Nova Network

Sounds like they’ve updated the sponsor bed to match the news/traffic themes from this week.

Two possibilities here… Either Nova staff read Mediaspy religiously and had to call back the sound agency for more work once we pointed it out, OR they did have one produced and just forgot to implement it nationally in Zetta.

My money is on the former :innocent: :wink:

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https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/radio/nova-announce-new-breakfast-duo-to-take-on-kiis-fm-hosts-kyle-and-jackie-o/news-story/2fcacc1de3949e12f92fb86b4d907d48
Jase & Lauren to present Nova 100 breakfast

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Very interesting that there’s a new national show between Ricki-Lee, Tim and Joel and Smallzy. So Best of Fitzy and Wippa is gone.

Ben, Liam & Belle, will host a new national show, Late Drive, from 6pm to 8pm weekdays.

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Great move by Nova. Hope it succeeds.

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While it’s great to see Jase and Lauren returning to FM breakfast, spare a thought for Ben, Liam and Belle. Their breakfast show had been struggling in recent surveys so something had to be done.

In the final radio ratings survey of 2023, Nova 100 had 5.0% share in breakfast, 7.4% in drive (4pm to 7pm) and 6% share in evenings (7pm to 10pm).

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Hopefully Stanaway rejoins them too

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Buried at the bottom of the News Corp article is this:

Nova also announced that it would introduce a new live and local workday slot from 9am-2pm.

The new slot will be hosted by Mel Tracina in Melbourne, Adam Price in Sydney, Daniel Cassin in Adelaide, Maddy Rowe in Brisbane and Ross Wallman in Perth.

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Start date ASAP? Monday? They’ll want to get ahead of Kyle and Jackie coming to Melbourne

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Amazing pickup. I’ll be switching over for sure. Hopefully Clint is moving over too - he was a big part of their show.

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I think Nova may wait until after Easter to launch Jase and Lauren. The final Friday of survey 1 period is March 30, while the first Monday of survey 2 is April 14.

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Great move by Nova. Jase and Lauren were making some traction at breakfast on KIIS 101.1 so it will be interesting to see if they help boost Nova’s breakfast share in Melb.

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Wins all round for Nova100.

Stronger breakfast. Stronger evenings. And a return to local workdays across the network!

Who will replace Adam Price on Star104.5?

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Seems like its from Monday. Handover post on Ben, Liam and Belle instagram

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Looks like Clint won’t be joining as he has been removed from the bio on Instagram.
Disappointing but so excited for Jase and Lauren to be back.

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Poor things going to national drive :wink:

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Nova won’t dump existing breakfast newsreader Ash Gardner (not the cricketer) for Clint. I think Ash is doing a good job.

Found it on Nova 100’s Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/nova100/p/C3GqqtTyyTO/

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At least initially. I’m sure there’s other things to be worked around with his Nine contract and existing talent at Nova. Or he had fun last year but is focusing elsewhere now.

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Ben, Liam & Belle would be a much better successor to Kate, Tim & Joel (although Tim Blackwell is brilliant IMO).

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How good. Great Work Nova! Jase & Lauren are a great show - and Fitzy, Wipp & Kate sounding very strong at the moment in Sydney!!

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With Ben, Liam and Belle’s drive show finishing at 8pm, does it mean Smallzy’s show loses an hour?

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