Radiorumours.com reported on Wednesday that Glenn Wheeler has been axed from his weekend afternoon show and today 2UE has confirmed that Clive Robertson who most recently presented the overnight show is now presenting every Saturday and Sunday from 2-6pm.
Last weekend change was made to the weekend schedule bumping Don Burke to 6AM with George and Paul now coming on at 8AM until 2PM. Possibly Wheeler’s shift being slashed from 6 to 4 hours caused his departure as he believes he offers more than the six hour weekend show he was presenting before it got slashed to 4 hours.
Robertson is a good move for 2UE and was wasted overnights. He is quirky, funny, more interesting and entertaining than Wheeler and has a very strong lead in from George and Paul that UE hope will sustain an audience that Wheeler has struggled to hold.
2UE have fiddled with their weekends hoping to increase ratings and advertising revenue that would be decreasing with an underperforming weekday schedule.
Robertson starts tomorrow from 2PM on 2UE.
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Friday, March 28, 2008
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Jim Ball takes 2UE into the new day
From tomorrow morning Jim Ball will host New Day Australia on 2UE.
Midnight until 5:30AM, Ball will bring his successful and Number 1, top rating over-night show to the embattled Sydney station.
Ball replaces Clive Robertson who left 2UE in February but Ball's decision to leave 2GB is bizarre considering he was on Sydney’s Number 1 AM station and his overnight show was the highest rating.
Perhaps Ball’s appointment will improve weekday ratings or maybe he is biding his time and has been promised a better slot, perhaps evenings if Stuart Bocking fails.
2UE have other personalities capable of presenting the mid-dawn shift such as Glenn Wheeler, News Director Clinton Maynard or Saturday Night host, Ian McRae. The latter two have been hosting the show, alternating with John Kerr since Robertson left.
Perhaps Wheeler perceives his presentation is better than the wee smaller hours plus his television commitments with Seven’s, The Morning Show while Ian McRae runs a successful radio training school.
Maynard is still a raw presenter and may have been considered to be too inexperienced to sustain an overnight audience.
Other overnight possibilities include George & Paul’s roving reporter, Peter Higgins who presented a few mid-dawn’s in 2007 with no reward. Despite having interesting topics of conversation and a very likable approach to the show, Higgins has not been heard on the overnight show in some time.
Whatever Ball’s decision is to move to UE, probably monetary, he will hope to assist the weekday line-up which has struggled so far in 2008.
If ratings do not increase expect Fairfax to make some changes and the personalities who are currently not presenting shows or presenting shows in time-slots that they believe are ‘beneath them’ might actually be behind the microphone at a time they want sooner than they think.
Midnight until 5:30AM, Ball will bring his successful and Number 1, top rating over-night show to the embattled Sydney station.
Ball replaces Clive Robertson who left 2UE in February but Ball's decision to leave 2GB is bizarre considering he was on Sydney’s Number 1 AM station and his overnight show was the highest rating.
Perhaps Ball’s appointment will improve weekday ratings or maybe he is biding his time and has been promised a better slot, perhaps evenings if Stuart Bocking fails.
2UE have other personalities capable of presenting the mid-dawn shift such as Glenn Wheeler, News Director Clinton Maynard or Saturday Night host, Ian McRae. The latter two have been hosting the show, alternating with John Kerr since Robertson left.
Perhaps Wheeler perceives his presentation is better than the wee smaller hours plus his television commitments with Seven’s, The Morning Show while Ian McRae runs a successful radio training school.
Maynard is still a raw presenter and may have been considered to be too inexperienced to sustain an overnight audience.
Other overnight possibilities include George & Paul’s roving reporter, Peter Higgins who presented a few mid-dawn’s in 2007 with no reward. Despite having interesting topics of conversation and a very likable approach to the show, Higgins has not been heard on the overnight show in some time.
Whatever Ball’s decision is to move to UE, probably monetary, he will hope to assist the weekday line-up which has struggled so far in 2008.
If ratings do not increase expect Fairfax to make some changes and the personalities who are currently not presenting shows or presenting shows in time-slots that they believe are ‘beneath them’ might actually be behind the microphone at a time they want sooner than they think.
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