Alan Pearsall is the next presenter axed by Macquarie, with his slot to be replaced by Luke Grant from 2GB.
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No surprise there. However, Pearsallâs style didnât impress many within this forum or other media discussion.
It is a bit of a shame but have to agree, not many listeners want to hear callers sending cheerios to each other, prayers and indeed that dreadful woman from Nhil (if indeed she still rings in). Luke Grant will certainly not put up with that.
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Hearing that Deborah Knight is being considered as a replacement for George Moore and a bombshell that the Continuous Call Team could move to MSR next year.
Pearsall was dreadful, so not that upset I hope they keep local overnights on weeknights though. Deb would be great on weekends and the main fill in for Steve and Ben on weekdays.
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As I have said before, Luke Grant just says whatever he thinks Jones and Hadley would say about a particular topic. His opinions sound fake.
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Iâve not listened to Alan Pearsall on the radio for many years but I am sorry to read that he is being let go. Apart from 29 years at 3AW, he was also at 3AK beforehand during the Beautiful Music days and in the late 1980s when it tried to revive that format after unsuccessfully dumping it. Has certainly survived a lot of the ups and downs of Melbourne radio. Lovely guy too, I met him many years ago when he was still at 3AK.
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I donât think Ray Hadley would allow that.
Do you think Hadley has the pull he once did with management?
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Was Hadley on the Continuous Call this year outside of State of Origin and the Grand Final?
I thought it was his Company and he contracts to 2GB but I could be wrong.
Yeah he did Saturdays 1-4pm although he had quite a few Saturdays off for various reasons.
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Karl Stefanovic filling in for Ben Fordham.
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Huge Marks has told Macquarie Radio staff that there will be more changes and that Nine is yet to decide whether the radio stations will move. A potentially positive comment was:
So, could there be a slight rollback of the networking? 4BC Brisbane canât have a distinctive voice if near everything on the station comes from Sydney.
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I hope you are right!
and so continues 3AW turning into half Sydney/half Melbourne a la the CBC experiment with 2UE and 3AK. And guess who owned 3AK at that time? None other than Nine.
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Listed on the Macquarie Syndication website:
Program Changes , including Presenter Leave and replacement announcer(s):
Neil Mitchell Show
- 30.12.2019 to 03.01.2020, replacement Red Symons
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https://www.3aw.com.au/what-3aws-former-south-melbourne-studios-will-look-like-soon/
3AW/Nine should get the Block to redo 3awâs old South Melbourne Studios
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Sevenâs Nick McCallum is still scheduled to fill-in for Tom Elliott on 3AW, 16 December -10 January.
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