Kerri-Anne Kennerley, host of her own Monday-Friday morning show on Channel 9
While Channel 10 has lost 9am With David and Kim with the exits of co-hosts David Reyne and Kim Wilkins, the carpet strollers over at Channel Nine are working on extending Kerri-Anne Kennerley’s morning show.
Word from inside the Nine corridors is that Tom Malone, the wunderkind executive producer of Today and Mornings with Kerri-Anne, will find an hour-long time-slot for a “best of” show to be broadcast on Saturdays in 2010.
The decision is based on demand from advertisers and given that the indefatigable KAK is a cash-cow for the network – generating several millions from commercials and infomercials each year – Malone would be crazy to ignore the potential for extra revenue for the station.
Kennerley will choose her five or six favourite interviews or stories from the week which will be stitched together with taped promos and introductions filmed by KAK at the end of her Friday show.
In other changes to Mornings, Kennerley, one of the broadcast industries strongest survivors, will broadcast live Monday to Friday next year instead of pre-taping a couple of shows each week as she did in 2009.
As well, the program will move into the Today studio as soon as it’s vacated by Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson – who has single-handedly improved the breakfast show ratings this year, challenging the dominance of rival Channel Seven show, Sunrise . That means a lightning-speed turnaround from one show to another.
Stay tuned.
