{"id":389419,"date":"2026-04-09T07:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389419\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:21:09","slug":"ive-been-told-that-choosing-anton-savage-as-a-solo-presenter-on-newstalk-breakfast-is-risky-i-dont-agree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/389419\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ve been told that choosing Anton Savage as a solo presenter on Newstalk Breakfast is risky. I don\u2019t agree\u2019"},"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\">Radio station chief pushes back at Pat Kenny\u2019s criticisms and says several people were involved in luring Claire Byrne away from RT\u00c9\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eric Moylan, managing editor at Newstalk. Photo: Frank McGrath\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d3b2bf32-1d78-4b1b-9897-e225dee6b83e.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)\">Eric Moylan, managing editor at Newstalk. Photo: Frank McGrath<\/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)\">The changes that Newstalk made to its schedule last February were the most significant in the station\u2019s history, according to managing editor Eric Moylan.<\/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 prime-time programmes were launched or refreshed. Claire Byrne, poached from RT\u00c9, took on a three-hour morning show. Pat Kenny left that slot, and now presents a two-hour programme on both Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Radio station chief pushes back at Pat Kenny\u2019s criticisms and says several people were involved in luring Claire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6130,93,61,60,5243,6133,6131,6085,6129],"class_list":{"0":"post-389419","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-burns","13":"tag-newstalk","14":"tag-pat-kenny","15":"tag-rte","16":"tag-rte-radio-1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389419","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=389419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}