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News Axings At NOVA Entertainment.

Three longtime radio newsreaders have been made redundant at Nova Entertainment. They were: Smooth FM Breakfast news presenter Nikole Gunn, ACRA multi award winning Smooth newsreader Steve Blanda and Nova Adelaide breakfast newsreader Abbey Smith.

Nikole Gunn was previously News Director at DMG Radio Australia and Austereo in Melbourne. Steve Blanda, who has been with Smooth for nearly a decade, has been serving in radio news for nearly fifty years.

The latest changes are part of NOVA Entertainment’s News and Programming structure.

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