{"id":2278,"date":"2026-02-09T20:10:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:10:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:10:27","slug":"sarah-harris-joins-ricki-lee-tim-on-nova-96-9-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/sarah-harris-joins-ricki-lee-tim-on-nova-96-9-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Harris joins Ricki-Lee &amp; Tim on Nova 96.9 Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NOVA Entertainment today announced that news journalist and television presenter Sarah Harris will join Nova 96.9\u2019s new Sydney Breakfast show, <em>Ricki-Lee &amp; Tim <\/em>as the show\u2019s resident newsreader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1770628200760_67\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/60c1a6bea68b147617bcd0ae\/da4383ff-160b-41fe-85a3-9c8b6b654652\/Ricki-Lee%2C+Tim+Blackwell%2C+Sarah+Harris.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The popular Sydney-born presenter completes the line-up for the show\u2019s launch on Monday, February 9, where she will join chart-topping recording artist and television presenter Ricki-Lee and award-winning radio broadcaster, Tim Blackwell.Speaking about her new role on Nova 96.9\u2019s Sydney Breakfast show, Sarah said, &#8220;This is a massive pinch me moment! There\u2019s something hugely intimate and authentic about radio and I\u2019m so pumped to be waking up with Ricki-Lee and Tim. I\u2019ve been in the TV news game my whole career and I love that I\u2019m getting the chance to deliver it on Nova 96.9\u2026and without spending an hour in the hair and makeup chair!\u201cI\u2019ve been a genuine fan of Ricki-Lee and Tim for ages. Tim\u2019s the ultimate music expert who knows all the cool bands and Ricki-Lee is our down-to-earth pop diva that every girl wants to be best friends with \u2013 just don\u2019t take her on in a game of Quick Draw! They\u2019re both absolute stars at what they do and have such a great energy together. I\u2019m really excited to join them and be part of a team of Sydneysiders who truly love this city.\u201dNova Network\u2019s Group Programming Director, Brendan Taylor said, \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to have Sarah stepping into this key role alongside Ricki-Lee and Tim. She\u2019s one of the best in the business and her experience speaks for itself. News is an integral part of breakfast radio, so to have someone of Sarah\u2019s calibre onboard reinforces Nova\u2019s commitment to delivering Sydney\u2019s best breakfast show, and one that is proudly live and local.\u201dA highly respected and experienced journalist, Sarah Harris has enjoyed a media career spanning more than 25 years across the Seven, Nine and Ten networks as both a news reporter and television presenter. Her most recent roles include co-hosting <em>Studio 10<\/em>, before joining <em>The Project<\/em> as co-host in 2023.<strong>Starting Monday, February 9, <em>Ricki-Lee &amp; Tim <\/em>on Nova 96.9 Sydney can be heard weekdays from 6am-9am. National listeners can also tune into the show across the Nova Network every weekday from 6pm-7pm.<\/strong><strong>Also launching on February 9 is Nova\u2019s new national Drive show, <em>Fitzy, Wippa &amp; Kate <\/em>which can be heard weekdays from 4pm-6pm across Australia.<\/strong>Listeners can also stream the shows live or catch up with the daily podcast on the Nova Player.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOVA Entertainment today announced that news journalist and television presenter Sarah Harris will join Nova 96.9\u2019s new Sydney Breakfast show, Ricki-Lee &amp; Tim as the show\u2019s resident newsreader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/2279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}