Grant Denyer and Yvie Jones return to radio on the Hit Network
TV personalities Grant Denyer and Yvie Jones will return to Southern Cross Austereo’s Hit Network, hosting a national breakfast program during summer.
Denyer’s ill-fated stint on radio wrapped up earlier this year, when the Hit Network’s Sydney station, 2Day FM, decided to focus on a music in the mornings, instead of a panel of personalities.
The Hit Network includes 2Day FM and Fox FM
The decision to move away from talent and talk-based breakfast programming in Sydney came after declining ratings, and a series of attempts to refresh and renew the program following the departure of Kyle Sandilands and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson to Australian Radio Network’s (ARN) Kiis FM in 2013.
Denyer, along with Jules Lund, Merrick Watts, Sophie Monk, former Spice Girl Mel B, Dan De Buff, Maz Compton, Rove McManus, Sam Frost, Em Rusciano, Harley Breen, Ed Kavalee and Ash London, all gave the Sydney breakfast slot a shot.
Over summer, however, he will join former Goggleboxer Yvie Jones back in breakfast across the country.
Denyer, much loved by SCA and Ten
Jones recently filled in Fifi Box in Hit Network’s breakfast program on Fox FM in Melbourne.
Hit Network said the duo were known to the audience and would engineer a show full of laughs which will make people feel good as they start their day.
“Grant and Yvie are both much-loved members of the Hit Network and we are thrilled to announce they will be on air this December as part of our national summer breakfast line-up,” head of the Hit Network, Gemma Fordham said.
The duo will be heard throughout December
Denyer and Jones are both also aligned with Network Ten on television, with Jones previously starring on Gogglebox, and then contesting I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here. She will also have guest appearances on fellow former Goggleboxer Angie Kent’s stint as The Bachelorette, which begins on Ten next week.
Jones is returning to the airwaves after positive feedback during her time on Fox FM
Denyer is Ten’s game-show host of choice, having fronted Family Feud and Game of Games. He now hosts Celebrity Name Game, on which Jones has also appeared.
The radio program will be heard from Friday, 20 December across the Hit Network’s metro markets.
About time they give this kid a go!
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It’s official. 2DayFM have officially run out of talent to host the breakfast shift. They also appear to have run out of ideas.
2DayFM’s Breakfast with Yesterday’s Man.
I am betting that 2020 at 2DayFM is going to like 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. I am beginning to think the big blue “H” stands for “Hardly Trying”.
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Why does the Hit Network look for radio talent anywhere but radio? They have dozens of stations across Australia with eager young talent waiting for an opportunity like this, and they fob it off to one-third of a previously failed breakfast show and a woman famous for sitting around watching TV.
Using the analogy of the Titanic, it would be easy to call Gemma Fordham the captain, but she’s actually the iceberg.
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