 Thousands of people signed an online petition demanding the show be reinstated - the petition had 2,000 signatures within a week and 4,000 signatures by April of that year.Many of the signatures of support were from industry professionals, radio stations, record companies, record shops and promotion companies.Music experts within the national media, such as Tom Dunne (of Today FM at the time), Dave Fanning (2FM), Tony Clayton-Lea ("The Irish Times"), Jay Ahern (2FM, Vital Distribution) and Kim Porcelli ("Hot Press") spoke about the central role "No Disco" had in bringing about significant improvements to the Irish music industry.