Thursday, August 20, 2009

Radio Stuff.

Been a busy week in radio-ville...sort of.
The rumours that 2FM are to switch focus from 'yoof' to the 25-44 demo are interesting. What are we talking here, a BBC Radio 2 type station with older presenters and music (plus talk)? My question is related to the presenters (as always) - not who are they going to hire to fill these shifts but who of the current line-up will they decide to do without? Not a nice question at all.

The Nova100 Classic Rock licence for Dublin and the 'commuter belt' has been put on ice for a while. Could be at least a year before they look at trying to launch (so I am told).

The entries for the Best New Presenter Award are coming in to the website - thanks to everyone who has entered.
Find out all here: http://www.bestnewpresenter.ie

It's JNLR day today - how will everyone do?
Will the regionals (Beat, iRadio) continue to grow?
Will Highland retain the highest share?
What about Dublin - FM104, can they stay on top again or will 98 and the re-branded Q102 be more of a challenge?
Will 4FM have impact in it's markets? (I hope so, handy for me having a day job)!
How about LMFM's more talk approach - has that worked out so far for them?
Will 96 and C103 in Cork still dominate, or will Red make some gains?
And could this be one of the last JNLR books for 2FM as a youth station?
Good luck to all.