It's too big to fail, but they are also too scared to lose it's core audience by making any real changes. Tubridy got a lot of love for one big show a year, but there are plenty of bad interviews where his research was awful in there too.
500k now for a few hours of radio is it? Both TV and Radio with massive teams doing the work too, so I hate this notion that the presenter is the be all and end all.
Looking at options...Tommy Tiernan is great once he likes the person and he wouldn't be able to fake interest in his 3rd interview with Dermot Bannon that year...
Miriam is all over the shop when it comes to the off the cuff stuff. Claire Byrne is minus craic. Jennifer Zamparelli isn't great. Angela Scanlon is the most fake person on telly. Katie Hannon could be good and I like Sinead Kennedy. She would be known by the older crowd from Winning Streak and is easy-going too.
IT WILL BE A WOMAN FROM WITHIN RTÉ!