More movement at 702?

MEET THE WOMAN TO GO UP AGAINST HADLEY AND LAWS! The headlines screamed in today's Sun-Herald. I was rushing past at the time and for one, dreadful moment thought it was Miranda Devine. Well, I thought. All that hoping and begging for 2UE to dump Prue Macsween and it really happened, what goes around comes around ...

Fortunately, what they were talking about was plans, `in the offing' as they say, to oust Sally Loane from her Sydneywide morning shift in favour of Melbourne ABC 774 Drivetime host and occasional Insiders chair warmer Virginia Trioli!

This would be a very smart move on ABC 702's part. Frankly, Loane's show rates badly because it's a paceless snooze. The word is that she will be retained in some capacity, suggesting someone else will be moved along - although, there are also rumours that the ABC 702 schedule may be radically overhauled, with the breakfast show ending before the Chunk-O-News that currently makes a rather large interruption between 7:45 and 8:30 (for the 7:45-8:00 extended news bulletin and current affairs show A.M.), and the Morning show starting at 8:30, half an hour before Laws and an hour and a half before Ray Hadley - a potentially risky strategy.

Meanwhile, Simon Marnie is returning to the weekend chair this weekend after several weeks doing weekday mornings. It sounds like he has lengthened in betting. I'm still tipping Sarah McDonald to take the shift.