Adam Boland to leave Seven
Adam Boland is leaving the Seven Network after nearly 14 years.
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Adam Boland is leaving the Seven Network after nearly 14 years.
“Big life decision today. After almost 14 years, I have told Seven I won’t be renewing beyond February,” he wrote on Facebook. “It’s time to leave home.”
Boland, currently Executive Producer of Weekend Sunrise, has indicated he has no plans other than an overseas holiday.
Boland’s drive behind Sunrise during its formative years was a revolution in breakfast television.
At the age of just 27 years he revamped Seven’s breakfast schedule, producing a show from a demountable shed in the car park at Epping.
In 2004 it toppled Nine’s long-running Today show after two decades and helped drive the network’s wider rise in News and Public Affairs. He later added The Morning Show to Seven’s line-up.
He ended a long run with the show in September 2010 after nine years, remaining as a consultant. But in April 2011 he announced he was suing Seven for refusing to release him from his contract, amid talk he wanted to succeed Peter Meakin as news boss. The claim was later withdrawn and Boland returned to produce Weekend Sunrise and Director of Social Media and Strategy.
Rumours of him exiting Seven have persisted for many months, particularly in the light of James Warburton’s appointment as TEN CEO and confirmation that the network plans to re-enter the Breakfast market.
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14 Responses
@byeana
Oouch!, did i hit a raw nerve! Q&A is looking for a studio audience next week. Interested?
@byeana: Considering the opinion polls at the moment, it would be crazy not to support Abbott and co. Why would any commercial media organisation even consider pitching a show to the miniscule 30% of the population who intend voting Labor?
Back on topic pleez. 😉
@joey69 or could it be JoeS ?
If it is both, I may have been very rude and not wished you all the best, possibly during your internship at Ten, but possibly not in their creative design dept.
In regards to your, ‘this is a story on Alan’ reference, sometimes its best to read all of Mr Knox’s items, as sometimes the rumours often at the bottom of his page, where such rumours have been known to become fact, but please do not feel miffed if such a rumour becomes true, because Ten no doubt possibly ignore their interns even more than us, so called valued viewers.
@joey69
Is this the same type of Ten bashing, that they intend for us again, with another year of The Bolt Report?, or the 10 months of weekly bashing’ s they inflicted upon us, thanks to Henry, apparently allowed by Ten and the EP of breakfast?
Although only early days, much like the bashing they have lined up for us with the revamped Meet the Press, going on their ‘most important first impression week’, where they went in boots and all, and totally pro Abbott and Co.
@ steviem Enough of the negative Ch 10 bashing. We are over it.! this is a story on Adam.Surely if Adam went to 10 he could bring some different ideas to the place. if he does not go, good luck to him on his next future move.
I honestly believe his just over it and wants a break and a new environment. He would be crazy/stupid to go to Ch10. The place is beyond repair.
If this guy is sooooo great….why is he only working on weekend sunrise. Or am I missing something here?
Yes. As you know this site archives these kinds of stories so you can follow the trajectory of moves with a quick search if you want to. I have tried to sum it up above. He remained with Seven as Social Media strategist, essentially to stop him from walking to the competition. He was then asked to take WS when an opening arose.
This is no reflection on his abilities, but aren’t we all bored to death of the “boy who cried wolf” nature of these “resignations”? By my count, good old Adam has “left” Seven about 13 times now.
I only hope that if Adam Boland ends up at Ten, he has a specific exclusion clause in his contract, that excludes any political agenda’s of Gina, Lachlan and to a lessor extent James, where the sheer value of their share holdings, has seemed to allow them to enforce some very destructive influences.
This was more than evident from the very outset of the revamped Meet The Press program that returned yesterday, not wanting to stray of topic, and hopefully David will ask for our opinions on the new Meet The Press.
But if these influences are allowed to run rampant, Ten remains doomed, simply because they will and can not offer any enjoyable viewer attractions, considering they are still well and truly behind the Bolt and Henry 8 ball, regardless how many times they chalk their cue.
He ain’t going anywhere, Seven will throw some extra cash his way or even pay for his holiday they wont want to risk another network snapping him up.
Adam Boland is a commodity to the network and his resignation is indubitably an enormous loss for Seven. I now accept as true he was promised the plum role of Director- News and Current Affairs, hence the reason he didn’t go on with legal actions.
I wonder if he sees the value in a Circle/Project style fun but newsy Breakfast show on 10 like so many members of this site do…..