2DayFM are now playing musical chairs, but who’ll replace Hughsey, Ed and Erin in 2025?
Speculation is mounting as to who will replace the popular Hughesy, Ed and Erin show in 2DayFM’s breakfast slot, as the station shuffles its lineups for the final quarter of the year.
Earlier this month, Hughsey, Ed and Erin abruptly ended their breakfast show mid-week, releasing a statement on a Wednesday afternoon after making no mention of it being their final show whilst on air that morning.
The official reason given for the departure was “due to some of our families living in different cities”, however this doesn’t address the trio’s inability to see out the rest of 2024.
2DayFM hastily moved Jimmy Smith and Nath Roye, from The Jimmy & Nath Show national nights show into the Hughesy-sized gap left in the breakfast slot, but chief content officer Dave Cameron stressed this was a temporary move.
“As we look to 2025, we are preparing for a change for the 2DayFM Sydney Breakfast show and will make further announcements in due course,” he said.
On Friday morning, the Hit Network announced the Mike E & Emma show, currently in the 9-11am mornings slot on Sydney’s 2DayFM “will temporarily take up residence Monday to Thursday in the national Nights timeslot and the national Breakfast shift on the weekends”.
Again, the word ‘temporarily’ is used.
Mike Etheridge and Emma Chow spent over a decade on-air at ARN’s Edge 96.1, before moving across to SCA in early 2022, hosting the 7am weekdays shift on LiSTNR’s RnB Fridays digital station, so they have moved up in the SCA world, quite rapidly. Could 2Day be testing both Mike E & Emma and The Jimmy & Nath Show in breakfast to see which catches fire first?
While that would be great, it’s unlikely.
No doubt, 2Day is currently attempting to lure another Hughesy-sized name to take on the ultra-competitive Sydney breakfast market.
As always, stay tuned to Mumbrella to find out first.
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Nathan Jolly is the Features Editor at Mumbrella. He joined the team in July, 2023.
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