ABC upends its line-up with new breakfast team

After per week of intense hypothesis about present breakfast co-host Stacey Lee fielding a suggestion to maneuver to business rival FIVEaa, the ABC introduced this afternoon that Jules Schiller and Sonya Feldhoff would tackle the breakfast shift in 2024.

The ABC assertion made no point out of Lee or her present co-host Nikolai Beilharz.

Nonetheless, Lee resigned after her shift at present and FIVEaa introduced she is going to be part of their line-up as afternoon presenter subsequent yr.

Feldhoff, the present afternoon presenter, and Schiller, the drive announcer, are each radio veterans, however will carry a really completely different tone to the breakfast shift, which had been pushed by Lee’s journalistic strategy.

Breakfast underneath Lee and Beilharz had misplaced a few of its scores shine, consistent with a basic decline in ABC radio audiences, but it surely stays the ABC’s highest-rating shift. On this week’s scores, the pair have been third in Adelaide.

The announcement alerts a shift away from arduous information and present affairs, with the ABC highlighting the connection between Schiller and Feldhoff of their common “off the cuff” phase within the afternoons.

“Doing Off the Cuff with Jules over the previous few years has been one of many huge joys of my work life,” Feldhoff mentioned in a press release at present.

​“I’m wanting ahead to bringing that enjoyable and coronary heart to the opposite finish of the day, together with all that makes Adelaide tick and the listeners who’re already a part of our Off the Cuff household.”

​Schiller mentioned one thing related: “My spontaneous and unplanned half hour with Sonya and listeners has at all times been the spotlight of my day. I’ve at all times wished it may go for longer. And now it could!”

​ABC Adelaide supervisor Graeme Bennett mentioned that “for the previous two years they’ve constructed their extraordinary on-air chemistry with a number of the most authentic and entertaining broadcasting you’ll hear”.

​“In 2024 ABC Adelaide will proceed to have fun the colourful Adelaide group and with Sonya and Jules in Breakfast, we all know we’ll be setting the precise tone for the day.”

​The ABC mentioned will probably be making additional bulletins concerning the 2024 ABC Adelaide line-up in early December.

In a press release, FIVEaa station supervisor Craig Munn mentioned he was “thrilled to have Stacy and board – a implausible broadcaster and well-respected journalist demonstrated by the physique of labor that she has delivered to audiences over plenty of years”.

Lee mentioned “the possibility to be part of the FIVEaa household was a possibility too good to move up”.

“I really like talking on to the Adelaide viewers an studying what makes them tick, so I’m actually excited to have the ability to do much more of that in a solo capability on afternoons.”

Lee replaces Jade Robran within the shift which has suffered from very low scores over the previous few years.

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