Radio Wrap: Hit Brisbane goes full Disney, Fitzy & Wippa’s Lily Allen stitch-up

Hit105 Breakfast is going full Disney next Monday

Hit105‘s Stav, Abby and Matt will play nothing but music from Disney movies next Monday September 10.

The idea came after Hit105 music director Jack Ball joined the team on the show and pitched the idea to have other themed music days other than just RnB Fridays.

The recently crowned #1 FM Brisbane Breakfast show then posted on Facebook with the concept to test the waters for the idea.

The picture easily hit its target, and at the time of writing, it has 78K likes.

Fitzy & Wippa reveal past Lily Allen stitch-up

Lily Allen joined Fitzy and Wippa on Nova 96.9 Breakfast, and the lads took the opportunity to tell her a story about a stitch up she was unknowingly involved in several years prior.

In 2010 Fitzy was set to interview someone he thought was Lily, while she was in the country for Big Day Out.

Fitzy had “looked up to” the singer-songwriter and had been a big fan for a long time, but Wippa had actually just organised a Nova employee with a British accent to pretend to be her.

At the time Fitzy flew off the handle as the interview answers were so poor, so the boys played some old audio back for the real Lily to hear.

The real Lily found the entire thing hilarious.

Em Rusciano departs 2DayFM Breakfast

Comedian and radio host Em Rusciano this week announced her departure from 2DayFM Em, Grant and Ed Breakfast show.

Her last show wrapped up this morning, Friday September 7.

Ash London will fill in for Em until a replacement for the 2019 lineup has been determined.

London will be replaced on National Nights by Danny Lakey in the interim.

In the recent Survey #5 results, 2DayFM Breakfast slumped to a 3.3% share of listening (-1.0).

Dynamic Duos: Ben & Liam on finding a “natural” point of difference

triple j’s Breakfast team Ben Harvey and Liam Stapleton had big shoes to fill when they replaced Matt Okine and Alex Dyson in 2017.

They recently featured on a list of up-and-coming duos compiled by Radio Today, a list that highlights just how competitive the market is for male comedy duos, but Ben and Liam believe in letting things progress naturally.

“You want a point of difference but it doesn’t start from a conversation where you go ‘how can we be different from everyone else for the sake of being different’,” they say, in a new interview with Radio Today.

“I think your show just naturally finds its position, you’ve just got to let it evolve. If you try to force it somewhere it doesn’t belong then it’s not really genuine.”

Catch the full interview with Ben and Liam here.

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