Popular presenter to host Afternoons from March
Radio presenter Sarah Macdonald is returning to ABC 702 Sydney to host the Afternoons program starting next March. She replaces the late James Valentine, who passed away earlier this year.
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The return of a popular media personality to a major public broadcaster highlights shifts in radio programming and audience engagement strategies.
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Share A A A Less than two years after her shock axing, the ABC has confirmed that radio presenter Sarah Macdonald is returning to 702 Sydney in a different timeslot.
The former Mornings host is taking over Afternoons from next March. It’s the show that James Valentine hosted with warmth and wit for more than two decades, other than during a brief stint on Breakfast , before his diagnosis with oesophageal cancer.
Sarah Macdonald is taking over Afternoons on ABC 702 Sydney from next March. Blake Photographic/ABC The much-loved Valentine died in April . Afternoons has been co-hosted this year by James O’Loghlin and Kathryn Robinson and the ABC says they will “remain regular voices” on the station.
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