Job Sharing on Niall Boylan Show

Leilak

Just heard that Niall Boylan has to share his job with Adrian Kennedy - brings a whole new meaning to the term job Sharing.....

seems Adrian will have a new slot every Wednesday night, we all know he is The King of Nightime Radio

May the best host win the job🤣

nj27

Where did you hear that? Nialo is a lot better than Kennedy.

ford fiesta

AK was reading the hourly news on Newstalk's syndicated News service to the local stations a few months back.

I see Alan Cantwell (ex TV3) is also doing this.

Walking_Wolf

You might be confused. It was Jeremy Dixon, Adrian's sidekick, who recently did some fill in work for Niall.

Leilak

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118221999#Comment_118221999

advert on Classic Hits today

Leilak

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118222375#Comment_118222375

thats correct but Adrian getting the nightime gig

vince

The ad was on today. Night time live. Nial mon and tue and adrian on wednesday. Followed by love songs.i wonder will Adrian edge Nial out. Suppose more repeats on thursday.

Leilak

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118224383#Comment_118224383

maybe Niall only wants daytime

fmfan

Either of them would be a good addition to a National station at nightime for a Talkshow like TodayFm or 2Fm.

Larbre34

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118254579#Comment_118254579

Christ no they wouldn't. A small basket of deplorables.

Boylan is keeping lunchtimes, and Monday, Tuesday and Thursday night. Kennedy is doing Wednesday night only.

As has been said, its obviously a live audition process for who gets the talkie job long term. Boylan's contract is up in 18 months. When Kennedy was let go from 98, he said he wouldn't ever go back to nighttime, yet here we are.

Its pretty obvious that his cameos on Newstalk went down badly with listeners and here he is.

Its just symptomatic of the tectonic shift in radio. It has a drivetime role for news and current affairs. But live nightcaller shows? Dead. Magazine shows? Dying. Chart and New Music slots? Forget it. Those that buy music to keep, couldn't find 2FM on a tuner.

Radio has little or no future to entertain, only to inform. Just the live and breaking stuff with some variety and music off-peak. Otherwise its Pods and streaming.

If I were to crystal ball Irish broadcast radio in 2030 (all platforms), I'd say you'll have a steady regional network, though somewhat consolidated and no more than 3 national stations. Radio 1, a merged Today FM and Newstalk and a third covering special interests.

Any other national or multi-city brand will be gone. 2FM, Spin, Nova, CH 4FM, iRadio, all just memories.

In Dublin you may, just may, get one zombie survivor out of 98, 104, 102, Sunshine etc, in some sort of local magazine mix format.

But Boylan and Kennedy will be ancient history.

JJKC

Classic Hits seems to have become nothing more than a dumping ground for out of work presenters who were popular on the Dublin airwaves 10/20 year's ago.

end of the road

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118255606#Comment_118255606

if they bring in an audience then job done, that's really what matters rather then where they were previously.

Walking_Wolf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118254671#Comment_118254671

Hyperbolic bullsh*t.

California Dreamer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118258286#Comment_118258286

Yeh because the audience on that station has been huge!!!

end of the road

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118260968#Comment_118260968

any improvement if it happens is an improvement, better then nothing for a station that more or less duplicates others.

i am sure if they are stuck they could hire you in to sort it out since you are such an expert.

California Dreamer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118263086#Comment_118263086

Oooh easy there Karen! Where did I say that I could do a better job?

Fact of the matter remains is that they have never had a huge audience regardless of who has been on air.

end of the road

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118264262#Comment_118264262

yeah and?

HighF123

IMO, Hayes and Dixon got Kennedy in the door at CH. There's a good chance he may replace Boylan all together when his contract expires in about 18 months. 

Warwick green

I enjoy the night time show better with Boylan purely for the reason he does the light-hearted segment with the other crew for the last 30 mins. It's easy listening going to bed. Similar to Adrian and Jeremy's old "get it off your chest" on fm104 years ago.

Walking_Wolf

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118553690#Comment_118553690

Which he blatantly stole from them. Last time I listened, he was even calling it "Get it off your chest" and using the La Femme d'Argent soundtrack. His show is a copy-paste of the old Phoneshow.