Fitzy and Wippa

Fitzy and Wippa
Genre Comedy
Running time 180 minutes
Country Australia
Language(s) English
Home station Nova 96.9 Sydney
Syndicates Nova Network
ACE Radio FM Network
102.9 Hot Tomato Gold Coast
Star 104.5 Gosford
Sun 969 Alice Springs
Host(s) Ryan Fitzgerald
Michael "Wippa" Wipfli
Air dates since 17 January 2011
Audio format Stereo
Website Official
Podcast iTunes

Fitzy and Wippa is an Australian breakfast radio show on Nova 96.9 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is hosted by comedian Ryan "Fitzy" Fitzgerald and Michael "Wippa" Wipfli.

The show airs from 6am to 9am on weekday mornings with music and daily topic discussions and special guests. A daily podcast featuring the best bits from each show is available on iTunes as is the podcast for all other Nova FM breakfast shows in Australia.

News, sport, weather and traffic updates are presented by Matt de Groot.

History

The show commenced broadcasting on 17 January 2011,[1] replacing Ryan, Monty and Wippa on the drive shift. Ryan Shelton left Nova to focus on his television career and Katie Dimond (Monty) moved to Sydney to join Merrick Watts and Scott Dooley at Nova 96.9 on the breakfast show.

In August 2011, it was announced that Fitzy & Wippa would move to Nova 96.9 breakfast and replacing Merrick Watts and Scott Dooley. Meshel, Tim and Marty took over the national drive show.[2]

At 6pm on weekdays a one-hour recap of Fitzy & Wippa is aired across the Nova Network. The show is also syndicated to ACE Radio's FM Network of stations, 102.9 Hot Tomato on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Star 104.5 in Gosford, New South Wales, and Sun 969 in Alice Springs, Northern Territory.

Television special

On 27 November 2015, Fitzy and Wippa hosted a one-off special Up Reasonably Late with Fitzy & Wippa on Network Ten.[3] It was watched by 114,000 viewers.[4]

References

  1. "‘Fitzy' and ‘Wippa' to drive FM radio war". Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  2. "Fitzy & Wippa to Nova Sydney breakfast; Meshel, Tim & Marty to national drivetime". Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  3. Knox, David (27 November 2015). "Airdate: Up Reasonably Late with Fitzy & Wippa". TV Tonight. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  4. Knox, David (28 November 2015). "Friday 27 November 2015". TV Tonight. Retrieved 28 November 2015.

External links

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