Perth talkback station 6PR’s weekend mornings presenter Jamie Burnett will take over the 3pm to 6pm drive shift from January next year.
Burnett’s appointment completes the 2026 lineup for the station, which is owned by Nine Entertainment, also the owner of this masthead.
Jamie Burnett has been announced as the new 6PR Perth Live host.Credit: 6PR
Presenters will have also shorter shifts next year as 6PR returns to a four-show weekday format.
Burnett replaces Perth Live’s Oliver Peterson, who wrapped his final shift with 6PR earlier this month and departs for the ABC to replace Gary Adshead – also a former 6PR presenter – on the national broadcaster’s drive show next year.
Burnett and Peterson will now be talkback rivals, albeit on different bands after the ABC announced it would move its Perth station to the FM band from next year.
Burnett is currently filling in for breakfast host Karl Langdon alongside Steve Mills and told Mills on Wednesday morning he would use the show to dig into issues with a local lens.
“We’re going to dig into what matters, the stuff that you throw around at the dinner table with your family and the stuff that you talk about with your mates at the pub,” he said.
“We’re going to focus on this place, you know, the stuff that’s around Perth, the lens of what’s going on around the nation, the world, but with that kind of local look at it.”
Burnett previously spent more than nine years at the ABC in various producing and presenting roles before becoming the public relations guru at Good Drinks Australia, the company behind Gage Roads Brewing Co.
He has been presenting the weekend mornings shift since 2023.
Radio 6PR content manager Brad Pottinger said Burnett was a respected voice across Perth and already a popular member of the 6PR family.
“His blend of journalistic rigour, passion for WA and ability to connect with this city makes him the perfect host for Perth Live,” Pottinger said.
Last week, Tod Johnston was announced as the new 6PR afternoons host.
6PR’s move to a three-shift to combat falling ad revenue was widely panned by listeners and led to Adshead leaving his mornings role after moving from a 9am to 12pm shift to a show spanning from 10am to 2pm.
The programming overhaul comes amid talks Nine is readying 6PR and its east coast talkback assets for sale.
On Wednesday, Mills flagged more major announcements would be made in due course, but that he had no idea whether the station was being sold.
“At this point in time, there’s been lots of discussion in the media about 6PR being sold,” he said.
“I honestly don’t know. I don’t think anyone knows, and that’s the serious answer.
“If I did know, I’d share it with you, because it’s obviously important to a lot of people that love this radio station.”
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