Sacked brekky trio walk from show two weeks early
Axed KIIS hosts Robin, Kip and Corey have chosen to walk out on the network early as two of them announced a shock partnership moving forward.
Axed KIIS 97.3 breakfast duo Kip Wightman and Corey Oates have announced their next career move, revealing plans for a new Broncos podcast as they prepare to say goodbye to Brisbane breakfast radio this week,
Friday will be the final day on air for Robin, Kip and Corey, after the trio opted to finish up early rather than broadcast through to December 12 following their shock axing last month.
Now Wightman and Oates have confirmed they will team up with former Broncos star Sam Thaiday for The Unofficial Broncos Podcast with Sammy, Oatsey and Kip, to be released through podcast company Podshape.
The show is slated to launch in February 2026, ahead of the Broncos’ first trial game, and will be available on all major podcast platforms.
The announcement comes just a day after the final radio survey of the year showed KIIS 97.3’s breakfast share had climbed to 11.2 per cent – up 1.2 points and above the station’s overall audience – despite ARN’s decision to replace the trio with controversial broadcaster Craig “Lowie” Low next year.
Leaning into their new “unemployed” status, Wightman and Oates have framed the project with the same self-deprecating humour that defined their KIIS show.
“Look, when the radio station said, ‘We’re making changes,’ we thought that meant new chairs,” Wightman joked in a statement.
“Turns out the ‘changes’ were us leaving. So yeah … podcasting felt like a natural step down.”
Oates, who only launched his radio career after retiring from rugby league last year, said he didn’t want Wightman to “suffer alone”.
“Kip lost his job, and I thought, why should he suffer alone?” he said. “Besides, Sammy said he’d shout lunch if I joined, and I’m easily convinced.”
Podshape co-founder Jay Walkerden said signing the trio was an easy decision.
“When three grown men show up at your studios holding microphones and looking desperate, you sign them. It’s in the handbook,” he said.
Billed as completely unofficial with “no club approval, no guidelines, no safety net”, the weekly show will feature unfiltered Broncos chat, behind-the-scenes stories, “questionable analysis” and Wightman trying to keep Thaiday and Oates on track.
Their former co-host Robin Bailey, who has spoken candidly about fearing her radio career may be over, is not involved in the new project as KIIS moves ahead with its 2026 reboot under Breakfast with Lowie.
