Beloved radio duo announce shock split as they ditch breakfast show: 'Our journey has come to an end'

Radio station 2DAY FM is in the midst of a major shakeup. 

Emma Chow, co-host of the Mike E & Emma Show, announced on Tuesday that she was departing the duo's weekend breakfast slot, which airs in Sydney. 

She has shared the show alongside Michael Etheridge for over a decade. 

'After almost 14 years, the Mike E & Emma journey has come to an end', she said in a social media post.

'We were babies when we first started at The Edge, and I am so incredibly grateful for and proud of every single second of radio we did together' she continued. 

'Most of all, thank YOU for listening to and growing up with us.

'Though you'll see us doing our own thing from now on, we are still great mates and only wish each other the best. 2025 is a new chapter.'

The show began on ARN in 2011 before shifting over to 2DAY FM in 2021. 

Chow could be moving to join Jimmy Smith and Nath Roye on the weekday breakfast slot, the Daily Telegraph reports that, but the station has not commented on the rumour as yet.  

It comes after another beloved radio duo announced a major update to their breakfast slot. 

Kyle Sandilands and Jackie 'O' Henderson have surprised fans with a very unlikely change to their popular show.

The Kyle and Jackie O Show is known for its trademark crude and explicit humour but the co-hosts have now promised to tone down their antics.

Shock jock Kyle, 53, and Jackie, 49, have failed to win over Melbourne viewers since expanding into the city in April 2024, dipping down in the radio ratings. 

However, seemingly in a bid to win over fans in the city, the top-rating Sydney KIIS FM show have now promised to 'behave' and down tone their cheeky antics.

A new slogan advertising the show reads: 'Listen now. We're behaving,' in an apparent bid to appeal to a larger audience in Melbourne.

The advertisement has been plastered all over Melbourne's buses as the breakfast show have poked fun at their naughty reputation.

Kyle and Jackie have famously interviewed people about their sex lives and revealed how to identify an erotic massage parlour in some racy segments on their program.

But after the show was introduced to Melbourne last year, KIIS FM management have been transforming the show to make it more accessible to the new market. 

In November, it was announced that Kyle would be reducing his trademark graphic sexual content in a bid to appeal to the Melbourne market.

'The sexual content was really a small part of the show,' ARN's chief content officer Duncan Campbell told Mumbrella.

'Because it was graphic, it grabbed everyone's attention – but [Kyle's] taken that off, really.

'It's still sexual content. But not the graphic sexual content that it once was.' 

Campbell told the outlet that Kyle was the one who 'came to the table' with toning down on the graphic content and is passionate about winning over Melbourne.

'[Kyle] wants to win in Melbourne. There's no doubt about that,' he added.