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Sport 927 wields axe
PATRICK BARTLEY
December 19, 2009
RACING radio station Sport 927 has drastically revamped its two major morning timeslots and in the process dumped two of the network's key personalities.
The station yesterday sacked morning host Steve Moran and co-breakfast host Angela Pippos.
The changes came as a shock as Sport 927 is not in the ratings and rely on private polling.
Program director Steve Cairns yesterday said the changes were in keeping with the station's policy of improving the network in an ever-changing media landscape.
''Both are fine people. Excellent people for this station. But we are having a change of direction here at 927 and both were not going to fit that change,'' Cairns said.
''Steve (Moran) has worked for us for a long time in different roles and has had the morning show for just on four years but we must change to hopefully stay at the front of a rapidly changing environment.''
Neither Moran or Pippos were available for comment yesterday but Melbourne's only other sporting-based station SEN is sure to be interested in Pippos with her extensive sporting journalism background.
With the station having no on-air female talent of note, Pippos would be an asset to the all-sport agenda.
Moran is currently editor of racing publication Best Bets and is also a presenter on TVN.
Cairns said that Pippos' replacement would be announced by station manager Noel Crowe later next week, but the successor to Moran's role will not be revealed until late February or early March.
Channel Nine commentator Tony Jones is the favourite for the new breakfast role while Andrew Bensley and Shane Anderson are the frontrunners for Moran's position.
Don't know how many of you haven't caught up with the latest sackings from Sport 927. I can't see how getting rid of Steve Moran from the morning Racing Central time slot is going to make the program better.
IMHO, he is one of the more knowledgeable racing hosts used by the station and would be so far in front of Andrew Bensley and Shane Andersonas as a form judge, its not funny. His sacking is a step backwards and certainly not taking the station in the right direction.
Maybe he got the 'heave ho' as was too considered too politically controversial for the position, as he was certainly not afraid to criticise the TAB (part owner of the station), RVL and certain high profile inidividuals such as Lloyd Williams if he felt that they had erred in some way.
I also find it hard to see what Angela Pippos did wrong to get the sack as well as she seemed quite popular amongst the listeners and provided a bit of relief from the 'Boys Club' mentality that seemed to permeate the Breakfast show at times. I hope her replacement isn't that boof head Tony Jones as 30 minutes a morning is certainly more than enough of him. I don't know how I would handle him for three and half hours.
PATRICK BARTLEY
December 19, 2009
RACING radio station Sport 927 has drastically revamped its two major morning timeslots and in the process dumped two of the network's key personalities.
The station yesterday sacked morning host Steve Moran and co-breakfast host Angela Pippos.
The changes came as a shock as Sport 927 is not in the ratings and rely on private polling.
Program director Steve Cairns yesterday said the changes were in keeping with the station's policy of improving the network in an ever-changing media landscape.
''Both are fine people. Excellent people for this station. But we are having a change of direction here at 927 and both were not going to fit that change,'' Cairns said.
''Steve (Moran) has worked for us for a long time in different roles and has had the morning show for just on four years but we must change to hopefully stay at the front of a rapidly changing environment.''
Neither Moran or Pippos were available for comment yesterday but Melbourne's only other sporting-based station SEN is sure to be interested in Pippos with her extensive sporting journalism background.
With the station having no on-air female talent of note, Pippos would be an asset to the all-sport agenda.
Moran is currently editor of racing publication Best Bets and is also a presenter on TVN.
Cairns said that Pippos' replacement would be announced by station manager Noel Crowe later next week, but the successor to Moran's role will not be revealed until late February or early March.
Channel Nine commentator Tony Jones is the favourite for the new breakfast role while Andrew Bensley and Shane Anderson are the frontrunners for Moran's position.
Don't know how many of you haven't caught up with the latest sackings from Sport 927. I can't see how getting rid of Steve Moran from the morning Racing Central time slot is going to make the program better.
IMHO, he is one of the more knowledgeable racing hosts used by the station and would be so far in front of Andrew Bensley and Shane Andersonas as a form judge, its not funny. His sacking is a step backwards and certainly not taking the station in the right direction.
Maybe he got the 'heave ho' as was too considered too politically controversial for the position, as he was certainly not afraid to criticise the TAB (part owner of the station), RVL and certain high profile inidividuals such as Lloyd Williams if he felt that they had erred in some way.
I also find it hard to see what Angela Pippos did wrong to get the sack as well as she seemed quite popular amongst the listeners and provided a bit of relief from the 'Boys Club' mentality that seemed to permeate the Breakfast show at times. I hope her replacement isn't that boof head Tony Jones as 30 minutes a morning is certainly more than enough of him. I don't know how I would handle him for three and half hours.

