Ray Hadley has responded to a Daily Mail report that he was spotted at a secret meeting with Sky News chief executive Paul Whittaker and head of programs Mark Calvert last week.
“Despite what might have been written, I have not signed a deal with anyone,” Hadley told CBD. Not even a handshake? “No.”
Wednesday 27th November - 8pm:
In Conversation with Laura Jayes is available exclusively to Sky News Australia’s online streaming subscribers.
The six-part series includes interviews with recently former top-rating radio broadcaster Ray Hadley, former NSW state political leader and mental health advocate John Brogden, former US Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient recognised for his heroism during the Iraq War David Bellavia, Jesuit priest and human rights lawyer Father Frank Brennan, World Vision Australia CEO and humanitarian leader Daniel Wordsworth and US-based journalist and war correspondent Michael Ware.
Erin Molan will part ways with Sky News Australia this week after the political news channel pulled the pin on her Friday night public affairs program.
Daily Mail Australia can reveal the political commentator and one-time Channel Nine NRL Footy Show host has already hosted her final show at the News Corp-owned station and will officially finish up at the channel on Friday afternoon.
‘Erin has been a fantastic member of the Sky News team over the past three years, and has worked incredibly hard for her viewers, passionately advocating on the issues close to her heart,’ a spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia.
‘We’d like to thank Erin for her contribution to the network.’
Despite the fond farewell, Molan was believed to be a no-show at the station’s low-key Christmas party on Wednesday afternoon.
Daily Mail Australia has confirmed she presented her hard-hitting weekly news program, Erin, for the final time on Friday, November 29.
She will not be returning to the airwaves at Sky News Australia nor given the opportunity to farewell viewers.
Good. Now she can find somewhere else to complain and whinge about everything and anything.
I don’t understand why they’d bother axing a conservative commentator when they’re only going to replace her with another one to do much the same thing?
Maybe ratings were terrible or she made huge demands for a new contract.
She would only show up at Sky at around lunchtime on Fridays and then immediately leave after her show so it’s no surprise that she wasn’t at their Christmas Luncheon yesterday.
Wouldn’t be surprising if the ratings were low for her show as it was on a Friday which is their low rating night particularly when the AFL and NRL are on. And with her show gone it means there would only be two live opinion shows left on Fridays (Steve Price and Danica) with US Report and Media Show being pre-recorded at 9.30am and 12pm the same day. Unless they do replace her with someone else of course. But we’ll see when they reveal their line up for 2025 next month.
But given that she now has no TV or radio platform, I wouldn’t be surprised if she’ll remain as a columnist for the Daily Telegraph going forward.
AN Agenda coming out of the Melbourne studios this week.
TV host hits back over Erin Molan rumour
Erin Molan has broken her silence about her departure from Sky News, as another Sky host shut down a “troubling narrative” about her exit.
In a nine-minute video posted to her Instagram over the weekend, Molan said that her weekly show had been “my passion, my purpose, and aside from my little girl, basically my entire existence”.
As Sky News commentators moved swiftly over the weekend to shut down a false narrative Molan had been dumped because of her pro-Israel views, Molan was more straightforward.
“Budget,” she said flatly when asked by news.com.au.
Molan claims to be weighing up three rival offers in the wake of her dumping, but refused to reveal the identity of her new professional suitors and would not address a rumour she is in talks with social media platform YouTube.
“They are confidential,” she said of the offers, before volunteering that they were from “two radio networks and one TV network”.
Molan confirmed her stint as a columnist for Sydney newspaper The Daily Telegraph came to an end the same day she lost her role as a Sky News presenter.
“It was all one contract,” Molan said.
There’s an Aussie tv network which is interested in working with her? 
Sounds like she’s doing her own PR work there.
Only network that I can see who would be interested in her is Seven, and even that is still very slim IMO.
As for radio, a possible candidate for 2GB Drive perhaps.
Given that she’s had a spray at Nine for their culture, I don’t think they want each other back anytime soon.
She’ll fit perfectly well on 2SM, where she’ll be heard by pretty much nobody.
Or that streaming freakshow that Alan Jones was on for a couple of years.
News doesn’t really drop people like this, they look after people who run their line. She must’ve done something to make people unhappy.
Yep. Sky isn’t about ratings. its about influence. she must have pissed off someone
It sounds like she is trying to make it seem like there are people after her. She has already said that a run for a seat representing the Liberal Party was “down the track”, perhaps not game enough for it yet?
I have to say that
Molan said that her weekly show had been “my passion, my purpose, and aside from my little girl, basically my entire existence”.
Is a weird thing to say about a Sky News show that airs once a week vs a weekday radio gig that arguably reaches more people and she jumped ship from an FTA network to do it to boot.
If she didn’t piss off Nine after her time doing the footy there, then yes.
This sounds about bang on the mark.
Zempilas/Molan ticket when? 