ARN has officially confirmed that Christian O’Connell will be networked live across the country, beating Kyle Sandilands to his own grand plans of a live national breakfast show. But is all that glitters actually gold?

From 2026, The Christian O’Connell Show will go live across Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide on the Gold Network.

O’Connell shared the news on his show this morning, joking the cat was obviously out of the bag when he started getting congratulation texts from listeners before his announcement. “I just presume that no one knew, but everyone knows our news” he said.

“From January next year we get to break new ground,” he said. “We’ll be the first ever commercial breakfast show to go live to Australia. I actually can’t believe we get to say these words.”

Christian O’Connell is going national.

O’Connell said he is expecting naysayers. “There’ll be a lot of people that will say, ‘this won’t be able to work. Kyle and Jackie O tried to go into Melbourne and you’ve seen what’s happened.'”

He dismissed any comparisons. “We’re two very, very different shows.”

On Friday morning, Amanda Keller and Brendan Jones got out in front of the weekend papers by telling listeners that next year they will be moving from Sydney’s Gold 101.7 breakfast slot — which they have occupied for the past 20 years — to the Drive slot. O’Connell confirmed this on air this morning, paying credit to the “legendary radio show” he will be replacing on the Sydney airwaves.

ARN issued a press release on Monday........

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