Been a busy week, no scratch that, been a busy 12 months, but the light is ahead of us and it is NOT an oncoming train.
What I'm talking about here is that I have been spending many, many hours at Vision Australia Radio for the last year, keeping their programming system running.
As of today I'm clear of the stations' Radio Appeal, and as of next week, just one meeting on Monday and then I think it may mean I'm outta there!
So, plans ahead are:
ROAD TRIP: Echuca, visiting EMFM, Bendigo visiting KLFM, Maryborough visiting Goldfields FM, Castlemaine visiting WMA FM, Ballarat visiting Voice FM, and then maybe a visit to 3APL FM Bacchus Marsh and 979FM Melton.
ROAD TRIP: Albury visiting 103FM, Walwa visiting RUM FM, Wagga visiting Life FM, Tumut visiting 2TVR FM, Young visiting 92.3FM, Temora visiting upcoming TEM-FM, Canberra visiting 2XX FM, 1WAY FM and QBN FM, and Goulburn visiting 103.3FM.
ROAD OR AIR TRIP: Port Stephens FM and 2CHR Cessnock.
AIR TRIP: Gold Coast visiting Jazz FM, Brisbane visiting 99.7FM and 96FIVE, and Sunshine Coast visiting Sunshine FM, Rhema Sunshine Coast and Noosa FM.
Anyway, weekend off. Over to Brad.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Sunday morning and threats of the blue screen of death
I was getting up at 6am anyway, but the phone rang at 5:47. Newsreader facing the dreaded "Blue screen of death" - don't you love Windows?
Thankfully a restart got everything back up and running, the last time I faced that I had to go out and buy a new system to get us back on air on the day.
ROSTER TODAY
Got News coming out of Canberra with Thomas McCoy. Good to see you back on air Tom with assignments over. I'm handling Sport all day.
Debbie Groarke will be on board from 11 out of Goulburn, and the 2-5 shift is still undecided. Obviously if no-one pops up, I'll be handling it.
ADS
Finished the Montreal Theatre ad for Tumut, and still have a couple in the pipeline, one for Media Access on Vision Australia Radio and one for Port Stephens FM.
Thankfully a restart got everything back up and running, the last time I faced that I had to go out and buy a new system to get us back on air on the day.
ROSTER TODAY
Got News coming out of Canberra with Thomas McCoy. Good to see you back on air Tom with assignments over. I'm handling Sport all day.
Debbie Groarke will be on board from 11 out of Goulburn, and the 2-5 shift is still undecided. Obviously if no-one pops up, I'll be handling it.
ADS
Finished the Montreal Theatre ad for Tumut, and still have a couple in the pipeline, one for Media Access on Vision Australia Radio and one for Port Stephens FM.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Week ending 6th June 2009
Been a hit and miss week with one station gone, another signed up and another about to depart.
Pleased to say none of the losses have been because of a poor job by us.
GONE
Is the web radio station Sport 24/7. One of the partners in the service has departed the scene and the other partner decided to concentrate on his core business.
ABOUT TO DEPART
Is the Temporary Community Broadcast Licencee 92 point 3 in Young NSW. They have access to the airwaves for the first 6 months of the year and then they hand over to 2YYY FM. Hopefully as Arnie says "They'll be back!" - service terminates on June 30th.
NEW STATION
94.1 Jazz FM Gold Coast connects in from the 1st of July. A huge signal across the entire Gold Coast and into the hinterland. Currently organising access for them and developing auto-download scripts.
PRESENTERS
Very pleased to see a number of very good presenters join us of recent times. Geoff Turnbull in Tumut has been around Radio for years, Lee Baker is in Brisbane and is also one of the voices of Retail Radio (K-Mart), Samuel Corry is aboard with AIR Sport from Wollongong, and Kevin Somerville ex-Joy FM Melbourne and now based in Sydney is coming on board shortly.
We also welcome back Debbie Groarke in Goulburn. Debbie is a busy lady, and AIR News is more of a hobby these days, but boy she does it well.
TODAY
Well the weekend is here and I'm managing.
This morning Lee Baker is handling the News and Geoff Turnbull the Sport.
From 2 I'm covering the AFL and LIVE Sport, not sure who's doing the 2-5 News, but it may be me also.
ADDENDUM
Peter Holden jumped in for the 2-5 News.
Pleased to say none of the losses have been because of a poor job by us.
GONE
Is the web radio station Sport 24/7. One of the partners in the service has departed the scene and the other partner decided to concentrate on his core business.
ABOUT TO DEPART
Is the Temporary Community Broadcast Licencee 92 point 3 in Young NSW. They have access to the airwaves for the first 6 months of the year and then they hand over to 2YYY FM. Hopefully as Arnie says "They'll be back!" - service terminates on June 30th.
NEW STATION
94.1 Jazz FM Gold Coast connects in from the 1st of July. A huge signal across the entire Gold Coast and into the hinterland. Currently organising access for them and developing auto-download scripts.
