Sir, – In his column (Opinion, August 15th), Vincent Browne wrote: “And how plausible is it that the removal of Sam Smyth from a Sunday morning radio programme on Today FM, which Denis O’Brien controls . . . isn’t part of the same campaign which Denis O’Brien and Leslie Buckley, conducted against Sam Smyth in 2010?”.
For the record, Sam Smyth was replaced in November 2011 because of the ongoing fall in audience numbers. The latest JNLR figures show that his replacement, Anton Savage, has grown audience numbers by 22,000 to 122,000 in the first six months of the show. – Yours, etc,