Bronze Award Winner.

Announcement was made today !
Silver Winner tomorrow at Noon and Overall Gold Winner on Friday :-)

http://www.bestnewpresenter.ie/category/winners/

Bernard & Keith play 'Holf'.

Ever wonder what morning show presenters do with the rest of their day?
Bernard & Keith from i105107 have provided the answer - they invent new sports!
Here they are explaining the game of 'Holf'...as you do :-)

2 Temps.

Two Temp licences come on air from Dublin next week: The 90s Network returns and Real Radio begins their first ever stint on air.

We'll talk about the 90s Network soon, but I was on the Real Radio website and have to say fair play to Niall Boylan for putting this madly adventurous project together in the first place.

This station will make for some really interesting listening.

With Chris Barry, Mike Moloney and Greg Merriman behind the mic during the day and evening, the potential for seat of your pants stuff is very high. They even have the wonderful Suzy G from Q102 in there (now there's an instinctive radio brain if ever I met one).

The site is pretty much fully functional now and the audio streaming is on, with a nice clear output.

If you haven't been around the site, then maybe take a moment or two and see what you think.

http://www.realradio.ie

Jack'in It In.

Oh dear...Jack FM Vancouver have decided that the best way to gain listeners is this:
Fire all of your on-air staff (except the morning show) and go presenter-free for twenty hours a day.

Genius.

Why didn't anyone else ever think of this?

Oh hang on a minute - XFM in London did something almost exactly the same about two years ago. Funny how that experiment didn't last long, isn't it?

Jack FM now have Larry And Willy on the morning gig and are literally music from then until the next morning. No VT even.

Howard Cogan is apparently back as their imaging voice and sole personality. Now don't get me wrong - I love Howie and his style. I always have. Going back to when we worked together in LG73, he always had that something special. he was the guy that said to me once - "This internet thing will be huge for radio,one day". However great Howie is though, this is a radio station. You need presenters, otherwise it's just a (not particularly) good iPod.

Listeners can get all of their favourite songs on the MP3 player anytime they want. What they can't get, is surprised. You programme your MP3 player. You know what's on there. You never know what a human being on air will do next.

Taking humans out of radio - Genius*

Best wishes to Pam Stevens and Kelly Latremouille. Two amazing radio presenters.

http://www.jackfm.com

*Note very obvious sarcasm.

Bronze Award Winner.

It started off as an idea, became a reality and now we get ready for the culmination of the Best New Presenter Award.
One of the common threads that came back from our five judges was the fact that the standard of radio in Ireland is so high and that they were really impressed with the audio that was sent their way. That's coming from five people (the judges) who do know what they are talking about. So, I was delighted with that :-)

So, tomorrow at noon, we will begin to announce the three winning entries beginning with the Bronze Winner. Thursday is's Silver and the overall Gold Winner will be revealed on Friday at noon.
Check the website for updates and winner announcements, beginning tomorrow.
The shortlist is online there too.
Good luck :-)
http://www.bestnewpresenter.ie

Evans Article.

From The Telegraph:

"Chris Evans rocked broadcasting's boat, a revolutionary talent seemingly always on the brink of self-destruction. Now preparing to slip into Terry Wogan's old slippers at Radio 2, he is a vision of settled contentment – but is the man who lived in the fast lane really ready for the middle of the road"?

Read the full article here:

http://tinyurl.com/yd5u5qg

New 2FM Boss.

RTE have announced that John McMahon is to succeed John Clarke as the Head of 2FM at the end of the year.

“John McMahon is a true radiohead who migrated to RTE Television but is now coming home to Radio,” says RTE Radio M.D. Claire Diugnan. “As RTE 2FM faces into a challenging 2010, I am confident that John has both the skills and the vision to steer Ireland’s second most-listened-to radio station in a confident new direction.”

John has worked in Anna Livia and FM104 in Dublin.

He joined RTE in '94 and has worked on many of the flagship shows including 5-7 Live, Kenny and The Full Irish.

His first job as the new main man will be to re-position the station from the current 15-34 demo to the new 25-44.

It'll be interesting to see how he gets on.