Posts Tagged ‘NSW’
Some decisions that radio station Program Directors make baffle me. I’ve worked on music stations where you weren’t allowed to play two female artists back-to-back, a station where I was told to play more music in the afternoon because there weren’t enough songs being played at breakfast time and a station that sped up all […]
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Tags: 2PK, Australia, Blog, Google, Inspiration, Internet, Music, NSW, Parkes, Radio, Take 40 Australia
Real people are more entertaining than radio presenters. I’m talking about listener phone calls. There’s something special about phone calls on the radio. They’re authentic, unique and unpredictable and the presenter becomes more real when they’re talking to a listener on the phone. It’s hard to get listeners to call in these days. It never used […]
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Tags: 2GO, AFTRS, Aircheck, Australia, Bedfordshire, Blog, BOB fm, BOBfm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Buckinghamshire, Casinos, Central Coast, Comedy, Graham Mack, Hertfordshire, Home Counties, Las Vegas, NSW, phone calls, Radio, Shills, Talk Radio, talkback., television, text, Travel, Welwyn Garden City
Time and Temp
There’s one thing about working on the radio in Britain that’s the opposite way around to how it was when I worked on the air in Australia. Every radio station I worked on in Oz had a gauge in the on-air studio that showed you the outside temperature. At the end of weather forecasts on […]
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Tags: 106 Century FM, 2CR, 2GO, 2PK, 5SE, AFTRS, Aircheck, BBC, Birmingham, Blog, BOBfm, BRMB, Broadcasting, Car, Central Coast, Commercial Radio, Dorset, Graham Mack, GWR, London, NSW, Parkes, Radio, South Australia, TFM Radio
It’s hard to believe that it’s been more than 20 years since I started on the air at 2GO on the New South Wales Central Coast. It was the last commercial radio station I worked on in Australia, I left in 1997 and moved to Britain. Here’s some of my favourite callers from my 2GO […]
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Tags: 1996, 1997, 2GO, 90s, AFTRS, Aircheck, Australia, Blog, BOB fm, BOBfm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Central Coast, Comedy, Commercial Radio, Gosford, Graham Mack, NSW, Radio, Sydney
“Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?” That quote comes from Howard Stern in his movie Private Parts. Maybe it’s a broadcasting thing, since I got into radio, I’ve constantly been misunderstood, right from the very start. In 1993, I […]
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Tags: 2PK, AFTRS, Aircheck, Australia, Blog, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, Champion Post, Graham Mack, Howard Stern, News, NSW, Parkes, Radio, Sydney, Travel
Have you ever found yourself asking what, to you, is a perfectly reasonable question but then realise that the person you’re asking thinks you’ve lost your mind? In early February 1997, Julie and I were about to leave the New South Wales Central Coast and move to England. Our car was being put on a […]
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Tags: 2CRFM, 2GO, AA, Antifreeze, Australia, Bournemouth, Cars, Central Coast, cold weather., Gosford, heat, NSW, summer, winter
If you want to get on in life, it’s important to never let anyone else define what you’re capable of. After three and a bit years on commercial radio in Australia, I decided to find out if it would be possible for me to work on the radio in England. In late 1996, I was […]
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Tags: 2GO, AFTRS, Australia, Broadcasting, Central Coast, Damien Carbon, GWR, NSW, Radio, Ram FM
I loved living in Australia and never thought I’d ever move back to Britain. That all changed after a phone call in the early hours one morning. In 1996, I was presenting the night-time show on 2GO on the New South Wales Central Coast. I’d been working on the air in commercial radio in Australia […]
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Tags: 2GO, Australia, Central Coast, Elvis, GWR, NSW, Ram FM, Sun Records
I loved living in Australia and working on the radio there, I even became an Australian citizen, but to most Aussies, I was still a Pom. I remember one night in 1996, when I presented the night-time show on 2GO on the New South Wales Central Coast. I took a phone call on the air […]
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Tags: 2GO, Aussies, Australia, Central Coast, Citzenship, Drunk, History, NSW, phone, Pom, Pommie, Poms, Radio, talkback.
The thing I liked the most about working on the radio at night was the special bond that develops between the host and the listener. I’m sure that anyone who’s ever presented on the radio at night will say the same thing. Night-time listeners are the most loyal of all, you end up becoming part […]
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Tags: 2GO, Central Coast, Gosford, Graham Mack, Liverpool, NSW, Radio
I have to admit that I used to go AWOL from my own radio show. I didn’t just leave the studio, I used to leave the radio station in the middle of my program on a regular basis. In 1996, when I’d been working at 2GO on the New South Wales Central Coast for about […]
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Tags: 2GO, Gosford, NSW, Radio, Westfield Tuggerah
Sometimes, the timing is perfect, sometimes it isn’t. The job of presenting a daily air-shift on the radio is pretty much exactly the same no matter where you do it but in commercial radio, your pay is related to what the station charges for advertising. That depends on the size of your audience. Assuming your […]
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Tags: 2GO Central Coast, 3GG Warragul, 5SE, Broadcasting, Mount Gambier, NSW, Radio, South Australia, Victoria
“We’d like to go ahead and hire you as the new drive-time presenter on 3GG in Warragul Victoria”. Finally Mark Vale had a vacancy at the radio station he was running over 400kms east of where we lived in Mount Gambier, South Australia. I’d been sending him demo tapes and talking to him on the […]
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Tags: 2PK, 3GG, 5SE, Broadcasting, giving notice, Mount Gambier, NSW, Parkes, quit, Radio, South Australia, Victoria, Warragul
I got interviewed for my second radio job while I was doing my first radio job. In August 1994, I’d been working at 2PK in the Central West of New South Wales for about a year. I was on the air when I got a call off the air from Steve Whelan the General Manager at […]
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Tags: 2PK, 5SE, Australia, Graham Mack, job interview, Mount Gambier, NSW, Parkes, Radio
I was trapped inside the radio station with the lights out, pretending I wasn’t there. That was the bizarre situation I found myself in one night at my first radio job in 1993. Although I was hired to do the breakfast show at 2PK in Parkes in the Central West of New South Wales, I […]
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Tags: 2PK, Aliens, Australia, Broadcasting, Graham Mack, NSW, Parkes, Radio, Space, Trapped, UFO
Police in regional Australia are very different to Sydney cops. They take a more practical approach to problem solving. We found this out when Julie and I lived in Parkes in the Central West of New South Wales. We’d moved there in 1993 because I’d got a job on the air at the local radio […]
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Tags: 2PK, Australia, Central West, Commercial Hotel, Drunk Driving, Graham Mack, NSW, NSW Police, Parkes, Radio
