Kate Ritchie’s Nova breakfast show with Fitzy and Wippa has fallen in the ratings.
The Radio Ratings 2023, Survey 7 results released on Thursday revealed Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa with Kate Ritchie had fallen 0.2 points, from from 7.3 to 7.1.
In the last ratings survey on October 5, the show rose 0.4 points from 6.9 to 7.3.
Home and Away star Ritchie, 45, joined the team with radio stars Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald and Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli in March.
Radio king Kyle Sandilands was quick to offer up his own theory as to why listeners were switching off.
‘What’s going on at Nova? They moved Kate Ritchie into the breakfast show with Fitzy and Wippa to try and make it not like a boys club,’ he began.
‘Failure, it’s down to 7.1. It was on 7.3, it’s slowly whittling away.’
The comments come as The Kyle and Jackie O Show was once again crowned the number one breakfast show in Sydney in the latest survey.
Kate Ritchie ‘s Nova breakfast show with Fitzy and Wippa has fallen in the ratings. All pictured
The Radio Ratings 2023, Survey 7 results released on Thursday revealed Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa with Kate Ritchie had fallen 0.2 points, from from 7.3 to 7.1
It is unclear why listeners are switching off from the once popular program but radio king Kyle Sandilands (pictured) was quick to offer up his own theory
Sandilands’ show scored a whopping 16.3% audience share and was crowned both the number one breakfast show in Sydney and the most listened to radio program across Australia.
Ritchie’s appointment to the show in March ruffled some feathers at the time, as some viewed beloved co-anchor Sarah McGilvray as being ‘tossed aside’ to make way for the former Home and Away star.
Current and former employees of the radio station told Daily Mail Australia they were blindsided by news McGilvray was being pushed aside to make way for Ritchie, with some only learning about it via the press.
One staffer said her departure was ‘brutal’ for someone who had ‘given a decade of her life’ to a radio show and was popular with listeners, adding she was ‘tossed aside without so much as a proper goodbye’.
McGilvray worked on Fitzy and Wippa for 12 years, spending eight of those as a co-host alongside Ryan ‘Fitzy’ Fitzgerald and Michael ‘Wippa’ Wipfli. Before that, she was a senior producer for the Sydney breakfast program.
Ritchie’s appointment to the show in March ruffled some feathers at the time, as some viewed beloved co-anchor Sarah McGilvray (pictured) as being ‘tossed aside’ to make way for the former Home and Away star
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