Joel Creasey has announced, this afternoon on the Nova‘s Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel, that he will launch his own lunchtime radio show across the network called The Joel Creasey Show, which debuts in April. This comes after news earlier today that Ricki-Lee Coulter and Tim Blackwell are taking on Sydney’s Nova 969 breakfast together.
You can listen to the announcement below:
The Joel Creasey Show will broadcast live at lunchtime on weekdays.
Joel said:
“I’m doing a Ginger Spice and made the decision to go it solo! (I’ve waited over 20 years to say that!). Scintillating references like that and oh-so-very-much-more you can expect from The Joel Creasey Show launching Australia-wide across the Nova Network! It’s been an utter joy to be a member of the national Drive program for the past five years, and an honour to play a part in such a legacy show.
I’ve learnt so much from Tim and Ricki-Lee and am so excited for us and wish them all the best (for their early alarms, that is, did you really think I’d be getting up at that time?!). As someone whose GIG it is to GIGGLE – and share that with our listeners – some of my greatest, bellyaching laughs have been with Tim and Ricki-Lee which I will forever cherish. And previously, of course, with the gorgeous Kate Ritchie.
I’m off to the boardroom (*note to self: find out where the boardroom is) for the next little while to concoct something very special which, yes, I’m aware is cliche promotional slang. But if you’re familiar with my work, life, lunacy and sheer chaos that seems to follow me, strap in for a wild ride! Chat shortly, yeah? Zigah-zigah, Australia!”
Nova Network’s Group Programming Director, Brendan Taylor added:
“Joel has been instrumental to the success of Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel, which has consistently held the number one spot in its timeslot. We’re thrilled to announce this new show. Joel is an immensely talented broadcaster and comedian, and this is a fantastic opportunity to showcase his talents in an entirely new part of the day. We’re excited to add another world class talent to our new weekday line-up.”
NOVA Entertainment CEO, Peter Charlton said:
“Nova has proven, with the success of The Chrissie Swan Show, an ability to create new appointments-to-listen in the workday. Joel is an enormous talent and this new lunchtime show highlights our commitment to great content for listeners and new commercial opportunities for brands.”
Joel can currently be heard as guest host on Nova Perth’s Breakfast Show from 6am – 9am weekdays (which means he can still get up after 8). That leaves a few more pieces of the puzzle to sort out. Mel Tracina, a rising star of Nova, currently does 9am-2pm on most metro stations across the workday. Whether this is a just a reduction of her workload or a change altogether remains to be seen. In Perth, Joel has been a recurring guest on the Nath, Nat and Shaun breakfast show there, on Nova 93.7. That team has been No 1 for a long time, but Nath Morris has been absent, for ‘personal reasons’ for more than six months now and there must be some update to that in the near future.
As it stands, Nova 96.9’s new Sydney breakfast show will be Ricki-Lee & Tim launching on February 9, the same day as Nova’s new national Drive show, Fitzy, Wippa & Kate, live from 4pm to 6pm every weekday across Australia. Between that are Mel Tracina, Joel Creasey and Chrissie Swan at times still to be determined, with the The Joel Creasey Show debuting in April.
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