Thursday, August 6, 2009

New Virgin.


After the departures of some of their big hitters last week (15 year station veteran Buzz Bishop among them), Virgin 953 in Vancouver have launched their new daytime schedule:
The morning show of Nat and Drew is still there (into it's 6th year now) and Seacrest is still syndicated in the evenings....so what's new?
Well:
9am-Noon is Taylor Jukes, who arrives from the city of Kelowna.
Noon - 3pm has Kevin Lim (another brand new arrival) and then
3pm - 6pm features former evening and weekend guy Kiah co-hosting with Tara-Jean. I could be wrong, but have a feeling Kiah is the first Australian to host PM Drive in Vancouver.

So there it is. I wonder, I wonder, I wonder. Taking a strong line-up of presenters off the air and replacing them with less known talent can be a risk...especially in a competitive market like this. Unless of course, they turn out to be amazing.
Time will tell and good luck :-)