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A TXFM presenter has just penned a lovely tribute to the station and its listeners
ON WEDNESDAY, IT was announced that TXFM, Dublin’s alternative rock station, had not applied to have its broadcasting licence renewed and will cease broadcasting this year.
The news came as a blow to many of the station’s devoted listeners.
This afternoon, Joe Donnelly, host of the station’s drivetime show TXFM Drive, published a loving tribute to the station.
“On one occasion when Terry Wogan met the Queen at the BBC, she asked him what he worked at with the broadcasting organisation. ‘Ma’am,’ he replied, ‘I have never worked a day in my life here.’
“Wogan was alluding to the old saying that if you truly love your job, then you’ll never work a day in your life. Presenting the drive time show on TXFM was like that. In fact, I’m pretty sure I can speak for all of my colleagues in saying we truly loved doing what we’ve been doing for the past two years.”
Donnelly described the experience of producing and presenting his own show as “a big challenge” but “rewarding” and wrote about the relationship between presenters and their listeners.
“We have been flooded with heartbreaking, joyous, funny, moving, genuine, poignant, sad, philosophical and reassuring messages,” he wrote. “I couldn’t pick out one message from all of them; it would be impossible.”
While you may be sad that TXFM will soon be no more, you can take some solace from the fact that there’s still a few months left.
Damn straight.
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(h/t TXFM and Joe Donnelly)
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Craic joe donnelly so long farewell txfm