Radio is an unforgiving game and KIIS FM proved it this week when they unceremoniously dropped four on-air favourites.
Dave Hughes, Kate Langbroek, Meshel Laurie and Matt Tilley all received the call they wouldn’t be coming back to farewell their listeners, despite being slated to finish the year on December 8th.
While Hughes and Langbroek are sitting pretty having defected to rival Hit Network in 2018, Laurie and Tilley’s Melbourne breakfast show was yanked early to be replaced with New Zealand drivetime hosts.
Laurie told news.com.au the decision was “pretty offensive”.
“Obviously the company didn’t trust any of us with a proper farewell, which is pretty offensive given the experience of the broadcasters involved,” she said.
“None of us has ever acted with anything less than full integrity, honesty and commitment, which is unfortunately not what we received in return.”
She took to Instagram to share the news with her followers, saying: “Well after the two weirdest years of my professional life, I finished up on KIIS FM today.”
Something tells us she’s not overly worried about the crack of dawn wakeup calls though.
Hughes thanked the Hughesy and Kate “legends” and said the pair was “pumped to start with @hitnetworkaus in 2018!”
The abrupt yanking of the show could be another blow to Hughes on top of being fired from Channel 7 earlier this year after a scathing Logies speech.
“I was meant to be on a Channel Seven show on the weekend and I got cancelled,” the 46-year-old told the Daily Telegraph at the time.
“It’s a new panel comedy show, they took me off, they decided they wouldn’t have me on, they obviously can’t take a joke,” he added.
“I think Channel Seven should get a sense of humour basically.”
All we can say is congrats to the quartet for no longer having to be in bed by 7pm.
