The 2 Johnnies are leaving 2FM

Fair play.

Very odd that RTÉ was happy to let the presenters of the most-listened to show on the station walk out over not getting extended leave. Jennifer Zamperelli's been off for ages!

You’d have thought she’d get the hint by now but I guess getting paid a small fortune to read out social media posts is worth it. Which let’s be honest isn’t even news.

Should just get rid of Jen Z. Absolutely hopeless at the highest order. I don’t even know anyone who listens to her

Who is going to pay her that sort of money anywhere else. She is well paid for the job she does, no way she would leave that and i wouldn't blame her.

She's getting paid to do what a transition year student does on work experience for free. She'd be insane to leave

Around the time it was cancelled RTE had been wanting to get rid of Glenroe for a couple of years but the viewing figures were still averaging close to 500k even into its final season so it was hard to get rid when it remained popular given the figures.

They had announced that the latest season of DWTS was to be the last but it was renewed as the it remains popular I think 478k on average there from googling.

If memory serves me well, Will Leahy had about 170,000 listeners in that (approximate) slot and that was considered not good enough. Dan Healy's idea of success has had to be re-calibrated with each schedule change over the years.

That, of course, is not to say the 2 Johnnies would not have surpassed those numbers over time.

Over the course of the 2 years following the big gain did the show gain anything substantial or did it just plateau?

I might be in the minority but I've always thought these "radio personalities" who talk non-stop waffle and hit play on whatever is currently on a 20 track playlist are a very BBC Radio 1 or - for want of a better word - English attraction. Trying to make celebrities out of Nick Grimshaw or whoever 😴

I know our inherent inferiority complex leads us to inevitably hire people who've worked at the Beeb or whatever for senior management and they make these appointments. At the end of the day Irish people like listening to music but we tend to seriously dislike people who go on like they've too high of an opinion of themselves, which could be levelled at a huge amount of the current roster.

2FM is supposed to be a music station. Maybe they could try getting back to inoffensive hosts with good taste in music. It would be a lot cheaper and I'd wager a lot more palatable to Irish audiences. Just a guess.

I'm not sure I follow. 170,000 was his (Will's) total "reach" figure. 151,000 was their most recent total "reach".

Do you mean out of all available listeners at that time of the day? Or out of the total listenership to 2FM?

The one major thing to keep in mind is that the population of adults aged 15+ in Ireland has increased since Will was doing drive on 2FM.

Ha! I love it. That man has a fierce welcome for himself.

He really should also be leaving on May 31st.

Director of Radio "Strategy", how are ya!

This is it exactly.

There seems to be a crack down on outside work.

The 2 Johnnies are in a small set of RTE presenters who can actually make more money and be more successful away from a 5 day a week radio show on 2fm.

This is the same reason Oliver Callan didn't commit immediately when RTE offered him the Tubridy gig.He had to consider his lucrative corporate gigs.

On the lads themselves I was worried for them when they started,I didn't think their humour would translate to the whole country.However I needn't have worried, they turned that show into one of the most successful 2fm shows in decades.

Fair fooks to them,they're likeable guys,funny and successful, too successful to be hanging around on that Mickley mouse Station anyway.

Barry was a generation ago in 2013 TBF, 2FM's 1990s heyday is almost valve radio in terms of today.