{"id":951821,"date":"2026-11-04T03:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T03:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/951821\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T03:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T03:16:13","slug":"bryce-ruthven-departs-gm-role-at-south-coast-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/951821\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryce Ruthven departs GM role at South Coast FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <a href=\"https:\/\/radiotoday.com.au\/category\/whats-new\/\" class=\"tag color-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s New<\/a> November 4, 2026                                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                                    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-7423.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBryce Ruthven. Photo credit: South Gippsland Sentinel Times.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former high-profile MAFS contestant Bryce Ruthven has resigned as General Manager of Victorian community radio station South Coast FM after less than two months in the job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ruthven has accepted a new position after a dream opportunity emerged, and the station is understanding of his decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ruthven <a href=\"https:\/\/radiotoday.com.au\/bryce-ruthven-appointed-gm-of-community-station-south-coast-fm\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">took the reins as GM<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/radiotoday.com.au\/andre-sawenko-the-joys-and-challenges-of-managing-a-community-radio-station\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andre Sawkeno<\/a> in September \u2013 expressing his passion for being \u2018hyper-local\u2019 and heralding a new chapter for the station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ruthven spent over a decade working in commercial radio in a variety of roles, including on-air, program management and operations, marketing and in the digital space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June 2023, Ruthven joined new DAB+ talk station Disrupt Radio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ruthven previously worked as the morning announcer on Traralgon\u2019s TRFM, before relocating to Canberra to take up an on-air role at Hit 104.7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He came to national prominence as a contestant on the 2021 season of Married At First Sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New November 4, 2026 Bryce Ruthven. Photo credit: South Gippsland Sentinel Times. Former high-profile MAFS contestant Bryce&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,518599,518600,134,468141,37689,136,518601,518602],"class_list":["post-951821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bryce-ruthven","tag-disrupt-radio","tag-entertainment","tag-hit-104-7","tag-mafs","tag-music","tag-south-coast-fm","tag-trfm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951821","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=951821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}