mike carlton
Radio
4:44PM Jess McGuire | It’s good to see the popular figures in Sydney radio uniting in order to promote digital radio. And if you throw in a dash of Kyle and Jackie O mockery, you’ve got a guaranteed good time on the wireless! More »
Sydney Radio Personalities Unite To Mock Kyle And Jackie O
4:44PM Jess McGuire | It’s good to see the popular figures in Sydney radio uniting in order to promote digital radio. And if you throw in a dash of Kyle and Jackie O mockery, you’ve got a guaranteed good time on the wireless! 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 » 
It’s A Sack-Tastic Voyage At Fairfax!
12:11PM Clem Bastow | As we mentioned yesterday, Fairfax staff are striking in Sydney, Melbourne, Illawarra and Newcastle in protest of Fairfax’s proposed 550 job cuts (not to mention other issues like freelance agreements and pay rates), the first and highest profile of which was Age editor-in-chief Andrew Jaspan. Well, it seems if there’s something Fairfax big wigs like even less than letting people keep their jobs, it’s letting striking people keep their jobs!
Radio broadcaster and Sydney Morning Herald columnist Mike Carlton has been sacked for refusing to write his weekly column during a strike.
More » Golden Tonsils To Derryn Hinch – “You’re A Despicable C—!”
7:32AM Jess McGuire | It seems retirement is really agreeing with John Laws – he’s finally free to say what he feels how he likes whenever the mood takes him. And running into fellow radio star Derryn Hinch in a Sydney restaurant yesterday proved the perfect opportunity for some straight talkin’…
Hinch said Laws barged into the restaurant, leaned on the table where he was lunching with radio legend Bob Rogers, and barked: “You two are both despicable c—s.”
“He was so bitter. Reptilian is the word I would use to describe him,” Hinch said.
Reptilian, eh Derryn? Do go on…
Hinch said Laws’s verbal assault took him by surprise.
Laws: “Look at you, you’re a failed alcoholic.”
Hinch: “I guess you’re a successful one.”
Laws: “No, I’m not.”
Hinch: “Then you’re a good actor.”
Laws: “You’re such a hypocrite.”
Hinch: “I don’t think you can talk about people being hypocritical.”
Laws: “When have I been hypocritical?”
Hinch: “Take ‘cash for comment’ for starters.”
Hinch said the confrontation ended when Carlton convinced Laws to leave.
Good old Mike Carlton – truly the United Nations of radio jocks.
We hope this is just the first target in Lawsie’s post-radio career hitlist. Bring on verbal fisticuffs directed toward Alan Jones and Steve Price, says Defamer Australia! More » 