ABC Radio Melbourne presenter Virginia Trioli has announced she will be stepping away from talkback radio for a new position hosting an arts television program.
Trioli will finish up on Friday September 15th ahead of the launch of a new high-profile arts interview series, which will broadcast on ABC TV in 2024.
Trioli, who has also filled in as a presenter on Q&A in recent months, said she came to the decision to leave radio after a short break from broadcasting earlier this year.
“The time has come after decades of working to the hardest alarms that the ABC has to offer on News Breakfast and on Mornings,” she said.
“And with my family needing a little bit more from me, now is the time to work and live a little differently.”
She took on the role as Mornings presenter in 2019 when Jon Faine stepped down, in what she said was a difficult time for Melbourne.
“I started just as bushfire smoke filled our city, we then headed into the dreadful Black Summer fires and then straight into COVID,” she said.
“It’s been an honour and a privilege to be here with the audience through some of the years that the city of Melbourne has gone through.”
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Virginia Trioli was caught off guard this morning when her producers organised not one, but two special callers to wish her a happy birthday on-air. Happy birthday VT! 🎂🎂
#virginiatrioli #radio #eddiebetts #michaelrowland #afl #carlton Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
A few words from me …
Before I returned to work in April, after my long break over summer, I informed my managers here at ABC Radio Melbourne that I needed to step down from the position of presenting Mornings on this station.
And I will do that on Friday September 15 – almost exactly four years to the day that I took on this role.
Instead, I have been incredibly lucky to be asked by the ABC to move to television, to present a new prime time arts show for ABC TV in 2024.
After a difficult period of dealing with multiple illnesses in my family, and with the realisation that you’re lucky if you get EVEN ONE warning about how long you have on this earth with the people you love, I now find myself at that stage of life that requires me to live and work in a different way.
And after almost 20 years of working to the hardest alarms that the ABC has to offer – presenting Mornings on ABC Radio Sydney, 11 years as the founding anchor of News Breakfast, and on Melbourne mornings here – it’s a change that feels unavoidable for me right now.
When I was offered this position, I did not hesitate to say yes – both because of my deep love of radio and this ABC Melbourne audience, and also because of my commitment to the task of holding those in power to account.
That hasn’t always made me many friends with those in power.
But that goes way back with me … I was never going to be any different!
I have many many thanks to make – but they can come later.
Right now — I want to thank you, the listeners.
We have been through a great deal.
Fires and pandemic and floods and a cost of living crisis that is re-shaping our understanding of what is possible for us and our families in Australia.
Some of our years together in Melbourne have been very very hard indeed.
And only you and I will ever know what being here for each other day after day has been like over the last four years.
Don’t ever let anyone try to tell you what that was, and what that was like.
We lived it.
We know it.
And I was honoured to have the grave responsibility of being in this chair while we went through it. @abcinmelbourne @abctv #work #life #family #virginiatrioli
How much do you know him? The Senator is up in the new episode of #youdontknowme – and Omar from the Wire gets a shout out. Of course he does. Listen via my #linkinbio and download the @abclisten app so you can be updated each week. Love this man. 🖤 #senatorbriggs #virginiatrioli #conversation #music #melbourne #deadly ABC Melbourne
In 1997, as the first snow flurries of winter dusted Tokyo, Russell and I stepped out of a tiny Juban sushi bar, having had some of the best sushi of our life.
I was determined to find it again, but all I had was this photo.
Swipe to see what happened next … #japan #backintokyo #familytravels #virginiatrioli #matsukanazabujuban Matsukan Azabu
In 1997, as the first snow flurries of winter dusted Tokyo, Russell and I stepped out of a tiny Juban sushi bar, having had some of the best sushi of our life.
I was determined to find it again, but all I had was this photo.
Swipe to see what happened next … #japan #backintokyo #familytravels #virginiatrioli #matsukanazabujuban Matsukan Azabu
In 1997, as the first snow flurries of winter dusted Tokyo, Russell and I stepped out of a tiny Juban sushi bar, having had some of the best sushi of our life.
I was determined to find it again, but all I had was this photo.
Swipe to see what happened next … #japan #backintokyo #familytravels #virginiatrioli #matsukanazabujuban Matsukan Azabu
In 1997, as the first snow flurries of winter dusted Tokyo, Russell and I stepped out of a tiny Juban sushi bar, having had some of the best sushi of our life.
I was determined to find it again, but all I had was this photo.
Swipe to see what happened next … #japan #backintokyo #familytravels #virginiatrioli #matsukanazabujuban Matsukan Azabu
In 1997, as the first snow flurries of winter dusted Tokyo, Russell and I stepped out of a tiny Juban sushi bar, having had some of the best sushi of our life.
I was determined to find it again, but all I had was this photo.
Swipe to see what happened next … #japan #backintokyo #familytravels #virginiatrioli #matsukanazabujuban Matsukan Azabu
In 1997, as the first snow flurries of winter dusted Tokyo, Russell and I stepped out of a tiny Juban sushi bar, having had some of the best sushi of our life.
