Award-winning broadcaster Virginia Trioli is to leave her role as host of Mornings on ABC Radio Melbourne to take up a new position fronting a prime-time ABC arts program.

ABC Chief Content Officer Chris Oliver-Taylor said that the new show, which is yet to be titled, “will form part of our expanded Arts coverage right across the ABC in 2024”. Featuring a series of high-profile interviews, it will celebrate “some of the luminaries of the arts world in an exciting new format”.

“Virginia has been incredible since she returned to ABC Melbourne, a wonderful host, engaging and inquisitive interviewer, never afraid to ask the hard question and set the daily agenda, but as sad as we and all her audience are that Virginia has decided to step away from her Mornings show, we are thrilled that she is staying with us at the ABC,” said Oliver-Taylor.

Virginia Trioli. Photo supplied

This is one of the first implementations by Oliver-Taylor, a former Director of Production for Netflix. He took up the new ABC role in July, overseeing all screen, audio and digital content for the national broadcaster.

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