Congratulations to Rachel Burden, announced (Radio Today) as the new co-presenter of Breakfast on Radio 5Live. She'll start in May, and then make the journey later this year to Salford.
Rachel was the in-house favourite, already hosting the weekend show, and swinging though others as holiday relief. It might have been nicer to just give her the big gig from the start, but hey-ho, the ruthless world of commissioning likes to cast around. I harbour the view that press rumours of interest from Fiona Phillips and Julia Bradbury were pretty wide of the mark.
Rachel's radio pedigree is sound; dad Paul was a radio news reporter before heading to tv where he presented Business Breakfast.
Meanwhile things seem more turbulent at Breakfast on BBC1, with the March deadline for their decisions on Salford looming.
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