Hit Network

One thing the Hit Network needs to work on is their Weekend Breakfast shows. It’s been a pretty big failure if you ask me. For Sydney, I can safely say Ryan and Tanya haven’t been on air for a while now. It’s been very inconsistent that they actually have been on air!

Will and Woody stopped broadcasting in Melbourne back in May I think. Ryan and Tanya’s show would have stopped around that time, maybe a bit later.
It probably got too hard to manage putting out a decent show in another city in amongst all their other commitments.

Personally I’ve found it to be just as good, if not better having a local announcer on air from 6am on Fox on Saturdays. Unlike most stations, Fox has enough good jocks to easily run the full weekend live and local.

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Ryan was off sick and then on leave recently (and overseas) which may explain it. Taylor from 104.7 mornings has been filling in for him. Not sure if he’s back yet.

The Hit Network Turning It Up In 2018!

The Hit Network will bring an epic national line up to listeners across its 43 stations in 2018, with Ash London Live bringing more music for the late drive home and more national radio stars, comedians and influencers delivering more shows than ever before!

Delivering the newest and best tunes in the world for the late drive home in 2018 will be Ash London Live, kicking off at 6:30pm straight after The Hit Network’s brand spanking new national Drive show with Hughesy and Kate. It’s been a huge year for Ash London, a rising star and lover of music who has hosted drive several times this year and most recently toured the country as the on stage host of RNB Fridays Live. A concert series which has had unprecedented success for the Hit Network, for the second year in a row.

Those Two Girls are set to keep the early morning risers entertained before The Hit Network’s metro brekkie shows fire-up at 6am each morning. Those Two Girls - Lise Carlaw and Sarah Wills will host an early morning breakfast show nationally from 5am-6am. Currently on Hit105’s weekend breakfast, they have become known for their hilariously, open and honest conversations around everyday life.

National late night show Collective Noun will continue to bring the laughs, starting one hour earlier from 10pm through to midnight, straight after Ash London Live. The hilarious young trio; Dom Fay, Zach Mander and Michael Parente make up Collective Noun and have over 120,000 Facebook followers, 200 million video views online and have recently been featured by Buzzfeed, Unilad, Ladbible, 9gag, Philip Defranco, news.com.au.

New to The Hit Network in 2018 will be an outstanding national overnight show with Danny Lakey, from midnight ‘til dawn. The upcoming radio star, comedian and writer, currently co-hosts Hit brekkie in Central Queensland and had a recent video of himself kissing Bill Shorten go viral! http://bit.ly/2hXVQb1

Head of Content for the Hit Network, Gemma Fordham said, “The Hit Network has never been stronger with more talent across breakfast, day-parts, drive and nights than ever before.”

“We have more live hours, an extended drive home with our formidable quartet Carrie & Tommy and Hughesy & Kate and more music being played by the uber talented and pop culture super fan Ash London. We’re really excited to entertain and connect with even more listeners in 2018 across our 43 stations!”

Hit Network National Line-up 2018 Monday to Friday:

5am - 6am Those Two Girls
6am - 9am Hit Network Breakfast shows
3pm - 4:30pm Carrie & Tommy
4:30pm - 6:30pm Hughesy & Kate
6:30pm - 10pm Ash London Live
10pm - midnight Collective Noun
Midnight- 5am Danny Lakey

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Hi MarkHD,

Thanks for posting that report from Radio Today. I find it interesting that Radio Today wrote that next year’s line up on the Hit Network was “epic” Did they get the word “epic” from the media release?

This is also sounds like a press release: Those Two Girls are set to keep the early morning risers entertained before The Hit Network’s metro brekkie shows fire-up at 6am each morning. Those Two Girls - Lise Carlaw and Sarah Wills will host an early morning breakfast show nationally from 5am-6am. Currently on Hit105’s weekend breakfast, they have become known for their hilariously, open and honest conversations around everyday life.

Radio Today - providing no critical thought whatsoever. When you read the Radio Today story you would have no idea that 2DayFM is the No.7 rating FM station in Sydney.The only other media outlet in the world that comes close to such uncritical thought is published in North Korea.

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I didn’t post it from Radio Today, I posted it from the press release. Verbatim.

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Interesting to note that there will now be 2 national shows coming out of Brisbane (Collective Noun and Those Two Girls).

I assume that Those Two Girls will be prerecorded. How will they deal with that in towns that currently have breakfast shows starting at 5 or 5:30am? Will they now all start at 6 or not take Those Two Girls?

Good on SCA for managing to have announcers 24 hours a day Monday to Friday - and probably 23 of them live. That’s unheard of these days outside of talkback radio.

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Curious about the lack of Em and Harley in the national schedule. Potential sign of them not returning to air in Sydney next year?

Is Danny Lakey remaining in CQ?

Good thought.
It could also be just due to a change in direction. Given that they’re focusing on live content tailored for it’s specific time slot Em & Harley (or any other breakfast show) probably don’t fit well at 7pm.

I always found it annoying having repeated content at 7pm. It meant that Ash London started too late and I’d almost always flick over to Nova where I could get Smallzy from 7. It was really just trying to get more mileage out of poorly performing shows.

Great to see a 24/7 live schedule (maybe except maybe 5-6am)

Repeated content always was a turnoff for me. Rather have Ash live from 6.30pm.

WOW! So the Radio Today “story” was the actual press release.

The inverted commas I used around the word story are so appropriate…

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Those two girls are better suited to lifestyle, not really Hit Network material, unless Hit are looking to move more towards the Mix brand ARN previously had, they now have Hughsey and Kate.

But the byline is “Authored by Radio Today”. :thinking:

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Realistically how many people are listening between 5 and 6am. Anyone with a voice would have a good shot against the iPod on shuffle that Nova and KIIS have at that time of day. The network’s hardly setting their tone based on a 1 hour show at that time of day.

I’d say it’s more a “warehousing & development” move by SCA so that the girls can keep working on developing content while being locked down so they can’t move to a rival network.

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Thanks…

Interesting way to list them.

I mean, why list the daytime shows but not the more important brekky shows?

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Bit weird to go so hard with an announcement yet not have breakfast confirmed/finalised :thinking:

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Maybe because of the different times?

RT’s become terrible since they switched owners. I stopped paying any attention after they called Em & Harley 2DAY’s ‘strongest breakfast offering yet’. Now that may be the author’s opinion, but they consistently rate worse than Rove & Sam did. RT’s become biased opinion shlocked up as ‘news’

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