Does this mean they’ve been dumped from their Friday afternoon show? Nice. After they did such a great job hosting 3LO’s 100th birthday celebration.
And now we get a networked show with Charlie Pickering. If it comes from Melbourne the Sydney audience will be unimpressed. Vice versa if it comes from Sydney.
Friday Revue will continue:
Bit more shuffling in Adelade too:
ABC Radio Adelaide announces 2025 presenter schedule with familiar voices and a new face - ABC News
The terrible Jo Laverty and fairly dull Nikolai Beilharz will swap, while the ever popular Spence Denny will take over evenings, just a few years after retiring. Not sure if it’ll still go into the NT. Jason Chong will move to Sunday mornings.
Afternoon newsreader Wendy Glamocak, who for years has struggled to get a full bulletin out, will also retire.
Good!
Thank God It’s Friday will also be airing on Radio National.
His final show will be next Saturday (30th November) at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.
ABC Radio Melbourne’s weekday ratings have been slowly improving in the past three surveys. Seems that management thought that’s not enough and wanted more changes to the line-up.
She will be kept busy next year with season two of her own show A Bite to Eat in development.
Also a bit of cost-cutting with TGIF going into Melbourne and on Radio National - one less hour the Drive team has to work.
The ABC will no longer still run local programming on digital/online when the cricket is on. The cricket will now be heard on analog, digital and online.
What will run on TV then?
My suspicion is that the digital-only shows were attracting tiny audiences. They are probably better off using those shifts to prepare more content and line up better interviews for the other days in the schedule, particularly over summer when staffing is thinner.
Quite good changes across the board. It seems radio is getting a bit more love.
Also hopefully drive movement to Radio National or NewsRadio when sport is on for those who don’t want to listen to sport.
I’d say this is the goal. Clearly there’s an attempt to boost RN
According to Wendy Harmer, Simon Marnie is also gone.
Cricket is running on TV (At least in South Australia)
Saturday 23rd November and Sunday 24 November
Emma Crowe will be filling in for Simon Marnie - also did so last weekend, so might not be connected to the news of him leaving.
Amazing that in all of these axings it doesn’t include Macca
Who is the new host of Sydney mornings? Both weekdays and weekends?
No announcement yet
macca is like herpies. everyone hates him but he keeps coming back
At this point they could probably replay shows and no one would notice