Sport Entertainment Network loses last original breakfast show host Tim Watson
Maher, left, and Watson
Sport radio breakfast show presenter Tim Watson has announced he will leave the station after 10 years.
Watson, a former Essendon captain, has hosted Melbourne’s SEN 1116 breakfast show Morning Glory since the station was launched in January 2004 and is the last of the program’s three original hosts to go. When Watson started at the station he worked alongside former footballers Garry Lyon and Bill Brownless.
His co-host Andy Maher will continue on the show after Watson says his final farewell on November 29.
Sport Entertainment Network (SEN) general manager Barrie Quick said: “Tim’s been a wonderful contributor to SEN since it’s inception and we’re sad to see Tim go, but we fully understand that after 10 years doing breakfast radio that he would like some normality back in his life.”
Quick said a replacement for Watson would be announced in the near future, meanwhile it has been speculated former Australian basketball player Andrew Gaze, a regular on the program, could step in.
SEN, Australia’s only 24/7 sport broadcast station, was born out of Melbourne talkback station 3AK and targets an audience base of men aged 25-54. It is owned by Pacific Star Network, which also owns Inside Football magazine.
In the last set of radio ratings,SEN had a share of 5.9 per cent of the Monday to Sunday radio audience.
Please anybody BUT Andrew Gaze! With him & Andrew Maher will make many of us turn OFF
If you employ Andrew Gaze full time on Morning Glory I will never tune in.
Sorry, but I wont be tuning in either if Gaze replaces Tim. Ditto if its that dumbo, uses words he doesnt know the meaning of, Brereton.
I will not be listening either, I loved Andrew as a player but I really dislike him as a commentator, my family don’t like him also, please please get somebody else as we really love Sen. It means we will have to tune in to another radio station.