Nikki Burdine & Neil Orne's Live Morning Show: A Win For Music City Work Club's Creator Community

Nashville just got a fresh reminder that its "Music City" nickname isn't only about songwriters and record labels — it's about anyone bold enough to build a stage of their own. Longtime WKRN News 2 morning-show co-anchors Nikki Burdine and Neil Orne are trading the traditional newsroom for something entirely on their own terms: a live, online morning show.

According to a report from The Tennessean, Burdine and Orne will livestream their new show three mornings a week, starting Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. It's the next chapter for a duo Nashville audiences have followed for years — first from the News 2 anchor desk, and more recently through their unfiltered "Not the News" podcast. Burdine has described the new venture as a return to "the real Nikki and Neil, how we used to be — unhinged in the best way," built without the constraints of a traditional broadcast schedule.

It's a familiar story in 2026: local media personalities with built-in audiences are increasingly choosing direct-to-viewer platforms over legacy TV and radio slots. It's exactly the kind of shift Music City Work Club sees every day. Whether it's a broadcast veteran launching a live show, a founder recording a weekly podcast, or a brand producing on-camera content, Nashville's next generation of independent media is being built one great space at a time — and that's precisely what Music City Work Club's Podcast Studio was built for: professional-grade recording space for Nashville creators, entrepreneurs, and media personalities, without the overhead of a traditional broadcast facility.

Nashville has always exported talent to Music City's stages and studios. Now it's exporting talent to its own live streams too — and Music City Work Club is proud to be part of the infrastructure making that possible.

Want to build your own show, podcast, or channel? Book the Podcast Studio at Music City Work Club and join the growing lineup of Nashville creators going live on their own terms.

Source: The Tennessean