Kelly Ann knows her grooves.
Movies and Musicals on Lyric, Saturday 12-4 presented by Aideen Gormley is my favourite show on the radio.
Jenny Green on 2fm old skool dance
Cormac Battle on 2fm Sunday evenings. Indie Rock mix.
wrong thread
What has that to do with this thread Sid
Sid is lost Massey
Too many cans maybe
Just starting my third now. Tennents.
Landlords.
Poor effort there Fagan
Snap, on my third as well
Fionnán Sheehan having a few digs at George Hook at the moment. Don’t particularly like the former but George is ridiculously pro-FG and Fionnán is calling him on it to be fair. Hook is seething with him.
Bandage broke this story on the Transfers thread, but its more appropriate to discuss it here I feel. RTÉ have the following on their website
The bit in bold is an interesting addition to the report I feel…
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[SIZE=14px][FONT=Arial][SIZE=7]Pat Kenny is to leave RTÉ and will take up employment with Newstalk, ending a 41-year career with the national broadcaster.[/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=14px][FONT=Arial]Mr Kenny was the presenter of numerous highly-rated news and current affairs programmes in RTÉ across four decades.[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=14px][FONT=Arial]Among the shows he presented during his time with RTÉ Radio and Television were Today with Pat Kenny, The Late Late Show, Kenny Live, Frontline and Today Tonight.[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=14px][FONT=Arial]He was also co-presenter of the Eurovision Song contest in 1988.[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=14px][FONT=Arial]Mr Kenny has courted controversy in recent years given the scale of his salary at a time when RTÉ was attempting to reduce its deficit and presenter salary scales.[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=14px][FONT=Arial]His salary was €630,000 in 2011, €729,604 in 2009 and €950,976 in 2008.[/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=14px][FONT=Arial]His departure follows contract negotiations that have been ongoing for several months.[/FONT][/SIZE]
Any idea what time slot he will occupy. Presume it’ll be some mid-morning gig
My sources tell me it’s a 10am - 12:30 slot
Tom Dunne does not like this
They must have offered him huge wages. We all know Pat loves his cash and it’s a lot further to travel into town from Dalkey in a covered scooter, so the sweetener must be huge. It’ll be interesting to see how he gets on with a much smaller production team. Newstalk’s stuff has always been hugely presenter driven and Kenny lacks the charisma and ‘crazy’ factor of many of their favourites.
A win win with RTE losing a giant salary and Newstalk actually showing some balls in order to take them on.
Meanwhile Myles dungan and Ryan turgidy will be engaging in a round of sticky bicky to see who gets the plum spot before Miriam decides she’s just taking it. And Tom Dunne rediscovers what it feels like to take a parachute and jump.
Your ears?
Pat Kenny – statement
31 July 2013
Having been an on air presence on RTÉ radio and television for all of my broadcasting life, I have now decided to take on a new challenge. I have accepted an offer from Newstalk to host a mid-morning current affairs and features show, with the objective of building a major audience in that time slot.
I am relishing the opportunity and the challenge to work in the independent commercial sector.
Over my career, despite its continuity within RTÉ, and particularly my years on mid-morning radio, from time to time I have radically changed direction, moving from children’s TV to music programmes, arts and features to news and current affairs. In 1988, while co-anchor on the flagship current affairs programme Today Tonight I was invited to present the Eurovision Song Contest, which in turn led to an 11 year period presenting a Saturday night entertainment show, Kenny Live. Then with the retirement of Gay Byrne, came perhaps the most daunting challenge to take on the Late Late Show, which I hosted for ten years. At that point in 2008, I was given the opportunity to develop an original current affairs show The Frontline, which proved to be popular with audiences and was not without its share of memorable moments and controversy. So, against that background, I am delighted to have been invited to participate in a new on-air adventure.
I want to pay tribute to my wonderful and talented colleagues in RTÉ who contributed so much to our joint successes. They may no longer be my colleagues, but I hope they will always remain my friends.
At this time, I have no immediate plans for TV but I would hope to return to your screens in some capacity in the not too distant future.
Most of all, I would like to thank all of the listeners and viewers who have tuned in over the years and look forward to continuing that relationship with the audience on Newstalk from September.