Radio 2UE confirms plan to replace News Talk with lifestyle and branded content
The chairman and executive director of Macquarie Radio Network has confirmed Radio 2UE will ditch its news radio roots and move to a new show format, with paid-for lifestyle content set to feature as the struggling station looks to increase revenue.
Russell Tate told Mumbrella that some segments will contain branded content, with sponsors earning the right to be on air and answering listeners’ questions.
But he rejected suggestions that such a move would cause the station in some way to lose its integrity, and dismissed ABC’s Media Watch – which took a critical look at 2UE’s advertorial content earlier this week – as a “crappy show” which churns out “drivel”.
“I didn’t see what was on Media Watch and I don’t care,” Tate said. “I’ve got too much to do without watching that drivel.”
The comments came after Tate flagged in Macquarie Media’s annual report that a new format was set to launch.
Tate declined to reveal specific details of the new format, but told Mumbrella it would move away from the traditional news-based talkback format to one focused on lifestyle, including travel, health and well-being, and house and garden.
“We will not talk about what’s happening in Canberra,” he said, adding the content will reflect the lifestyle interests of its listeners, the majority of whom are over 50.
The 5:00am to 9:00am morning slot with John Stanley and Garry Linnell and the weekend shows with George Moore and Paul Kidd will be unchanged. Other shows will not so much feature hosts as “anchors”, Tate said.
Asked again about the reports on Media Watch, Tate said he “didn’t give a damn” what had been on the show and said he would not be lectured about commercial radio “from a crappy show on the ABC”.
But he confirmed “some segments will be sponsored and some won’t”, arguing it was no different from any other commercial TV or radio station.
“It’s commercial radio, it’s how we earn revenue,” he said. “We will have experts talking about issues they know about, which is better than listening to you or me.”
Radio 2UE has struggled to build a Sydney audience, capturing a share of 4.8% in the most recent radio ratings survey.
Chief operating officer, Adam Lang, told MediaWeek that the programming will be based around advertising categories, with the first couple of hours of the morning show featuring travel before moving to house and garden.
Media Watch highlighted segments on 2UE shows that have already featured product plugs for Nature Bee, Sydney Adventist Hospital and Insight Vacations.
2UE: from commercial radio to just commercials #mediawatch https://t.co/z0vADQsWDJ
— Media Watch (@ABCmediawatch) September 6, 2016
Meanwhile, Tate confirmed Macquarie was close to completing the sale of Radio 2CH, which it must offload before October 1 to satisfy competition regulations.
The company needs to sell the station after the merger with Fairfax Radio last year put the station in breach of media ownership laws which impose ‘two-to-a-market’ limit for commercial radio licences in the Sydney licence area. It currently owns the licences for 2GB, 2UE and 2CH in Sydney.
Macquarie Radio originally needed to sell 2CH by March 31, but obtained an extension from The Australian Communications and Media Authority until September 30.
Asked whether a deal would be finalised by the deadline, Tate said: “That’s the intention.”
In the annual report, released yesterday to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Tate’s renumeration package for the 2016 financial year appeared to have soared to $1m, up from $250,000.
Tate explained the $250,000 listed as last year’s pay reflected only the final quarter of the 2015 financial year following completion of the Fairfax merger.
I think that Stuart Bocking should be back on the radio, I miss him.
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Only one question. Why would you listen?
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Listeners will drop dramatically, and the sponsors won’t pay to have such a little audience. Big mistake.
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The most ridiculous idea I have heard in a long time. I have been a long time 2ue listener but this will drive me to look for alternatives ( and I don’t mean 2gb!)
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I still listen to the breakfast show but the garbage creeping into schedule, such as the Nature B morning show, has me turning to the AB immediately Gary and John are off air. ABC will be the winner out of this.
I’ve never heard anything as shockingly bad as that Bowen and the Duck show. It really is an insult to the intelligence of anyone with half a brain.
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It’s time Fairfax had a good look at what Macquarie have done to their stations and people.
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I don’t listen to 2ue anymore because the amount of boring advertising they broadcast since Macquarie purchased them is sickening. 2gb and. 2ue have lost me. Abc is a much better option.
