''The Marty Sheargold Show'' was an Australian radio show on

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. The show was hosted by

Marty Sheargold Martin Donald Sheargold is an Australian stand-up comedian, radio broadcaster, and actor. Early life and education Martin Donald Sheargold was born in Nowra, New South Wales. He went to school at Daramalan College in Canberra. Career Ra ...

with anchor Troy Ellis, producers Will Ralston and Loren Barry and executive producer Matt Thomson. Founded as a breakfast show on

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in 2021, it also featured an hour long packaged highlights show that aired nationally 3–4pm.

History

In November 2020,

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announced that ''The Marty Sheargold Show'' would replace The Hot Breakfast in 2021 after

Eddie McGuire Edward Joseph McGuire (born 29 October 1964) is an Australian television and radio presenter, journalist, Australian Football League commentator and former TV executive. He is also an occasional ''Herald Sun'' newspaper columnist. He hosted C ...

and

Luke Darcy Luke Darcy (born 12 July 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL) and now works for the Seven Network and Triple M covering the AFL and the Olympics. Early life L ...

decided to end the show at the end of 2020 after 11 years. Sheargold was part of Nova's national drive show, '' Kate, Tim & Marty'' until September 2020 when he departed the show. In July 2024 Sheargold announced he would be stepping down from the breakfast shift due to his stand-up comedy and TV commitments. The show continued in the afternoon slot between 3-4pm as a pre-recorded show. In November of the same year, it was announced that the show would be expanded to the 3-6pm drive slot on New South Wales and Queensland stations including

Triple M Sydney Triple M Sydney (callsign 2MMM) is a radio station broadcasting in Sydney, Australia. Triple M Sydney is part of Southern Cross Austereo's Triple M network and broadcasts on the 104.9 MHz frequency. History The Early Days Triple M commenced ...

and

Triple M Brisbane Triple M Brisbane is a commercial FM rock radio station in Brisbane, Australia. It broadcasts on 104.5 and on DAB+ digital radio. It is affiliated with the Triple M stations owned by SCA in other cities, but many of its programs are local. St ...

. The first hour (3-4pm) of the show would remain on-air nationally with the southern states (VIC, TAS, SA and WA) switching to The Rush Hour with JB and Billy from 4pm. It meant he would take on his former Nova show now called ''Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel'' in the northern markets. Before the end of 2024, producer Loren Barry left the show suddenly but was later announced by SCA and on-air by Sheargold to be working on a new project within SCA. She went on to host The Hot Hits on SCA's

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in 2025. The daily podcast featured extra exclusive content not heard during the radio show that mainly centred around listener feedback. For the duration of 2024, once the program ceased airing live from July, the On This Day segment was moved to the podcast only. All radio segments featured on-air, including Top 3 at 3, What’s On The Back Page and Three-way quiz are included in the podcast as well. In February 2025, Sheargold was taken off-air due to two comments that were perceived as sexist & crude by the public. Sheargold's employment with Triple M was subsequently terminated and the program was cancelled the next day.

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External links

The Marty Sheargold Show - Triple M
Australian comedy radio programs Breakfast radio 2020s Australian radio programs 2021 establishments in Australia 2025 disestablishments in Australia