terminating Sandilands\u2019 contract<\/a> on March 3. <\/p>\nThe $200m pair began syndicating into Melbourne at the end of April 2024 but failed to win over the local audience.<\/p>\n
In Sydney there wasn\u2019t much impact from their absence, where the timeslot recorded a 1 per cent fall to 11.7 per cent.<\/p>\n
Worryingly for the ABC, the broadcaster fell across the board in Melbourne, with Brigitte Duclos in afternoons faring best.<\/p>\n
Mornings hosted by RAF Epstein dropped to 4.3 per cent (down 2.1 percentage points), Afternoons dropped to 2.8 (down 1) and Drive with Ali Moore came in at 2.5 (down 2.3).<\/p>\n
It was a more positive result for GOLD FM\u2019s Christian O\u2019Connell who was back on top in Melbourne on 10.5. He is syndicating into Sydney where he only managed to snare 5.5.<\/p>\n
Hot on O\u2019Connell\u2019s tail is Nova\u2019s breakfast team of Lauren Phillips, Jase Hawkins and Clint Stanaway who despite losing ground were still on a high with 10.3.<\/p>\n
FOX FM\u2019s Fifi Box, Brendan Fevola and Nick Cody were big improvers to 9.6 while Triple M\u2019s Mick Molloy, Nick Riewoldt, Titus O\u2019Reily and Rosie Walton also grew their audience to 7.5.<\/p>\n
3AW\u2019s Ross Stevenson and Russel Howcroft remained solid with a massive 18.9 share, while Tom Elliott in Mornings was another big winner, increasing to 16.4.<\/p>\n
The station\u2019s Afternoons (11.1) and Drive (8.7) rose slightly too.<\/p>\n
GOLD FM had a spike in Mornings and Afternoons and dominated Drive on 13.1 ahead of Smooth FM which lifted to 10.1.<\/p>\n
Triple M\u2019s Rush Hour also rose to 9, ahead of Nova\u2019s drop to 8.8.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, SEN\u2019s Breakfast marginally lifted from 4 to 4.2 while Mornings with Gerard Whateley bounced back from 2.6 to 3.8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABC Melbourne has plummeted to its lowest radio ratings in recent times while Kyle and Jackie O\u2019s departure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-624885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}