Same - they’ve always announced it on air when the whole team is there (a rarity these days). I would also assume like @nationalnews mentioned they want Rowland to be there for the inauguration.
I do expect James Glenday to take over at some point, but it will more likely be sometime next year.
Friday (22.11.2024): Bridget is co-hosting with Emma Rebellato this morning, as Michael is still unwell. Stephanie Ferrier is presenting the weather.
He was always listed to be away anyway:
Monday November 25
Catherine Murphy will be filling in for Charles Brice on sport.
Emma Rebellato will present weather
Tuesday November 26 & Wednesday November 27
Charles will be back on sport - Emma will continue to present weather
Thursday November 28 and Friday November 29
Emma Rebellato will be hosting with Rowland
Stephanie Ferrier is presenting weather on Thursday
Oh dear. 0715 today, when it’s peak audience and while the other shows have their feature news interviews, News Breakfast interviews Boy George
NB really seems to not understand what make it particularly successful during the MR and VT years - it covered real news. And any fluff they did was smart fluff with a smart interview by VT with an author like Richard Flanagan or a winner of the Archibald Prize.
It would be a case of availability. George is doing the rounds of breakfast shows today to promote his upcoming 80s tour.
He also appeared on Sunrise after 7.45am and now is on Today at 8.15am. The Project had him on Monday.
Someone needs to look at why people were tuning into the show for a period - because it’s NEWS breakfast. Sure have a little bit of entertainment fluff (especially when it invovles Australian artists), but if it is a choice between a singer and news at the critical 6am-8am timeslot, then news should come first.
I considered availability. But funny how the commercials never have celebrities before 0740.
Yeah not sure why they can’t adjust it to fit him?
I guess Sunrise and Today could better negotiate the time he appeared on their show and maybe News Breakfast was left with whatever else was available.
I dare say George probably had a full diary of interviews this morning on the promotion trail. He probably did breakfast radio interviews in between.
If they wanted him on, maybe they could’ve done a pre-recorded interview at some point the day prior or during Today and air it tomorrow near the end of the program.
Exactly. Not sure an interview with a largely irrelevant pop star needed to be live…
Not sure an interview with a largely irrelevant ex pop star needed to be done at all !!
Friday December 6
Emma Rebellato will be hosting with Michael Rowland
Apart from that, guides indicate that at this stage everyone will actually be on deck for the first four days of the week.
Update - Emma Rebellato is presenting weather this week
Here we go- Michael has some news at 7.45…
So this means it’ll be a 90% new team next year.
