Moves
Jane Hall will depart the KIIS 101.1 Breakfast Show in Melbourne. Jane will finish On-air at the end of this year, allowing ARN to make a clear break and launch a new offering for 2016.
Rod Brice has been appointed Content Director of 919 Sea FM & 92.7 MIX FM on the Sunshine Coast. Since departing SCA over two years ago, where he had held Group Content Director and Regional Research and Operations Manager roles, Rod has been running his own programming, research and consulting business.
Maddie Burke departed as Breakfast newsreader with Nathan, Nat and Shaun at Nova937 Perth. She had been part of the team for the past 5 years.
Rick Dalton is ARN’s Commercial Director, Perth for 96FM. Rick has been with ARN since 2013 and has worked in sales leadership positions in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.
Roger Luders is ARN’s new Commercial Director. Roger has more than 20 years’ experience working in the Adelaide media industry, and joined ARN in 2005 as Sales Manager in Direct before being promoted to Sales Director in 2010.
Jamie Wood is ARN’s new Agency Sales Director for Brisbane. Jamie joined ARN in 2009 and has worked across a number of sales and management roles within the company, including Brisbane Group Sales Manager and Adelaide Agency Sales Director. Based in Adelaide since 2014, Jamie will be returning to his hometown.
Nova Entertainment has announced a number of changes to their Adelaide talk station, FIVEaa. The first change from October will see David Penberthy joined by Will Goodings, to form the new FIVEaa Breakfast team. It follows Jane Reilly’s decision to exit breakfast radio. Jane will be part of the new show until she retires at the end of the year. Replacing Will Goodings on afternoons from 12pm to 4pm, will be radio legend Jeremy Cordeaux.
After 16 years being off-air, The Rubber Room is being un-locked. Come October 12 Phil O’Neil will launch a new, old Triple M night show across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Mark Scott, The ABC’s Managing Director, has announced to staff that he will leave the role in mid-2016 after a decade in the top job.
Steve Price is back at 3AW and Andrew Bolt joins him. Once the curtain comes down on the AFL season, 3AW will launch a new night time line-up. Sports Today with Gerard Healy and Dwayne Russell will have their current 2-hour timeslot (6-8p) halved to 6pm-7pm weekdays. From 7pm to 8pm Ross Greenwood joins the 3AW lineup with Money News from Sydney. And Steve Price returns to 3AW from 8pm-10pm Monday to Thursday, networked from 2GB. And Pricey won’t be alone. He will be joined each night by columnist Andrew Bolt for an hour of what 3AW are calling “hard-hitting radio” from 8pm.