Ratings have been returned for Abbie Chatfield’s 2Day FM radio show, Hot Nights with Abbie Chatfield, and the positive results suggest some truth behind rumours that she may be moving into a breakfast spot to compete against radio royalty, Kyle and Jackie-O.
Chatfield’s radio show has increased 0.5 per cent on Melbourne’s Fox FM, 1.8 per cent on Brisbane’s B105 FM and 2.7 per cent on Adelaide’s SAFM.
However, the show she helms with Rohan Edwards did drop slightly in ratings in Perth and Sydney.
Earlier this week, The Daily Telegraph has reported that Southern Cross Austereo is priming Chatfield to move into the breakfast spot and take on the rival radio show The Kyle & Jackie O Show.
“They’ll definitely make a play for Abbie in 2024,” a radio executive told the publication.
“They were in discussions for next year,” they added but said the station hadn’t found the right on-air partner for Chatfield yet.
“She’ll want someone young, fresh, modern, relatable … like her.”
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The insider continued, “She certainly could be the wildcard that they desperately need, after a decade of dismal ratings at 2Day FM. Abbie Chatfield is the best card they can play.”
Chatfield was thrust into the public light when she came runner up on The Bachelor Australia in 2019. After filming the show, she managed to carve a very successful media career and went on to star in (and win) I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Outta Here Australia. She started her podcast It’s a Lot in March 2020, and moved into radio to host Hot Nights with Abbie Chatfield in January of this year.
In unsurprisingly news, the radio ratings showed that Kyle and Jackie-O firmly held their spot at the most listened to FM breakfast show with 12.5 per cent. Will & Woody received the top FM afternoon drive spot with 10.7 per cent. And, Kiis 106.5, which is the station both The Kyle & Jackie O Show and Will & Woody play on, took out the top overall spot for FM radio at 10.1 per cent.
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