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This is a big mistake. People want both news and light hearted content. If it is only lighthearted people in this age bracket wont listen as they feel they are not being informed. A little of both, is great but take out the serious stuff and it becomes drivel.
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The Wellness Sunday Show was their test.
I believe it rates in Sydney but no where else as it is syndicated across Australia.
I turn off when it comes on and go to the ABC.
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No more 2ue for me. I shall be switching over to the ABC after the Stanley/Linnell breakfast show.
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So now with 2UE gone there is no talk radio for me to listen to in Sydney.
2GB is too far right with 702 is all over the place, with an interview about politics likely to be followed with a segment about a touring African dancing troupe.
If only we had the equivalent of a 3AW or 666 in Sydney.
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2UE is still broadcasting? I stopped listening after Peter Brennan & Sean Pickwell destroyed the place by changing the lineup and sound
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I live in Brisbane and I was an avid 4BC listener until these Macquarie clowns sacked all of the local on-air 4BC announcers and now syndicates the dribble coming out of 2GB on a daily basis. I’m sick to death of waking up with Alan Jones, the twice repetitive Ray Hadley and the oxygen thieving airwaves that Chris Smith acquires. Before moving to Brisbane I lived in Sydney and I very much enjoyed listening to 2UE, and listen to online, before (surprise, surprise!), these Macquarie clowns have struck again, dismantling the station and moving on announcers that were doing a fine job. What a complete shambles this merger has turned into.
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Sorry 2ue,but your going to loose me.I will listen to John,Garry,George and Paul.I can not stand that Duck and who ever,and the advert show before it on Fridays.You have killed a radio station>Good BYE.
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Anyone care to bet on how long before this is declared a failure and a brand new idea (like talkback) replaces it?
Although a bit uneven in the last year or so, 2UE has shown signs of understanding that talkback can be interesting if it does not imitate the “I’m always right” right-wing 2GB style.
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As soon as I detect some ‘advertorial’ content, I will switch to 2GB,
2SM, 2CH or 2KY.
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Like so many I switch off after breakfast! The adds for the other presenters are enough reason not to listen.Especially the show with duck??? The show seems to be about one presenter insulting the other and then both dissolving into fits of laughter!!
If you want rubbish like that then listen to Ray Hadleys football broadcast
2ue started dying a long time ago when they began to employ people like “Dicko”
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Is this supposed to be progress or just controlling what news is fed to the public. I’ve listened to radio 2UE for a long time my kids used to wait to hear Sammy Sparrow before going to school, I don’t like to be force fed opinions, on 2UE there was never that it was more like a friendly discussion and their announcers were a pleasure to listen to so why mess with them. NOT HAPPY JAN, will not listen to 2GB.
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I’m another voice of dissension unfortunately. Tim Webster AND Luke Bona on the same radio station?? And Tim Webster’s ads for his ‘free’ overseas trips every day – 10 times a day. Obviously not selling. And Luke Bona and his Nature Bee? Turn off after John and Gary. I have found 95.3 Smooth quite a good retro music station. So sorry to be so negative.
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It’s very sad as a long time listener witnessing the slow death of a once geat station.
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It’s very sad as a long time listener witnessing the slow death of a once great station.
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Mike Jefferies isn’t even guaranteed his night time slot..
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I have given up on 2UE and this is the final straw. I agree with all the other comments already posted – I will listen to George and Paul at that is it. The news has gone downhill since the UE newsroom was closed and putting on that male duo on Friday afternoons was bad enough. Thanks for killing an icon Macquarie
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Oh God – are you really serious? David Koch on finance for TWO HOURS on Saturday Afternoon. Weekends are meant to be for relaxation – what could possibly be relaxing about discussing the ever present financial information overload. My garden will be getting lots of attention Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Apart from George and Paul there’s absolutely nothing; I’m out.
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I’ll still tune in to George and Paul but it’s off to the abc for me-at least I won’t have to hear another nature b ad ever again
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2UE started to go downhill once they let Jason Morrison go and made some very poor changes from that time onwards. Being one of the over 50s I like to keep up with the daily news events. Definitely wasting Luke Bona’s talents with the intended timeslots. Some of the lifestyle segments I think will work while others will not. Gardening would have to be one of the most boring segments out. You only have to listen to the promos for the camping show on Friday afternoons to know that it would be rubbish – never listened to it and never will. Perhaps 2UE should actually ask listeners what they would like to hear.
