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6:02PM Jess McGuire | I would have thought he was far too busy to add “early morning broadcaster” to his already lengthy resume, but it seems as though Eddie McGuire is being considered as a possible member of Triple M’s new breakfast radio crew. More »
Is Eddie McGuire Triple M’s Newest Recruit?
6:02PM Jess McGuire | I would have thought he was far too busy to add “early morning broadcaster” to his already lengthy resume, but it seems as though Eddie McGuire is being considered as a possible member of Triple M’s new breakfast radio crew. More » 
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2:49PM Jess McGuire | As I’ve mentioned a thousand times, my radio station 3RRRFM is in the midst of its annual Radiothon celebration (03 9388 1027, suckers!), and Monday night comedy show Lime Champions welcomed Tony Martin into the studio to give them some tips on how to have a successful radio show. The fact that Triple M got rid of this guy truly hammers home how stupid they are. More »
Tony Martin On Triple R’s Lime Champions
2:49PM Jess McGuire | As I’ve mentioned a thousand times, my radio station 3RRRFM is in the midst of its annual Radiothon celebration (03 9388 1027, suckers!), and Monday night comedy show Lime Champions welcomed Tony Martin into the studio to give them some tips on how to have a successful radio show. The fact that Triple M got rid of this guy truly hammers home how stupid they are. More »
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12:01PM Jess McGuire | You may have heard yesterday that Peter Helliar and Myf Warhurst’s Triple M breakfast show on Melbourne radio was cancelled after scoring its lowest ratings yet in the latest Nielsen survey. Someone must be very busy today removing giant billboards around the city… More »
Triple M Cancel Pete & Myf’s Breakfast Show
12:01PM Jess McGuire | You may have heard yesterday that Peter Helliar and Myf Warhurst’s Triple M breakfast show on Melbourne radio was cancelled after scoring its lowest ratings yet in the latest Nielsen survey. Someone must be very busy today removing giant billboards around the city… More »
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9:27AM Jess McGuire | It sucks when your ex moves on and ends up being much more successful than you career-wise, especially if their career started with your help. It must suck even more to learn that the walloping you’re copping at work is due to the success of said ex, and it’s lead to your bosses seeking out a replacement for you. So try and muster up something resembling sympathy for Triple M breakfast host Ugly Phil O’Neill as we take a look at the latest episode of Days Of Our Radio Broadcasters. More »
Ugly Phil Probably Feeling Uglier Than Ever At The Moment
9:27AM Jess McGuire | It sucks when your ex moves on and ends up being much more successful than you career-wise, especially if their career started with your help. It must suck even more to learn that the walloping you’re copping at work is due to the success of said ex, and it’s lead to your bosses seeking out a replacement for you. So try and muster up something resembling sympathy for Triple M breakfast host Ugly Phil O’Neill as we take a look at the latest episode of Days Of Our Radio Broadcasters. More » Vale Richard Marsland
8:45AM Jess McGuire | I wish that our first story for the week on Defamer Australia wasn’t so frightfully sad, but I’m afraid it is. Triple M radio personality Richard Marsland apparently took his own life over the weekend.
Fans and friends have paid tribute to Melbourne breakfast radio host Richard Marsland, who was found dead in his car on a lonely stretch of road in Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges.
A park ranger raised the alarm after finding the 32-year-old’s body in his car at Shiprock Falls around 10.30am (AEDT) on Saturday but despite police resuscitation efforts, Marsland was later pronounced dead.
More » Triple M Poach Roy And HG From The National Broadcaster
9:16AM Jess McGuire | Roy and HG have been ABC fixtures for over two decades, but a money flinging Austereo, no doubt attempting to rebuild itself with fresh talent after a disappointing couple of years ratings wise, has finally convinced the comic duo to jump ship.
HG Nelson and Roy Slaven have defected to commercial radio after 22 years at Triple J amid claims from the ABC youth network that the pair has sold out.
Triple M has wooed the larrikins, although the station was on the back foot yesterday after Triple J issued a statement about their departure.