I was determined to find it again, but all I had was this photo.
Swipe to see what happened next … #japan #backintokyo #familytravels #virginiatrioli #matsukanazabujuban Matsukan Azabu
With the stroke of a pen, Adam Liaw signed himself up for law school at just 16 years old.
He admits to always getting a seven-year itch with his career, which saw him work in corporate, environmental, and entertainment law.
But his big break came winning the second season of MasterChef, the chef’s kiss on a lifelong love of food.
🎧 Check out the link in our story for the full episode of You Don’t Know Me!
#cooking #masterchef #food #recipe #dinner Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Still glowing from the Eddie love and all your beyoootiful messages from yesterday. I’m two Berocca in and should be right to go by 8.30. Can’t think of a better way to start a new decade than with these happy tears. Watch to end if you missed it … 😂 @abcinmelbourne @eddiebettsfoundation @mjrowland68 #eddiebetts #birthdays #fangirling
It’s Virginia Trioli’s last show on ABC Radio Melbourne today, and Sammy J sent her off in the only way he knows how to – with a rousing comedic serenade. 🎶
#abc #abcradiomelbourne #sammyj Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Give me a minute – I need to settle down a bit, and peel my hands from my still-burning eyes – and I’ll post my final #areyoukiddingme #whatthehellwasthat analysis on the @justlikethatmax finale, aka the greatest #cringewatch of our times.
But let me assure you, I won’t ask you to wait FIVE YEARS.
🤯🥴😳😂 #omfg #andjustlikethat #comingsoon
Who else uses their dog for emotional support? 🙋♀️
She burst onto the big screen with a lead role in The Man From Snowy River, and then helmed the hit TV show Seachange.
Sigrid Thornton boasts a rich and impactful career at home in Australia.
#podcast #sigridthornton #dogs #animals #cute #abc Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Even as Virginia Trioli says goodbye to radio, she knows its power to reconnect people.
In four short years, it feels like everything has changed, but one thing is constant – the conversations and connection to an audience in radio is stronger than anywhere else, she writes.
To read the full story, see our link in bio.
#ABCNews #Radio #Melbourne
On Virginia Trioli’s last day in the chair, incoming Mornings presenter Raf Epstein answered the tough questions for You Don’t Know Me. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Didn’t Carmy miss a moment here? Did anyone in Chicago really need another place of foams and gels and micro-herbs (did Carmy really need that?) when he could have taken the fabulous heritage of #thebeef – and all that glorious brisket – and opened, I don’t know … the greatest @hectors_deli we’ve ever seen?
Doesn’t the world need a bloody great and soulful sandwich bar (with short ribs and risotto) rather than another $300 a head joint? 🤷🏻♀️
Happy to discuss …
@thebearfx #thebear @jeremyallenwhitefinally #jeremyallenwhite #food #cooking #brisket #chicago
It takes a village to dress a kid for #bookweek , including a little help from a dear friend at the Bar … my little #atticusfinch will be well-briefed. Big hugs and thanks @moymoy1977 💕💕 #tokillamockingbird #bookstagram #books #reading #kidsneedbooks Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Trish in Eltham sends me blackberry jam. A joy bomb first thing Friday morning, made from a rare cultivar called Scoresberry – a cross between a loganberry and a blackberry from the 60s. Gently set and deeply flavourful. Trish – my heartfelt thanks.
Thank you to all the amazing @abcinmelbourne listeners sending me such gorgeous cards and little gifts. 💕😍 #radio #radiofam #virginiatrioli ABC Southbank
Cancel tomorrow’s 10.30am meeting: the glorious David McAllister joins me for Friday’s You Don’t Know Me and a delicious behind the curtain look into the secret world of the ballet. Here’s the tease: Jockstraps: A user’s guide. (See second picture) Do tune in! @abcinmelbourne @davidmcallisterdaisymc #ballet #dance #behindthescenes #davidmcallister #virginiatrioli #melbourne @ausballet Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cancel tomorrow’s 10.30am meeting: the glorious David McAllister joins me for Friday’s You Don’t Know Me and a delicious behind the curtain look into the secret world of the ballet. Here’s the tease: Jockstraps: A user’s guide. (See second picture) Do tune in! @abcinmelbourne @davidmcallisterdaisymc #ballet #dance #behindthescenes #davidmcallister #virginiatrioli #melbourne @ausballet Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Maggie Dent is often referred to as the ‘queen of common sense’.
She’s a successful author, the host of her own parenting advice podcast, and has raised four sons of her own.
But she tells Virginia Trioli that a dark impulse at university almost ended her life.
Check out the link in our story for the full episode of You Don’t Know Me.
#mentalhealth #parenting #podcast
Maggie Dent is often referred to as the ‘queen of common sense’.
She’s a successful author, the host of her own parenting advice podcast, and has raised four sons of her own.
But she tells Virginia Trioli that a dark impulse at university almost ended her life.
Check out the link in our story for the full episode of You Don’t Know Me.
#mentalhealth #parenting #podcast
