Where’s simon maher’s radio station?
Pauline asked me the other morning
“Where’s simon maher’s radio station?” don’t tell the share holders but in our house that means Phantom 105.2. Why do you ask I said (still half asleep) she says ‘the 2 idiots that took over from Marty on 2FM are doing her head in’. This interests me, Pauline always knows before the JNLR when a show ain’t working. She has a clock radio that used to be on 1278Khz until one day she didn’t wake up to the radio alarm. That day the dial no band was switched to 2FM so no longer radio 2, that Pauline had listened to since 1979.
Like a scene out of ‘life on mars’, Pauline’s clock radio has time warped Marty Whelan with Fr. Brian D’arcy, Declan Meehan, Ian Dempsey & Zig & Zag AOR, the two Damian’s, Tubridy and even Rick & Ruth, Pauline even woke up to Simon Young on Saturdays (always wondered why she left for work so early on Saturday) right up to ‘back to the future’ Marty 2006.
Pauline knew before the experts that Rick / Ruth show was tanking. She knew when tubridys show was too far up its own ferrite rod antenna for its own good. But she liked Marty and has a a major dislike for this Colm and Jim-Jim Breakfast Show. So much so, Pauline has promised to come on here and tell us why this programme that finishes its first week of shows in a few hours time is so bad.
Pauline wants simon maher’s radio from a shed where they play music (and lots of it). Colm & Jim Jim are playing 3 songs between 8:00 and 8:35 [fact]. They sing over the songs they play, they say shit & bollix, and i’ll stop stealing all Pauline’s ideas now.
I wouldn’t be worried that “I” find it shite, I’m asleep with Radio 5 Live in my ears…. and my demographic is boring ireland (if I were awake) If Pauline’s radio radar says its crap, you can bet housewife’s up & down ireland, the school runners the breakfast room & bedroom AM radio KNOB controllers will migrate to music radio away from zoo crew mad cap crap. What was wrong with personality radio with Marty & crew? and if housewife’s don’t listen, then Gerry Ryan doesn’t have a hand over audience.
I recently played a gig in UCD for a senior TV producer in RTE. He apologised to me before it started that John Clarke would not be there, and therefore (i think) would not hear me! this presupposed that I would want that and whatever that meant. I am not looking for a break in radio.. honest. But I kinda wish he was there, as I would have asked him if we were talking, like, how come the only talent you hire in to the Breakfast 2FM slot all left 2FM 10 -15 years ago.
My top tip and I steal it from abroad for the dying radio brigade is.
http://www.hear2.com/2007/01/the_radio_gypsy.html
7. The market for programming talent outside of radio will spark. Suddenly companies not in radio will be competing with radio for the ears of an audience – and those companies will need talent behind and in front of the mic. Stringing together songs is easy. Knowing what to put between them is a skill. [mark ramsey]
Clock radio’s do not wake up to podcasts… but wifi radios do! the broadband land means kerbango radio will have a second coming.
Yawn Yawn… happy radio…. its over…
from [furdlog] In the 1960s, when the F.C.C. opened the FM dial, AM stations rushed to acquire licenses — but then simulcast the same shows they were already playing. This was not what regulators had in mind, so they ruled that FM stations had to play original content on at least half of their programming hours. Because radio companies didn’t want to invest much in FM, they ceded control of their studios to young people and amateur broadcasters. The result was the advent of free-form music radio, with programs so fresh and compelling that listeners flocked to FM and stayed there — at least until corporate broadcasters standardized it, too
Chris Evans, please come back on another fishing holiday..
March 9th, 2007 at 9:50 am
It’s sort of depressing that breakfast radio hasn’t moved on from ‘The Zoo Crew in the Nut Hut’ on 88FM all those years ago.
I rarely listen to anything these days.
March 9th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
in giving reason for letting marty go they said they were aiming at 18-35 year olds, so why are the 5.5 songs an hour on breakfast 2fm dominated with 1977-1979 tracks that 40 somethings will ID with? fact: this week i heard my shaorna ‘79 the knack. Teenage Kicks ‘78 the undertones Black Betty ‘77 ram jam. Marty Whelan – take this playlist down beggers bush to the employment tribunal as evidence….. is Larry picking the hits? these are way older than your target 2FM. get a new DJ & funk dat. these tunes along with the stranglers above are more at home in the Grove where Marty went as a lad! im confused at 05:55 this morning maxi played mika Grace Kelly on radio 1. Marty if I ever do set up my pan european SW DRM service and your free,,, meet me down the road at the White Sands Hotel, call me.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I agree with what that woman Pauline said. I think we need to get back to old style broacasting in the morning with at least ten songs in the one hour. To wake up and hear Colm Hayes bullshitting is very boring and non sensical. Bring back Rick and Ruth or even good old Marty. Colm and Jim Jim style might be good fior a Dublin only station like FM 104 but it is not suitable for a nationwide station and John Clarke needs to rethink his programming policy, and bring back the Rock Show between 8 and 10pm. Put Dan Hegarthy on a little earlier too