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alio

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1/12/2006 8:25 PM
im gonna be broadcasting on a radio station next week, have been asked to organise a discussion show about the state of the irish music scene/industry. its been done to death with unsigned bands whinging on (and sometimes with justification i may add) but id like do something more original so im looking for inspiration. any ideas on how to flog a dead horse in a new way

alio

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1/12/2006 8:26 PM
ooh sorry wheres my manners please and thank you

Unicron

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1/12/2006 9:05 PM
How about addressing the cowardice of the commercial stations when it comes to their playlist policy. All the "decent" music is stuck away in the evening when 2FM/TodayFM are competeing for the same audience. There is a huge, untapped audience out there that any station could tap into by dropping the chart stuff for a couple of hours in the afternoon and playing stuff to appeal to them. It's especially important for them now that Phantom are coming on air (sometime in the future) and they'll most likely be losing some of their evening audience to them.

alio

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1/12/2006 9:41 PM
it'd be a good way to stir it up alright if your interested in listening to the show i will be broadcast in the north kildare area next week on 102.5 fm we're called KCI fm we're only broadcasting for a week between 5 and 9 from tuesday too saturday have a gander even if its only to watch the mistakes we might make! its our first time bless us thanks for the help all other opinions on the matter are welcome

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1/13/2006 10:46 AM
quote: Originally posted by Unicron How about addressing the cowardice of the commercial stations when it comes to their playlist policy. All the "decent" music is stuck away in the evening when 2FM/TodayFM are competeing for the same audience. There is a huge, untapped audience out there that any station could tap into by dropping the chart stuff for a couple of hours in the afternoon and playing stuff to appeal to them. It's especially important for them now that Phantom are coming on air (sometime in the future) and they'll most likely be losing some of their evening audience to them. In fairness, did Today FM not try this when they started out (I think they were called Ireland FM at the time) when they played a fair bit of indie/alternative stuff in the a/noon but found to their detriment that they had no audience so they reverted to the tried and trusted FM104/98 FM routine.

Protein biscuit

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1/13/2006 11:16 AM
quote: Originally posted by Unicron How about addressing the cowardice of the commercial stations when it comes to their playlist policy. All the "decent" music is stuck away in the evening when 2FM/TodayFM are competeing for the same audience. There is a huge, untapped audience out there that any station could tap into by dropping the chart stuff for a couple of hours in the afternoon and playing stuff to appeal to them. It's especially important for them now that Phantom are coming on air (sometime in the future) and they'll most likely be losing some of their evening audience to them. This has been my particular bugbear for donkey's. I don't listen to daytime radio full stop. Not since i was on a bus to Galway in 1999 and heard Cher's "Do You Believe In Love" played 5 times. Yes 5 f**king times over the course of the 3 1/2 hour journey. Come the revolution the day-time jocks and paymasters will be first agains the wall. Commercialisation of day-time radio is just more seepage from the anal sphincter muscle of capitalism into the toilet bowl of our blinkered existence. Harrumph.

palace

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1/13/2006 1:02 PM
in fairness, it's all about ratings... today fm even had to knock donal dineen back to a graveyard slot because he wsn't getting enough ratings in the already sleepy 10.00 to 12.00 slot. pure commercial sense, nothing else

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1/13/2006 1:33 PM
Agreed. It's all down to what they can charge for advertising which is directly related to the number of listeners. Tragically, people want to hear Cher 5 times in 3 hours. My own personal hell was a summer spent working in a light fitting factory in London in 1988. Radio station played the number one every half hour as policy. Yaz 'The only way is up' was number one for 6 weeks followed by Chubby Checker and the Fat Boys 'Wipeout' for a similar length. I still feel sick when I hear either.

Super Nintendo Chalmers

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1/13/2006 1:34 PM
quote: Originally posted by off the post quote: Originally posted by Unicron [ In fairness, did Today FM not try this when they started out (I think they were called Ireland FM at the time) when they played a fair bit of indie/alternative stuff in the a/noon but found to their detriment that they had no audience so they reverted to the tried and trusted FM104/98 FM routine. i agree. it seems like a great idea to try and attract the "disinfranchised" listeners who dislike the usual stuff from 98fm et all, but the question always comes back to who listens to the radio during the day. most people cant 'cos they are at work. in offices where there is a radio playin, theres more than one person listening so you often end up selecting the least offensive lowest common denominator crap, so that know one dilikes it too much. theres just no real market during the day.

Una

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1/13/2006 3:07 PM
there isn't really one overriding 'scene' at the moment. It's all very scattered. Thank Christ.