O’Rourke gains 6,000 listeners in ‘Today’ slot

The battle of the airwaves between Pat Kenny and Seán O’Rourke produced no real winners or losers in the red-hot competition for mid-morning radio audiences, according to the latest JNLR figures.

Listeners may be moving the dial to Newstalk, but the verdict remains out on whether Kenny is persuading large numbers of his former audience to switch away from RTÉ to the independent station.

The latest Joint National Listenership Research results, which are seen as the first true reflection on the impact of Kenny’s shock departure from RTÉ last summer, provide some comfort to both broadcasters.