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Further intelligence has come to hand regarding my item in the ie liftout of The Sunday Mail today: Jamie Dunn's visit to the 4KQ studios in Brisbane to prerecord a segment for tomorrow's Ian Keenan show (at 5pm) caused a bit of panic at KQ and sister station 97.3FM - especially when the longtime B105 breakfast host spent time behind closed doors with station boss Peter Verhoeven. Dunn is, of course, now heading up the breakfast show on Zinc 96.1FM on the Sunshine Coast. I was unable to contact him late last week, but I feel sure he'd be keen to stoke any rumours about him returning to the big smoke - if only for mischief-making purposes.
Also in radio land ...
* As I also reported today in ie, Hamish Blake and Andy Lee will soon be heard on the drivetime shift on B105, heralding a return to Martin-Molloy style networking in the late afternoons. If internet gossip is to be believed, they'll be up against Merrick Watts and Tim "Rosso" Ross next year. The comedy duo are said to be ready to relinquish their breakfast show on Sydney's Nova in favour of a networked Nova drive show. Rove McManus and Peter Helliar are filling in for M&R soon, and they are touted as possible permanent replacements - pitting them against former Brisbaneite Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O in the Sydney FM breakfast stakes.
* Back in Brisbane, there's talk of behind-the-scenes manoeuvres, with B105 program director Rex Morris to go to Triple M to replace the recently very successful David Rymer, who apparently will head south to weave his magic. Music director positions are said to be changing at Austereo, too, but there's no word of lineup changes in B105's breakfast beyond the rumour that Big Brother graduate Chrissie Swan knocked back an offer to join the show.
* Whew, that's it for now.