Kim Williams did not attend Adams’ farewell party on Wednesday.
The video is now available on iView.
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I’ll put this article here because, despite it mentioning a number of ABC services, it in particular talks about Radio National:
I think, as one of the anonymous sources also suggests, that it is heartening that the ABC Chair sees the need to revitalise RN. It’s long been described here (and elsewhere I’m sure) as an underachiever in the ABC stable, and well overdue for a refresh. In addition, the need to not treat ABC radio stations as silos, but rather multiple channels that together deliver a comprehensive service, seems a good thing.
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The full interview on RN breakfast
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I’ve noticed in the last few weeks that they’re no longer calling themselves RN on the radio and starting to say Radio National. I think the rebrand is starting to roll-out!
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Patricia Karvelas
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Most likely will be Steve Cannane or Hamish MacDonald (is he still on The Project these days) who will replace her, given they have filled in for her on Monday’s when Q&A is running (Hamish last year, Steve this year)
Sally Sara is another option - she filled in over summer.
Probably the right choice - it’s become so dominated by federal politics in recent years. It’s no longer a broad offering of hard news each morning.
Fingers crossed it’s Hamish - he would’ve been the right replacement for Fran all along.
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I have listened in a couple of times and PK has been fantastic to listen to of a morning. Sometimes a refreshing change from listening to ABC local radio.
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According to the SMH (Patricia Karvelas to leave RN breakfast):
Since Karvelas was appointed host of Q+A , journalist Steve Cannane has been the primary fill-in host of Breakfast . He is considered an early favourite as a long-term replacement, having hosted seven times in the past month.
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Also from the SMH/Age article:
While the ABC said it will announce replacement soon, there is speculation the program could implement a new format with multiple hosts, mirroring the British public broadcaster BBC’s like-for-like Today program on Radio 4.
I think this would be the best approach, and make the show 7 days a week at the same time. The Saturday/Sunday Extra split and both of those shows being very different from each other let alone RN Breakfast has never made sense.
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Yes please because Sunday Extra is as dull as dishwater apart from Background Briefing. At least Saturday Extra has a world current affairs outlook and in-depth national issues. But on Sundays I switch to NewsRadio.
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Nick Grimm filling in for Sabra Lane on AM on RN and Local Radio on Monday to Thursday this week, then David Lipson is in the chair on Friday (October 18).
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Crikey’s correspondent-at-large Guy Rundle has been sacked after he sent a text to ABC Radio saying sexual assault complaints have gone up because “every grope is now a sexual assault”.
Guardian Australia understands the ABC told the publisher of Crikey, Private Media, that the message was one of dozens of “inflammatory” texts sent by the writer on a variety of topics in recent months to the RN Breakfast show, hosted by Patricia Karvelas. The sexual assault text is the first one Karvelas has read out on air along with his name.
Rundle texted RN Breakfast on Thursday in response to a discussion about the dramatic increase over the past decade of sexual assault offences in Queensland. Guardian Australia understands the ABC confirmed the phone number belonged to the columnist.
Karvelas had earlier interviewed lawyer Angela Lynch, the Queensland Sexual Assault Network executive officer, because the increase has become an issue in the Queensland election.
“Guy Rundle has written in to say, ‘soft interview on the head of a failed strategy, and it’s because every grope is now a sexual assault and people don’t believe policy people’,” Karvelas told her listeners. “Well, that’s quite staggering.”
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What a stupid man
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Well, never thought I’d see the day that Crikey finally acted on Grundle.
He’s got away with writing some absolute shite for so long, it was hard to see what the line was for him to get the axe.
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Excellent choice - already is familiar with the audience (hosted last summer). 5:30 start time also matches the start times of local breakfast programs in most capital cities except Darwin, Perth and Brisbane.
The show will also draw from other ABC journalists including political correspondent Melissa Clarke, business correspondent Peter Ryan and Luke Siddham Dundon, with a focus on more international news, in what appears to follow BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today program.
This + Sally Sara’s experience as a foreign correspondent should help the show have a broad range of quality news stories, rather than being dominated by discussions on federal politics.
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I like Sally amd i hope there is a more international focus. theres only so much politics you can take and next year will be flooded with it, given a federal election is due
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