Politicians in Ireland are also overpaid.
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Pat Kenny was the biggest ‘star’ that RTE had. He left, went to Newstalk with a similar show at the same time, and RTE put Sean O’Rourke in his place. Following an initial bedding in period, O’Rourke was comfortably beating Kenny in the ratings.
The Irish audience, particular the older part who are home during the day to listen to it, have a loyalty to RTE radio or ‘our own station’ as my Dad used to call it. There is nothing to suggest that Duffy wouldn’t fall the same way as Kenny. Either way paying Duffy 300k on the basis on an hour and a bit per day of a radio show is completely wrong. It is lazy in fact - ‘just make sure we keep all of our usual presenters, pay them whatever, I can’t be arsed trying to deal with the competition’.
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Jesus Tubridy keeps going at him there. Cosgrave comes across pretty well there.
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The Taoiseach we should have had.
The commercial revenue dried up when Gerry Ryan died and Kenny left
Michael may like Lyric FM but is a station broadcasting Classical music really in the public interest?
It most certainly is.
You are not looking at this dispassionately
I’m passionate about how dispassionate I am
Yes but this just is not the case with Duffy. He has a disproportionate audience for an afternoon show, something like 4 to 1 vs. Newstalk in that slot. There are loads of other metrics on engagement that show nobody touches him. If anything, RTÉ don’t commercialise him enough.
The Kenny example is not altogether true. He has the highest audience Newstalk has ever gotten gotten, which is pretty impressive given it is a mid morning show. Today on RTÉ gets a smidge over 300k listeners while he gets close to 200k, that is an excellent performance given the factor you mention (audience inertia).
If you look at other “stars”, some were an outright commercial success. Today FM took Ian Dempsey off 2fm and won the breakfast hour. Tubridy moved to the Gerry Ryan slot and haemorrhaged audience, leading to Ray D’Arcy increasing his and winning the slot.
That would be Box Office!
Terry Prone will have Tubs well prepped.
She has him flat out watching Pat Shortt videos to be ready for Mattie’s accent
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What music do you think is in the public interest?
Have you listened to lyric much?
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To be honest, no, but I don’t listen to much radio bar I’m in the car. If 2fm isn’t in the public interest, as McDowell states, why should a station specialising in Classical music?
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John Kelly doesn’ t play any classical. Marty tips along there in the morning.
On a loop In Tubs house for the next week
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The Muldoons don’t “get” Lyric FM and the bit of culture. They’d prefer to be listening to Mart and Market all day.
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The public service component would be that rte is catering for nearly every taste in music over all it’s stations. Lyric is actually broad enough over the span of its week between classical, musicals, jazz etc… but they are all pretty niche. 2fm is younger and dancier. To be honest i think rte has a decent radio output.
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Its quite clear now why rte has to follow commercial revenue rather than follow the bbc model, while cutting its cloth due to the lower population for licence fees. On the gravey train and Donners is on this one too.