The Weekend On One With Brendan O'Connor

What did they say?

Someone on the panel mentioned Anton Savage and his role as a presenter and his role in The Communications Clinic. During the same segment a statement was read from The Communications Clinic saying that Savage had no role in media training in the past ten years. No mention if he had media trainined anyone while also on air in the years prior to that.

I would agree with you. He is still a director of the company. So their is a conflict of intrests. I remeber Matt Cooper being very vocal about George Hook doing adverts for Sky TV. How it was a conflict of intrests, etc.

I think Savage was confined to the motoring slot on The Last Word at the time.

why were you surprised? and no it was not meant as a joke.

You'll find national radio DJs (even in the old school sense when radio was less of a business) have little interest in or knowledge of music. Exceptions being Dave fanning for example.

I like Ian and have listened to him more so in his 2FM days and the Beat Box on TV etc, but I find he doesn't like being interviewed and he tends to put up a wall of defence in a harmless way and turns the attention and praise back to the interviewer.

just because Ian came from the original pirates, worked as a DJ (radio and clubs) and still has a very long successful radio career that does not mean that he has a huge interest or knowledge of music.

Many of the pirates were radio anoraks fascinated with the medium of radio though may not have much interest in the records they were playing, or music in general in their own time.

It is a job at the end of the day.