Dublins Q102

Or maybe they had more information that you did!

From 1pm……

"Feel good music, great prizes, and laughs"

I am guessing not many people are laughing!

If you are getting rid of the bulk of your daytime line up, thats not something you want to shout about.

Andy, Debbie and Venetia have been royally screwed by the UK overlords and the devils deal done with Tubbs.

There will be massive PR spin in the coming weeks about how Tubs had an emptiness in his heart due to being away from Ireland so came up with the idea of moving home to bring back The Full Irish.

Less gymnastics than you might imagine unfortunately.

it’s ironic (or insane) that because Tubridy caused the ratings collapse, all the other presenters have to leave.

Video didnt kill the radio star,but the UK overlords will..

if the new government lets them do it _ Irish solution would be for the taxpayers to pay for local radio

I thought you network the parts that need less of a local flavour e.g. the more music driven daytime shows and then have local breakfast and drive.

it seems that the opposite is being planned, which I’d imagine will be totally rejected in the areas the local stations are… the question will be how quickly it will be reversed.

you can be damn sure if local councillors and TD’s can’t go on live Fm or LMFM in the mornings they will kick up a mighty fuss about it - old people vote and elect TDs and listen to local radio

so what is the new schedule meant to be and when does it start?

Regarding Spin SW whose weekday regular programming is networked (except for morning and afternoon drive), it maybe more challenging for Wireless to replicate that particular set up across their network in Ireland. There are midmorning shows/presenters on Live95, 96FM and C103 for which are specifically targeted to their local franchises and could prove to be quite difficult to be just cancelled abruptly. In Q102's case, note that the breakfast show presenters have also been removed from the weekday schedule with Ryan Tubridy being the only presenter listed. Q102/Wireless may take a different approach from Spin/SpinSW and network/automate most weekday programming except for mid-mornings which would leave Q102 with one live mid-morning presenter unique to Q102. So if rumours are true and folks are in the process of being made redundant to make way for networking, who gets the networked breakfast slot? Tubridy? or does he remain with VRUK? If he does get a networked breakfast slot across those Wireless radio stations which would be broadcast from his self proclaimed "new chair" at Q102, who would be Q102's mid-morning/afternoon presenter? Liam Coburn? Who would be the Wireless network afternoon drive presenter? Maybe someone like Kathryn Thomas?

Does this rumoured breakfast show finish at 9 or 10?

In Limerick the local talk show starts at 9, while over in Cork on c103 the talk show starts at 10.

So if everyone’s talk show starts at 9, that means an afternoon show at 12 till 3 and back to networking again at 3 until 7?

Email your TD.

So who is actually on air today then on Q102? Apart from Tubridy

six hour shift! Last time I tried one of them was on Radio Annabel .. that’s some stretch

Debbie had that for ages, since Andy came on I think. Latter hours v/ted, after the live news ends.

Liam Coburn is a great jock and doing it a hell of a long time but when I heard him on brekkie this morning he sounded like he was forcing himself to be happy. It can't be easy, you work with someone directly/indirectly for so long and then you lose your job through no fault of your own, that can't be easy on him or the overall morale.

Incidentally, there has still been no company announcement of the job losses which is really poor form by senior management. The changes to the website were the first indication to many that something was happening.

I was surprised about Conor Clear, I thought Johnny Bowe would have gotten the fill in. It might be 6-12 but 10-12 is VT'd. Should dump Love Zone, a very tired format with the same 200 songs.

Have you seen the Mid West Radio schedule in Mayo ?

Only one female presenter on the schedule with her own full time show, on saturdays and sundays

yeah well MWR is stuck in a time warp

what is also unique about a real local station such as MWR is that it's not playlisted and remains HUGELY successful, holding onto listeners from neighbouring western and midlands counties who in an ideal world would be expected to tune into Ocean FM in Sligo, GB FM in Galway, Shannonside in Roscommon…but are loyal to MWR in Mayo.

As I type MWR, are live on air giving storm updates with the presenter in their main studio in Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo with the power out and the studio building is in darkness (as is most of the county), using the back up generator only for on-air power - while the other stations are on robojock or repeating this mornings talk show.

Now that's how local radio should be !!

aren’t you the same lad who loved Atlantic 252 with its 25 minute rotations and wacky wacky jock names? And you’re giving out about rinse and repeat playlists? Here’s Kiss from a Rose .. again. Don’t go anywhere in case you miss Wayne Kerr and the morning fun bunch playing another loooong wave of Lisa Loeb

I can't see Kathryn Thomas wanting to work outside of RTÉ.

When will I, will I be faaaaaamous?

No, you're supposed to say "I can't answer, I can't answer that..."

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