3AW presenter Derryn Hinch fired
Derryn Hinch: out after 10 years with 3AW
Derryn Hinch, a drive-time presenter on Melbourne’s most popular radio station 3AW, has been sacked.
A press release sent out this evening said that Hinch was told that his contract would not be renewed after he came off air tonight.
Hinch, a New Zealand born former police reporter, TV show host and novelist, brings to an end a 10-year stint with the Fairfax-owned talkback station.
please be Steve Vizard!
I have listened to Derrin since he started and I love him, I am sad and don’t feel like I could give someone else a go. Missing him already!
That’s life.
I don’t understand why? Wasn’t he rating well?
End of an error?
Good on Derryn for defending his right to vote (or not vote in Derryn’s case). Compulsory voting is only enforced in 10 countries in the world. Our voter turnouts are only 81% because about 10% are not registered to vote. And that 81% includes high numbers of donkey votes, invalid votes and blind guesses so our real turnouts could be as low as 60%. Who knows? But even at the inflated 81% we still have lower turnouts than many countries where voting is voluntary including Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Malta, etc.. They should use peaceful means to encourage voting – not threats of fines enforced with threats of violence… that is far from democratic.
Just wondering how he is fired, when a contract isn’t renewed. It would be different if he was longer on air but he finishes in December…
Thanks for that David
3AW is part of the Fairfax Group and maybe this sacking is part of their cost cutting.
Hinch’s replacement is reported to be Tom Elliot (son of once high flyer John Elliot) who is sure to be less expensive than Hinch’s salary of $300,000 pa.
It certainly will not be the end of Hinch as Fairfax may well re-hire him, at a lesser salary, to be presenter of short, sharp editorials to be syndicated on Fairfax stations.
Alternatively, and out of left centre, Hinch could well take over as Presenter on TEN’s pitiful Breakfast show.
Watch this space.
He wasn’t sacked as reports claim…his contract simply was not renewed. Leave the sensationalist journalism for the likes of the human headline.
One less social commentator sitting behind a microphone who claims to know more than everybody else, just because he speaks confidently and has a profile.
Spot on mediaman.
I agree with Whatever; his contract has simply not been renewed. DH will definatly turn up elsewhere not long after contracts’ end. Oh, and Derryn, if you’re reading this, please keep up the voting argument; high time someone did.
I’m a long time listener of Hinch, going back to the 80’s. He is one of the few who speak sense when they speak their mind and fights for what he believes in. I hope Melbourne’s loss is Sydney’s gain. If rumours are true that he’ll be fronting breakfast in Sydney that will put an apple in John Laws oily cart. Hinch is a good bloke. I wish him well.
@Whatever. Hinch himself on Twitter and his blog said he was sacked.
http://www.humanheadline.com.au/Hinch-Says/Sacked