Why does a media company need THREE secretaries??? 
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@JohnsonTV perhaps they will be assigned new roles once merged and are staff Nine views as worth retaining?
Email Nic Christensen and ask what the company spin on it is. Details bottom of every corporate media release.
TV website first with the news. Where are 3AW newsbreakers?
TV BLACKBOX ### EXCLUSIVE: The changes are continuing at Macquarie Media with confirmation respected leader Stephen Beers is departing the organisation.
Beers has been the Melbourne based operations manager for the top rating AM station 3AW , as well as Macquarie Sports Radio.
TV Blackbox understands Beers is departing the station after his role was made redundant this morning. Beers had been in charge of the Melbourne stations since 2015.
The departure comes after yesterdays announcement the company had axed all existing talkback programming on its sports network Macquarie Sports Radio.
Last month, 3AW announced the axing of the long-running, high rating Nightline program. A decision leading to all weekday programming on the station after 7pm now being networked out of Sydney.
Rumours are persisting it won’t be the only cutback to local programming, with Dennis Walter’s afternoon program also considered to be under threat from networked content hosted by Steve Price .
Russell Tate, the Chairman of Macquarie Media, today moved to quash rumours of further networked content being introduced by stating.
“3AW is an iconic and successful Melbourne station focussed on local audiences and content and that will not change. The 3AW team will remain firmly focussed on serving its audience and advertisers as they have always done,”
The changes at Macquarie Media comes as Nine is preparing to take majority ownership of the talk radio network which also features stations including 2GB, 4BC and 6PR .
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Not a good time to be in the commercial talk radio industry in Australia.
Either suffer the consequences of the Nine/MML takeover, or put up with Caralis wages & ‘resources’.
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There’s also Nova-owned FiveAA in Adelaide.
Yes I have been reflecting, why?
Given the overall success of 3aw and 2gb, and even 2ue was doing ok too (compared to now). You would think they would invest more to make it even better and to get new “talent” to takeover in the future.
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So true. Once these guys go, who’ll replace them? Someone from regional Triple M?
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If and when 3AW does axe more Melbourne-based shows, it would end up like the failed CBC talk network experiment of 1986 with 2UE and 3AK which saw ratings for the latter plummet! Melbourne is a very parochial radio market, many networked shows are done out of there because the Melbourne stations boast about it being Melbourne-made, and Melbournians generally reject Sydney programming (evidence being Triple J getting lower ratings there than any other city, and 3LO having its own Conversation Hour instead of the Richard Fiedler one out of Sydney).
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Agree. We will be back here in the same situation (Melb & Syd de-networked) in 3 years time.
Nine, get ready for an expensive cost cutting exercise.
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Given all the recent changes at 3AW in management and networking it will be interesting to see if there will be a shift to ABC Radio Melbourne.
And it’s quite obvious the changes will include:
- Networked Afternoons
- Networked weekday & weekend Overnights
- More shared resources and more redundancies
And as mentioned earlier, we’ll likely see new logos in the new year (in my opinion).
Is it possible that hourly news will be networked as well, especially on weeknights and weekends?
“4BC and 4BH are iconic and successful Brisbane stations focussed on local audiences and content and that will not change. The 4BC and 4BH team will remain firmly focussed on serving its audience and advertisers as they have always done,” Mr Tate never said.
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“4BwHo”, said Hugh Marks.
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I was thinking the same thing. It was insulting but sadly I’m not surprised.
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Earlier this decade, 3AW News was networked in to 2UE overnight. I seem to recall Gary McQuade being heard on 2UE from 9pm or 10pm on weekends.
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The Australian has obtained an audio recording from an internal Macquarie seminar that implies the network should put the reputational protection of its advertisers above any notion of editorial independence. In the audio, the unnamed Macquarie executive who delivered the seminar gave staff the edict that it was “inappropriate” for network programs to air any listener complaints about advertisers, without first contacting Macquarie’s national sales director Mark Noakes. The executive added:
“And, that way, we can actually use our commercial relationship and we’ll probably get the right results in the end. But we’ve also managed to maintain the commercial relationship that we have there, without causing any damage.”
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Paul adds nothing to the Show, all he does is agree with George…
A report about people smuggling from Nine’s Europe correspondent Sophie Walsh aired during 3AW’s 6am news.
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