Joe Hildebrand signs with 2GB after quitting Channel 10

Joe Hildebrand has made his next move after leaving beleaguered breakfast show, Studio 10. Confidential can reveal the popular broadcaster will be signing with a Sydney radio station.

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Joe Hildebrand has made his next move after leaving the beleaguered breakfast show, Studio 10.

Confidential can reveal the popular journalist and broadcaster will be signing with top rating Sydney radio station, 2GB.

Details of his move are still being nutted out, although it is understood he will initially join John Stanley on Thursday nights from 8pm to 9pm starting Wednesday with a view to gradually increase his presence on the station as time goes on.

“I am absolutely wrapped to be going back to radio,” Hildebrand told Confidential.

Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Sarah Harris, Joe Hildebrand and Angela Bishop at the 2019 Logie Awards at The Star Gold Coast, Broadbeach. Picture: Jerad Williams

“I can’t think of any better place to be than 2GB. I’ve got a strong feeling that a lot of my old audience from Studio 10 are also the kind of people who listen to GB. These are battlers from the suburbs, people who live in the real world, who like straight talk and big laughs and I can’t wait to reconnect with them.”

While the future looks bright for Hildebrand, it has been a disastrous first week for Studio 10s much hyped new line-up.

Producers have stripped back the format, replacing Hildebrand with Dancing With The Stars judge Tristan McManus alongside long-time host Sarah Harris.

Ollie Bailey-O'Rielly helps launch the Australia's Best Kids News Reader competition alongside Joe Hildebrand, Angela Bishop, Natarsha Belling, Carlotta and Sarah Harris. Picture: Toby Zerna

Despite much fanfare, the show has limped through its first few days, barely scoring a blip in the initial ratings only to fall away to around 40,000 viewers nationally during the last hour of its first show on Monday. On Tuesday, that figure dropped to around 31,000 viewers in the first hour.

Unhappy viewers have slammed the changes, calling for Hildebrand’s return while criticising Ten’s decision to go in the new direction.

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It is understood, criticism has been so fierce that the show was forced to disable comments on several Instagram posts and delete hundreds of comments on Facebook.

One post that remained read: “Why the change? Poor Sarah it must be so hard for her.”

Another wrote: “Watch the ratings fall, very bad move.”

Joe Hildebrand and his partner Tara Ravens. Picture: Jenny Evans