With Gunners and Ali waving goodbye to 97.3 Coast FM, and moving down the corridor to 91.7 The WAVE , their replacements have been announced.
 
Nikki and de Mello will be taking up the challenging role of replacing Mandurah’s most successful breakfast team.
 
Regular Coast FM listeners will already know Nikki Parkinson, who has been a part of the line-up for years now and who jumped at the chance to work with her new sparring partner saying “I didn’t get a choice.”
 
Darren de Mello is a familiar name to many in Perth where he’s been working for years, having begun his “wireless career back in the dim dark 90’s” in Bunbury.
 
West Coast Radio Content Director John DeBellis says: “To be honest, I’d never heard of him but he was in our price range,”