Ali Clarke and Max Burford return to the breakfast slot at Adelaide’s Mix102.3 as Max & Ali in the Morning, from Wednesday, 17 January, at 6am.
Duncan Campbell, ARN’s chief content officer, said the name refresh will build on the partnership both hosts have formed over the past year.
“Max and Ali hosted a successful show together last year that reflects everything the people of Adelaide want in the morning, and we can’t wait to see the fresh focus on Max and Ali’s friendship resonate even more with our audience for 2024.”
Burford said of returning to the air: “Sleeping in for the last six weeks has been torturous, so I’m eager to switch that alarm back on and get back into the studio. It’ll be great to build on the first year together with Ali and our extremely hard-working team.”
Meanwhile, Clarke called Burford’s addition to the team last year a “breath of fresh air”. She said: “He quickly became an integral part of the breakfast show. We can’t wait to do it all again this year with the people of Adelaide who tune in… all are welcome!”
Burford joined The Ali Clarke Breakfast Show at the start of 2023, bringing his wealth of knowledge in sport and the local community to the on-air role.
Over the last year, The Ali Clarke Breakfast Show has taken its audience on a journey in the breakfast slot. In May Clarke, revealed on air to her hosts Shane Lowe and Cosi, that she had found her birth dad’s grave site after engaging with one of Australia’s top private investigators to help her find out more about her birth father.
The journey ended in grief for Clarke and her mum Mary Carle, as they sadly found his unmarked grave in Goodna Cemetery, Brisbane.
Clarke discovered her birth father Philip Joseph McManus died, aged 39, in Brisbane in 1987, and now hopes to find any other children he may have had along with unknown aunties and uncles.
Clarke tearfully said at the time: “When you turn up to a cemetery and there are beautifully cared for plots, but then just a piece of grass for him, it is easy just to think that nobody cared.”
Read more: Mix 102.3 host Ali Clarke discovers birth father’s grave site
Then in July, the breakfast show hosted the quickest wedding in Adelaide for Local Kapunda couple, Dylan Schmidt and Charlotte Simmons after they became engaged live on the breakfast show the previous week.
Dylan, 26, and Charlotte, 20, have been dating since December 2022 and clicked from the moment they met, with Dylan asking Charlotte to be his girlfriend on their first date.
Read more: Mix102’s The Ali Clarke Breakfast Show pulls of Adelaide’s quickest wedding
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Top image: Max Burford and Ali Clarke