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It just occurred to me, as I contemplate ringing in to KXNT‘s morning flip segment at 1am that I have remembered their phone number, including international dialling codes and area codes etc: 0011 1 702 733 5968. Whilst I am slightly concerned that I have managed to remember a fifteen digit phone number, it is nice to know that I don’t have to refer to KXNT’s “contact us” page every time I want to call them.
As it happens though, I have something else to do at 1am, and therefore won’t be calling Alan. I’ll try to make some time next week instead.
Update: Meh, I’ll push the 1am thing back a tad and ring Alan Stock at about 1:10am. End Update
Samuel
June 6th, 2009 at 12:22am
Well that certainly saves me from keeping an eye on the scores for the rest of the household, as 3AW are providing “around the grounds” scores of the Melbourne Storm NRL match during their AFL coverage, and the other match is on TV.
Many thanks to 3AW’s Graeme Bond for saving me a bit of work tonight.
Samuel
June 5th, 2009 at 08:12pm
One of Channel Nine’s few decent rugby league commentators has reportedly “stormed out” mere hours before he was going to join the commentary team for tonight’s State of Origin clash in Melbourne.
FORMER Queensland State of Origin star Ben Ikin has stormed out of Channel Nine only hours before he was supposed to be commentating on tonight’s showdown in Melbourne.
A furious Ikin phoned Nine’s director of sport Steve Crawley early this afternoon to resign from all his commentary duties.
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Ikin, who is the son-in-law of super coach Wayne Bennett, is angry that Channel Nine’s A Current Affair is doing an investigation tonight into a business owned by his father on the Gold Coast.
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Steve Crawley confirmed Ikin had quit but refused to comment, other than saying, “”At this stage I’m just concentrating on getting the telecast right for tonight.’’
Ah well, it just makes the already superior coverage on 2GB that little bit better. Best wishes to Ben, I hope he pops up on Foxtel or radio in the near future.
Samuel
June 3rd, 2009 at 02:45pm
I just noticed today’s schedule on the 2GB website. Alan Jones is away again, and has been since Monday. Drive presenter Jason Morrison has been filling in for him, and Andrew Moore has been filling in for Jason, however Andrew is in Melbourne today as he is calling the State of Origin match tonight…which leaves 2GB with this:
If accurate (and one can assume that 7pm-10pm is not, as it fails to mention tonight’s State of Origin match), Jason Morrison is going to be very very tired by the end of the day, and will be facing an early start once again tomorrow. Sydney-siders who only listen on their drives to and from work may also be wondering if they’re stuck in a time warp.
As much as I’m sure that Jason can handle the extra workload, I do hope that 2GB move Luke Bona from the evening slot to Drive for the day. I will be tuning in at 3pm to see what happens.
All of this reminds me, I owe Jason some chocolate biscuits.
Update 2:30pm: The schedule has been updated with tonight’s rugby league coverage, however Jason is still doing a double shift.
3pm here we come.
End Update
Update 3:11pm: It’s Jason…and he didn’t get any sleep as he explained at the start of the show!
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Further Update 4:20pmAlan Jones is back tomorrow, so Jason gets to sleep in tomorrow. I think he’ll need it! End Update
Samuel
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:04am
The mighty Bulldogs had a wonderful second quarter and blitzed the Swans by 40 at Manuka Oval. I’m very very happy about this.
I would have loved to be there, but didn’t buy tickets as I knew that I would be too tired to get there in time. As it happened, I was right, and slept until 1:30pm and ended up watching the game on Southern Cross Ten whilst listening to the other match, North Melbourne V Brisbane, on 3AW Football. It’s the first time (as far as I can recall) that Rex Hunt has sent the fat lady around the grounds to sing for a match which they aren’t covering…mid-way through the second quarter, and again near half time.
Now listening to the Friday edition of the The Rush Limbaugh Show (not a typo), and later tonight The Bill is on ABC1.
Samuel
May 30th, 2009 at 05:39pm
A new word has been invented and said twice in Fairfax’s 6am pre-feed news today: “majoritily”.
Apparently General Motors will be majoritily owned by the US government.
It looks like Rush Limbaugh was right, it is “Government Motors”.
Samuel
May 29th, 2009 at 06:21am
I wrote the following at 5am…apparently I then hit “save” rather than “publish”.
Thank you Fairfax. It seems that pulses during the night caused a heap of the music log to be skipped, so rather than finishing at 6am it finished at 4:45am.
I just wasted fifteen minutes of my news preparation time inventing a new music log for the remainder of the morning.
