End of the line for Nova’s Merrick & Rosso and Kate Ritchie radio show
Nova’s Merrick & Rosso and Kate Ritchie breakfast show is ending, listeners were told today, with only Merrick Watts remaining with Nova next year.
The duo began presenting the programme in 2001 when the station first launched. They have been a creative team since 1996, working on various other projects that has also spanned television.
Ritchie joined the show two years ago, after having spent some 20 years on TV, starring in Home and Away. The DMG Radio-owned station says she now plans to return to acting.
While it has been confirmed that Watts will return to the station next year as part of a new show, details of the breakfast line up is still to be announced.
According to the latest radio ratings results from Nielsen, listening share for Nova 969’s breakfast show rose from 8.1% in survey 6, to 8.8% in survey 7.
However, it still lags behind Austereo’s 2Day FM which has an 11% share in breakfast.
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Good riddance you kooky band of bland. Sydney morning radio is an unfunny joke. The only way to unseat the 2Day FM team from first position is not to use another team of used car salemen, mixed in with a high rotation of Pink, Britney and Carr, but to take one giant leap into AM territory – real talk back for the 18 to 35 demo, hosted by a DJ with right-of-centre views. They will be articulate, outrageous, logical, a great interviewer and prepared to shake it up. Would love to hear suggested candidates based on the above JD.
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Yeah, Terry T. Your plan is going absolute gangbusters in Melbourne for Eddie McGuire’s show.
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Sorry Glenn, you didn’t read the JD: we want someone who is articulate, outrageous, logical, has great interview skills, prepared to shake it up and appeal to 18 to 35 demo. Must not have an association with the Melbourne Club.
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Miles Barlow of Review with Miles Barlow is a little right of centre. Could he the right man for the job?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cswy0nJrQ0Q&feature=related
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Merrick and Rosso and two of the funniest guys ever… creating all time classics like Choice Bru Caravan Park, Brett and Craig, That fat kid who ate his mother etc. Perhaps had they replaced that pretty little Kate Ritchie with someone more, as the idiotic bogan Terry T has suggested ‘outrageous’ , such as me Francine Fishpaw their ratings would be much higher than that stupid fat bastard Kyle and what’s her name meter maid from the gold coast. Mezz and Tim you guys have had me laughing out loud for years and i’ll miss youse.
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Francine your perfect.
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Adam Spencer is the only one who fits the brief
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adam spencer is the best thing on sydney morning radio hands down
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As we get some of their work on Brisbane Radio as I suppose Melbourne does, I pray that none of the guys from the Chaser join him. M & R were brilliant on JJJ but obviously they moved on which is fine. With Nova and Vega (online and digital) now broadcasting more into Brisbane and more Sydney format in the other cities, I hope they choose someone good as Merrick is fine.
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