ABC Gold Coast Changes
Nicole Dyer is back presenting the Breakfast show Monday-Thursday after a having a few months off to have surgery - Bern Young is back to presenting the Friday Breakfast show, and the Saturday Breakfast program.
Tom Forbes, who filled in on Saturdays for Bern, is now the Gold Coast Drive presenter, replacing Julie Clift.
Shuffling the deck chairs?
Best they return to Coast FM music.
When I opened the (upgraded) ABC listen app on my Android phone this morning, I couldn’t find ABC Melbourne in the station carousel. I thought initially it could be due to the fact that you had to register for an account.
Seems that many listeners had the same issue (which was mentioned at the bottom of this week’s Weekly Beast column by The Guardian Australia’s Amanda Meade - under the heading “change not a holiday”).
Further update - it was announced on-air at the end of today’s show Bern will be presenting Weekend Nightlife for a couple of months. Before returning to the station’s Drive program.
Nicole Dyer will now present the Friday Breakfast show.
Spencer Howson is going to continue to be looking after Saturday Breakfast.
Thats alot of missed opportunites. It used to work perfectly with my google speaker over chromecast and my android auto. Why do they need to break things that work!
The day it updated, it took ages to open on my phone, and now the app is missing from my Android Auto when I open it in the car. I won’t go so far as to say it’s a hot mess…maybe a tepid mess.
One thing I’ll say in the update’s favour is that programs don’t arbitrarily start at the last point you stopped them. I listen to PM every day, and the day’s edition would open at the point that I stopped the previous day’s. If I’d listened to the full episode the previous day, it would open up the current day’s PM right at the very end. I’m glad they got that sorted out.
Saturday July 25 and Sunday July 26
Tim Webster presented Sydney’s Saturday Breakfast, and the NSW Weekend Mornings programs.
ABC Melbourne will celebrate its centenary with a special broadcast of Friday Revue live from the Athenaeum Theatre on Friday, October 18. Tickets are now on sale from Ticketmaster.
(The station began transmission on October 13, 1924, as 3LO)
Monday August 26
Paul Gough filled in for David Bevan on Mornings in Adelaide.
As always, ABC Radio Adelaide will be doing a number of outside broadcasts from the Royal Adelaide show over the next week.
Saturday 31 August:
6am-11am: Saturday Breakfast with Deb Tribe
11am-12pm: SA Grandstand with Aaron Bryans
Sunday 1 September:
10am-12pm: Sundays with Spence Denny
Monday 2 September:
9am-11am: Mornings with David Bevan
12pm-1pm: The SA Country Hour with Brooke Neindorf
1pm-4pm: Afternoons with Nikolai Beilharz
4pm-6:30pm: Drive with Jo Laverty
Tuesday 3 September:
12pm-1pm: The SA Country Hour with Brooke Neindorf
1pm-4pm: Afternoons with Nikolai Beilharz
4pm-6:30pm: Drive with Jo Laverty
Wednesday 4 September:
10am-11am: Regional Mornings with Andrew Schmidt (Broken Hill Breakfast presenter)
1pm-4pm: Afternoon with Nikolai Beilharz
4pm-6pm: Regional Drive with Narelle Graham
Thursday 5 September:
10am-11am: Regional Mornings with Andrew Schmidt (Broken Hill Breakfast presenter)
1pm-4pm: Afternoon with Nikolai Beilharz
4pm-6pm: Regional Drive with Narelle Graham
Friday 6 September:
9am-11am: Mornings with David Bevan
1pm-4pm: Afternoon with Nikolai Beilharz
4pm-6:30pm: Drive with Jo Laverty
Saturday 7 September:
6am-11am: Saturday Breakfast with Deb Tribe
11am-12pm: SA Grandstand with Aaron Bryans
Sunday 8 September:
10am-12pm: Sundays with Spence Denny
Paul also filled in on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Tuesday 27 August
Spence Denny filled in for Nikolai Beilharz on SA Afternoons
Thursday 29 August
Chris Taylor filled in for James Valentine on NSW Afternoons
Friday 30 August
Chris Taylor filled in for Craig Reucassel on Sydney’s Breakfast program
Bern Young also begins her extended stint filling in on the weekend Nightlife program
Saturday 31 August and September 1
Tim Webster filling for Simon Marnie on Sydney’s Saturday Breakfast, and NSW Weekend Mornings programs.
Sometime after 7am (not sure exactly when as I dozed off again) ABC Hobart and Northern Tasmania have broken from the national programming and are doing a local Breakfast program from Launceston with Kim Napier to cover all the emergency things across the state with floods and evacuations, power outages (now over 150 and I think 30,000 out) and storms and winds. The promos have also changed to being ones about not driving through floodwaters and a new one I haven’t heard before about the dangers of fallen power lines.
Nice for Hobart to hear Kim Napier again after being on air for many years there with Dave Noonan. Very nice for us though to not have to endure more of Macca.
Also nice to see even early on a Sunday morning ABC can still do local emergency coverage - tbh I’m surprised they didn’t just get the Sunday Mornings presenter in Hobart to come in earlier and do statewide coverage, so good on them.
Yeah, they swapped over at 9am to Lucy Cutting who usually does Sunday mornings. Was really good to have local coverage even just to keep things calm and making sure accurate information is getting out.
One of the things the ABC always excels in - ability to do local emergency coverage around the clock if needed.
The ABC has been local all day in Tasmania it seems as I heard this afternoon they still have all the emergency broadcasting.
Any chance you caught who was presenting earlier?
Kylie Baxter currently doing coverage.
Update - David Riley took over just after 6pm.
