Do you listen to the radio much? (1 Viewer)

[Scientician 0.8]

My friend is researching radio and the Irish music industry for his postgrad. He was telling me all the people he interviewed told him that radio is still the primary and most important means of promoting a song/artists.
I was telling him I don't listen to the radio at all, except incidentally. In a friend's car and he's got the radio on or in a shop and the radio is playing etc. Do any of ye listen to music radio much?

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Newstalk & Phantom mainly

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

i like listening to the radio for talky stuff - news, current affairs, the odd documentary or interview. i never listen to music radio though as its too bad. i might listen to failte isteach with donnacha o'dualing (SP?) or that kinda music show if its on, thatd be it tho.

 

[Space]

Sometimes when I forget to bring my headphones I listen to Highland Radio on the bus to Derry. Other than that I avoid it at all costs.

 

[cookiemonster]

yeah i :heart: radio, fave shows are nova on lyric fm on sunday nights, donal dineen on todayfm, lots of shows on raidió na life, mary anne hobbs on bbc radio1, podcasts of documentaries from stations on the interweb... it's deadly, and i'd hear about most of the new music i'm into from these shows.


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[IFF]

rarely doo i listen to radio

i get a stereo last year in april or march and i vowed i'd set up presets each time i listen ed to the radio. i'll put it this way, i've no presets set on it

 

[sarah]

yeah i :heart: radio, fave shows are nova on lyric fm on sunday nights, donal dineen on todayfm, lots of shows on raidió na life, mary anne hobbs on bbc radio1, podcasts of documentaries from stations on the interweb... it's deadly, and i'd hear about most of the new music i'm into from these shows.


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Ditto on the Nova and donal dineen although Nova is more a regular...always forget the Donal dineen one until I happen upon it...I also really like the talking history show on sundays on newstalk.

I despise Brenda Power though..but somehow have newstalk on out of habit every morning.
must check out raidio na life... what shows what days would you recommend?

I also like lyric in general for some of the random weird stuff that comes on it throughout the week.

 

[BonsaiSuperstar]

i never listen to music on the radio.i dont know why!
cant get phantom in galway and i always forget about flirt fm.
when i do listen to the radio its usually matt cooper and bbc radio 5 live.

 

[Lili Marlene]

oh yeah

http://www.thumped.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=50193

thanks again everyone

 

[Jill Hives]

Not at all. Unless I am in someone's car.

 

[classic seanc]

Newstalk and Phantom a bit, since I moved the PC to the bedroom.
Neither station is perfect of course, but I like em all the same.

Lyric repeats an hour of classical music through the night, which really fucked up my head back when I could never sleep. So that put off that station a bit.

 

[HMD]

the radio is on in work but i'd rarely hear new music i'd like.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

not since Peel died.

only listen to the radio for news, weather and the odd documentary on Radio 1.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

only in the car - newstalk and dublin city fm

i'm addicted to the live traffic reports on the latter

 

[rettucs]

just phantom. I think its great. Not perfect, but damn good.

and sunday sport on RTE 1, followed by the weather on a sunday.

 

[jane]

I love radio and wish I could listen to it properly more often. And by properly, I mean, not just having it on as background, but sitting and listening to it while not doing anything else. There's not a lot of programming out there that requires this, but I like the idea that it's still there and it's still being made.

My morning ritual, if I'm up before 7, is Newstalk's re-runs from 6am, then switch to radio 1 for Morning Ireland, cont until 10, then sometimes music or nothing. Or at the moment, I'm listening to lots of radio docs on line because I'm trying to put mine together.

I found this site, which is kinda cool: http://www.transom.org/shows/

And listened to this amazing piece by Studs, my hero of heroes: http://www.transom.org/shows/2001/20010725.terkel.borntolive.html

Recorded in 1961, with a really bold way of opening the documentary, I think. You wouldn't get away with it now.

And there's NPR of course.

I found some cool roots music show on Anna Livia a couple of weeks ago, and that was great, but I can't remember what it's called. I don't listen to enough of the niche stuff on Radio 1 or on Anna Livia. There's a lot of cool stuff that I'm stupidly missing out on.

 

[Wheels]

I listen to Lyric fm on d'internet during the day sometimes, usually John Kelly, and generally put on Dineen for a bit going to bed.

 

[Yurn!]

FM 104, 98 FM, SPIN 103.8. all briliant.

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

I don't listen to Irish radio but i was completely hooked on Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell for a good few years until he retired to spend more time with his Phillipino mail order bride.

 

[therealjohnny]

I used to listen to the radio all the time here in work- rte radio 1 talk stuff mostly

My batteries ran out last year sometime and I never replaced them..

Lost the habit now, just listen to CDs instead

In the car I listen to Newstalk or Classic/golden oldie shows. Anything else has me constantly searching fro a good tune