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I have listened to 2UE since I was a little girl, I’m now nearly 80 and I Am very sad to say, that’s it for me. Macquarie Radio, you have done your best to not only break tradition with 2UE, but wrecked the life line of many of your listeners who have followed this station for many many years. 2UE was keeping up with the world to people who either were unable to “go and see” or were unable to go out. I refuse to turn to 2GB, Alan Jones is a political bully, Ray Hadley, not quite as bad as Jones. To me, it sounds as if we are being forced to listen to 2GB. Well, thank you, but no thank you. Looks like I’ll have to become a couch potato and watch TV for unbiased commentary on our current affairs and a little bit of company that 2UE used to give.
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Rubbish! I will listen to George & Paul nothing else. It should not be allowed for one company to own two radio stations, thus giving listeners no choice. Shame on you Macquarie Network for destroying an icon. Lifestyle radio, the most boring radio this afternoon I have ever listened to. David Koch! Catriona Rowntree what were you thinking!
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Christine, you said everything I was thinking.
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I really believe that it’s part of a strategy to run 2UE into the ground and then manage what’s left of it’s audience across to 2GB before selling off the bones of 2UE. For my part, I find George and Paul quite entertaining, but move off elsewhere when their program ends. Perhaps it’s time for someone to give Russell Tate the tap on the shoulder.
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I agree with every comment made! I also miss Stuart Bocking.
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looks like Mike Jeffreys has got the flick as well. He was awesome! Far better than Steve Price who says about 5 words and then runs replays of segments from earlier in the day. Yawn.
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Just heard the boring Clinton broadcast segments of the 2gb wellness program. Against George and Paul that is on at the same time on 2ue. What is this station coming to. Koch and the mannered catriona are irritating. Besides George and Paul and Jeffrey’s at night 2ue is a non event. The Melb biased overnight program is a joke who in Sydney listens and why would they
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I am very upset that mike Jeffreys is going i loved his show listen online from qld will only listen to morning shows then maybe abc you will lose many listeners
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The end of an era for me. Rubbish line for the most of it. Bring back Sammy sparrow… much more entertaining than the line up they have left us with.
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This is a big mistake. 2ue afternoons was the only station that I could turn to so that I didn’t have to listen to Ben Fordham. Well now over to the ABC
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What a ruthless bunch.
I gave my opinion on the 2ue lifestyle facebook page and was promptly blocked. I was not rude nor did I use bad language.
I will repeat my opinion here:
The new format is so boring that one can fall asleep behind the wheel.
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…and if you dare comment on their page, they will delete you!
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I agree totally with all the previous comments.
I have been listening to 2UE on and off since I was a kid, and now I’m 52.
Over the last several years it seems that every time they get an announcer that I like, they get the flick.
It’s got to the point now that I switch over to the ABC Friday late afternoons and FM stations at other times.
With no more Mike Jeffries ( can’t find his name in anywhere on their website) after George & Paul and John & Gary are over, I will be surfing the channels, and never to 2GB
Vale 2UE
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Where has Mike Jeffreys gone? If he is no longer on 2ue, neither will I be.
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Not happy will still listen George & Paul John & Garry not happy Mike has gone 95.3 here I come
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I do not like latest changes – I will listen to john and Gary , George and Paul, switch to fm after that . You have got it all wrong
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I guess the 38 who commented here (so far) do not realise that the Big Mistake would be retaining the status quo. However, I have to admit I did enjoy spending entire weeks not knowing whether Brittany Spears had forgotten her undies or whether Karl Stefanovic had changed his suit this year. Anyway, I must go and watch yet another lot of TV people congratulating themselves on prime time TV as I’m sure John and Garry will have forgotten what happened when their slot comes around tomorrow morning.
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Could not agree more im 80 and been listening and have been listening mostly to 2ue since i was a little boy but they have slowly murdered it and i refuse to listen to the garbage they are presenting now RIP 2UE.
