{"id":274043,"date":"2026-01-31T17:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/274043\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T17:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:16:17","slug":"newstalks-claire-byrne-all-set-to-begin-on-air-rivalry-with-rte-radio-1s-david-mccullagh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/274043\/","title":{"rendered":"Newstalk&#8217;s Claire Byrne all set to begin on-air rivalry with RT\u00c9 Radio 1&#8217;s David McCullagh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nAfter poaching the broadcaster from RT\u00c9, Newstalk has overhauled its schedule. As her on-air rivalry with McCullagh begins next week, Byrne faces the challenge of her career in pushing loyal listeners to \u2018move the dial\u2019 and attract hard-to-reach under-24s\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Claire Byrne will be going head to head with David McCullagh in the mid-morning battle for the airwaves\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/df403af9-7545-4e80-99e8-f3be9b6b4d5b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Claire Byrne will be going head to head with David McCullagh in the mid-morning battle for the airwaves<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Four times a year, when the JNLR radio ratings are published, communications staff at RT\u00c9 and Newstalk go into overdrive in an attempt to make their respective stations look as good as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It is spinning as an art form, and the crew at Montrose are masters of it. Even if certain shows suffer a ratings decline, the PRs make it read as though audience attraction has never been better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After poaching the broadcaster from RT\u00c9, Newstalk has overhauled its schedule. As her on-air rivalry with McCullagh begins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6130,93,61,60,280,6133,6131,279,6129],"class_list":{"0":"post-274043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-claire-byrne","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-john-meagher","13":"tag-newstalk","14":"tag-pat-kenny","15":"tag-review-magazine","16":"tag-rte-radio-1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}