Mel made the announcement on the Thursday, and then went on a 3 week holiday (which she stressed was prebooked months in advance, as she was going to Nelson Aspen’s 50th) after Friday’s show, with Sam hosting.
Mel then covered the birth of Prince George in London for 2 weeks (IIRC the baby was about a week late, so she probably wasn’t meant to be there for that long). Sam hosted with Kochie in Brekky Central.
Mel then returned to Brekky Central for a big two week farewell.
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If he does get the gig, then this would mean both the original newsreader and sports presenter would be promoted to the main co-presenting roles.
I also remember on April Fools Day in 2008, they had Nat and Beretts present the main program while Melissa Doyle and David Koch presented news and sport, respectively. That was a good stunt!
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I think beretts should get ti too, it would just work out really well.
Get shirvo on sport.
I would love to see this!
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Maybe they could do this on his last day
Swap jobs on his last day? Why?
With April Fools Day next year falling on a Monday, they could (conceivably) get the Weekend Sunrise team to present on that day instead! The weekday show would however have the same format as it is now.
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Have you not been watching anything Shirvo does over the last 10 years? He is more than ready.
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Yeah I remember that, think she was also in London during her final weeks also for the Royal baby.
Also had the Simpson opener one time, Jennifer Keyte on news… rare sight:
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That would’ve been because Mel was off that week and naturally Nat would just move to being beside Kochie, as she had done intermittently between the late-90s (when Kochie was a regular host until the show’s initial axing in 1999) and 2021.
Also note in the ticker where it said Michael Voss was favourite to become the new Carlton coach - it took them 15 years for that to happen!
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Give the top job to Beretts…. Or at least offer it to him first.
He use to host in 2001 from memory.
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Correct - with Georgie Gardner (of course now at Nine).
Back then it was more of a hard public affairs show which went for only 90 minutes before it got revamped in 2002.
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It was just a news bulletin with a few slightly longer interviews.
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I get that you’re saying that viewers expect Matt to step up now because he is currently Kochie’s fill-in. However, Dr Chris is the only ‘candidate’ that has been named that would be unfamiliar to the Sunrise audience. Actually, as one of the newest members to the family, Shirvington would be less ‘known’ than Beretts, Larry, Mon, Mel or even Doran. BTW, I don’t consider 18 months to be relatively “long”.
From the first time Doran filled-in on weekdays, I said here that he was not the right person to replace Kochie. Glad that the network realised this. I don’t think, though, Matt Shirvington is the right fit either.
Who do you suggest?
Which is even odder - basically getting a stalwart of the channel to undertake a somewhat junior reporting role.
Kay McGrath pops up on Brisbane news pretty regularly.
She gets to do the stories she is interested in with plenty of time to do all the other things she wants to do in her ‘repurposing’/semi-retirement.
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Like OnAir’s comment the other day, even if repetitive and annoyingly fake, can’t help but giggle when he’s popping up in this very thread in those ads 
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Not really. For a start his name has a lot more cachet than your average junior reporter. Anyway how do we know it’s a ‘junior reporting role’? He’ll probably get to pick and choose what he reports on. I expect he’ll be a big big part of Budget coverage, for example. Plus Australia is potentially heading for a recession. As horrible as this sounds, stuff like this is where Kochie will be in his element.
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I’d assume he could stay on as Senior Finance Correspondent - being used when necessary. His experience bolsters their news service in that regard and wouldn’t require full-time work.
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