She was never pushed aside. She didn’t want to do weekends anymore at the time as it didn’t suit her family life any longer. Then when the opportunity arises for regional she took it as it then suited.
Jo wouldn’t want the main presenter gig now as she didn’t back then. If she was interested she would have asked or negotiated at a minimum to go back to afternoon bulletins and news updates. Which she hasn’t.
Fair enough. I think she’s a good communicator i hope Nine doesn’t do anything to lose her.
Ok… Ok… Ok…
Let’s put our typical Nine hats on for a minute.
Who is a “sidelined” Channel Nine personality, who is still stuck in contract? Likely a female (in keeping with the Nine Radio strategy of having females host afternoons [excl. Perth]).
Figure out who. And there is your answer.
Sidenote: It is sad that Grubby & Dee Dee won’t be working for the same radio network any longer.
Good decision to get rid of Dee Dee. Long overdue. She was always way out of her depth and never improved in the three long years she was there.
But please Nine, do not replace her with Jacqui Felgate!! That would flip a very good decision on its head in an instant!
Yes it’s a shame they couldn’t work out a deal to have her back on weekends and maybe filling in for Denis
Tend to disagree.
Tend to disagree again. Haha. I think Jacqui would be good. But would prefer Heidi Murphy.
Makes me think that you may not be in the target audience demographic for 3AW’s afternoon program anyway. Out of curiosity, do you listen to the radio at this time? If so, what do you listen to instead? As I assume it wasn’t Dee Dee!
According to the Herald Sun, Elise Elliott will fill the slot for the next three weeks. That should see it through until the end of this ratings period, then presumably someone else covers the shift during the two week non-ratings period, and the new appointment could start on July 10.
been living under a rock the past day obviously
I am shocked to hear Dee Dee has been let go by 3AW / Nine managements, wonder what the go is there, pure ratings? Admittedly hers was probably the weakest link, not too dissimilar to Jim Wilson also being let go recently at Sydney sister 2GB and can’t imagine Deb Knight is far behind (but they probably don’t want to be seen sacking both Dee Dee and Deb and after Jim also Deb with her profile also hosting Saturday ACA and previously on Today/Nine News and Ten
Don’t blame Dee Dee for not wanting to see out the year, fair enough. Was just catching-up on her podcasts yesterday from the last fortnight, particularly the TV/entertainment/gossip segments (Mondays and Wednesdays at 1:30pm) and had no idea this was going down! Wonder what Fiona Byrne thinks (surely she hasn’t written an article on it)/will do (will the station keep the same producers/guests?
So far all of the usual contributors have been on wirh Elise this week.
I would expect Grubby to not be on Friday though.
I suspect Grubby will also not be back for The Weekend Break this summer. He’s loyal to Dee Dee. If she’s not at the station then he’ll have no interest in staying too.
Or the alternative is, come summer, it’ll all be water under the bridge for Dee Dee and instead she re-joins Grubby over summer.
Aside from Friday lunch though, there is no reason why he couldn’t do the weekend break?
It’s showbiz. It’s not the first time it’s happened and it won’t be the last. I would be very surprised if he pulls away from The Weekend break .
Let’s hope, they were really good over summer during the AFL off-season and continued an iconic radio duo going back decades.
Brisbane’s 4BC has announced that Peter Gleeson will be jumping behind the mic on Drive after the departure of Neil Breen on June 23. The position will not be permanent, however, with Gleeson acting in a caretaker role.
https://twitter.com/couriermail/status/1666696577996701696?s=20
Some may remember the scandal surrounding plagiarism by Peter Gleeson.
do the crime, do the… plum prime radio gig. But of course
Gee there can be some soft landings in media circles. Though I guess in a setting where a large part of your day job is to quote other people’s articles, he would be a natural…
Tbh I’m surprised he thought that would have even been an option.
You rarely see it play out with producers - especially the very skilled ones - as they often get pigeon-holed into that box.
Not even as Breenie’s replacement?