RTÉ 2FM has announced that Jennifer Zamparelli is to host her own show as part of the new schedule line up. The show will air mid-morning, weekdays from 10am to 1pm. She joined Breakfast Republic with her co-presenters, Bernard O’Shea and Keith Walsh, in 2014 and co-presented the third series of Dancing with the Stars on RTE One Television. From Baldoyle in […]
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Keogh hosts Newstalk’s weekend breakfasts
Newstalk has announced a new weekend schedule with new shows and presenters. Newstalk Breakfast will now run across seven days, with Susan Keogh presenting on Saturday and Sunday mornings from 8am. The stations says it will be the only live national news and current affairs breakfast show at weekends with news stories, analysis and opinion. […]
Radio stations vent anger at inaction
The organisation representing the country’s 34 independent radio stations is to tell politicians at an event in Leinster House today that it has lost patience with the failure of the Government to address issues facing Irish broadcasting. IBI chairman John Purcell (above) says its members have lost patience and will be robustly making their point […]
Damien Tiernan to present WLR’s Deise Today
Journalist and former RTE broadcaster Damien Tiernan is the new voice of mid-morning radio in Waterford, replacing Eamon Keane as host of the award-winning Deise Today on WLR. The former south east correspondent with RTE will take the reins of the talk and current affairs show from next Monday. The show airs from 10am weekdays. […]
Newstalk brings back comedy news panel show
Newstalk has announced the return of comedy news panel You Couldn’t Make It Up to its weekend schedule. The irreverent 10-part weekly half-hour show starts this Saturday. Recorded in front of a live studio audience, the show is co-produced and hosted by veteran broadcaster Pat O’Mahony and features various Irish stand-ups divided into teams of […]
Larry Gogan to move from 2fm to RTÉ Gold
RTÉ has confirmed that 2FM veteran presenter Larry Gogan will be leaving the station after 40 years and is moving to host shows on RTÉ’s digital station, RTÉ Gold. Gogan will present his last show on 2FM on this Thursday as part of a day of special events celebrating the DJ. He presented The Golden Hour and […]
Cuddihy joins Coleman on Newstalk’s Breakfast
Newstalk has announced that Kieran Cuddihy will join the Newstalk Breakfast team on a permanent basis. He joins Shane Coleman as co-presenter on the breakfast show which airs weekdays from 7.00am – 9.00am. Newstalk Breakfast recently recorded its highest-ever market share of 6.7 per cent with an appeal among 25 to 44-year-old listeners. Cuddihy, a native […]
Paul Williams ends his Newstalk Breakfast slot
Paul Williams is stepping down as co-anchor of the Newstalk Breakfast show, which he co-presents with Shane Coleman. He said that after more than two years being part of the country’s morning commute, he decided it was time to move on. “It’s been a great experience and I want to thank the team for producing […]
Today FM duo partners with Pieta House charity
Today FM has agreed a partnership with suicide support group Pieta House. The charity will sponsor the health and wellness segment, ‘Mind Yourself Now’ on the Dermot & Dave show, in the lead up to FeelGood Week from October 20. The initiative is aimed at helping people #FindtheFeeling through wellness, mindfulness, active, social and fun events. […]
iBelieve’s Audio One to sell AdWave
Lee Thompson’s i-Believe is to partner with AdsWizz to power its new AudioOne audio service in Ireland. The deal will see i-Believe sell inventory from local publishers, podcasters and AdWave. AdsWizz powers the service by targeting audiences by location, age, gender or contextual and also behavioural segmentation. AudioOne reaches over a million Irish listeners of […]
Communicorp rolls out AudioXi digital
Communicorp Media has launched AudioXi, which it claims is Ireland’s largest digital audio exchange and could be set to transform audio advertising. It allows audio content creators and aggregators to consolidate in one place providing audience scale that radically changes the way in which Irish brands and agencies buy digital audio. AudioXi is headed up by Rob Timony, who […]
Pat Kenny agrees two-year Newstalk contract
Pat Kenny has agreed a new two-year contract with Communicorp’s Newstalk talk radio station. The broadcaster will continue to host his three-hour Pat Kenny Show weekdays from 9am. In the latest Ipsos mrbi JNLR figures, published in July, Kenny’s show recorded an increase of 4,000 listeners, giving it an all-time high listenership of 152,000. However, Ivan […]
Rosenstock to host Sunday show on Today FM
Mario Rosenstock, creator and star of Gift Grub on The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show, is to host a new Sunday morning show on Today FM. Mario’s Sunday Roast will be a two-hour mix of chat and music starting at 11am. The move follows Today FM axing The Sunday Business Show and Songs in the Key of Life from its […]
