Nine's got Australia's Got Talent

View the finalists in action before the Australia's Got Talent Grand Final tonight, Channel 7, 7.30pm

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Australia's Got Talent judges Kyle Sandilands, Dannii Minogue and Brian McFadden. Source: Herald Sun

AUSTRALIA'S Got Talent has been snapped up by Channel 9.

While Channel 7 was announcing the show would not be part of its 2013 line-up, Nine was finalising contractual details with TV supremo Simon Cowell for it to be part of its programming arsenal next year.

Nine's deal was made official just hours after the Seven announcement.

AGT is likely to run on Nine in the second half of 2013, once the network has completed its second season of mega-hit The Voice.

Interestingly, it was the power of The Voice that caused AGT to slip so badly in the ratings this year.

It's believed Nine is keen to retain Dannii Minogue as one of the show's judges. It is unlikely her fellow judges, Brian McFadden and Kyle Sandilands, will be approached.

McFadden and host Grant Denyer yesterday took to Twitter to mourn the end of AGT on Seven.

"With great sadness it's goodbye 2 my old friend, AGT," Denyer tweeted.

"7 hilarious series, some of TV's craziest/breathtaking moments. Well done."

McFadden was more succinct.

"It was fun while it lasted," the Irish rocker tweeted.

Minogue is believed to be overseas in Abu Dhabi.

Sandilands' future on the show had already been under a cloud because of his persistent health problems.

The radio shock jock missed a number of AGT auditions earlier this year due to illness, with Seven forced to scramble for a replacement.

Seven's head of production, Brad Lyons, said the decision to drop AGT came after ratings fell by half in recent years.

"The decision to end the show is heartbreaking,"Lyons said. "Seven will definitely be back making more talent shows in the future."

Seven is currently enjoying stellar ratings for its other talent show, The X Factor.

The network had been mulling over the future of AGT for the past two weeks.

In 2011, when it rode the wave of teen Jack Vidgen's popularity, AGT's Tuesday episodes averaged a whopping 1.935 million viewers nationally.

This year that figure slumped to 1.1 million.

A network source says costs have gone up 33 percent year-on-year.

AGT is estimated to have cost Seven more than $20 million this year in licence fees and production expenses.

Australia's Got Talent was the most watched program on TV when Jack Vidgen won last year. Picture: Fiona Hamilton Source: Herald Sun

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