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I’m the Manager of Local Planning for ABC Regional & Local, which is a role mostly focussed on the ABC’s Capital City Radio Network. Though I work mostly as a Manager, I still keep my hands “dirty” in radio presentation, with the weekly radio program, Editor’s Choice
For a brief moment today I was transported back to Tamworth (NSW), and in particular the Country Music Festival. The launch of the Golden Guitars for 2019 was held today at my workplace in Sydney. Attending, I was reminded of being one of the judges, and making my way through a crate-load of compact discs.…
Once again, the Andrew Olle Media Lecture, which I've been attending for over twenty years, delivered. A terrific speech about sports journalism, and the changing face of media, viewed from the perspective of award winning footy writer, Caroline Wilson. Good food, good company, good conversation. Always a pleasure to attend.
“I still can’t understand why a bunch of ABC people would go to a commercial radio conference”, my friend Sue said to me earlier today, as we sat and waited for our respective flights back to Sydney. “Despite working to different agendas – advertising sales vs public service – we both have similar objectives and…
At the end of a "difficult week" at the ABC, there's still much to smile about. One of the awesome things that's happened recently at work has been a project to make the ABC's digitised archives more readily available internally. For me, it means a whole bunch of my earlier work, which I thought was…
My friend Damien and his wife were on Gili Air when the recent earthquake occcured. Damien spoke on ABC Radio Hobart about the experiences they encountered.
A couple of years ago, I wrote the following: Twenty five years ago (or thereabouts) I remember attending the National Choral Championships in Wagga Wagga. Although it sounds fairly tame, the championship organisers found themselves the subject of national media interest, as they asked the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Choir to change their name to…
Though I can't be sure of the exact date, it was sometime in February 1988 (thirty years ago) when I got my first full time "paid job" in radio, working at 2WEB, Bourke. Prior to that, I was a volunteer at 2NCR-FM, Lismore (since 1978), and worked as the phone answerer for Saturday nights requests…
