The 2UE Night Show
January 29th, 2007 at 09:06am
This week Murray Olds will be filling the chair on the 2UE Night Show…well that’s what 2UE have been saying, and what their website says, but according to John Kerr who filled in for Stuart Bocking overnight, Stuart will be doing the 8pm-Midnight show tonight. John doesn’t know who is doing what show and when after that…and who can blame him? The whole thing is getting very messy. It was amusing listening to John trying to explain it at the start of the show, getting somewhat lost and making it sounds like he was saving Stuart from a 30 hour shift!
The question of who will take over the show on a permanent basis remains to be seen, and ultimately for me, the question is which source to believe. Only a week or so ago I was hearing stories about Glenn Wheeler, Stuart Bocking and Clive Robertson not being in contention, now I’m told that Stuart and Clive have put themselves up for selection and are “sitting on the edge of their seats”.
I have to admit that Stuart did sound quietly confident when he signed off on Friday night, saying something to the effect of “I’ll either be back here or on New Day come Monday”. It looks like he’ll be on the night show tonight…but I would love to know why he is there and Murray isn’t.
It looks to me like 2UE are just taking the opportunity to test various people on the night shift, and see how the audience reacts. Both Glenn and Stuart are popular in that shift, but Glenn, apparently, hasn’t put his hand up for the job. So perhaps that’s what we will have, Stuart Bocking, with Glenn Wheeler filling in. That might just work, because then Murray Olds could take the midnight to dawn shift, and Clive Robertson, Steve Liebmann, Clinton Maynard and Tim Webster could continue to fill in where and when needed.
Of course that is pure speculation…but it would work.
I’m going to say right here and now that I think Clive Robertson has no chance of getting the night shift…he knows just as well as I do that he isn’t overly well liked by Southern Cross Broadcasting in Melbourne, and whilst he can be great fun in week long bursts, he just doesn’t seem suited to a shift with an endless stream of callers. He is much more entertaining with the occasional caller and plenty of his anecdotes and observations.
I’ve had three emails during the week from people asking who I think will get the job, and I’ve told each of them that, despite Stuart supposedly not being in the running at the time of their emails, Stuart Bocking is my tip to take over the 2UE Night Show. I think Glenn Wheeler will remain as the fill-in host, but I think the rumours of someone new to the station taking over are pure bunk.
Samuel
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4 Comments
1. dan11 | January 29th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Samuel it was my believe to that Murray Olds was going to do the Night Show this week to.
But I just had a look at the website and although Murray Olds has been moved up the presenters list down the bottom of the homepage it says Stuart is doing 8-12 and Clive doing Midnight to Dawn. I agree with you, the thing is just getting very confusing now although we may hear something more about it tonight.
2. dan11 | January 29th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Samuel it was my believe to that Murray Olds would be doing the Night Show this week.
But if you look at the 2UE website Stuart Bocking will be doing nights and Clive Robertson doing Midnight-Dawn. Even though Murray Olds has been moved up the presenters list. I agree that the thing is getting out of hand. However we may hear something tonight…we can only hope!
3. dan11 | January 29th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Sorry about the double post. Didn’t know if the first one came through.
4. Samuel | January 30th, 2007 at 2:06 am
No probs. As you’re a new member, the first comment went into the moderation queue. The second comment also went there as I hadn’t seen the first one and approved it. Your third comment came through after the first two had been approved (I wasn’t paying attention, it’s my fault that they both appeared), and as such was displayed straight away.
The moderation system, especially for new users, is confusing, but it saves me a lot of cleaning up after spam and defamation. I don’ get as much of the latter any more, but the spambots continue to find ways past the spam filter and through the “must be registered to comment” system.
I’ll be upgrading to WordPress 2.1 shortly, hopefully it has those issues fixed and I can do away with the new user moderation.