled, double from what?

I was actually talking about TV3 back then but and here's something for the books

VMTV ONE - full name TV3 Television Network Ltd

VMTV TWO - full name Channel 6 Broadcasting Ltd

VMTV THREE - full name UTV Ireland Ltd

I think FOUR and More come under ONE!

Thanks. Also as you say it could just be DWTS. I imagine the 2 hosts are both replaceable, maybe even Lottie gets that job!

Didnt know Carl was there that long. When did he start on weekend breakfast?

First off she is nearly 40, so hardly a "girl"

My other half is her target audience, talk to her and friends and they will tell you she ruined the breakfast show when they shoved her into it and now the afternoons. Well seemingly not anymore

At least it shows 2Fm have finally had some sense

In terms of her win of Dancing with the Stars, a number of times from recollection she was in bottom and was saved by the judges. On the final it was in covid and she was pushed from every angle in the media for a least a week. RTE clearly had a plan they wanted her to win it, the other person, can't remember name but she was far superior

I feel sorry for her. She’s not in the new gig a month. It takes time to bed in and she hasn’t even had that. I haven’t listened but it does strike me that she’s the wronged party here.

You can look at it two ways. She might be crap in the slot and completely unsuited to the show but it would have been obvious beforehand that it wasn’t the place for her and she’s a known quantity in RTE as well so somebody selecting and assigning the on-air talent screwed up here.

On the other hand she was hoodwinked. They didn’t have a plan B after the exodus, threw Lottie into the slot, publicised the hell out of it to distract from the shít show unfolding and hedged they’re bets because they knew she wasn’t a fit but let her play out til they could regroup and find somebody else. That’s very shoddy practice and she should have been given time to bed in.

It does cast a light on Lottie though. Most people, if they weee dicked around like this by an organisation would likely start making exit plans. If Lottie stays now it’ll just get worse because it’s blatantly obvious now that RTE can treat her like absolute shít and she’ll stick around. I feel sorry for the woman. She likely can’t get employed anywhere else and her employer seem to be crapping all over her. That’s a horrible position to be in.

you’d think they’d learn after hiring an unfunny social media comedian in Doireann - wtf is a Tik tok lip sync

Haven’t listened to the show but anytime I’ve heard either of them presenting shows they’re bad. Replacing with a social media person is going to be just as bad. I wonder who’ll be pushing the buttons for her.

Oh I know, plus it well over 50k

She keeps saying she doesn't want to use her fathers name or linked with her father, yet constantly links herseld with her father

RTE/2FM had to do something with Lottie after years been in the role and going nowhere. She would be on decent wages and was just reading a segment which really an intern or a very young DJ should get when trying to get into the business. If it was any other station she would have been given a slot years ago and then dumped when it failed

This was her last chance I guess and it was a disaster, I think RTE/2FM might hope she will know just leave without a big payoff but hard to tell with Lottie, she seems happy enough to do the entertainment bit her entire life so she will probably go back into it and just take her wages

By the way this is multiple times now she has failed, they have shoved her into multiple slots and its been a disaster, so her big break has come a few times and all failed.

She's probably permanent by now, possibly by default after being around the place for so long. Unless they're clever about making her redundant they're stuck with her. From her point of view, why would she leave? A bruised ego is easier to get over than a diminished pay packet.

Unless they had no choice? My understanding of employment law is that you can't keep giving people fixed contracts indefinitely. They may have had to regularise her situation, along with other people in RTE (wasn't there a court case?)

Yes you can't roll over more than 4 years in fixed contracts, however I believe if you set yourself up as a company providing services to RTÉ like how Joe Duffy and Ryan Tubridy did it can be indefinetely. It would seem to me that she was an employee initially, then switched to be a contractor to take the benefits that gig gives.

2FM is in a section full of radio stations across Ireland which are better and more people want to listen to

2FM is no more the pinnacle and in all honestly it is mostly a graveyard now.

Sticking a TikTok person on it has more chance of getting listeners than anything else, after all the two jonnies are just "stars" from online podcast re they not?

When you have the likes of Lottie as part of the staff then hiring outside will be the only option

I think it’s clear enough and unless Lottie herself comes on here and clarifies, then we’re all assuming one way or another. On a purely professional basis I agree with you. She got given the job, they decided to rehash the lineup and pulled in someone with lots of followers.

I’m looking at it though on a personal level. I have no desire to see someone led on abc dumped without being given anything like a half decent chance. Even the most incompetent person will last more than 3 weeks in a job before they’re finally managed to be cleared out. Lottie gig no chance whatsoever. I don’t care how much you dislike someone, it really should register that she’s been unfairly treated here. Pulled from a prime time slot is humiliating and I can’t see it’s her fault yet. There isn’t even a Llistenership JLR book for the period.

I thought she was decent on breakfast republic a few years ago. I don’t listen to anything on 2 fm right now but everyone is entitled to fair treatment. A good few people have been messed around in there.

Maybe they are trying to move her on, doing the entertainment she was never going to leave. She is on big wages. Put her into a primary role, if she fails then a reason to move her on. If she succeeds then great they have a inhouse hire for a primary role

She was hired for a role, she is supposed to be a star, she failed and listeners left because she was poor in that role. How would she have any case in a workplace tribunal?