ARN Media has signed Karl Stefanovic and Eddie McGuire for a new three-hour news, sport and entertainment show to run every Friday.<\/p>\n
The signing comes in the wake of Kyle Sandilands and Jackie Henderson suing ARN over the fallout from the star duo\u2019s tumultuous breakdown.<\/p>\n
Stefanovic and McGuire\u2019s new show, The Long Weekend, will go out on radio, live radio streaming, podcast, free-to-air and subscription streaming platforms, beginning June 19.<\/p>\n
\u201cKarl and Eddie are two of the biggest stars in Australian media and they are now at ARN,\u201d ARN chief executive Michael Stephenson said.<\/p>\n
The ARN boss said the new show personified the company\u2019s strategy of getting \u201cpremium audio and video content\u201d across every platform.<\/p>\n
\u201c \u2026 amplified on social and distributed across the globe on the iHeart Network. This is going to be brilliant,\u201d Mr Stephenson said.<\/p>\n
Broadcasts will go out on the GOLD radio and digital radio network, iHeart radio, 9Now, Stan and JAM TV \u2013 the latter of which is McGuire\u2019s production company.<\/p>\n
The deal includes ARN and McGuire Media doing a sports podcast too.<\/p>\n
Stefanovic negotiated with employer Nine for three years to get his own podcast up and running. His self-titled show has featured interviews with Pauline Hanson, Barnaby Joyce, Matt Canavan, Clive Palmer, Kyle Sandilands and neurosurgeon Charlie Teo in its first three months.<\/p>\n
In a statement on Tuesday, Stefanovic said he and McGuire were long-time friends and the industry veterans would \u201cdisrupt the status quo\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are both ready to disrupt the status quo and let me tell you, we\u2019ll have plenty of fun along the way. God, don\u2019t we all need that,\u201d Stefanovic said.<\/p>\n
\u201cARN have given us this opportunity, now watch us go and have a proper crack.\u201d<\/p>\n
The show will go out on the GOLD network on Fridays from noon to 3pm.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince I was born, I\u2019ve been a student of radio and announcers. The intimacy of the medium is powerful,\u201d Stefanovic said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWorking with Eddie makes it even more exciting for me. We\u2019ve been friends for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n
There has been speculation within the media industry about whether Stefanovic will leave Nine and the Today show when his mammoth contract expires.<\/p>\n
The new show with McGuire will be streamed on Nine\u2019s 9Now and Stan, keeping the breakfast TV host within the media stable.<\/p>\n
Nine\u2019s streaming and broadcast managing director Amanda Laing said the pair were both \u201cgreat broadcasters\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cNine has a deep commitment to audio through podcasting and vodcasting and it makes perfect sense for two of Nine\u2019s talent to have their new show streamed on their home network,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
McGuire is also already under contract with Nine, and the company said both \u201crespective commitments with Nine remain unchanged\u201d.<\/p>\n
Stefanovic\u2019s contract with Nine is rumoured to be more than $2m a year and expires in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARN Media has signed Karl Stefanovic and Eddie McGuire for a new three-hour news, sport and entertainment show…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[222264,196369,430,13882,222262,156,204551,25509,179029,17794,145184,76935,111,49707,139,69,222263,222261,222260],"class_list":["post-434377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-australian-media","tag-blair-jackson","tag-celebrities","tag-chief-executive","tag-eddie-mcguire","tag-entertainment","tag-entertainment-show","tag-federal-court","tag-jackie-henderson","tag-karl-stefanovic","tag-kyle-sandilands","tag-michael-stephenson","tag-new-zealand","tag-newswire-business","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-radio-network","tag-subscription-streaming-platforms","tag-three-hour-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}