There’s, “We’re not changing anything when we go into Melbourne”, and then there’s just not giving a f*ck.
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I think the feeling is mutual
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Put on will and woody. Mitch churi from nights. The pickup women even. Anyone Melbourne would be better
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Holidays again?
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Well, yeah. It’s a public holiday in some states including NSW on Monday.
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Yes, also SA and QLD
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Aren’t the hosts on The Pick Up from Sydney? I’m a bit confused. Apparently, Mitch Churi is from Sydney, and on the show’s Wikipedia page, it says their home station is KIIS 101.1 Melbourne, but on the KIIS Network’s respective Wikipedia page it says that the show is broadcast from Sydney. I’m guessing that maybe the show is probably either entirely broadcast from Sydney, or maybe Brittany or Laura, or both, are in Melbourne and in the KIIS studios there doing the show. Does anyone know anything further about this? Information on the net about this is scarce. Thanks.
First photo of proof
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The pick up is a national show. And broadcasting out of North Sydney right now and North Ryde before.
All three host are from Sydney.
But Yumi, Monty and Kate Langbroek were broadcasting from Melbourne. That’s the original show came from.
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Got it. Thanks for the clarification. Somebody at Wikipedia needs to update the “Home Station” part of the show’s respective page to KIIS 1065 Sydney to avoid confusion. Will & Woody seem to be the only Melbourne hosts remaining at KIIS 101.1 at the moment. Otherwise it’s a relay of KIIS 1065 Sydney, with the exception of ads, traffic, news, sport, weather and some station IDs during breaks.
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Trusting Wikipedia is your first mistake
Anyone can update Wikipedia, which in part circles back to my first comment in this post
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No official sources have openly disclosed where these shows are broadcast from, at least from my searches.
Apparently editing has been disabled on this page except for users with Wikipedia accounts.
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anyone can open a wikipedia account
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Not really. Cannot even open one. Was trying to open an account, I’ve put in a Username, then my email, and created a password, solved a CAPTCHA or some human verification thing, and it’s taken me to this. What does editing a page have to do with creating an account? Grow up, Wikipedia. How can this be fixed? Not even using a VPN fixes my issues. Is there a specific thread where this can be discussed on, or will we have to leave it there? Thanks.
Can’t believe I’ve suddenly turned this thread into a helpline for solving people’s Wikipedia problems!
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Either your IP address has been blocked because you’ve made an edit that someone deems has broken the wikipedia rules or you’re using a shared IP address that someone has used in this way and was blocked.
I don’t know the answer because my account has been blocked too. I was creating articles for Australian TV series and because I was using data from press releases in the descriptions, that’s considered a breach of copyright.
I always tried to rewrite the info so it sounded original but someone decided that my descriptions were not my own work and had me blocked forever. Oh well, their loss. 
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I suspect that after Survey 6 was released, Kyle and Jackie O are somewhat “damaged goods” in the Melbourne market. They are now seen as a “failed” experiment as they sink to be the lowest rating commercial FM station at breakfast.
ARN need to think outside the usual marketing tactics if they want to turn this around. Forget the gloss and glamour of the current campaigns and all the pink / purple colours. This show needs to get on the front foot or this is going to be a long and painful slip into never-ending obscurity. Melbournians need to be given a reason to try the show again.
I think Kyle and Jackie O need to “own” the failed show. Billboards shouting “Melbourne Hates Kyle” or “Kyle and Jackie O - Melbourne’s No.7 Breakfast Show”.
How about “Jackie O at Breakfast - KIIS”
“The Kyle Free Zone From 10am Weekdays - KIIS”
KIIS 1011 is at risk of becoming Melbourne’s own version of 2DayFM - always at or near the bottom of the ratings. The only difference is that KIIS may get stuck with a low rating, high cost breakfast team. Split the $20M annual salary between Sydney and Melbourne and KIIS 1011 has a $10M a year breakfast show that’s paying its presenters $1M for each 0.5% ratings point. No one has ever been paid so much to achieve so little in one century of radio in Australia.
For that sort of cash Kyle and Jackie O need to attract listeners, so far they have done the opposite. It’s time for a crisis meeting to think of a new way forward in marketing the show to the southern capital. The content of the show can’t really be changed as it works in Sydney. The right marketing might, just might, get the cumes up. The only hope for ARN is that the Melbourne population gets used to the show - but for that to happen, they will need to try it again.
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101.1FM Melbourne will always be “the 2DayFM of Melbourne”. The Fox and Nova100 already own that market. KIIS101.1 needs to be different (the same way KIIS97.3 needs to be too) for them to succeed and stand out.
I am already predicting the next ARN media release simply stating how they are “churning through the old audience”, which is incorrect - as the former J&L listeners are likely still those who may like listening to K&J. In other words, it’s not like a complete format change similar to what Hit92.9 and Triple M Perth underwent.
When will the excuses stop? The sad truth is, never. Kyle will never leave KIIS101.1 not unless he leaves ARN altogether.
IF K&J depart Melbourne, what the constant slagging start… E.g. “Melbourne aren’t ready for us”, and, “We’re just too good for Melbourne”.
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I actually don’t mind this- don’t know if it would work but leaning into it probably not a bad thing.
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It’s already started with Duncan blaming “tall poppy syndrome”.
They also seem intent on turning 97.3 into the “2DayFM” of Brisbane. B105 and Nova already own that market in Brisbane too.
Personally, I think the slide at 97.3 is only in the early stages with more to come.
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If ratings get worse… KIIS Melbourne could just run music (with news / traffic updates) as it did earlier in the year.
Monday will be KJ best bits in Sydney and Melbourne then normal programming after that…