{"id":87164,"date":"2025-10-18T23:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/87164\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T23:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T23:24:08","slug":"katja-mia-confirms-her-virgin-media-future-after-2fm-gig-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/87164\/","title":{"rendered":"Katja Mia confirms her Virgin Media future after 2FM gig announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced that Katja Mia will be joining the 2FM weekend team, but one thing fans were wondering about is how this might impact her work on Virgin Media.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old has been presenting The Six O\u2019Clock Show alongside Brian Dowling for two years, with the pair taking over the roles from Karen Koster and Greg O\u2019Shea, and is replacing <a href=\"https:\/\/extra.ie\/2025\/09\/28\/entertainment\/celebrity\/blathnaid-treacy-maternity-3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blathnaid Treacy<\/a> while she is on maternity leave.<\/p>\n<p>She will present the weekend slot from 9am to 12pm on Saturdays and Sundays and said she was \u2018absolutely buzzing\u2019 to be making her radio debut and was \u2018honoured\u2019 to be asked to step in for the 2FM host.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/katja-mia-2.jpg\" alt=\"Katja Mia Pic: 2FM\" class=\"wp-image-1699726\"  \/>Katja Mia Pic: 2FM<\/p>\n<p>But what of her hosting duties on The Six O\u2019Clock Show? Well, fans will be thrilled to hear she isn\u2019t going anywhere, joking with viewers live on the chat show that she would still be keeping \u2018Brian in check\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>She shared: \u2018Don\u2019t worry, I\u2019m not going anywhere, guys, I\u2019ll still be here, every weekday, someone has to keep Brian in check.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Katja Mia added when the news broke of her new role: \u2018It\u2019s always been a dream of mine to work on radio and this opportunity has come at a perfect time in my career where I feel I\u2019ve built up a great amount of presenting experience through TV.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/katja-mia-5.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Dowling and Katja Mia. Pic: Virgin Media Television\" class=\"wp-image-1699729\"  \/>Brian Dowling and Katja Mia. Pic: Virgin Media Television<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m aware that I have massive boots to fill and that any new roles come with some learning curves, but I can assure 2FM listeners that we\u2019ll have an absolute blast along the way.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Blathnaid hung up her microphone with her colleagues bidding her a\u00a0special farewell\u00a0during her last broadcast ahead of the arrival of her second child.<\/p>\n<p>Katja\u2019s first show behind the mic was October 18, with Brian Dowling even commenting on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DP8QGDXgmhc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">first day post<\/a> saying: \u2018Yes honey LETS GO!! We are all listening here in the Dowling Gourounlian household. SUPER PROUD OF YOU!\u2019<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was announced that Katja Mia will be joining the 2FM weekend team, but one thing fans were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-87164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87164","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=87164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}