David Schwarz and Mark Allen find new home with 3AW’s Saturday night football coverage

After high profile exits from SEN and Macquarie Sports Radio, popular duo David Schwarz and Mark Allen have found a new home for the 2020 season. But they aren’t the only change to hit the airwaves.

David Schwarz and Mark Allen are back on the airwaves for the 2020 AFL season.

Popular radio hosts David Schwarz and Mark Allen have found a new home on 3AW’s Saturday night football coverage.

The pair will return to the airwaves from 5pm on Saturday’s for a two-and-a-half hour talkback show which will take the audience through to the start of the night game.

Schwarz and Allen found themselves on the scrapheap after the collapse of Macquarie Sports Radio last year.

They had moved there from SEN where they’d developed a cult following in the drive slot before a fallout with management.

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David Schwarz and Mark Allen are back on the airwaves for the 2020 AFL season.

The Ox and Marko Show joined Macquarie in 2018 as the jewel in the crown of the new sports network.

But when Channel 9 took over Macquarie Media the underperforming sports station was one of the first cuts to be made as part of a widespread slashing of costs.

The introduction of Schwarz and Allen is one of a number of changes to 3AW’s line-up for this season.

Brownlow Medallist Gerard Healy is set to have a more prominent role in the special comments chair for all Thursday night games in Melbourne.

He will be a part of a star-studded line-up for the Richmond-Carlton opening game of the season alongside Leigh Matthews and Jimmy Bartel.

Veteran caller Tim Lane will replace Dwayne Russell, who has shifted to SEN, on the Friday night call team alongside Bruce Eva.

The highly regarded Sunday pre-game show hosted by Carlton AFLW coach Daniel Harford, Herald Sun chief football writer Mark Robinson and Bartel is returning.

There is a suggestion SEN is set to ramp up its Sunday coverage by replicating its award-winning Saturday Crunch Time program.

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