Posts Tagged ‘South Australia’
I’ve never understood the point of mascots. If a sport needs to have an adult walking around in a foam suit to make it entertaining, maybe the sport isn’t that exciting to start with. There’s a new comedy film on Netflix, set in the world of sports mascots, called ‘Mascots’. It reminded me of a […]
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Tags: 5SE, Baden Butler, Blog, Inspiration, journalism, Mascots, Media, MountGambier, Netflix, Radio, South Australia, Sport, Steve Whelan, work
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
Mack Nuggets
Here’s what I’ve been up to on BOB fm lately, including: How Nancy got wound up by her husband for 25 years; How bad Chris Evans was on Top Gear; Australia is BIG; Navigational nightmares; Why I don’t trust Cambridge; The truth about plain cigarette packaging; Strange ways you’ve injured yourself; What you got up […]
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I’ve never considered myself to be a great footballer. After what happened in South Australia in 1994, I don’t think anybody would argue with that. Back then, I worked on the air at 5SE, the commercial radio station for the South East region of the state. The radio station was invited to play a charity […]
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Tags: 5SE, 89th minute, AFTRS, Aircheck, Australia, Blog, BOB fm, BOBfm, Breakfast Show, Charity, Football, Inter, Mount Gambier, News, penalty shootout, penelty, SES Channel 8, South Australia, television
I didn’t set out to become a famous car salesman when I decided to get into radio but that’s what happened in 1994. My second ever paid job on commercial radio was at 5SE in South Australia. As well as presenting the Breakfast Show, I was also presenting TV commercials for a local supermarket called […]
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Tags: 1994, 5SE, 90s, AFTRS, Aircheck, Australia, BOB fm, Breakfast Show, Broadcasting, car crash, car sales, Cars, Comedy, deals, Foodland, Ford, Mazda, Mount Gambier, Peter Gazzard, Radio, South Australia, stunt, supermarket, television, TV commercials, vlog, Youtube
Every radio station I’ve worked at has had at least one unique feature that I wish they all had. My favorite was at 5SE Mount Gambier in South Australia. The last person you want in a commercial radio studio is someone from sales. I presented the Breakfast Show on 5SE between 1994 and 1995. Occasionally, a […]
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Tags: 5SE, AFTRS, Aircheck, Broadcasting, Mount Gambier, Pat Flemming, Radio, Raward, Ray Gamble, South Australia
Howard Stern once said, “Most of the things I do are misunderstood. Hey, after all, being misunderstood is the fate of all true geniuses, is it not?” A recurring theme in my life is being misunderstood. Unlike Howard who was obviously talking about being misunderstood artistically, I am continually misunderstood by people in positions of […]
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Tags: 5SE, Bournemouth, Broadcasting, Car, cold, genius, Howard Stern, Mount Gambier, Police, Radio, South Australia, winter
In June 1995, I’d handed my notice in at 5SE Mount Gambier. I’d been doing the Breakfast show there for about a year and had been offered the Drive-time gig at 3GG in Warragul Victoria. It was a good job and I was really looking forward to working with the Program Director, Mark Vale. Days […]
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Tags: 2GO, 3GG, 5SE, Gosford, Graham Mack, Mount Gambier, New South Wales, Radio, South Australia, Victoria, Warragul
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
Although I left 5SE in South Australia in June 1995, I know my voice was still being heard on the radio station for many weeks afterwards, possibly months or even years. I’d accepted a job as drive-time presenter at 3GG in Victoria but was still at 5SE because I’d had to give a month’s notice. […]
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“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
It’s been said that eighty percent of success is just showing up. I don’t know if the percentage is accurate but it does have a lot to do with it. Another big factor though, is pure dumb luck and that can go either way. In 1994, I was the host of The Breakfast Show on […]
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Tags: 1994, 3GG, 5SE, AFTRS, Aircheck, critique, Mount Gambier, Radio, South Australia, Victoria, Warragul
“I really like what’s on your demo tape, do you ever get over this way?” When you’re looking for on-air work, those are the sweetest words you can hear. In 1994, I was presenting the Breakfast show on 5SE in South Australia but I was looking for a new gig because a new Program Director […]
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Tags: 5SE, Broadcasting, Mark Vale, Mount Gambier, Program Director, Radio, South Australia, Voctoria, Warragul
As performers, we crave feedback but constant negative feedback can be damaging. The Program Director that hired me said he loved what I did on the air. The new boss that replaced him only disliked two things, they were; everything I said and everything I did. I know that because he told me every day. […]
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Tags: 5SE, AFTRS, Commercial Radio, don't give up, feedback, Mount Gambier, PD, South Australia
Why is it that just when you think things couldn’t get any better, they suddenly take a turn for the worse? Things were going great in 1994. I was presenting the Breakfast Show on 5SE Mount Gambier in South Australia and I was doing TV commercials for a car dealers. Then my boss, the Program […]
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Tags: 5SE, Broadcasting, Mount Gambier, Radio, South Australia
Perception isn’t reality. When you’re on TV every night, you get stared at in public. In 1994, I was presenting the Breakfast Show on 5SE, the local commercial radio station for the South East of South Australia. I was also on the telly every night presenting commercials for a car dealers and a supermarket. I […]
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Tags: 5SE, Australia, Mount Gambier, New South Wales, Parkes, SES Channel 8, South Australia, television
I checked that the crash helmet chin strap was tight, put the car in gear and took off. That’s when thousands of television viewers saw things go horribly wrong. In 1994, I presented a series of TV commercials for a car dealers in Mount Gambier South Australia. After filming one day I was having a […]
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Tags: 5SE, Carlin and Gazzard, Cars, Mount Gambier, Peter Gazzard, South Australia, stunt
Mack's Craic 