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The brilliant mind of Mr. Michael Jeffreys …. gone … A very sad loss to night time radio. 2UE I thought had a brilliant lie up of late, now all turned to shite, but hey, I’m just your average radio punter, what the heck would I know? God bless Mike, hope to hear you back on air with a station that actually knows their audience, in the meantime, I’m going back to listening to my Bad Company, Deep Purple & Black Crowes cds.
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So very disappointing ABC will have to be the option
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I agree with all the others who have posted comments. Will listen to John & Gary Paul & George but that’s it. Changed to FM oncar radio yesterday afternoon. As for the new station jingle it’s enough to turn you off breakfast. Not happy 2ue.
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Very sad to see the brilliant Mike Jeffreys go from 2ue will be
looking out for him on another station. Its 2ues loss that first show
in his time slot boring……..
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sorry 2ue you have lost me now the station has become extremely boring.Loved mike jeffreys every weekday night, will not listen to a whole lot of lifestyle rubbish
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Are the programmers at 2UE insane? I agree completely with all other posts. How can you squander a talent like Tim Webster on a travel programme? And Mike Jeffreys is one of the most talented and humorous hosts on radio. Whichever junior nitwit misread the demographic research and came up with this load of garbage should be summarily fired. I predict your ratings will tank (and very quickly) and if you act quickly enough you may be able to reinstate Stuart Bocking, Tim Webster and Mike Jeffreys. If you don’t, good luck finding an audience.
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I listened to Mike every night via the internet. Turned on last night and ‘shock , ‘horror’, what’s this crap, checked station, thought I had wrong station, no it’s 2ue. Found this site with all the comments and agree with them all. You have lost anothet country listener, will be listening to smooth easy listening music from now on. Hope to hear about Mike somewhere else and will tune in to his show.
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NO STURT bOCKING ON MORNINGS
NO MIKE JEFFERYS ON NIGHTS
NO ME LISTENING TO 2UE
I HAVE SWITCHED TO 2SM TALK BACK 24/7
It is a shame you have ruined a great station and
people get paid to do so.
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I loved listening to mike Jeffries. Such a witty man. Won’t be listening to 2ue at all through the week. Only weekends with Paul and George
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the station went downhill when they lost Jason Morrison, Paul Murray and Michael Smith.
like many other now losing Mike Jefferies thats the nail in the coffin.
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I agree about Steve Price’s 5 words comment, actually he can barely string a 5 word sentence together. Mike Jeffreys is a far superior host.
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moved to mudgee from Cronulla few months back, apart from abc could only get 2sm ,appalled I at long last managed to get 2gb in the evenings with that steve price character and bolt so I switched off, had another go and was delighted to pull in my favourite Sydney station 2ue and listen to mike jeffreys, awful reception but I hung in, in short with him gone +luke, it will be abc radio,4me full stop who loves talkback radio and news its just tootoo boring the new lifestyle programs am in my early 50s, and mike jeffreys was an ‘ace’ program etc, regards mignon
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what a loss Mike Jefferies/Stuart Bocking etc etc the list goes on. 2sm i’m on my way good bye 2ue&2gb R.I.P
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So disappointed at the new 2UE format. it all started when poor Stuart Bocking was shafted and its gone down hill from there, I feel he was a threat to the boofheads at 2GB thats why they got rid of him, and now Mike Jeffries has gone too, what a waste of two excellent personalities. I will listen to John and Garry then I will be going to another station, not Macquarie Radio. RIP 2ue
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So disappointed at the new 2UE format. It all started when Stuart Bocking was shafted a few months back, I feel he was a threat to the bigwigs on 2 GB, thats why he was taken off air and now poor Mike Jeffries has gone as well. I will listen to John and Garry but I will be changing stations after that sorry. RIP 2UE
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Yep, “Management” have totally lost it. George & Paul is all they’ve got now….so how long before they f… that up too? Sad to see a once great radio station disintegrate.
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Fully support all of the comments – less and less reason each day to stay with 2UE. I go to channel for the PM drive home was the excellent 2 hour sports program. It’s format has changed 3 times this year – all inferior to what was tried, tested and successful. Now this dross from 7pm “sponsored” by the 50 Up Club. It comes on, I tune out from this station. A station in its death throes ………..
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Oh! Mike Jeffries gone too?? I didn’t know that until just now. 2UE has a death wish rapidly being realised.
