Radio host Sammy J has introduced he’ll be leaving ABC Radio Melbourne after 5 years.
Sammy J, who has been internet hosting ABC Radio Melbourne Breakfast since earlier than the pandemic, mentioned he leaves this system with “pleasure” and gratitude.
“Internet hosting Melbourne Breakfast was an surprising alternative that grew to become an surprising pleasure,” Sammy J mentioned.
“However radio calls for all of you and deserves nothing much less, and after 5 years I’m able to commerce the 4:15am alarm for extra common hours.
“I depart with pleasure, gratitude, and a litany of cash-for-comment scandals that might be revealed sooner or later.”
ABC Radio Melbourne Performing Supervisor Shelley Hadfield mentioned Sammy J has had a huge effect on audiences.
“Sammy has requested the questions we by no means knew we needed answered,” Ms Hadfield mentioned. “He’s grilled the Prime Minister and the Premier, he broke the information to Melbourne of the Queen’s loss of life, and he’s interviewed musicians, magicians, meatworkers and mathematicians.
“Nevertheless it’s Sammy’s reference to the viewers which has been a trademark of his time at 774. “You solely needed to see the listeners flip up on the daybreak for his exterior broadcasts to grasp what an impression he has had on folks’s lives.”
Sammy J’s final broadcast might be December 13, with extra bulletins about ABC Rado Melbourne’s 2025 line-up anticipated over the subsequent week.