PRESENTERS
Very pleased to see a number of very good presenters join us of recent times. Geoff Turnbull in Tumut has been around Radio for years, Lee Baker is in Brisbane and is also one of the voices of Retail Radio (K-Mart), Samuel Corry is aboard with AIR Sport from Wollongong, and Kevin Somerville ex-Joy FM Melbourne and now based in Sydney is coming on board shortly.
We also welcome back Debbie Groarke in Goulburn. Debbie is a busy lady, and AIR News is more of a hobby these days, but boy she does it well.
TODAY
Well the weekend is here and I'm managing.
This morning Lee Baker is handling the News and Geoff Turnbull the Sport.
From 2 I'm covering the AFL and LIVE Sport, not sure who's doing the 2-5 News, but it may be me also.
ADDENDUM
Peter Holden jumped in for the 2-5 News.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Is this a busy day or what?
Sunday the 15th June.
6am - midday on air 3MFM Inverloch
No Sports reporter this morning so backed up in the Sports chair for AIR News.
2pm - 5pm at Vision Australia Radio for the Radio appeal "afternoon of madness" with Gary Mac and Jane Holmes.
6pm Finalising production on 7 year anniversary radio spots for Wagga's Life FM.
8pm finished.
YAWN!
6am - midday on air 3MFM Inverloch
No Sports reporter this morning so backed up in the Sports chair for AIR News.
2pm - 5pm at Vision Australia Radio for the Radio appeal "afternoon of madness" with Gary Mac and Jane Holmes.
6pm Finalising production on 7 year anniversary radio spots for Wagga's Life FM.
8pm finished.
YAWN!
Friday, June 6, 2008
The Road Trip - the aftermath
So much for a road trip!
Saturday the 31st saw me at 101.9 Wagga's Life FM with Peter Anderson, upgrading the Station Playlist software, and assisting Peter with some finer points of the software.
Following that it was on to Tumut and checking at the Farrington Court Motel right next door to Sounds of the Mountains.
Saturday afternoon met Kevin Turner at the station and had a short chat on air, that evening caught up with Peter Hlywa for a few drinks at the local Bowlin
g Club.
Sunday morning caught up with Margaret in the on air studio. Finished up adding a regular voice over to our services, for the Montreal Theatre.
Left Tumut and drove to Canberra via Kosziusko National Park and Cooma. Lovely drive, great road for opening the throttle a little. Great views too.
Arrived in Canberra early afternoon and established myself in the Forrest Inn on National Circle. Was just around the corner from Artsound FM.
Headed down to Woden Plaza for a coffee with young Samuel Gordon-Stewart, before settling down for a quiet night in Canberra.
Monday, up for News duties and then headed over to Artsound FM on NSW Crescent in Manuka where I met up with Manager Chris Deacon. Got the chance to look over a really smart operation, and if you're a radio-head and visiting Canberra, make an appointment to see this great operation.
Next up was a run down Canberra Ave to Fayshwick and the studios of 1 Way FM. Met manager Tim Malone and discussed adding AIR News and Station Playlist to their system.
Following the radio station blitz I got the opportunity to catch up with our Sunday morning news presenter Thomas McCoy. We met at the CIT Restaurant on Constitution Avenue and had a chat for about an hour, before I had to make tracks to Goulburn.
Into Goulburn around 3pm, and met up with our new presenter Debbie Groarke, who'll be handling the new NSW State bulletins and possibly a Canberra bulletin each day.
Then it was down the Braidwood Rd, through Braidwood and Batemans Bay to Moruya where I was to be meeting the team from 2EAR FM.
Unfortunately received a phone call from my wife, Jacqui that she had suffered a bad fall and had broken her ankle and foot, so I decided to stop over in the accommodation in Moruya, get some sleep, fulfil news obligations first thing and then head south and back to Melbourne.
Tuesday morning left Moruya just after 6:30am, and went home on the Princes Hwy via Bega, Pambula, Eden, Orbost, Cann River, Bairnsdale, Sale and the Princes Freeway then the Monash Freeway arriving home just on 3pm.
Saturday the 31st saw me at 101.9 Wagga's Life FM with Peter Anderson, upgrading the Station Playlist software, and assisting Peter with some finer points of the software.
Following that it was on to Tumut and checking at the Farrington Court Motel right next door to Sounds of the Mountains.
Saturday afternoon met Kevin Turner at the station and had a short chat on air, that evening caught up with Peter Hlywa for a few drinks at the local Bowlin
g Club.Sunday morning caught up with Margaret in the on air studio. Finished up adding a regular voice over to our services, for the Montreal Theatre.
Left Tumut and drove to Canberra via Kosziusko National Park and Cooma. Lovely drive, great road for opening the throttle a little. Great views too.
Arrived in Canberra early afternoon and established myself in the Forrest Inn on National Circle. Was just around the corner from Artsound FM.
Headed down to Woden Plaza for a coffee with young Samuel Gordon-Stewart, before settling down for a quiet night in Canberra.
