Enjoyed PM at 6:30, was great having local drive until then.
Don’t want to hear half hour of sport, ABC know the survey, they can see the Nine Radio sports at 6pm is as popular as cot death.
What time will Australia Wide be on regionally?
It’s only 15 minutes - evenings will start at 6:45pm
TBC
Couldn’t you have found a better, less offensive, comparison. This wasn’t the nicest way to wake up this morning.
Oh please, it’s a throwaway line.
Come back to me when you’ve lost a child to SIDS.
Will air at 6:30pm following PM - ABC Sports Daily and the first 15 minutes of Evenings will not be heard on regional stations.
Perth will also now get Australia Wide between PM at 6pm, and Nightlife at 7pm local time.
And due to Adelaide’s drive program now starting at 3pm, the SA regional drive show will also now start at 3pm
Also today was the last day that the second half of The SA Country Hour will air on ABC Radio Adelaide - from Monday, afternoons will start at 12:30pm following The World Today. New afternoons presenter Jo Laverty began yesterday.
Michael Hing will present Sydney Breakfast on Monday and Tuesday next week. Craig returns on Wednesday.
James O’Loghlin will apparently do Mornings from Monday.
James Valentine will apparently do Afternoons from Monday.
Dom Knight will apparently do Drive.
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Her first Saturday Mornings show started today with an outside broadcast in front of Margaret Court Arena, one day before the start of Australian Open.
Update: ABC Melbourne will be broadcasting live from the same location over the next two weeks during the tennis.
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Sharnelle Vella and Bob Murphy chatted to Sunday Herald Sun’s Fiona Byrne about their new breakfast show, which begins on ABC Melbourne tomorrow. Here’s some of what the duo said:
“I feel naively ready,” Murphy said.
“You can do all the planning and go through all the scenarios, but it is a bit like a shuttle launch, at some point you have to lift off.”
Vella said she was excited to be “jumping off a cliff” and taking on a new medium.
“I was not looking to leave Seven at any point, I really enjoyed what I did, but I kind of describe it as my jumping off a cliff moment,” she said.
“When you get asked if you would like to do breakfast radio in Melbourne, that is not something you shy away from and it is not something you say ‘no’ to.
“There are very few people who get to do that gig. The magnitude of it has hit me.”
“You could say when Sharnelle came off the cliff I caught her,” Murphy quipped.
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The ever boring Sally Rope wasting oxygen from ABC Brisbane for a Qld wide program this morning after Mediaspy’s favourite ABC show, Macca without Macca.
Surprised they aren’t getting the new breakfast duo to do a broadcast from the arena to connect with listeners, though they might want to get settled first before adding in extra stuff like OB’s, etc.
Isn’t it always a statewide program on Sundays?
Yes, always statewide Sundays and besides the history regular, irrelevant, non compelling content.
But it wouldn’t mean anything as there’s nothing going on at the arena at that hour. Probably good to let them work in a studio environment initially, as you said.
There would still be people turning up early for the first matches of the day, etc, though that would probably also be mainly after the program ends at 8am.
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In Sydney:
Hingers on Breakfast (until Wednesday, Craig is on “training”). James O’Laughlin is doing mornings. JV is back on Afternoons. Dom Knight back on Drive for one more week (Chris Bath starts next week). Lisa Pellegrino on Evenings (Renee Krosch returns next week)
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A couple of other changes:
Regional SA is now taking the second hour of the Adelaide mornings program - previously, they either had their own hour, or took the 10am hour of the Broken Hill program. Broken Hill still has it’s own mornings program.
Drive in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane and Adelaide now start at 3pm instead of at 3:30pm (or 4pm in Adelaide’s case) - means that the Sydney and Melbourne programs will start at the same time as their rival commercial takback programs on 2GB, and 3AW.
In addition to Perth, Darwin is also another capital taking Australia Wide at 6:30pm instead of ABC Sport Daily.
Perth and NT no longer have a Saturday Early Morning program - has been removed from ABC Perth’s programs page instead after Overnights they replay The Book Show, followed by the Health Report (both from RN). While still in the schedule for Darwin, recordings from previous weeks on the programs page are just the episodes of the RN shows.
Songs and Stories appears to have been replaced with a national Sunday evening show, hosted by Mark Humphries.
Also, for those wondering how ABC airs Overnights live nationally, but then delays Macca to non AEDT/AEST listens, they have a filler program at 5:30am AEDT (past two weeks it has been music specials with David Prior). Afterwards, SA joins the program on delay, while QLD get’s What the Duck with Ann Jones (RN program), and NT & WA get a repeat of Conversations. WA also get’s additional filler programs afterwards until they finally get to hear Macca.
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I thought Early AM was moving to 5:35? It was still on at 6:05 today in Melbourne.
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Nope - still at 6:05am nationally
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Hamish Macdonald will replace Sarah Macdonald as host of ABC Radio Sydney’s Mornings program, a month after listeners and staff reacted angrily to the axing of the popular female presenter.
In December Sarah Macdonald revealed on air that her contract would not be renewed after two years in the slot, sparking a backlash and delaying the announcement of a replacement.
On Tuesday the ABC confirmed Hamish Macdonald will host the program four days a week, while journalist Kathryn Robinson will present the show on Fridays.
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