Good chat between Rebecca Maddern and Darren James on 3AW yesterday morning.
After listening to it, it reaffirmed my opinion even more that Bec’s outgoing personality would be great for a chat/panel show on Seven (a program like The Morning Show), as we unfortunately don’t get to see much of her personality just reading the autocue.
Thursday 10 February-
Angie Asimus presented Morning News.
Friday 11 February & Saturday 12 February-
Michael Usher is presenting solo in Sydney again this week.
Scott Gullan did an interview with Sally Pearson which appeared on News Corp papers last Sunday, in which Sally lamented she was struggling to find a new full-time job since retiring from athletics. She said presenting sport on GC News was one of the ways to earn an income.
Saturday 12 February and Sunday 13 February -
Andrew McCormack presenting sport in Melbourne this weekend.
Amber Laidler interrupted her maternity leave tonight to present the weather in Sydney.
Sydney must be short on fill-in weather presenters if your only option is to ask someone to return briefly from maternity leave!
Why couldn’t they just get Musher to present it? Weekend weather presenters are a relatively recent concept for Seven and Nine - I’m sure the newsreaders can do it just as well, as demonstrated in the past
Perth hasn’t had a weekend Weather Presenter for over 15 years
you sure she didn’t just return to work?
Her Instagram story is a photo of her in the lift at work clearly saying ‘A quick guest appearance and now back to normal programming’, with an emoji of a child, indicating that she’s going back to being on maternity leave.
how strange.
Laura Dymock did summer stints both times she was on maternity leave in Brisbane. Weeks not an odd day either.
A lot of companies have ‘keeping in touch’ days for new Mums. They come back for the odd shift to remain connected to the business. Isn’t it a great thing?
6PR reports Basil Zempilas is to be replaced as Seven Perth sports presenter with Ryan Daniels on weekdays but he will remain with the network presenting events like Telethon and the Olympics.
Basil said he would stay with Seven News Perth but would reduce his workload.
Surprised to hear Basil is scaling back nightly sport (but understandable). I was under the impression he loved being ‘Mr Everywhere’.
‘Impressions’ are not always fact.
Interesting Ryan is mentioned initially, but not Barra.
At one point he was doing Weekend Sunrise, 6pm sport, 6PR Breakfast, and calling AFL. Is that not evidence enough he enjoys being in the spotlight? Not saying it’s a bad thing though.
In regards to giving up 6pm sport, you’d think he knew what he was signing on for when becoming Perth Mayor, and IMO the nightly sport role gives him more exposure in the media than Lord Mayor does.
Eddie McGuire was the same at one point too.
Knowing you’re signing up for a heavy workload and experiencing how much a heavy workload takes out of you mentally are two very different yet important concepts.
