George and Paul permanently for 2UE brekky?
Sydney Confidential reported this in the ‘murmurs’ section yesterday that current fill-in breakfast hosts on 2UE, George Moore and Paul B. Kidd maybe offered the weekday gig permanently if Mike and Sandy’s ratings don’t continue to head skywards.
Ugly Phil for Triple M?
The troubled Triple M is currently entertaining the idea of bringing back the former Hot 30 host and ex-husband of fellow Austereo star, Jackie O… Ugly Phil O’Neill. Having hosted Breakfast in London for a few years, could Phil be the next host on Triple M’s Breakfast?
Confidential thinks this may be an option and why not?
The Shebang have struggled to emulate their moderate Drive time success in Breakfast adding former Nova personality, Paul Murray to Marty Sheargold and Fifi Box. The show seems doomed with reports that the three members of The Shebang have issues and even some reports have suggested that either Sheargold or Murray have to go because of each other’s intense dislike for one and other.
If Ugly Phil were to be given the gig then he may bring with him a new team to rival 2 DAY FM.
Sydney Confidential reported this in the ‘murmurs’ section yesterday that current fill-in breakfast hosts on 2UE, George Moore and Paul B. Kidd maybe offered the weekday gig permanently if Mike and Sandy’s ratings don’t continue to head skywards.
Ugly Phil for Triple M?
The troubled Triple M is currently entertaining the idea of bringing back the former Hot 30 host and ex-husband of fellow Austereo star, Jackie O… Ugly Phil O’Neill. Having hosted Breakfast in London for a few years, could Phil be the next host on Triple M’s Breakfast?
Confidential thinks this may be an option and why not?
The Shebang have struggled to emulate their moderate Drive time success in Breakfast adding former Nova personality, Paul Murray to Marty Sheargold and Fifi Box. The show seems doomed with reports that the three members of The Shebang have issues and even some reports have suggested that either Sheargold or Murray have to go because of each other’s intense dislike for one and other.
If Ugly Phil were to be given the gig then he may bring with him a new team to rival 2 DAY FM.
So who could partner Phil?
Bianca Dye is back on radio after departing Nova 969 last year, she has accepted a breakfast role with the Gold Coast’s Hot Tomato which also features former Austrero talents, Paul Holmes and Simon Cranney.
Dye may compliment Phil well and could be a new duo that would refresh Triple M.
What to do with The Shebang?
They worked on Drive while Wil and Lehmo have also battled their way through their first year on air together struggling to challenge 2DAY’s Hamish & Andy.
I have mentioned it before but there is still one man not on radio that could deliver for any network… Tony Martin.
Bring Back Tony Martin.
Bianca Dye is back on radio after departing Nova 969 last year, she has accepted a breakfast role with the Gold Coast’s Hot Tomato which also features former Austrero talents, Paul Holmes and Simon Cranney.
Dye may compliment Phil well and could be a new duo that would refresh Triple M.
What to do with The Shebang?
They worked on Drive while Wil and Lehmo have also battled their way through their first year on air together struggling to challenge 2DAY’s Hamish & Andy.
I have mentioned it before but there is still one man not on radio that could deliver for any network… Tony Martin.
Bring Back Tony Martin.
6 comments:
I second the chant - Bring back Tony Martin.
Paul Murray and Tony Martin might work(for drive), Or mabie Paulie and Phil for the morning, and Drive with martin and/or Peter Berner.
Triple M should be begging Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee to return to the station. Axing them was the biggest mistake they've ever made.
bring back get this it was better than watching a duck fall off a park bench
The Triple M trinity is Tony Martin, Ed Kavalee and Richard Marsland. Let's face it, Triple M sucks without them. Bring em back you idiots.
Whose bright idea was it to put Marty and Fifi with Paul Murray??? They are chalk and cheese. I felt like gouging my eardrums the first time I heard Shebang + Paul Murray. My mornings are now Jonesy and Amanda on 2WS.
During the last days of the radio show I received a call from a MMM program director, I don't recall his name (which doesn't give much credit to my name) however I think he phones me directly because I faxed my complaint and considering I work for a huge multinational they saw potential doller signs disapearing. He opened the conversation with this
"Triple M is a radio show but it is also a business" which says to me that they are a business and if people are entertained along the way well thats ok to. Anyway I asked him in basic radioland business terms that the idea of a radio station was to have people listen to their shows. From that he replied "Yes but it was an expensive show and one that didn't carry the ratings to the shows before and after Get This". From there I asked, that's perhaps because A: the people listening to that show are not the standard Triple M demographic, or B: the other shows just aren't that entertaining.
He Opted for "A"
From there I realised the miracle of him reversing his decision based on my fax was a little slim so I decided to just lay it out there and be done with it stating
"Ok let me see if I have this right, you signed up Tony Martin and two other geeks and expected ute driving, big M drinking, footy loving fans to listen in and strangely enough that didn't happen. From this all the corporate partners to which you have signed up for six month to twelve month marketing deals are now coming to you saying " we are not selling utes, and big M's etc because the people who listen to your show drive four door cars and drink red bulls" and you couldn't potentially lose all that comfortable money with traditional partners. So you fire the one show that made all your other shows look like tired and dated and put some nice cheap music on which brings back the ute driving Big M demographic that you are absolutely sure only listens to that kind of radio. Securing your long time partners and all is well"
Instead of opening up a completely new revenue stream with partners you have never even considered possible.
He chose not to respond.
So no chance of Tony Martin coming back with Ed and Richard, the sales department at Triple M don't know how to line up any other accounts than the ones they have.
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