Christopher England said:

I stepped by the Radio Nova stream on Friday night. It was very good. A bright mixture of modern up-tempo tunes, a few classics, but a nice mix in touch with today, I thought.
 
But, sigh. I was wrong. This was obviously a Friday night thing. People in radio have this weird idea that Friday nights must be programmed with up-beat dancing tunes, and so it was only Nova following the same trend and copying everybody else.
 
I step by Nova again this morning and I could be listening to Gold – except Gold plays a larger rotation of songs and they are not all as predictable as the Nova playlist.
 
Listening to Nova today is like going to your grand-parents golden anniversary party and just being able to shuffle from foot to foot whilst holding a fish-paste sandwich. Surely Nova was never this bad?
 
I mean, swaying gently from foot to foot to the predictable and highly overplayed sounds.

It's very sad that the name Nova that apparently used to impress and motivate da yoof of Ireland, is now doing everything it was supposedly set-up to rebel against.
 
Hey Ho. —
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Chris,

I'm sure you also have been involved in many "test broadcasts" and this is clearly only a "streaming test" – I think it is more the "old anorak attitude" critics that appear with the "Glass Half Empty" attitude that is out dated.

I remember our test broadcast tape at "CITY" and it ended up nothing like the station music format ended up sounding!

So just please give "NOVA" an opportunity to get the stream working and what other platforms may be used, let them move onto using presenters and then let's see and judge what they sound like.

"NOVA" gave us at "CITY" a run for our money and I feel CC is "astute" enough for "NOVA" to move with the times.

John