I Picked The Wrong Time To Be Unemployed!

31Mar20

I haven’t worked for twenty-seven years. That’s because I’ve had a job in radio. I’ve been a presenter and programmer. Neither of those things can be compared to actual work. Before that, I had proper jobs. I was a pipe fitter on an oil refinery construction site in New Zealand and an air-conditioning engineer in […]

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How an air-conditioning mechanic in Sydney Australia became an award winning broadcaster in Britain; Part 216.

25Apr16

I got the sack from a radio station for what I wrote in my last blog. https://grahammack.wordpress.com/2016/04/24/how-to-get-people-to-call-in-to-radio-stations-again/ Ok, it wasn’t the actual blog that got me fired and the sacking happened a few years ago. I was dismissed for the way I handled on-air phone calls. In the blog, I explained how I now have […]

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How an air-conditioning mechanic in Sydney Australia became an award winning broadcaster in Britain; Part 138.

14Dec14

Sometimes you get help from the most unlikely source. Getting sacked is an occupational hazard in radio. Well, you don’t actually get fired, what happens is your contract isn’t renewed. The result is the same though, so there’s no point in being in denial about it, you’re sacked. Some people see being fired as a […]

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Tags: 106 Century FM, Adam Bridge, AFTRS, Aircheck, Birmingham, Breakfast Show, BRMB, Broadcasting, Bus, Capital Radio, Contract, fired, Free Radio, Gareth Roberts, Music Fun and Football, Notingham, PD, Sacked