All the changes: Triple M’s line-up overhaul

With Mark Geyer and Mick Molloy about to exit breakfast, another former NRL player is set to replace them as Triple M rings the changes. Here is all the fall-out from their massive line-up overhaul.

A lineup overhaul on Sydney radio station Triple M is expected to impact more than a dozen presenters across four radio shows, with speculation that a retired NRL star has been signed to replace Mark Geyer and Mick Molloy in the high-profile breakfast slot.

In what will be the largest shake-up to the radio station since when it first began broadcasting almost 45 years ago, only one daytime show remains untouched.

Breakfast stars Mark ‘MG’ Geyer and Mick Molloy won’t be hosting the Triple M breakfast show in Sydney next year. The radio network announced Molloy will be shifted to a Melbourne show.

Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) last month announced the cancellation of the afternoon drive show - called the Rush Hour - hosted by Gus Worland, Jude Bolton and Aaron Woods. The Rush Hour’s final show goes to air Thursday (today).

“It is all over. This show is done and dusted”, Gus Worland reminded his audience on Wednesday.

Mick Molloy and Mark Geyer will no longer be hosting the Triple M breakfast show..

Rush Hour cohost, and retired Sydney Swans star, Jude Bolton was offered an off-air job in the sales team at Triple M for 2025.

Retired NRL star Aaron Woods is expected to be still heard on Southern Cross Austereo’s sports podcasts on the Listnr app and may also be part of the Triple M NRL coverage. Wendell Sailor announced his retirement from Triple M in July.

“We sincerely thank our existing state Rush Hour shows for their hard work and commitment over the last few years”, SCA Chief Content Officer Dave Cameron said recently.

Popular weekend show Dead Set Legends was quietly removed from the on air roster at the end of the NRL season, and is expected to not return in 2025.

Dead Set Legends was last hosted by sports legends Richard Freedman and Candice Warner, and cohosted by Triple M announcer Brendan Annakin. The show signed off on Saturday 5th October - NRL grand final weekend - with Annakin telling listeners “hopefully (we’ll) catch you next year, right here on Triple M”.

Southern Cross Austereo made Annakin’s job at Triple M redundant last week. He also hosted a weekday daytime shift, and cohosted Dead Set Legends. His on air colleagues on the Saturday radio show were veteran horse racing identity Richard Freedman and retired professional ironwoman Candice Warner.

Candice Warner will be hoping her spot alongside Richard Freeman on Dead Set Legends is safe. Picture: Alana Landsberry

Dead Set Legends was first heard on Triple M in 1997, founding presenters were Ray Warren, Greg ‘Mo’ Matthews, Mike Whitney and Russell Barwick. The show quickly generated a big following on Saturday mornings, covering topics such as equal pay for female tennis stars, the premier’s political performance and traffic jams on the M2.

“In its timeslot it rated good to very good. Keep in mind that Triple M in the late-90s was rating poorly. The sales people said that it wasn’t hard to sell the commercial time on Dead Set Legends. It was the first show to be filled with advertisements each week,” said Ray Warren.

“I absolutely loved working with Richard Freedman because he was a champion at polarising the audience. He is a talent. I enjoyed working with him enormously. I’m really sorry for Rich, he really understood the meaning of the word entertainment. He knew how to involve the audience even if they didn’t agree with him”.

“MG was the same, he was always on the front foot. Not frightened to have an opinion”, Warren highlighted.

Richard Freedman and Candice Warner are still hopeful that there’s life left in the popular weekend sports opinion show.

“We both love doing the show. And we’d love to keep doing the show,” Richard Freedman told the Daily Telegraph.

Wendell Sailor, Jude Bolton and Gus Worland will not be at Triple M in 2025. Picture: Tim Hunter.

“Dead Set Legends is a great show. Everyone has a laugh. I love doing the show every Saturday”, said Warner who joined the show three years ago.

“People stop me in the street to talk about segments on the show. It’s a fun show.”

Triple M cancelled the show once before in 2016, and revived it four years later with then-host Gus Worland telling listeners, “Dead Set Legends is back…God knows why they took it off all those years ago”.

“Deep down I feel like I was never really told the truth about why the show was cancelled the first time around. But when you look at the ratings and the sales department’s comments, you probably wonder why they got rid of it in the first place”, said Ray Warren.

“It was a rare show that connected with the people of Sydney.”

Speculation inside the radio industry is that Mark ‘MG’ Geyer and Mick Molloy will be replaced on the Triple M breakfast show by former NRL player Beau Ryan, who had a busy year on Channel Ten’s Amazing Race and Top Gear.

Beau Ryan has been approached for comment.

Adding to the chaos at Triple M Sydney is that the company made a veteran radio programmer’s role redundant. Rex Morris exited the Goulburn Street studios last month.

Southern Cross Austereo announced earlier this month that The Marty Sheargold Show will be heard on Triple M Sydney between 3pm and 6pm on weekdays, but an announcement about the 2025 breakfast show won’t be made until next week.