Yeah, quite possibly. She was also head of Lifesaving Tasmania (I think it was them) and often appeared on the news regularly over the past few years.
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ABC Radio announces 2021 presenter line ups
ABC Radio has announced its 2021 presenter line ups, which remain relatively stable for all networks, with no changes for ABC Radio Sydney and ABC Radio Melbourne.
Several ABC radio networks recorded their highest audience reach and share in a decade due largely to the bushfire coverage followed by coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and the US election.
Triple j introduces a new breakfast duo with Bryce Mills and Ebony Boadu starting on 18 January â just before the Hottest 100 of 2020 countdown on Saturday 23 January and the Hottest 200 on 24 January.
ABC Radio National will launch a new Saturday afternoon show presented by podcaster/broadcaster Marc Fennell. The Weekend with Marc Fennell starts on Saturday 30 January from 1.00pm and will feature a range of RN content from popular programs and podcasts.
ABC Capital City stations
In Sydney, Robbie Buck and Wendy Harmer return to co-present Breakfast, followed by Cassie McCullaghâs Focus. James Valentine is back in Afternoons , followed by Richard Glover in Drive and Sarah Macdonald in Evenings. Simon Marnie returns on Weekends.
In Melbourne, Sammy J will once again start the day on Breakfast ; followed by Virginia Trioli in Mornings ; Richelle Hunt and Warwick Long with The Conversation Hour; Jacinta Parsons in Afternoons ; Raf Epstein in Drive ; and David Astle in Evenings. Libbi Gorr returns for Weekends.
In Canberra, Paula Kruger moves to an off-air ABC role next year and is replaced in Afternoons by Georgia Stynes.
Mel Bush joins the Evenings show in Hobart, replacing Louise Saunders who retired this year and Joel Rheinberger will present Breakfast on Fridays and across the weekend.
ABC Radio Perthâs Weekend Breakfast presenter Christine Layton moves into weekday Afternoons next year, taking over from Gillian OâShaughnessy. Breakfast co-hosts Russell Woolf and Nadia Mitsopoulos present their own shows across the Breakfast and Mornings timeslots with Russell from 5.00am and Nadia from 8.30am each weekday.
Kate OâToole moves into the Weekends slot in Brisbane presenting Saturday Breakfast from 6.00am and Sunday Breakfast from 10.00am.
There are no changes to ABC Radio Adelaide .
All networked programs return next year including Conversations , presented by Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski; Phil Clark and Indira Naidoo on Nightlife: Ian âMaccaâ McNamara returns with Australia All Over on Sunday mornings; and Trevor Chappell and Rod Quinn on Overnights . Sirine Dimachkie presents the networked Evenings show each Friday, with Christine Anu presenting Saturday Evenings and Craig Quartermaine Sunday Evenings .
AM, The World Today and PM all return in their current timeslots next year.
All ABC metropolitan 2021 line-ups start on air on Monday 18 January.
ABC Regional
Annie Gaffney moves into the presenterâs chair for the Southern Drive program covering South East Queensland.
On the Gold Coast, Nicole Dyer will present Breakfast Monday to Thursdays. Bern Young will present Breakfast on Friday as well as Saturday Breakfast. Matt Webber will present Mornings and Julie Clift will present Drive.
In Longreach, Dan Prosser is new to Breakfast.
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Shudder. Isnât it time he was put out to pasture?
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maybe 15 years ago. Now weâre heading into the renaissance
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The best comment going. @John.S you will be loved by the haters who love to hate on this site.
Kate took over in late 2019 after Emma Griffiths left for personal reasons, divorce, unresolved side effects of being a foreign corro in war situations etc.
Hopefully her claim is being handled sensitively by the ABCâs stonewallers, ah, legal representation.
So Kate has covered weekend breakfast for Brisbane, Gold Coast and after 10am, all over Queensland for the entirety of 2020 yet has only been deemed a fill in?
The strange IR and marketing by the ABC never ceases to disappoint.
Kate is a capable broadcaster with a great producer and prior to her current role, was the Gold Coast only weekend announcer.
Karen Tighe has opened up on her ordeal of suffering from viral encephalitis which led to life-threatening inflammation of her brain. She hopes to return to broadcasting in October 2021.
