Jodie Oddy quits Adelaide radio station Mix 102.3

Adelaide breakfast radio presenter Jodie Oddy has quit station Mix 102.3 effective immediately.

Adelaide breakfast radio presenter Jodie Oddy has quit station Mix 102.3 effective immediately.

Oddy, who has been on-air at Mix for 13 years, resigned today from the show she co-hosts alongside Mark Soderstrom, and will not be returning to finish the year.

Soderstrom will remain with the station and it’s understood he’ll be part of a new breakfast team to be announced later this year.

Mix102.3's Jodie Oddy and Mark Soderstrom.

Rumours have been circulating in recent weeks about potential changes to Mix’s early morning show, with former Seven newsreader Jess Adamson and Crows AFLW star Erin Phillips among the names tipped to be joining Soderstrom.

Adamson and Phillips have both filled in for Oddy while she’s been on maternity leave in the past 12 months and Mix sources say that Phillips was spotted at the station again last week.

Mix finished third in the breakfast timeslot in this month’s radio ratings survey, behind ABC891 and FIVEaa. But in September, Oddy and Soderstrom had slipped to fourth behind Nova 919’s Ben Harvey and Liam Stapleton.

44-year-old Oddy is one of Adelaide’s longest serving radio personalities, having appeared on the Mix 102.3 breakfast show for 13 years.

But last year she hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons when after being caught drink driving more than five times the legal limit during an incident in December 2018. She was subsequently charged with aggravated driving without due care and driving with excess blood alcohol and banned from driving for a year.

The Advertiser understands that Oddy’s departure from the station relates to a dispute over contract negotiations but that Mix 102.3 have been looking to shake up the breakfast show for several months now.

ARN’s chief content officer Duncan Campbell said Oddy was an “exceptional broadcaster” who helped make Mix 102.3 the number one FM breakfast show in Adelaide.

“She is leaving on a high and can be proud of the difference she has made to the lives of so

many Adelaide families and we wish Jodie all the best for her next chapter,” he said.

Oddy declined to comment to The Advertiser.