Sydney breakfast radio is there for the taking
Beau Ryan is one third of the longest-running Sydney radio team - despite being on air less than a year
“Good morning Sydney, and welcome to Sydney’s longest serving breakfast team.” That was how Beau Ryan greeted Triple M listeners on Thursday, March 5, around 36 hours after the news broke that the Kyle and Jackie O show was no more.
Jonesy and Amanda’s twenty-year run as Gold/WS-FM’s breakfast team had ended with the new year, as they shifted to a national drive to make way for Christian O’Connell’s launch into the Sydney market. Fitzy, Wippa, and Kate Ritchie had done likewise at Nova, moving to drive as Ricki-Lee Coulter and Tim Blackwell took the reins of the Sydney breakfast show.
With Jimmy Smith leaving 2DayFM’s breakfast show in late 2025, and the program retooled as “2Day Breakfast with Nath and Emma” for 2026 — and Smooth’s Bogart Torelli decidedly not a “team” — that leaves Triple M’s Beau Ryan, Cat Lynch, and Aaron Woods as Sydney’s longest-running FM breakfast team, despite only being on-air together for nine months.
How can you write such an excellent story and not mention the #1 Ben Fordham 2GB Breakfast Show? Not just #1 overall (geez it’s on AM) but #1 DAB, & #1 for streaming. That’s people mostly streaming on their phones.
Shouldn’t you mention the show somewhere when analysing the Sydney market?
Yeah, very good point, although I was covering FM radio, and they don’t seem to see AM stations as competition. Fordham definitely has Sydney on lock though.