David Speers moves to replace Barrie Cassidy on ABC's Insiders in a blow to Rupert Murdoch's Sky News
Sky, by contrast, has an average daytime audience a fraction of the size ofSpeers is reported to be among Sky's highest paid hosts while his new employer, the ABC,cut that managing director David Anderson warned would produce staff cuts and disruptions to the national broadcaster's content.
"David Speers will comfortably fill Barrie Cassidy's big shoes. A true class act! Welcome aboard, mate," Rowland said on Twitter.as did ABC breakfast radio host Fran Kelly."I am convinced after 18 years that it's time to give somebody else a go," Cassidy. "I could list half a dozen within the organisation who could do it well … but I won't!"
News of his appointment was greeted with widespread approval among senior journalists outside the ABC as well.
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