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(16-11-2023, 12:34 PM)lookoutwales Wrote: Radio City and Rock FM will both share a breakfast show from January, coming from Liverpool.
Quite a bit being made about the last local output going on Rock, but in reality, it's a sad but inevitable ending for both stations, really - reduced solely to news and traffic opt-outs.
And at the least, the shared breakfast will probably be only a temporary thing if the new Media Bill, which includes further deregulation, becomes law before the next election.
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Radio City is a far cry from what it was when I was a kid growing up, but Joel Ross is great on Rock FM and he was great on Heart before he was dropped for Jamie and Amanda
Leanne is also fab, so it should be a great show, but I don't know how long it will last until Hit's Radio takes over the Radio City name full stop.
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Interesting signing for Virgin Radio. Irish presenter Ryan Turbridy is taking over the 10am-1pm slot in January. It'll be presented from London and simulcast with Q103, which is Wireless Group's station in Dublin
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Ryan's done some summer cover for Graham Norton on Radio 2 but apart from that is virtually unknown in the UK. He left RTE in a bit of a cloud over his pay and tax arrangements. Looking at some comments today he's not that well liked over there and with a wth his background he seems like an odd fit for Virgin.
It's becoming an odd station, it started as a upmarket trendy adult contemporary station but with Evans, Norton and Turbridy it's much more personality led and blander musicly. I'm not really sure what it's for
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Radio City isn't in the three most listened to stations in Liverpool either, the most popular stations are Radio 2, Radio Merseyside and Smooth Radio.
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(16-11-2023, 10:06 PM)Stooky Bill Wrote: Interesting signing for Virgin Radio. Irish presenter Ryan Turbridy is taking over the 10am-1pm slot in January. It'll be presented from London and simulcast with Q103, which is Wireless Group's station in Dublin
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Ryan's done some summer cover for Graham Norton on Radio 2 but apart from that is virtually unknown in the UK. He left RTE in a bit of a cloud over his pay and tax arrangements. Looking at some comments today he's not that well liked over there and with a wth his background he seems like an odd fit for Virgin.
It's becoming an odd station, it started as a upmarket trendy adult contemporary station but with Evans, Norton and Turbridy it's much more personality led and blander musicly. I'm not really sure what it's for
Is it just me or is it bad taste for Ryan to announce his news job at the same time as rte is announcing job layoffs for Ryan's colleagues partly caused by the scandal Ryan was involved with
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Not really - he's moving on, other people need to do. The mess at RTE is largely of RTE's making. It's debatable whether Ryan was complicit or the scapegoat - or perhaps both. But in a world where it seems celebs are often beaten with the same brush for years after being tarred by a scandal it's refreshing to see someone able to move on quite quickly.
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(18-11-2023, 11:03 PM)London Lite Wrote: Radio City isn't in the three most listened to stations in Liverpool either, the most popular stations are Radio 2, Radio Merseyside and Smooth Radio.
I wonder if that'll change now that Radio Merseyside is having most of its local programmes removed
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(19-11-2023, 04:23 PM)Stooky Bill Wrote: I wonder if that'll change now that Radio Merseyside is having most of its local programmes removed
Except it isn't - Merseyside is keeping its own Drive and Introducing shows and doing at least two hours of sport on weeknights (more on a Premier League / Super League matchnight)
The only real casualty on weekdays so far has been Linda McDermott on lates.
The only really noticeable cuts will come at weekends - same with Manchester, for that matter.
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This is an interesting move from Bauer.
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I can understand them doing this. I’ve no idea about cable, but the radio section on Sky, especially since Sky Q, is almost hidden these days - or at least very un-prominent. I’m guessing the number of listeners via satellite and cable isn’t worth the cost of carriage and the EPG positions.
For some reason listening to radio via Freeview seems more popular.
I guess if you’re desperate to listen via Sky Q, you could still listen via the Radioplayer app.
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(28-11-2023, 09:21 PM)Spencer Wrote: This is an interesting move from Bauer.
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I can understand them doing this. I’ve no idea about cable, but the radio section on Sky, especially since Sky Q, is almost hidden these days - or at least very un-prominent. I’m guessing the number of listeners via satellite and cable isn’t worth the cost of carriage and the EPG positions.
For some reason listening to radio via Freeview seems more popular.
I guess if you’re desperate to listen via Sky Q, you could still listen via the Radioplayer app.
I think this is why, Bauer are currently rolling out an all-in-one radio and podcast service called Rayo (starting with iOS, rolling out to other platforms later on), here is the web page about it:
hellorayo.co.uk
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I'm obviously missing something but I don't quite get why people would listen to the radio on your TV on any platform - radios and presumably DAB radios as well cost practically nothing to run, whereas a TV will suck more power up showing a black screen.