''Fitzy and Wippa'' is an Australian breakfast radio show on

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in Sydney, Australia. It is hosted by comedians Ryan "Fitzy" Fitzgerald, Michael "Wippa" Wipfli with Sarah McGilvray. The show airs from 6 am to 9 am on weekday mornings with music and daily topic discussions and special guests. A daily

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featuring the best bits from each show is available on iTunes as is the podcast for all other Nova FM Breakfast and Drive shows in Australia. News, sport, weather and traffic updates are presented by Matt de Groot.

History

The show commenced broadcasting on 17 January 2011, replacing ''Ryan, Monty and Wippa'' on the drive shift.

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left Nova to focus on his television career and Katie "Monty" Dimond moved to Sydney to join

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and

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on the breakfast show. In August 2011, it was announced that Fitzy & Wippa would move to

breakfast and replacing

and

. ''Meshel, Tim and Marty'' (now Kate, Tim and Marty) took over the national drive show. Aside from the

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network the show is also syndicated to 38 other FM stations including

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and

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FM Network of stations along with Red FM, Eagle FM and

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. The time of day that ''Fitzy & Wippa'' is broadcast is different for each of these stations and they will shorten it to 1 hour or 2-hour long episodes featuring the best bits only. In January 2018, Sarah McGilvray joined the show after previously making regular appearances in her role as Nova 96.9 program director. In October 20i9, Executive Producer Tom Ivey, who also makes on-air contributions as part of the broader team was officially recognised in promotions.

Television special

On 27 November 2015, Fitzy and Wippa hosted a one-off special ''Up Reasonably Late with Fitzy & Wippa'' on

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. It was watched by 114,000 viewers.

References

External links

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