Gossip travels fast in the radio industry. When Mal Lees and Mardi Cole were given the “don’t come back after the holidays” speech last week by the station’s new group program director, it took about a nano-second for word to travel to radioinfo’s well-connected industry gossip hotline.

Word also came through about other impending lineup changes for the new year which will see other station personalities no longer in the same shifts as this year.

With all that hot gossip about, you would think someone in the station would have let the receptionist into the loop. When radioinfo rang to check the information we were told, like other listeners who enquired:

“They’re on holidays.”