Monday, up for News duties and then headed over to Artsound FM on NSW Crescent in Manuka where I met up with Manager Chris Deacon. Got the chance to look over a really smart operation, and if you're a radio-head and visiting Canberra, make an appointment to see this great operation.
Next up was a run down Canberra Ave to Fayshwick and the studios of 1 Way FM. Met manager Tim Malone and discussed adding AIR News and Station Playlist to their system.
Following the radio station blitz I got the opportunity to catch up with our Sunday morning news presenter Thomas McCoy. We met at the CIT Restaurant on Constitution Avenue and had a chat for about an hour, before I had to make tracks to Goulburn.
Into Goulburn around 3pm, and met up with our new presenter Debbie Groarke, who'll be handling the new NSW State bulletins and possibly a Canberra bulletin each day.
Then it was down the Braidwood Rd, through Braidwood and Batemans Bay to Moruya where I was to be meeting the team from 2EAR FM.
Unfortunately received a phone call from my wife, Jacqui that she had suffered a bad fall and had broken her ankle and foot, so I decided to stop over in the accommodation in Moruya, get some sleep, fulfil news obligations first thing and then head south and back to Melbourne.
Tuesday morning left Moruya just after 6:30am, and went home on the Princes Hwy via Bega, Pambula, Eden, Orbost, Cann River, Bairnsdale, Sale and the Princes Freeway then the Monash Freeway arriving home just on 3pm.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Road Trip - one week out
The biggest difficulty in organising a major road trip like the one commencing May 31st is getting people on board to cover the shifts.
Whilst the early morning is sorted out already and will see Pauline Myles anchoring the news with Fabian Antonacci as usual at the Sports desk, the mornings to mid afternoon will be looked after by Brad Shields out of South east Queensland, but beyond 3pm we simply don't know yet.
None of our news crew even look like they'll think about putting their hands up for the afternoons, so I'm not sure yet what I'll have to do to deal with it. At this stage the afternoons and evening capsules are all TBA.
It's certainly a big road trip with Saturday 31st taking me to Wagga where I'll be catching up with the 101.9 Life FM crew. Sunday should see me in Tumut, and then on to Canberra where I'll be visiting Artsound FM on the Monday. Hope to catch up with our Canberra based news presenters including Samuel Gordon on Sunday and Thomas McCoy on Monday, before heading to Goulburn for mid-afternoon.
I have a couple of options about whether to duck to Moruya late Monday for a chat at 2EAR FM on Tuesday as they're interested in taking AIR news. Probably not a bad option, and then cruise up to Sydney on Tuesday catching up with the people at 2SSR-FM Gymea, before moving on to my brothers' place at Balmain late in the afternoon.
Wednesday should see me at SWR-FM in Blacktown and 2000FM in Burwood, our current two Sydney outlets.
Thursday sees a run up to Port Stephens FM at Salamander Bay via Coast FM at Gosford.
Friday I may just enjoy the sights of Sydney unless something else comes up, with Saturday seeing wife Jacqui fly in from Melbourne and neice Donna's 30th birthday in Sydney.
Sunday and we will turn our wheels towards home. We need to be back by Monday afternoon so have a bit of time up our sleeves.
First though we have to get those shifts covered or I might find myself pulling up on the side of a Freeway to record news bulletins - only joking.
Whilst the early morning is sorted out already and will see Pauline Myles anchoring the news with Fabian Antonacci as usual at the Sports desk, the mornings to mid afternoon will be looked after by Brad Shields out of South east Queensland, but beyond 3pm we simply don't know yet.
None of our news crew even look like they'll think about putting their hands up for the afternoons, so I'm not sure yet what I'll have to do to deal with it. At this stage the afternoons and evening capsules are all TBA.
It's certainly a big road trip with Saturday 31st taking me to Wagga where I'll be catching up with the 101.9 Life FM crew. Sunday should see me in Tumut, and then on to Canberra where I'll be visiting Artsound FM on the Monday. Hope to catch up with our Canberra based news presenters including Samuel Gordon on Sunday and Thomas McCoy on Monday, before heading to Goulburn for mid-afternoon.
I have a couple of options about whether to duck to Moruya late Monday for a chat at 2EAR FM on Tuesday as they're interested in taking AIR news. Probably not a bad option, and then cruise up to Sydney on Tuesday catching up with the people at 2SSR-FM Gymea, before moving on to my brothers' place at Balmain late in the afternoon.
Wednesday should see me at SWR-FM in Blacktown and 2000FM in Burwood, our current two Sydney outlets.
Thursday sees a run up to Port Stephens FM at Salamander Bay via Coast FM at Gosford.
Friday I may just enjoy the sights of Sydney unless something else comes up, with Saturday seeing wife Jacqui fly in from Melbourne and neice Donna's 30th birthday in Sydney.
Sunday and we will turn our wheels towards home. We need to be back by Monday afternoon so have a bit of time up our sleeves.
First though we have to get those shifts covered or I might find myself pulling up on the side of a Freeway to record news bulletins - only joking.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Don't know how she does it
AIR News partner Jacqui Stevens in the news again. All for International Guide Dog Day 2008.
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