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Charlie Pickering and Zan Rowe will anchor the evening's festivities.

The one-hour special drew in over 900,000 overnight metro viewers.

“A new live music TV show is going to be a great thing for Australian music, and hosting it together is a bloody dream come true.”

Justin Milne was not a fan of changing the date.

A leaked email obtained by Fairfax has revealed that Milne informed Guthrie to sack well-known presenter Emma Alberici after a complaint from Prime Minister at the time Malcolm Turnbull.

A string of witticisms are now filling music industry feeds.

She will be replaced by ABC’s director entertainment and specialist David Anderson who will serve as interim managing director.

"The zero to five year age bracket is really the age range where children are developing the sense of identity and self most profoundly. To only feed them with unlocalised content, it just seems like a really crazy thing to do."

"There are so many significant Australian bands and only so much time in the day."

Finally!