{"id":842,"date":"2024-11-13T21:33:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T21:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radioindustrynews.com.au\/?p=842"},"modified":"2024-11-13T21:33:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T21:33:45","slug":"sammy-j-to-depart-abc-radio-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/11\/13\/sammy-j-to-depart-abc-radio-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy J to depart ABC Radio Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"DetailLayout_headerContainer__KMMRO\">\n<header class=\"DetailLayout_headerInner__qftvv DetailLayout_hasShareTop__S1iCP\" data-component=\"DetailHeader\">\n<div class=\"DetailHeader_meta__43Jgi\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"DetailHeader_media__nb4YS\">\n<figure class=\"Figure_figure__NnqTc ContentAlignment_marginBottom__4H_6E ContentAlignment_overflowAuto__c1_IL\" role=\"group\" data-print=\"inline-media\" aria-labelledby=\"abc-:r0:\" data-component=\"Figure\" data-uri=\"coremedia:\/\/audio\/104594224\">\n<div class=\"Player_player__rnW2P Player_poster__tJKdO\" title=\"Sammy J: Part Of Your World\" data-component=\"Player\">\n<div id=\"104594224\" class=\"jwplayer jw-reset jw-state-idle jw-stretch-uniform jw-flag-aspect-mode jw-skin-abc jw-breakpoint-5 jw-floating-dismissible jw-flag-media-audio jw-flag-user-inactive\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"application\" aria-label=\"Video Player\" aria-describedby=\"jw-shortcuts-tooltip-explanation\">\n<div class=\"jw-aspect jw-reset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\" src=\"https:\/\/live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au\/7de519b6c22abffcf440da9e0ad977ea?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&amp;cropH=415&amp;cropW=737&amp;xPos=0&amp;yPos=0&amp;width=862&amp;height=485\" alt=\"Sammy J ABC Melbourne 16x9\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption id=\"abc-:r0:\" class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP Figure_figcaption___vGe0 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx Typography_letterSpacedSm__V8kil\" data-component=\"Figure__figcaption\"><\/figcaption><button class=\"Button_btn___qFSk UtilityBar_printButton__NnQSl Button_noBorder__4YGxV Button_uppercase__u_om3 Button_hasIcon__G3VLB Button_iconOnly__q0bR0\" title=\"Print\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Print this page\" data-component=\"Button\"><\/button><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"LayoutContainer_container__jw05j DetailLayout_container__OqE89\" data-component=\"LayoutContainer\">\n<div class=\"Grid_row__pEgHw DetailLayout_containerInner__SUKCD\" data-component=\"GridRow\">\n<div class=\"DetailLayout_body__1rSCR\">\n<div class=\"DetailLayout_bodyInner__OLBbu\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"DetailLayout_inner__IbILg\">\n<div>\n<p>After five years of waking up Melbourne,\u00a0<em>Breakfast<\/em>\u00a0presenter Sammy J has announced he will hang up the microphone next month.<\/p>\n<p>Sammy began hosting ABC Radio Melbourne\u00a0<em>Breakfast<\/em>\u00a0just weeks before the COVID pandemic hit in 2020, quickly becoming an important source of fun, information and companionship for locked down Melburnians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHosting Melbourne Breakfast was an unexpected opportunity that became an unexpected joy,\u201d Sammy J said. \u201cBut radio demands all of you and deserves nothing less, and after five years I\u2019m ready to trade the 4:15am alarm for more regular hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI leave with pride, gratitude, and a litany of cash-for-comment scandals that will be revealed in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sammy has always applied his creative thinking to his program.<\/p>\n<p>Last November, he did a marathon 24-hour broadcast to raise money for SecondBite as part of the annual ABC Gives charity appeal. In October, Sammy wrote and led a skit of all ABC Radio Melbourne presenters for the station\u2019s 100th birthday. As part of his Missing Moments series, Sammy helped listeners experience the big events that had been cancelled due to Melbourne\u2019s lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>A prolific songwriter, Sammy wrote viral songs to farewell Melbourne\u2019s e-scooters, the Airport Rail Link, Premier Dan Andrews and Captain Cook\u2019s feet, to welcome Taylor Swift and to explain Lord Voldemort\u2019s thoughts on a proposal to build a Harry Potter theme park.<\/p>\n<p>In true Sammy fashion, he farewelled listeners with a song on this morning\u2019s program.<\/p>\n<p>ABC Radio Melbourne Acting Manager Shelley Hadfield said Sammy\u2019s quick wit and creative flair had given Melburnians a unique view of the news of the day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSammy has asked the questions we never knew we wanted answered,\u201d Shelley said. \u201cHe\u2019s grilled the Prime Minister and the Premier, he broke the news to Melbourne of the Queen\u2019s death, and he\u2019s interviewed musicians, magicians, meat workers and mathematicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s Sammy\u2019s connection with the audience which has been a hallmark of his time at 774. You only had to see the listeners turn up at the crack of dawn for his outside broadcasts to understand what an impact he has had on people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sammy will present his final Breakfast program on Friday, December 13. Announcements about the 2025 line-up on ABC Radio Melbourne will be made in the coming week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After five years of waking up Melbourne,\u00a0Breakfast\u00a0presenter Sammy J has announced he will hang up the microphone next month. Sammy began hosting ABC Radio Melbourne\u00a0Breakfast\u00a0just weeks before the COVID pandemic hit in 2020, quickly becoming an important source of fun, information and companionship for locked down Melburnians. \u201cHosting Melbourne Breakfast was an unexpected opportunity that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/11\/13\/sammy-j-to-depart-abc-radio-melbourne\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sammy J to depart ABC Radio Melbourne&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}