Ten announces shake up for Wake Up, denies it is losing its differentiation
Wake Up is to change its format with news presenter Nuala Hafner to leave her Melbourne news desk to join Natarsha Belling and James Mathison in the Manly studio.
The move is another attempt by new executive producer Steve Wood to revive Ten’s struggling breakfast program, which according to Fusion Strategy has averaged just 34,000 viewers in the official survey year to date.
It is another shift away the format established by former EP Adam Boland, who quit in January for health reasons, after the network quietly scrapped local news tailored to every state earler this year, with a spokesman telling Mumbrella: “it was not resonating with viewers”.
The network had sought to differentiate Wake Up from rivals Sunrise on Seven and Today on Nine based not only on its Manly beachside studio setting, but with its local news offering and Hafner being based in a studio overlooking Melbourne’s Federation Square, avoiding making it solely Sydney-centric.
Steve Wood “brought in to revive the show” suggests Channel 10 believes it had a pulse to begin with. They obviously didn’t see DOA written in the sand at Manly Beach.
“Ten said there was still a number of features which differentiated it from its rivals.” The main one being that the others have audiences.
34,000 viewers is approximately 10% of what Today and Sunrise regularly rate – around the 300,000 mark. How is anyone expected to differentiate against established opposition of decades, when what they are serving up is so poor. Steve Wood would need a southerly at his back and 10 will give it another 3 months and then see you later. I feel sorry for the staff trying their best to execute such a flawed strategy.
This is why you fail Channel 10. You persist with shows that don’t go anywhere in the ratings. Nine and Seven would not hesitate to axe a show that performs as badly as Wake Up. If you are to ever going to be a serious competitor again, then you have to show some ruthlessness!
How much money has Ten thrown at breakfast TV in the past few years with little/no real return?
Maybe they need to bring back Bert and GMA (could not do any worse)
NEW Ch10 DAILY SCHEDULE
6.00am – 8.30am – ZZZZZZZ
( 2 ½ hrs of Shots of the News Limited Newspapers Pages . )
Hosted by ANDREW and GINA.
8.30am – 10.30am – SCIENCE IS CRAP
Hosted By Christopher Monckton
10.30 – 11 00 – CLIMATE CHANGE IS CRAP
Hosted by Tony Abbott and Ian Pilmer
11.00 am – 6.00 pm – THE IPA HOUR.
Hosted by The Commissioner of Free Speech
(Hey ! If speech is free, we are going to make sure we get more of it than anyone else.)
6.00pm – 7.00pm THE RIGHT NEWS
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4.00pm – 6.00pm The BIGOTS LOSER
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10.00pm – 11.pm MONEY MATTERS
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James Mathison could do with time to show some talent that he is hiding very well . 10 sees it but everyone else is guessing. What could it be the 34,000 viewers wonder…???