Monty moves on as Nova breakfast changes again
Nova Sydney’s breakfast show has gone through its fifth change in just over three years with the departure of Katie ‘Monty’ Dimond from the Merrick, Dools & Monty lineup.
The show has gone from one of the most stable breakfast lineups in the country to one of the fastest changing.
The original lineup of Merrick Watts and Tim Ross began with the launch of the station in 2001. In 2008 Kate Ritchie was added to the lineup.
Rosso announced he was going to leave the show in late 2009, with Ritchie also departing.
In the last survey of 2009 Merrick and Rosso rated 10.5%. The breakfast show now rates 6.4%.
What’s going on at Pyrmont?
Is there something in the pellegrino?
Ahh, I love that argument SoundsSimilar but what you fail to mention as this was the only survey for the year that they rated a 10 and was probably on the back of the announcment that it was all over. The rest of the year they were stale and in the 8’s.
Nova want to be number 1 and they will tweak that brekky show until it is. They may have taken a little step backwards in ratings but it’s all so they have a chance of taking a big step forward.
Remember Judith Lucy rated a 4 on 2day before they managed to get it right with Kyle and Jackie. Watch that nova space me thinks.
The fact is Merrick doesn’t work well without Rosso, it’s a little bit awkward…and not as good.