And Macquarie Weekly has been rebranded as News Nation.
Lame. Just call it Justin Smith.
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Former Seven News and Today Today Perth presenter Mark Gibson has joined Nine Radio filling in on 6PR over the next few weekends.
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Great first (official) show from Deb today, from what I heard.
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Gibbo will be great.
9radiosyndication.com.au and nineradiosyndication.com.au have both been registered by Macquarie Media. Presumably the change from Macquarie Media Syndication will happen soon?
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John Stanley and Paul 2-6pm weekends until NRL
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https://radioinfo.com.au/news/its-now-john-paul-2gb-weekends
I will hope they can shift the rugby league to sports radio. Pigs might fly though. Or maybe shift it to 6pm then until 10pm.
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It seems that Natalie Peters and Erin Molan did not work as well as they hoped. Personally I found the show just waffle. I would imagine John Stanley will give up Friday nights. It will be interesting to hear Chris Smith solo on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Five hours is a long shift on your own.
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Tim Webster used to do it at 2UE. When youâve got all week to plan Iâm sure itâs easier.
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I assume heaps of guest contributors on lighter subjects too
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Some of the interviews/segments are pre-recorded which at least gives a breather but it will be interesting if Chris Smith can come up with 5 hours of entertainment.
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3 days is a long time in media circles:
https://twitter.com/JaneBunn/status/1216973679688474629?s=20
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Didnât see this coming 
7 talent on a 9 owned radio station was never going to last.
@KevinPerryâs source obviously wrong on this one, otherwise management have done one hell of a backflip.
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She did the two days this week as far as I know. Management must have pulled the pin
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No surprises 9 did this. Probably a good idea. I doubt Quartermain will be filling in on the station in the future given heâs on 10.
9 doing a very good job integrating everything. Was always going to happen when you own tv, radio and press.
This is why all those years ago we had cross media ownership laws but in this day and ages itâs all about size and vertical integration.
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If this continues, Jennifer Keyte will no longer appear on 3AW as a weekly guest. She had her segment during Denis Walterâs afternoons show.
This was something I feared when Nine had initial talks with Southern Cross Austereo on a possible merger (the talks failed though).
Will it mean that Nine will ban people from other networks from appearing on 3AW, 2GB etc. though?
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Whoâs no longer host of Afternoons anyway, has Dennisâ evening segments/guests been announced?
I wonder how hard the negotiations were to allow Basil Zempilas to continue out west.
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Denisâ evening segments have not been announced yet, but one of his regular guests, Peter Hitchener, is now a weekly guest on Diane âDee Deeâ Dunleavyâs afternoons, still on Tuesdays.
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Agreed. I have very little doubt that the parent company is eventually going to want all of their star talent on board âTeam Nineâ across every platform - TV, radio, print and online.
The future of Nine News 6pm TV news bulletin radio simulcasts could be quite interesting as well, since none of the stations which do those are NEC-owned.
Youâd think itâd make more sense for the audio of Nine Newsâ 6pm TV news bulletins to be simulcast on the commonly owned 2GB (I can already imagine the âIf youâre not home in time to watch Sydneyâs #1 TV news, you can now listen to it on Sydneyâs #1 radio stationâ type promos!), 3AW, 4BC and 6PR rather than Christian community stations and Grant-owned Ipswich commercial station River 94.9.
3AW simulcasting Nine News Melbourne could mean Sportsday being axed or dumped to MSR.