Hamish & Andy Set to Become Highest Paid FM DJs, Reportedly Getting $4M Each for 2DayFM

Hamish Blake and Andy Lee are set to be Australian radio’s highest paid FM presenters. According to a report, each will receive $4 million when they start their drive slot on Southern Cross Austereo in July.

In October, 2DayFM announced that the comedy duo will take over the national Drive timeslot in July, while Dan Debuf and Maz Compton will be taking over the breakfast slot from Sophie Monk, Jules Lund and Merrick Watts at the start of 2015. The trio’s ratings-challenged program will be laid to rest at the end of the year.

“We’re so stoked to be jumping into the Drive slot, it’s something we’ve always wanted to do. Ever since that time we did it for five years. It’s going to be so much fun,” Hamish and Andy said in a statement.

With Dan and Maz’s show transferred from Drive to breakfast starting in January, the Drive timeslot will temporarily be occupied by Lund before Hamish and Andy take over from then.

“The Hamish & Andy Show” was a top-rating program for 2DayFM until its end in 2010.

Hamish and Andy Return to Drive, Dan and Max Take Over 2DayFM Breakfast

Hamish and Andy’s Today Network comeback has come with a hefty price tag, though. According to the Daily Telegraph, they were lured to return for $4 million each, making them the highest paid FM DJs in Australia.

It’s a curious development since SCA lost its lucrative breakfast program “The Kyle and Jackie O” show to rival KIIS FM because it reportedly refused Kyle Sandilands and Jackie “O” Henderson their asking price of $2 million each. But apparently, the network is willing to pay Hamish and Andy double the amount.

“It is pretty amazing that they are paying Hamish and Andy $4 million each per year when you think that Kyle and Jackie O were asking for half of that a year ago,” according to the paper’s source. “In hindsight, it is an unbelievably bad piece of decision making.”