The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show

The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show
Genre Chat / music
Running time 07:00 – 09:00
Country Ireland
Language(s) English
Home station Today FM
Recording studio Marconi House, Digges Lane, Dublin 2
Air dates September 1998 to present
Audio format FM and Digital radio
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Podcast Pick it here

The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show is an Irish breakfast radio show broadcast on weekday mornings from 07:00 – 09:00 on Today FM.[1] Presented by Ian Dempsey, it is noted for its Gift Grub feature, performed by Mario Rosenstock.[2] It is the tenth most popular radio programme in Ireland and was named best breakfast programme at the 2007 PPI Radio Awards.[3]

Dempsey won a Meteor Award for Best Radio DJ at the 2003 Meteor Awards and has been nominated on a regular basis ever since, most recently in 2008.[4] The show has also had a number of renowned producers including Adelle McDonnell[5] and Alison Curtis,[6] who resigned from the post after being given her own weekday radio show on the station in 2008.[7]

Another notable former producer of the show is Paul McLoone, a fellow Today FM radio presenter and current frontman of the Northern Irish pop-punk band, The Undertones and who also helped co-create the highly popular and successful comedy series, Gift Grub alongside Rosenstock.

In 2008, The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show's listenership figures were reduced by 4,000 to 234,000.[8]

History

The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show has been on air since September 1998 and originally broadcast until 10:00 but an extra hour was given to The Ray D'Arcy Show in 2004 to allow direct competition with RTÉ 2fm rival Gerry Ryan.[9] Each year for that time period, i.e. ten years, Dempsey and the breakfast crew have gone skiing. In 2007, the show replaced Eamon Dunphy's RTÉ Radio 1 Sunday morning programme as the 10th most listened to programme in Ireland.[10] Lucy Kennedy presented the show when Dempsey was absent on 18 July 2008.[11]

In 2011, Sinéad O'Connor announced her fourth marriage live on the show.[12]

Features

"Talking Heads" features a number of voices played in quick sequence. Listeners are allowed to guess the voices to win a cash prize.[13] "Free For All Friday" occurs each Friday when the listeners may request which songs are played on the show.[14]

References

  1. ↑ "PAPER PROPHET Ian Dempsey". Sunday Independent. 22 January 2006. Retrieved 24 October 2008.
  2. ↑ "TDFM028 GIFT GRUB – THE G FACTOR". Today FM. Retrieved 24 October 2008.
  3. ↑ "PPI Radio Award winners announced". Hot Press. 22 October 2007. Retrieved 24 October 2008.
  4. ↑ "National DJ nominations". Retrieved 24 October 2008.
  5. ↑ "Who's who and what they do" – An Adelle McDonnell profile. Retrieved 22 October 2008.
  6. ↑ "Meet the producers". The Irish Times. 4 March 2006. Retrieved 24 October 2008.
  7. ↑ "Show time". The Irish Times. 12 July 2008. Retrieved 8 June 2009.
  8. ↑ Bray, Allison (14 November 2008). "Tubridy rides crest of airwaves". Irish Independent. Retrieved 15 November 2008.
  9. ↑ "RTE and Today FM suffer as regionals thrive". The Sunday Business Post. 22 August 2008. Retrieved 24 October 2008.
  10. ↑ "RTÉ's grip on top 10 loosens as second Today FM show makes list". The Irish Times. 16 November 2007. Retrieved 24 October 2008.
  11. ↑ "On the show archive". Today FM. Retrieved 24 October 2008.
  12. ↑ "O'Connor announces she is to marry". RTÉ Ten. 7 December 2011. Retrieved 7 December 2011.
  13. ↑ "talking heads". Today FM. Retrieved 24 October 2008.
  14. ↑ "free for all friday". Today FM. Retrieved 24 October 2008.

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