BORDER AM radio station 2AY has fallen into line with its two commercial FM rivals by switching to two breakfast announcers.
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After six years of being a solo early morning host, Sandra Moon has welcomed a former rival as co-host.
Kev Poulton, who was a breakfast presenter on FM 105.7 The River from 2011 to 2015, joined Moon on-air for the first time on Monday morning.
The move means that 2AY matches Triple M (Luisa Pelizzari and Matt Griffith) and Hit104.9 (Riley Rose Harper and Seamus Evans) in having a male-female breakfast team.
It is the first time since the 1990s that 2AY has opted for a two-handed wake-up show.
Then it was Pelizzari who shared hosting with Justin Smith, who now works for Melbourne radio station 3AW which has much of its content relayed through 2AY.
Poulton walked away from radio when he quit The River breakfast program.
He became the general manager of an accommodation house, Quest Albury on Townsend.
But his love of radio, which dates back to hosting shows on Border community station 2REM as a teenager, saw him return to the airwaves as a 2AY weekend announcer.
Moon said she had been encouraging Poulton to join her on-air for some time and was pleased he accepted her invitation.
She originally hails from Deniliquin and appeared in the television soapy Neighbours.
Poulton is a father of four who once joined then Wodonga councillor Rodney Wangman in dressing up as singer Cher.
The pair paraded around Woodland Grove in central Wodonga dressed in outfits that matched those worn by Cher in the video for her song If I Could Turn Back Time.
As he debuted with Moon, Poulton joked that he and newsreader Paul McSwiney could strip naked.
Poulton and Moon were unavailable to speak to The Border Mail about their new show on Monday.
In 2014 in the only ratings survey done on Border radio since 2003, Moon had a 17 per cent share of the audience behind Poulton and Pelizzari (19.6 per cent) and Star FM (21.9 per cent).
Poulton joining Moon means no Border station has an identical breakfast crew to that survey period.
ABC Goulburn Murray swapped its previous breakfast Gaye Pattison with mornings presenter Joseph Thomsen last year.
Harper and Evans replaced Tom Bainbridge and Oliver Morris who had been hosting breakfast on Star FM since 2015.
Griffith replaced Poulton after having a stint undertaking publicity with Brad Jones Racing following an earlier period on breakfast radio.