EXCLUSIVE
NRL star turned TV presenter Beau Ryan will be the new presenter of Triple M’s breakfast show in Sydney next year, Daily Mail Australia has learned.
The station will announce on Thursday morning that Ryan will replace former rugby league player Mark Geyer, who was sacked earlier this month.
Ryan is familiar to viewers from his time on Nine’s now-defunct Footy Show and recent appearances on Ten’s Amazing Race, Gladiators Australia and Top Gear.
But the 39-year-old has limited radio experience, having only lasted three months as a breakfast show co-host on the short-lived Macquarie Sports Radio network in 2018.
He has also filled in for breakfast on KIIS FM’s Kyle and Jackie O Show when Kyle Sandilands was unavailable.
Ryan has been tapped for a full-time role in radio’s top schedule during a turbulent period within Triple M’s Sydney studios, which included the sudden departure of Geyer.
NRL star turned TV presenter Beau Ryan (above) will host Triple M’s breakfast show in Sydney next year.
Geyer was told on November 20 that he would not return next year to Mick & MG in the Morning, which ran from 6am to 9am. It ended immediately.
The 56-year-old, who had been with Triple M since 2009, presented the show alongside Melbourne comedian Mick Molloy, with Cat Lynch and Natarsha Belling as his offsiders.
Triple M had already announced that Molloy would return to Melbourne to host the local breakfast show with Nick Riewoldt, Titus O’Reily and Rosie Walton, after two years in Sydney.
Radio insiders confirmed to Daily Mail Australia that Ryan would be announced as the star of Sydney’s new show. that would have a male and a female co-host.
Ryan, who played for the West Tigers and Cronulla, will inherit a viewership that Geyer and Molloy had increased by 0.5 points to 5.1 per cent viewership in the last ratings survey.
Melbourne presenters look to be the biggest winners as Triple M continues to revamp its programming in Australia.
The Marty Sheargold Show, currently heard nationally from 3-4pm, will air for an additional two hours in New South Wales and Queensland next year.
Triple M will announce on Thursday morning that Beau Ryan will replace former rugby league player Mark Geyer (above), who was sacked earlier this month.
Those extended hours have meant the removal of the Sydney and Brisbane Rush Hour programs that aired from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sheargold’s show will not be performed in Melbourne in the slot allocated to Sydney and Brisbane.
In New South Wales, The Rush Hour was hosted by Gus Worland, who revealed in October that he was leaving radio, with Jude Bolton and Aaron Woods.
In Queensland, The Rush Hour was presented by Leisel Jones, Liam Flanagan and Ben Dobbin.
Melbourne’s The Rush Hour, with James Brayshaw and Billy Brownless, will air from 4pm to 6pm next year in the Victorian capital, as well as in Adelaide, Hobart and Perth.
Adelaide’s The Rush Hour with Bernie Vince, Greg Blewett and Andrew Jarman, and Perth’s The Rush Hour with Andrew Embley and Katie Lamb will be removed from their respective programmes.
Saturday’s 10am-12pm sports show Dead Set Legends, presented in Sydney by Richard Freedman, Candice Warner and Brendan Annakin, last aired in October and its future is yet to be confirmed.
Annakin, who was also a morning presenter for Triple M in Sydney and had worked at the network for 12 years, was fired a fortnight ago.
The network’s Sydney content director, Rex Morris, has recently been made redundant.
Melbourne-based Dave Cameron, chief content officer at Southern Cross Austereo, Triple M’s parent company, was seen at the Sydney offices at the time of Geyer’s dismissal.