{"id":431632,"date":"2026-05-17T06:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/431632\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:17:09","slug":"the-same-people-who-changed-the-music-for-radio-1-got-rid-of-me-ray-darcy-reacts-to-rtes-jnlr-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/431632\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The same people who changed the music for Radio 1 got rid of me\u2019: Ray D\u2019Arcy reacts to RT\u00c9\u2019s JNLR slump"},"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\">Former presenter on drop in listenership across many of RT\u00c9 Radio 1\u2019s flagship programmes\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former RT\u00c9 presenter Ray D'Arcy. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SN RAY DARCY 3SH.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)\">Former RT\u00c9 presenter Ray D&#8217;Arcy. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/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)\">Ray D\u2019Arcy has criticised his former employer, RT\u00c9, after their drop in listeners, saying the \u201csame people who changed the music for Radio 1 got rid of me\u201d.<\/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)\">Speaking to the Sunday Independent after a controversy filled week for RT\u00c9, D\u2019Arcy said he would not take any joy from the latest JNLR figures, which have proved another headache for bosses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former presenter on drop in listenership across many of RT\u00c9 Radio 1\u2019s flagship programmes Former RT\u00c9 presenter Ray&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[124086,156,101112,157,111,139,141294,69,42351],"class_list":["post-431632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-claire-byrne","tag-entertainment","tag-kevin-bakhurst","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-niamh-horan","tag-nz","tag-rte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}