Virginia Trioli leaves ABC radio, returning to TV with a new arts show
The new host of ABC Melbourne Mornings will be announced on Friday
The latest move in a number of ABC staffing shuffles, Virginia Trioli has told listeners that she will be leaving as host of ABC Radio Melbourne's Mornings show. Her last show will be Friday, September 15.
Beginning the show on Thursday, Trioli said “After many years of daily broadcasting, and almost two decades of rising for the toughest alarms the ABC has to offer, life circumstances require me to work and live differently now.”
“My thanks to the many ABC Melbourne colleagues I’ve been so lucky to work with, but most importantly, my deepest thanks always to our amazing radio audience, who welcomed me so warmly. Only we will ever understand how these last four years have felt.”
After beginning her time on the show in 2019, Trioli reflected on her time with the program by saying that "This is an amazing program and an amazing audience.
"I hope I've been the person to ask those hard questions, to demand accountability, but also to provide company when we were locked in our homes through those difficult times."
Trioli will still be working at the public broadcaster, however, with her departure from Melbourne Mornings coinciding with the announcement of a new arts program she'll be hosting.
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According to the ABC, she will be hosting a “high-profile interview series” featuring “major arts luminaries.”
Speaking of Trioli's new role, ABC managing director David Anderson said “Virginia has had a long association with the arts, stretching back to her early years in broadcasting.
"Her knowledge and undisputed passion for the arts will give our new arts line-up a significant boost in 2024.”
The new host of ABC Melbourne Mornings will be announced on Friday morning.
ABC Radio Melbourne acting local manager Mary-Jane Fenech said of Trioli, "She has always led the conversation in Melbourne with intelligence, integrity and heart whilst holding those in power to account.
"But rest assured the audience will be in very good hands with the new host of Melbourne Mornings.
"We can't wait to share with you who it is."
