Job Sharing on Niall Boylan Show

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.

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

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

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.