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Tom and Olly Leaving Hit Nights

SCA’s “Tom & Olly” have announced that this will be their final week on the Hit Network”. The guys have been hosting the evening shift for the past few months taking over from Ash London, previously they were hosting the 10pm-midnight shift. The final show will be this Wednesday night.

They announced on Facebook: “After 3 years on Hit Nights and 7 years on radio with SCA (Star FM, MMM) we find our schedules suddenly cleared! Alas, that is the nature of the industry and we are excited about what the future holds. Tom will no doubt head back to the Apple store and Olly will try unsuccessfully to get a teaching job. Or maybe none of that will happen! What we do know is we have loved (almost) every minute of our time in radio! What a dream, getting paid to talk absolute rubbish every day. We have some exciting plans in the works but in the meantime, you might ask ‘Why Wednesday?’ Answer: Staff Party is on Thursday!

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