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Country singer-songwriter Felicity Urquhart is leaving Saturday Night Country after 10 years. Her last show is this Saturday night, Boxing Day.
A new host of Saturday Night Country will be named at the end of January 2021.
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Thought I was having a nightmare. No I awoke this morning at around 2.30am with the radio still on, listening to ABC Local radio Overnights program to the horrible sound of callers singing their Christmas songs.
What on earth could presenter Michael Pavlich & the showâs producer be thinking?
Nothings turns off listeners more than listening to people phone up & start singing on the radio.
I thought I was listening to the John Laws show, where that exercise might be common place. Surely the ABC canât be that hard up for callers & staff & production costs.
I was right I was having a nightmare, but it was real.
I had to take immediate remedial action & had to switch to 2GB.
How to loose listeners, just ask callers to ring in & start singing
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i heard this too⌠woke me as well. i ended up yelling âalexa, play the BBC world serviceâ
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Maybe theyâre fans of Radio Red Faces? Power FM used to run it back in the day. 
Itâs not. Not even on 2SM.
Only the disabled Dale that John has had an association with since Dale was a boy.
This is the rubbish that the ABC deem worthy. They simply donât care. It is bad programming. My Christmas treat is not to listen to the z-grade fill in teams on the ABC local radio. Replays of Adams on RN now sound more interesting.
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i keep forgetting that local radio is on summer hiatus. when i do i either listen to BBC local radio london or the world service
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Local radio summer sucks. Radio National summer is quite good however.
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Exactly, many compelling hours of radio to hear again.
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Some other ABC Summer Presenter notes.
In Queensland last week -
- Statewide Breakfast (except Brisbane) was Meecham Philpott (Mackay).
- Statewide Drive (including Brisbane) was Sarah Howells (Maroochydore).
On the National front -
- National Mornings was presented by Adrienne Francis (Canberra).
- National Afternoons was presented by James Valentine (Sydney).
- There was a Semi-National Evenings program presented by Bern Young (Gold Coast).
- NSW/ACT continued their own statewide evenings program with Kia Handley (Newcastle).
- National Friday and Saturday evenings presented by Sirine Demachkie over Summer.
- Dom Knight is filling in for Indira Naidoo on Nightlife Friday to Sunday over Summer.
- Weekend mornings on Saturday and Sunday is Libbi Gorr (Melbourne) over Summer.
- Tim Brunero filled in on Weekend afternoons on Digital Radio and Online.
- Comedian Mel Buttle has returned to present Sunday Drive on Digital Radio and Online.
- Warwick Long is filling in for Macca on Australia All Over.
Christmas/Boxing Day -
- Christmas Day and Boxing Day Breakfast was presented by Paul Culliver (Brisbane).
- Christmas Day Afternoon was presented by Jeremy Lee (Warrnambool).
- Christmas Day Drive was presented by Joel Rheinberger (Hobart).
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I notice that ABCâs current affairs shows AM, The World Today and PM have taken a shorter than usual break. Normally they would be off air for two weeks during Christmas and New Year period, but they only took last Friday off due to Christmas and returned to air today.
Rachel Mealey has been filling in for Linda Mottram on PM since December 23.
Sally Sara is still presenting The World Today.
Kim Landers is presenting AM while Sabra Lane prepares to relocate from Canberra to Hobart in January.
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Has there been any local or state based shifts on any day over the Christmas - New year week on ABC Local Radio?
I notice that the final bulletin of state newsrooms is midday. Hopefully that will return to 7pm from Monday?
Tasmania has had a state based breakfast show each morning with John X from Hobart. I think that ran each weekday except for the public holidays and this morning was the usual state based weekend breakfast but with Mel Bush instead of Joel Rheinberger.
I have a feeling there may have been a local drive or afternoon show in there sometime during the week too but I do know weâve also had a lot of the national programming too - it could also even have been a Tasmanian presenter doing the national shift.
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Appear to be problems with ABC signals in QLD tonight.
Currently with no input or interrupted input on ABC Fm, ABC PNN and ABC RN in Gympie plus Wide Bay.
A recorded message cut in then programming returned.
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