Up on The Hour

Up on The Hour (originally known as Up to The Hour) is a Euroish magazine show that is broadcast each morning at 9.00am on EBC Radio 1.

The programme originally started out as two half-hour programmes interspersed between AM at 7.30am and 8.30am but was later separated into a full hour-long programme in it's own right.

History
Up to The Hour was created as part of the launch schedule of EBC Radio 1, which was to take over from Radio National and oversaw by Laurie Galway, who became infamous for his "ruthless" style of controlling the station, with many cuts made to some of the mainstays of Radio National, including AM, which would be cut into two half-hour programmes at 7am and 8am on the day of the relaunch, with the 7.30am and 8.30am slots given over to the new programme.

The remit of Up to The Hour was to provide a lighter alternative to AM - which was reformatted as a hard news programme, with a mix of celebrity chat, sports, culture and lifestyle features. The programme's inital presenter was Brian Holland, joining from AM, which he had helmed to great success for 15 years.