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Agree 100%. 2UE management have lost it (or have another agenda… I wonder what that could be$$$?
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Big mistake or hidden agenda?
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“To me, it sounds as if we are being forced to listen to 2GB. Well, thank you, but no thank you.”
You got it right.
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Yep. I’ve listened to MJ for YEARS! (ever since he and his strange mate introduced live classical music to the ABC)
He’s laid -back, intelligent, witty, responsive, reflective and just good to listen to.
All that the retard 2UE top brass are not.
So… he had to go…..naturally.
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Oh no, where is Mike Jeffries……love, love his program. Tuned in during morning work-outs….his humour and programming made working out almost enjoyable! A sad Former 2UE listener/Aussie national from Boston, Massachusetts
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Been a 2UE listener from years back while lived in Sydney. Moved to mid north coast and been streaming to listen to Mike Jeffreys, paul anf George and often heard Luke Bona on midnight to 5 am. Clown now running the station has made an omelette of programs and ruined the whole format. Like the rest of other irrate listeners I also will now switch to ABC. TIME TO SACK the clowns and try and save 2UE
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Where is Mike Jeffries I listen to 2UE in Newcastle not any more, what muppet ruined the programing.
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Same thing happened to me and I said what is this crap also
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So disappointed. Will not be listening to 2ue anymore.Where’s Mike Jefferies.
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I have listened to 2UE forever. But no more. Nothing for me after 9 am
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Thank goodness John and Garry, and George and Paul are still on. Otherwise, nothing worth listening to. BORING RADIO!!!
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I live in qld…my routine.. i go to bed and settle in headphones on..open app to 2ue to listen to the fabulous Mike J…whats this crap I say..I check to make sure I hve right station..says I do…I turn phone off then on thinking something has gone wrong..no..still rubbish…I search on 2ue website..nothing about MJ…I google and finally find this…so unhappy…I loved listening to mike j…he was fantastic…2ue add me to your fast growing list of pple tuning out…I hope I can hear MJ on anthr st soon..he was witty..funny..wonderful voice..smart and loved listening to his reg callers..esp tradie..he was hilarious….goodbye 2ue…pathetic!!!
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Agree with all,2ue no longer an option
John and Gary in the morning is all that is left,the rest is a waste of space and time.The ratings will plummet and a great station will be gone.Mike Jeffries is a great loss,have followed him for years,entering and intelligent,said it how it is, hope he turns up somewhere soon.
Hello ABC radio
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Well that’s it for me. I have been a happy listener seven days a week for the past sixteen years or more – but no more, with the exception of John and Gary weekdays, George and Paul weekends and Pete Graham on Saturday nights. You must be absolutely crazy to think you will keep your loyal listeners with your new format. You will not only lose them, but you have buckly’s chance of attracting new listeners. No one in their right mind will be content to listen hours on end to paid advertising content. Also how much gardening, health, travel etc can one person take before going crazy. VERY DISAPPOINTED.
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Strongly agree. George & Paul, fast paced , entertaining, but still able to touch on current political hot spots, with well though out views, whether “left” or “right” (boring) , add to the “democratic” debate. Love it! Also I would put Mike Jeffries in the same category. Big loss for 2ue if he goes.
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We have the radio on every day at the office and change stations to find some entertaining talk radio. Was looking forward to the changes at 2ue .Wow what a let down -travel, gardening, the lovely Irish lady telling how to make kitty use the litter. Deadset boring, surely there is better format. For people to say they are switching to 2sm says it all.
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Sigh… cannot disagree with most comments. The Duck show with that Hadley laugh was the harbinger…. awful. I had hopes it might be interesting and actually discuss campers and 4WDs etc. The rest… I’ve tried, some segments are good.. but non stop is just way too much. Looked for another choice… really not sure where now. GB no way, UE is now dead or very close. Just sad.
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After 9am I turn off 2UE on weekdays. On the weekend I turn off after George and Paul. What a lot of drivel and advertorials are boring boring boring. Bring back your old format or lose listeners.
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Singo. You have decided to kill your direct opposition. The ads have increased. The news reduced. You have reduced me to audiobooks in the car. Goodbye 2UE …..
