RTE Radio 1: The 9 O Clock Show hosted by Various Megathread

I honestly don't get why people get on boards to vent at people, just leave the man be, he's a great entertainer making lots and lots of money. I mean boards hasn't been relevant in about a decade. Angry old men spouting shite that what it is really. Good for Callan may his reign at 9 continue and may RTÉ giving him lots and lots of money.

Joe is great. This hate listening does you no good Bob, Joe is make good money and continual has an audience. typical middle age man getting at a OAP doing for himself.

I think Joe would do well in London or NYC if he choose to go down that route, lets hope he does. Soon.

Don't understand why people post on Boards.ie, not relevant in years.

Oh fixed! ;)

He kept the audience and added to it, great presenter, good on RTÉ for getting on board. I think this hate listening is just bring down this site, completely waste of time anyway. I don't see why you might see him as establishment, Ryan was good all the same you probably like the rest of them have a problem with him too, look at him off there living up in London, you just hate listening all the time.

Boards just isn't relevant.

This is how I look at it, you've offered the idea that you should not criticise a presenter because you don't like them but you then go on to criticise those other presenters in almost the same way as others have criticised the predecessor in that role. You then tell everyone that boards is not relevant.

Thank you for recognising that I have something to say on this subject, I hope my opinion is based on facts that are available and when I do suggest something that could have happened, I make it clear its purely an assumption on my part.

I am passionate about this subject and I believe we have been let down by our public service broadcaster. Almost everything that they have said about TV production and broadcast over the years is nearly always an excuse not to do something, meaning over the years we've be left with a bland public service broadcaster and by extension bland commercial broadcasters.

I agree with some of the wages are most likely in line with industry standards but there are plenty in RTÉ are are being over paid for their roles. I will also agree there are times when you will want to keep a high profile presenter as they are bring in an audience. However, these are few and far between. This is largely down to RTÉ's inability to develop new upcoming presenters and sticking to establishment presenters.

There is no way that a Gerry Ryan type presenter could develop in RTÉ today, or any new presenter (I wish 2FM luck in their search but that should have happened 2 decades ago).

RTÉ were right to let go of Pat Kenny, I'd imagine even if RTÉ had offered him more money he would have been better severed going to Newstalk. His role in newstalk has always been to rise the programmes surrounding his show, and he has done this to great effect, however I'd argue that Newstalk is in trouble because there is no one coming up. Their morning show presenters and the hard shoulder presenter are just carbon copies of non-entities that give the pretence of being curmudgeons but really Ivan Yeats and George Hook are a loss to the station. I imagine that when Pat leaves Newstalk will be in a difficult position. I see no one from RTÉ that they might nab for that role, nor do I see any one in the commerical sector, potentially Matt Copper but he's getting old too. And you can forget about the finger wagging, glossy, lip smacking, hipster, we know best, wannabe Group Chat Gang from VMTV.

RTÉ certainty shouldn't have given into Ray D'Arcy's demands.

But I digress, in essence most people wouldn't care about the presenters pay or executives pay if RTÉ had done a good job. This "nothing burger" of a scandal would be such had RTÉ actually provided a service over the years, but they didn't, they believe their own lies about almost everything and still took their annual August break, rather than trying to get the audience on board.

So no I won't stop. :/

I will leave it at that, thanks again.