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Will Newstalk sign another RTE presenter this summer ?

  • 23-06-2014 12:18pm
    #1
    Uepped
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    If they poached Joe Duffy it would be a real game changer in irish radio.


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  • #2
    mike65
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    It would - for Sean Mocreiff. A swap maybe?!


  • #3
    Uepped
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭Uepped


    mike65 wrote: »
    It would - for Sean Mocreiff. A swap maybe?!

    NT could adjust their schedule to fit in both Duffy and Mocreiff in the afternoon


  • #4
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Joe has had it far too cushy in RTÉ for years now with a free reign to propogate his own agendas on Liveline without fear of challenge from the bosses upstairs.

    Unlike Pat Kenny, who's current affairs programme was driven by news events as they occur, Duffy chooses the content of Liveline and contacts the 'callers'.
    (As I type this a perfect example is being provided as Joe is in discussion with a Moore Street trader about the film of his friend Brendan O'Carroll).

    Kenny had the added incentive to leave RTÉ as his TV work was cut through the axing of The Frontline. His programme with Newstalk also replicates the one he had on RTÉ so the change was seemless.

    There is no way Joe would get the same freedom to set his own agenda in Newstalk.

    Jonathon Healy does a good job of that already.


  • #5
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    If any proof is needed to support what I said above, simply listen back to today's Liveline. A perfect example of how Joe Duffy uses the programme for his own personal interests.


  • #6
    StaticNoise
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    He shiites on about Brendan O'Carroll far too much. And the people of Dublin. Clontarf. Etc.


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  • #7
    Harry Angstrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,351 ✭✭✭✭Harry Angstrom


    Uepped wrote: »
    If they poached Joe Duffy it would be a real game changer in irish radio.

    They tried to poach him before, but he wouldn't go. Joe seems to think that he does the State some service by staying with the national broadcaster, and that his obscene salary is merely incidental to his "Man of de People" contrived persona.


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