The Pat Kenny Show

mike65 wrote: »

Larry Gogan is going to die.[/QUOT

who isn't ?

serfboard wrote: »

Wind back not too many years ago and removing Pat and Marian would save a million euro from the wage bill! (And yes, I know they're contractors).

Throw in Tubridy as well and you could replace those three people with 30 (good) people from local/community radio. They could go into production and you could bump others up.

Sorry but the notion that you could just throw any community radio presenter in to one of the slots occupied by one of RTE's seasoned presenters is just nonsense.

I am in no way trying to justify their ridiculous salaries but they have built up a listnership on the back of their ability. You don't just replace that easily. Personality like it or not, carries weight in the media.

Pat Kenny will bring tones of listeners to Newtalk.
Tom dunne is an empty vessel who hasn't bothered his arse to become more leraned and informed. Thems the breaks. newstalk should get rid of their other amateurs like Jonathan Healy, chris donohoe amd that clown coleman X2

Harry Angstrom wrote: »

Whatever about Pat Kenny's salary, at least it could be argued that he did plenty of work for his money over the years, what with The Late Late, Primetime, Today with PK, The Frontline etc. but Marian has been freewheeling for years, and her ridiculous salary for presenting a two hour show on two days a week goes to show just how crazy things had gotten at RTE.

Couldn't agree more. Finucane's pay for so little airtime is simply scandalous, and yet another reason to do away with the TV licence which helps fund her.

Be interesting to see who the other mooted big name is.

Marians a busted flush IMO . It'd be a big story but in reality she's been coasting for years and is seriously out of touch with modern Ireland.

Charlie bird attracted more listeners than she did when she fecked off for 15 weeks on end. Hence her 200k paycut.

Anyone taking her on is looking at a serious financial hit . I could see her going but can't think who'd be mad enough to employ her .

Joe would be massive but considering how shocked he was at pat going I reckon you'd need dynamite to get him out of montrose.

Really can't see who it could be . One of the girls maybe ?

Rachel English or aine lawlor could do good on newstalk to help boost their wimin quota .

washiskin wrote: »

I could cope with Myles Dungan or Rachel English in that spot but to be perfectly honest, I think either PBH or Audrey Carville would be a great replacement for PK.

Also, cut out the music altogether - it distracts form the tone of the show imho and keep it about current affairs & lifestyle and please, for the love of God, NO MLOD!!!! (I just hope Pat does the same over at Newstalk! )

MLOD will be lost without Pat. Myles doesn't fawn over her half as much as Pat did.

Kenny was p*ssed with RTE about TV roles and getting 'demoted'

Kenny was p*ssed at the constant scrutiny of his very public salary

Kenny was P*ssed last Christmas on mulled wine

There's my tuppence!

There is inevitably going to be alot of hype, soul searching and finger pointing as a result of Pats move but once the dust settles i think it will show the radio landscape hasnt changed.

Having put in 41 years at RTE Pat felt he was entitled to better treatment than the boffins in montrose were giving him, whether thats true or not I dont know but I think the fact that he chose to part company with them rather than the other way around is alarming. The man is 65 years of age, he's a pensioner much like the rest of rte, in reality he had 4 decades at the tax payers expense, it really should have been rte that should have ended this relationship with a view to the future.

The radio 1 'talent' like much of its audience is ageing, but there is little thought going into the next generation. Gaybo is being a bit hysterical when he says Radio 1 wants to parachute graduates in to RTE, that is utter nonsense, as anyone who knows anything about RTE will tell you its nearly impossible to get into. I have always respected Gaybo but he cant see the wood for the trees in this instance.

Kenny's ego was hurt clearly by the loss of the late late and the frontline. In reality Kenny should never have been given the late late , because the show should have been retired with Gaybo. Instead we had a decade of an uncomfortable cringemaking Pat trying to do light entertainment and essentially just coming across as awkward. In any other country the shepherds crook would have appeared from stage left after one season.

Personally I have always found Pat's inability to fluctuate from political subject matter to lighter stuff as evidence of his deficiencies. I would place Matt Cooper way ahead of Pat when it comes to cornering politicians and on his ability to show tact which Pat never had. Kenny was always efficient yes, but very much soulless yet because he worked for the state broadcaster his audience was always guaranteed. The most fascinating thing for me now is whether he will bring listeners with him. I believe he will bring some, perhaps many, but I do not think he has a hope of increasing Newstalks numbers from the 50k Tom Dunne has to anywhere near the 330k Pat had on radio 1, purely because radio 1 listeners are very much set in their ways, as far as they are concerned RTE is the gospel.

I also dont believe Kenny's move will be a game changer. DOB is clearly funding this move much like he's bankrolling Trapatonni for the FAI, but DOB isnt going to start hiring en masse from montrose. Rte will keep the fuss to a minimum, Miriam will get Pat's slot and once every quarter there will be the inevitable chatter and comparisons made.

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

I don't say he's as good but he's the next best thing that I can see (the only other person in the ballpark IMO is the current stand-in) Funny I don't find him particularly tactful, in fact sometimes his line of questioning is needlessly confrontational. Plus I'd say he has a genuine interest in some areas where Pat is only swotting up e.g. when someone from Mad Men or The Wire is being interviewed, Matt is likely to have actually watched the box set, whereas Pat has only read a briefing document from one of his researchers.

That's all very true, give me Matt over Pat any day (though I hope Matt doesn't leave Today FM, he's a good match there as he brings the credibility of the current events coverage up while also fitting in with the more relaxed atmosphere at other times). He can cover everything from politics to sport to celeb interviews, tech, TV and movies seamlessly. Matt can relate to everybody on some level, whereas I don't ever think I've even met another person who has reminded me of Pat Kenny. He's one of a kind, which works both for and against him.

Having said that, on budget week there's nothing like Pat laying into a bumbling Finance Minister for a good hour or so.

Much being made of Pat Kenny being 65, but to me he doesn't sound like a pensioner. Gaybo towards the end of his full time career did sound old but Kenny seems to have always sounded middle aged ever since he was on RTE Radio 2 as it was.