EXCLUSIVE:

ABC’s Media Bites isn’t returning in 2025.

Paul Barry will affirm the top of the social media offshoot tonight in his closing Media Watch internet hosting.

There have been 413 Media Bites editions, launched to Fb, X, iview and YouTube since 2017, as a approach for the programme to have interaction with youthful audiences and deal with further points. Barry sits within the Media Watch workplace and serves up objects with a extra cheeky tone than the intense Monday broadcast.

But it surely received’t return with new host Linton Besser in 2025, it has been determined.

This Thursday’s Media Bites, the final of all of them, shall be a “Better of.”

“Bites received’t be again subsequent 12 months, which is unhappy, as a result of making them was quite a lot of enjoyable,” says Barry.