Samuel
May 28th, 2009 at 11:18am
More budgets than I can count, and Barack Obama’s envoy to Victoria (yep, he has a representative specifically for Victoria) touring rural Victoria.
1WAY FM, 91.9 and 94.3FM at about 7:45 this morning.
Samuel
May 28th, 2009 at 06:48am
On 2CC and their webstream at 2cc.net.au. Looks like I will be able to tune in after all. Thanks for picking a time which works for me Mark.
Samuel
May 28th, 2009 at 05:11am
All in the space of two consecutive segments.
First up, their excellent report in to the media management and manipulation of the Rudd government, which press gallery journalists seem to agree is much worse than it was under the Howard government.
And then a peculiar beat up about questions which Alan Jones didn’t ask of Cronulla Sharks CEO Tony Zappia.
The point which Media Watch seem to have missed here is that the interview was about Cronulla’s financial issues, not about Mr. Zappia accidentally hitting an employee some time ago.
Perhaps Alan could have asked the question, but it wasn’t what the interview was about, and it’s entirely possible that Alan ran out of time…after all, the interview did go for five minutes, which is fairly standard for an interview during a breakfast show.
The analogy here is that if I was interviewing the manager of the local supermarket about their new checkouts, I wouldn’t ask him about the price of frozen peas…unless of course I needed to fill half a minute and wanted to buy frozen peas after work.
Anyway, go and check out the first link. The report in to the media management and manipulation of the Rudd government is quite excellent. I was watching ABC news on Sunday night and was wondering why they took a pot shot at Kevin Rudd asking himself questions…now I know.
Samuel
May 26th, 2009 at 02:58pm
Rain in Deniliquin and surrounds seems to have everyone excited, and if time permits, you can’t escape crime by visiting a rural area.
That’s this morning on the 1WAY FM breakfast show with James Scott at about 7:45am, via telephone from the studios of 2QN Deniliquin.
Samuel
May 26th, 2009 at 07:27am
Got in to work just after 4:30am. Spent most of the day babysitting Fairfax’s mess. Now babysitting (panelling) Sports Today off a webstream until 7pm when Fairfax reckon the sound quality on the satellite will go back to normal.
Back tomorrow at 4:30am to actually do some of my work…aka prepare some news. I’m glad it rained today…instant story and a grab from Weatherzone. I have some sport left over from the weekend and a few useful press releases to recycle. It won’t be the best news ever tomorrow, but it’s going to air which, under the circumstances, I think is pretty good.
Samuel
May 25th, 2009 at 06:13pm
Fairfax syndication’s website says:
Most services are now restored. However, live news on w’end aft, nghts, and M-F Drive will have faults. Repairs should be completed by 2/6/2009. Prefed and Rural News are also on DC.
Uh huh, so fixed means that you were feeding Neil Mitchell on the Auxillary channel earlier, and Leon Byner from Adelaide now? Yep, having to manually download news from Digital Courier because you send the wrong program on the auxillary channel is what I call fixed!
*sigh*
Oh, and tell Neil Mitchell that he is a break behind will you…
Update 2:48pm: Apparently having Leon Byner on the aux channel is intentional due to a lack of circuits until a part arrives from Israel. It would have been nice to have been told in advance. End Update
Samuel
May 25th, 2009 at 11:17am
At about 7:45am I’ll be chatting with James Scott about a couple artists visiting Deniliquin.
I was tempted to talk about the local sport scores, but it’d sound like I was reading an irrelevant shopping list for an hour.
Samuel
May 25th, 2009 at 07:35am
I’m going to take tomorrow off from the blog and see about getting stuff ready for Sunday instead. Probably won’t be much, just Aircheck Sunday, Musician(s) Of The Week and maybe one or two other things…I’m pretty tired and looking forward to just taking tomorrow off from everything as on Sunday afternoon I’ve got news and sport for AIR News and then it’s on to the local news for 2QN and Classic Rock bright and early on Monday morning. I’m also on 2QN and 3NE on Sunday morning from 6am until Midday, but that’s all voicetracked.
Anyhoo, seeing as tomorrow is my only real day off, I intend on taking the opportunity to get out of town for a while. Bryan from Classic Rock has lent his car to me for the weekend (he has somebody else’s car…I’m not sure why) so I’ll make use of it tomorrow.
I hope you all have a good weekend. I’ll have 2QN/Classic Rock headlines for you next week.
Samuel
May 22nd, 2009 at 03:07pm
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