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Mike Jeffries night time show was the best show on 2UE. – I can’t understand why he was taken off – he is entertaining, informative with a great personality, also liked his regular callers,including. Craig Bennet . Why has it come to this! When I heard what had replaced him. I had to switch off it was so boring. At night we do not want to hear what we should do do for our lifestyle, I myself have a lifestyle, and I wanted to relax and be entertained by the great Mike Jeffries! Where do we go from here? Certainly not 2ue. RIP Mike Jeffries – I will be waiting to hear from you when another radio station appreciates your value.
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Agree with everyone else – what are you doing 2ue? I now only listen to the breakfast shows and then change to other stations. There are times I even forget to put the dial back on 2ue in the mornings. If other listeners are doing that too then those shows will start to lose ratings. Bring back the old format!!!
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Not happy with this new format, big follower of Tim Webster and Luke Bona and what have 2ue done to them. Poor old Luke has now been put on 5pm till 9pm and he does not get to say much. He has a large band of followers who loved to talk with him and he helped so many and now he cannot do this anymore, how soul destroying is this for him. Tim well he also has a lot of followers and they must be really disappointed too. Lots of people put their comments up on the 2ue new format website only to have them deleted. We only listen now to Garry & John and George and Paul and the radio gets turned off now. Miss Mike Jeffreys at night. A good radio station been ruined and it seems like 2ue do not want to hear anything negative about this format. Wake up before it too late.
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I am a long time (40+ years) listener to 2ue and like most comments here I hate the new format. Thank goodness George and Paul and John and Gary are still on air! I have tried to listen to some of the new segments and they are not all bad, but they should not be saturating the station airtime seven days a week. I think there could be a place for some of the segments on the weekend, along with normal talkback programs. However through the week Mon – Fri I want to listen to current news events and talk back as it used to be on a station that has slowly been in decline from the day Macquarie took control.
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Hey 2UE, your new ‘lifestyle’ format is so lacking in both life and style that I’ve had to stop listening. It was agony hearing David Koch drone on in his weasly voice about finance for what seemed like hours and Catriona Rowntree screeching about her latest holiday in some posh resort. Who cares?
I’m an ordinary person living in the suburbs and I like to know what’s going on in my own backyard. I actually like listening to sensible, rational talkback radio where ideas about current events are shared. Stuart Bocking was an excellent broadcaster and I miss him the most. Also loved Trevor Long – the best tech expert on radio.
So where to now? Back to the ABC of course. And audiobooks, like someone else here suggested. Never will I succumb to the rabid, right wing shock jocks of 2GB. You gotta have some standards.
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and after 15 years I am switching off 2ue, it is now rubbish
still listen to John and harry in the morning but the rest of it is dull. I noted over the years they replaced the interesting programs, ‘the two Murrays”, “Drive Time” and a few others with this stuff. I do not listen to the red neck shock jocks, nor the teener FM drivel, Just news, comment and info.
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Agree with the unanimous opinion here..Bocking,Mike Jefferies – such great radio talent. It really does feel they have driven UE into the ground to erase competition. Well i won’t be surfing to GB ever ,.2SM please pickup Mike Jeffries !
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2ue has been on a down hill slide since zemanek left due to the brain tumour and laws left not long after his death
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Totally depressing content after breakfast. We are about to retire with no super…our home is still mortgaged & we have never been overseas although have worked hard all our lives. It doesn’t feel good to turn on our favourite 2UE & hear about how people should be maximising wealth & fabulous holidays. After John & Gary its ABC for me too.
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As soon as mike jeffreys left , 2ue lost me.I won’t be listening again
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I began to listen to Mike Jeffries several months ago as I found his show more lighthearted than Steve Price on 2GB but still had the talkback content with many different views which I enjoyed. Now it is back to 2GB for me or even 2SM some nights if I get desperate – not the drivel you now serve up. Thanks for nothing 2UE, I think you will regret your decision. Good Bye.
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Agree with comments above, I am having bad Mike Jeffrey’s withdrawal symptoms, had no idea he was leaving, I loved Mike Jefferys and also when he had Craig Bennett on Tue and Thur nights, Tim Webster is the only other host I will listen to but as a matter of principle my dial will never touch 2ue again!
