Chris Bath scores a new fulltime role on radio

POPULAR Aussie broadcaster Chris Bath has a new fulltime job for 2017 — but it means we might see a little bit less of her on our screens.

POPULAR Aussie broadcaster Chris Bath has a new fulltime job — but it means we might see a little bit less of her on our screens.

Next year, TV veteran Bath will take on a permanent radio role with ABC’s 702, presenting the evening program from Mondays to Thursdays. She replaces current host Christine Anu, who moves to a Friday and Saturday evening slot.

Exciting news-@ChrisBathTV
will join us to present Evenings in 2017. Chris will present the program Monday-Thursday.
Welcome aboard Chris! pic.twitter.com/qB8C9S4WDw

— 702 ABC Sydney (@702sydney) November 16, 2016

While she’s best known for her 20-year association with Channel Seven, including helming the nightly news and popular current affairs show Sunday Night, Bath has had recent radio experience: Earlier this year the 49-year-old filled in for Sydney ABC drive radio host Richard Glover for three weeks.

Chris Bath, coming to a radio near you in 2017.

“I love those breaking news stories,” Bath said to the Sydney Morning Herald at the time.

“Radio is like three hours of rolling coverage, so I know I will get that adrenaline rush.”

The popular personality is no stranger to radio, having launched her career on the medium three decades ago.

“I think back to 1988 and I still think the year I spent at 2UE I learned more in that year than in the ensuing 27 years afterwards,” Bath said.

The new fulltime gig follows a series of temporary media appearances Bath has had since walking out on Channel Seven last July after 20 years with the TV network.

Since then she’s done a week-long stint on The Project, popped up as a co-host on Studio 10 and has appeared on Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa Show as a newsreader.