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10:31AM Jess McGuire | Our esteemed Prime Minister has managed to anger one of the radio world’s most successful self-important arseholes, the inimitable Alan Jones, during a ritzy shindig at Parliament House the other night. More »
The Prime Minister And The Parrot
10:31AM Jess McGuire | Our esteemed Prime Minister has managed to anger one of the radio world’s most successful self-important arseholes, the inimitable Alan Jones, during a ritzy shindig at Parliament House the other night. More » 
Radio
2:07PM Jess McGuire | God bless John Singleton. Not only is he a baby making machine, a hugely successful businessman, and his Wikipedia entry says he is “well known as a larrikin in Australia for his love of good times, evident in him buying drinks for the entire Rosehill racecourse in Sydney after his horse won the prestigious Golden Slipper” (respect!), but he’s also a True Blue Good Mate TM to his pals. More »
John Singleton Tells Alan Jones To Take It Easy
2:07PM Jess McGuire | God bless John Singleton. Not only is he a baby making machine, a hugely successful businessman, and his Wikipedia entry says he is “well known as a larrikin in Australia for his love of good times, evident in him buying drinks for the entire Rosehill racecourse in Sydney after his horse won the prestigious Golden Slipper” (respect!), but he’s also a True Blue Good Mate TM to his pals. More » Radio Is A Potentially Deadly Line Of Work…
9:43AM Jess McGuire | Having spent a little bit of time behind a microphone myself, I can personally vouch for the fact that many radio hosts spend their time on air legitimately fearing for their lives. I remember the time I played a 12 minute extended remix of Meat Loaf’s ‘I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) and refused to leave the building for the next 12 hours lest an irate RRR listener, worked up by the Jim Steinman madness I’d inflicted upon their ears, glassed me outside the studio.
And it seems I’m not the only broadcaster in the country scared of being murdered on air – apparently there are some successful folk on the wireless (I’m talking about men and women who have an audience of more than ten people) who feel terrified too!
Which radio star refuses to broadcast from a studio with windows, for fear he’ll be shot by a sniper? The high-profile presenter’s paranoia was revealed by rivals when ABC Evenings’ Andrew Daddo was casually handing over to Nightlife host Tony Delroy.
An aside – there are Daddos working for ABC Local Radio? I love it! More » Like A Cockroach Of The Airwaves, Alan Jones Will Still Be Broadcasting Long After The Rest Of Humankind Is Dead And Buried
3:43PM Jess McGuire | Alan Jones will never retire – never! Admittedly, the top dog of radio took a break this year to battle prostate cancer, but he’s back and clearly never planning to leave his easily panicked elderly listeners again. He’s just signed another contract with 2GB which will see The Parrot rambling on passionately about anything which tickles his fancy until 2013.
Rumours of Alan Jones’ retirement have been greatly exaggerated, with the prostate cancer survivor today committing to a new deal with 2GB until 2013.
More » This Just In: Alan Jones Has Prostate Cancer
12:14PM Jess McGuire | Shock jock Alan Jones has just announced to the media that he has prostate cancer.
The talkback king said he would take time off work to undergo surgery, but he would return to his breakfast slot on Sydney radio station 2GB when he had recovered.
Jones said he had been diagnosed with the cancer after undergoing a biopsy and would require an operation in coming weeks. He would be off air for several weeks while recovering, he said.
“The prospect of full recovery is very significant,” he told media gathered at the Macquarie Radio studios in Sydney.
Elderly bigots across Sydney will no doubt be relieved to hear that. In all seriousness though – cancer sucks so I wish him all the best during this difficult time.
“Cancer sucks”. Wow. Eloquent, huh? Why the Cancer Council haven’t asked me to join their marketing team is beyond my comprehension. Still, you know what I mean. Get well soon, Alan, so I can happily go back to bashing my head against a wall when listening to you on air! More » 
Sonia Kruger Enters Ratings War (Of Words) With Alan Jones & Co.; Unlikely To Be Guest Of Honour At Mardis Gras
9:20AM Clem Bastow | Just when you thought the only thing worth noting about these radio ratings wars we keep hearing about was whatever Kyle and Jackie O are doing, Sonia “Tina Sparkle” Kruger has thrown a bit of spice into the mix, lashing out – albeit in a relatively vaudevillian manner – at her Sydney breakfast radio rival, Alan Jones.
Evidently Kruger had a swipe at Jones’ worst-kept-secret/most-scurrilous-rumour in radio, and Jones’ 2GB cronies buddies were quick to jump to his defense.
The showbiz reporter, who registered a poor 4.4 per cent audience share compared with Jones’s 19.1, antagonised her rivals when interviewed about the survey results, joking: “Now we know the real queen of breakfast radio is Alan Jones.”
A furious Hadley told Confidential her comments were “cheap shots at a man who had done nothing but help her career”.
“I don’t know the woman and I don’t want to know the woman but she has shown she has no class or dignity, taking a cheap shot at Alan’s expense,” he railed.
On air earlier in the day, Hadley described Kruger’s Mix co-host Todd McKenney as a “pelican”, threatening to “put (his) hands around his skinny little throat”.
Right, so it seems the prerequisite for getting into radio (in Sydney, at least) is to be willing to take cheap shots at your competitors and to use stand-over tactics when things aren’t exactly going your way, all the while getting paid ridiculous amounts of money?
Where do we sign up!? More » This Is The Third Sign Of The Apocalypse, Isn’t It?
7:15AM Jess McGuire | First we discover Gretel’s been kicked off Big Brother in favour of a new format which features Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O. Then news emerges that Kyle’s fiance Tamara Jaber - the woman responsible for “Ooh Ahh”, a catchy little number that momentarily made waves in the Top 178 a while back - has landed a multi-album record deal in the States.
And now we wake to read that the latest survey results show radio listeners in Sydney are making the switch to Sandilands’ breakfast program? As in, they are voluntarily choosing to listen to Kyle Sandilands talk?
Admittedly, choosing between listening to Kyle Sandilands or Alan Jones is like being asked “Would you prefer your human faeces scrambled or poached?” – it’s still shit no matter how it’s served up – but still.
Talkback radio king Alan Jones has recorded his biggest slide in radio ratings in more than three years.
As the 2GB breakfast host’s federal election coverage has crescendoed, listeners have turned off, with Jones losing 2.7 points to now command a 13.4 per cent share of the Sydney breakfast audience in the latest official radio survey.
While still the king of Sydney radio – taking out his 126th consecutive win in the breakfast timeslot – for the first time in years he has some real competition with 2Day FM’s Kyle and Jackie O just 1.8 points behind, with an 11.6 share.
This is like an episode of Surprise Surprise Gotcha! arranged by The Gods at the expense of the nation :(
More » Jones Boned!
1:13PM Jess McGuire | It seems that Alan Jones’ special brand of prejudice and cock-knockery will no longer be required by Channel Nine’s Today show, with the program (well, station bosses) choosing to stop broadcasting Jones’ editorials as of mid-June.
The first swing of the axe by the Nine television network’s new private-equity owners has fallen on Sydney broadcaster Alan Jones, a long-time Packer family ally, saving up to $100,000 a year.
Jones’ 60 to 90 second editorial spot on Nine’s morning news and chat show Today, which has been running for the past two decades, will end on June 15.
One less outlet for his spiteful idiocy! Our heart goes out to the close-minded, vitriolic little fucker. More » 