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Me too,I could listen to Mike Jefferys all day and night
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i wonder if any of the program managers at 2ue would put in their resume .. 2ue lifestyle ?
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I am very disappointed that Mike Jeffreys has gone from 2ue. I enjoyed his wit and style. The replacement programmes can not compete and I am afraid I have no interest in them. I am in the demographic that the said programmes are said to be aimed at but you have missed the mark. A set topic is interesting only to a proportion of listeners. Talk back is topical and keeps us informed. I am really sorry that this decision was made. Lost a listener.
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2UE, what a disaster you’ve created! From the reviews I’ve read, most people feel like me – after John and Garry and then on weekends, George and Paul, I switch 2UE off! I reluctantly go to the ABC and when that gets too PC or too much talk on same-sex marriage/so-called “asylum seekers”/ Aboriginal problems/snide remarks about conservatives, I switch them off too and give up!!
There’s nothing to listen to now.
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feel like ive lost a good friend,hate the new format,back to 2gb,which wont affect the station as they are all owned by macquarie radio..maybe back to FM
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Need to pass on that we find the new format disappointing and boring. Thank God you have had the wisdom to continue the weekend morning hosts of George and Paul and Pete Graham Saturday night otherwise our radio would never be on 2UE anymore. Please consider to bring back Mick weeknights.
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Hate the new 8-12 format I thought Mike Jeffreys was on holidays but after reading this I’m not happy and I will be switching to another station and I think a lot of others will be as I love listening to MIke and I just love Craig Bennetts reports on the celebrities
NOT A HAPPY LISTENER SOON NOT OT BE
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I’m with you
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When I first heard Tim Webster was back on I thought good , but seriously who wants to listen to travel talk five days a week 2ue you’ve lost the plot ! “Only” for the George and Paul show 2UE is not worth listening too.
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I have listened since the new format started but this is absolute rubbish. I can;t handle anymore. All the travel talk got me first, then last night I tuned in again and had to listen to what’s wrong with me, a medical show. Give us a break. Sorry, but I have had enough.
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Cannot believe they got rid of Mike Jeffries… Are the people running 2ue complete lunatics? MJ is awesome, what on earth are you thinking??? Morons!!!
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I can’t believe how boring, ineffectual 2UE has become…
The Animal Show on Thursday night is good & Tech Show is good….the remaining is so dumb & dumber…how much Travel, real estate & finance advise can one bear.
I am a Landlady & I get fed up with Finance & Real Estate.
Bring back intelligent & informative John Cadogan & the highly entertaining Mike Jeffries.
I wish Clive Robertson would climb out of his Mine Shaft in Broken Hill & venture forth into the Sunlight…
Whoever the Programme Manager is at 2UE he needs to get another job…preferably away from Radio…he is not a Fixer like CP he is a Destroyer/Terminator !!!!!
I have done the right thing & no longer listen to 2UE – the ABC now has another listener courtesy of 2UE & 2GB.
Ben Fordham is now the only person I listen toon 2GB – his Programme is interesting & informative he comes across as a sincere genuine bloke – .& he is not Bashing Mike Baird/Greyhounds every few minutes like the other Blokres on 2GB.
If people like Alan & Ray wish to Support Animal Cruelty it is their decision (I’m not a mad Green Party Follower just a person with an opinion)
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Me too. I do not listen after the breakfast show anymore. I feel sorry for Tim having to do travel everyday- way too much.
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I am very disillusioned with 2UE, what happened! It was a very entertaining station before all the new changes. The only program I listen to is John Stanley and Gary Linnell. I miss all the other regular hosts, where have they all gone? I do not like 2GB, Too right wing and all about politics, boring. I am switching to 2SM.
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What a total mess the new line up is ,boring rubbish! only breakfast show and George and Paul worth listening to , the Mike Jeffries show was great. All very sad.
Dave Kemmery
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Up to midnight is all repeats, not worth listening to – bring back Luke Bona !!!!
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Can’t stand George and Paul. Gary Linell’s jokes are so boring – get rid of them Gary. Up till midnight it’s all repeats – bring back Luke Bona
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Just like the Borg Empire assimilated into the collective 2ue your lineup now is shit
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