Season 4: Recent Episodes
Game Changers: Radio
Game Changers: Radio is a love letter to radio in the form of a podcast. We interview the best in radio about their careers, explore the successes and failures they have known, and what advice they have to give.
Listen to Craig Bruce share what he learned from interviewing the best of the best - Tim Blackwell, Wendy Harmer, Jamie Dunn, Robin Bailey, Ash Bradnam and Andy Lee.
In Season Four we welcome our first sponsor: Radio Monitor. Email Radio Monitor aus@radiomonitor.com, mention Game Changers: Radio and receive a free three-month subscription.
Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.
Support the show: https://www.amazon.com.au/Game-Changers-Insights-broadcasters-programmers-ebook/dp/B07YSDKCDX
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Andy Lee, alongside Hamish Blake (and producer Sam Cavanagh), is half of the most successful show on FM in Australian radio history, Hamish & Andy.
Hamish and Andy started as a development show on Fox in 2001, and over the next four years refined their act on late nights and weekends before moving into the national drive slot on the Today network in 2006. Their ratings were astronomical. Highlights included 25 per cent of the Melbourne Drive market and a national audience of more than 2 million. With ground breaking ideas - like the Caravan of Courage and the Tall Ships Adventure - Hamish and Andy established themselves as more than just a radio show: they are one of the most potent media brands in Australia.
2017 was their last year on radio.
In Season Four we welcome our first sponsor: Radio Monitor. Email Radio Monitor aus@radiomonitor.com, mention Game Changers: Radio and receive a free three-month subscription.
Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.
Game Changers: Radio - Insights and Lessons from the World's Best Radio Broadcasters and Programmers is available now from Amazon.
Game Changers: Radio is produced by Bad Producer Productions.
Support the show: https://www.amazon.com.au/Game-Changers-Insights-broadcasters-programmers-ebook/dp/B07YSDKCDX
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ash Bradnam started with Nova Brisbane in early 2005, and by the end of that year was a part of their first #1 breakfast result with Mishel Laurie, Kip Wightman and David 'Luttsy' Lutteral. Nova Brisbane has been a strong and durable brand since it’s launch in 2004, and Ash has been at the heart of that success. In 2017, Ash hosts Nova's Brisbane breakfast show, Ash, Kip and Luttsy.
In Season Four we welcome our first sponsor: Radio Monitor. Email Radio Monitor aus@radiomonitor.com, mention Game Changers: Radio and receive a free three-month subscription.
Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.
Support the show: https://www.amazon.com.au/Game-Changers-Insights-broadcasters-programmers-ebook/dp/B07YSDKCDX
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Robin Bailey spent nine years with Jamie Dunn and Ian Skippen on the B105 Morning Crew, dominating the Brisbane market during the 1990s and early 2000s. She then hosted 973 Breakfast for a decade with Terry Hansen and Bob Gallagher.
Robin’s longevity and consistency across almost two decades on two separate shows makes her one of Brisbane’s most successful FM presenters. In 2017, Robin joined Greg Martin and Ed Kavalee for Marto, Ed & Robin, a new breakfast show on Triple M in Brisbane.
In Season Four we welcome our first sponsor: Radio Monitor. Email Radio Monitor aus@radiomonitor.com, mention Game Changers: Radio and receive a free three-month subscription.
Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.
Support the show: https://www.amazon.com.au/Game-Changers-Insights-broadcasters-programmers-ebook/dp/B07YSDKCDX
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jamie Dunn was the undisputed king of Brisbane radio, when the B105 Morning Crew was at the heart of the station's incredible ratings success during the 1990s and early 2000s. Jamie was also the voice and personality of children's character Agro.
With features like 'Agro to the Rescue', 'Gotcha' calls and the Royal Children’s Hospital appeal, Jamie (alongside Ian Skippen and Donna Lynch, who was later replaced by Robin Bailey) created a Brisbane show that became the benchmark for FM breakfast radio.
Jamie then joined The Morning Crew in Sydney alongside Wendy Harmer and Paul Holmes. Dunn has also hosted a variety of children's television shows, although he has retired his alter-ego Agro.
In Season Four we welcome our first sponsor: Radio Monitor. Email Radio Monitor aus@radiomonitor.com, mention Game Changers: Radio and receive a free three-month subscription.
Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.
Support the show: https://www.amazon.com.au/Game-Changers-Insights-broadcasters-programmers-ebook/dp/B07YSDKCDX
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Wendy Harmer is one of the pioneers of FM radio for female presenters in Australia. She was the first female host to take a lead role in a key metro market breakfast show, and her ratings dominance in Sydney for more than a decade is yet to be matched by any female host on FM.
She began her radio career in the mid 1980s on Saturday nights at 3AK, and then moved to drive ABC Radio National. She was on the board of the first ever Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 1987, and even performed a stand up routine Harmer and Stubbs at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival with fellow game changers Richard Stubbs.
From 1993 until 2004 she hosted The Morning Crew on 2Day FM with Paul Holmes and Jamie Dunn (who was later replaced by Peter Moon). She has also made her mark as a children's writer (for the Pearlie, which has been turned into an animated show), playwright and dramatist. She returned to radio in 2016 as host of ABC Sydney's 702 Mornings with Wendy Harmer.
In Season Four we welcome our first sponsor: Radio Monitor. Email Radio Monitor aus@radiomonitor.com, mention Game Changers: Radio and receive a free three-month subscription.
Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.
Support the show: https://www.amazon.com.au/Game-Changers-Insights-broadcasters-programmers-ebook/dp/B07YSDKCDX
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Tim Blackwell has been a constant presence on Nova since 2001. He played a key role in the launch of Nova Melbourne and Nova Perth, anchoring breakfast shows in both markets. In 2011 he moved into the national drive slot with Mishel Laurie and Marty Sheargold (who featured in Episode 1). In 2017 (at the time of this interview), he hosts Nova's national drive show Kate, Tim & Marty with Kate Ritchie and (once again) Marty Sheargold.
In Season Four we welcome our first sponsor: Radio Monitor. Email Radio Monitor aus@radiomonitor.com, mention Game Changers: Radio and receive a free three-month subscription.
Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.
Support the show: https://www.amazon.com.au/Game-Changers-Insights-broadcasters-programmers-ebook/dp/B07YSDKCDX
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.