More » Triple M Have Taken To Mocking Sonia Kruger… There Will Be Blood
11:24AM Jess McGuire | What kind of idiot can’t comprehend the greatness that is Sonia Kruger? According to this article, Triple M are having a jolly good time poking fun at Tina Sparkle’s work on Yum Cha.
Radio station Triple M has devoted two national drive-time segments, “Onya Sonia” and “Kruger or Not”, to slating Kruger, who also works for their radio rival, Mix 106.5.
Well, the idea of Triple M making themselves out to be lovers of quality commentary, amusing banter, quick-witted conversation, and just socially relevant in general is about the most hilarious thing ever, and I would laugh heartily at Wil & Lehmo – yes, there’s a first time for everything! – were I not seething with red hot anger over their hideous disrespect of this fine nation’s greatest star of both the screen and the wireless, Ms Sonia Kruger.
If those bastards don’t issue a drive time apology to Tina Sparkle, I will kick them both in the cock (NOTE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT: THIS IS A METAPHOR).
VIVA LA SPARKLE! More » 
Fifi Leaves Radio For The Box
9:07AM Clem Bastow | After hearing her voice thrown into the “who’ll get the Dancing With The Stars gig?” mix a few times (and as we all know, Daniel MacPherson got it; yay.), you could’ve been forgiven for thinking Fifi Box was launching an assault on the televisual world – and, had you thought that, you would’ve ended up correct. The brassy (and yet, strangely lovable) radio personality will be leaving Triple M at the end of the year and running into the open arms of Channel Seven, where she will present a “wacky” weather segment a la Grant Denyer (who is too busy driving brrm brrm cars now, or something):
Channel 7 continued to deny a rift between Doyle and co-host David Koch over salaries, stating Box’s appointment was an addition, not replacement, to the Sunrise team.
Box said she was “absolutely thrilled” to be joining the TV show.
“Television is an exciting new challenge for me and the chance to work with (the Sunrise team) Mel, Kochie, Nat and Beretts, who have been wonderful friends to me over the years, was an opportunity I could not resist,” she said.
“I’m over the moon – I’m still pinching myself.”
Spare a thought (oh, okay, don’t) for the lads of The Shebang, the Triple M breakfast show Box has left in her wake, which will be packing up its meagre belongings in a red-spotted hankie tied to a stick at the end of the year, and trundling off down the road. The entertainment industry’s a harsh mistress! More » Austereo Ditches Tony Martin’s Show In Favour Of The Comedy Gold That Is Strauchanie
8:57AM Jess McGuire | A surprising development in the world of radio today, with news Austereo has decided to give Tony Martin’s Triple M program the boot.
Tony Martin’s nationally networked radio show has been axed, despite being one of the top rating programs on struggling station Triple M.
The comedian’s Get This program has been a successful annoyance for the Austereo network, which shifted its timeslot three times in just over 18 months.
In a pattern repeated across the country, figures jumped from about 5 per cent audience share to about 11 per cent during the two-hour program, when it aired from 11am. They fell back to near 6 per cent when the station returned to music.
Given, as it says above, that the show is a ratings winner, it does seem an odd decision. Ratings are not everything, of course, but the program is also highly respected by those in “the industry”, with more than a few radio stars and producers declaring to Defamer Australia over the past few months that it is one of the best quality radio shows on air in the country. The general opinion amongst Martin’s radio peers this morning regarding Austereo’s axing of Get This seems to be a mix of “What the fuck?” and “IDIOTS!”.
The Herald Sun’s Confidential column reported this morning –
It’s believed that the signing of comedian Peter Helliar and Triple J’s Myf Warhurst as part of a national breakfast restructure has seen costs rocket, which has led to the station letting Martin go. Some sources said Helliar’s yearly salary could be as high as $1 million.
They really are taking quite the punt on the Helliar/Warhurst combination, aren’t they? We suppose time will tell if this is as daft a move as it seems. What do we know? Kyle and Jackie O just won Best On-Air Team at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards, and listening to them makes us want to stab our eyes out with broken pieces of Tamara Jaber’s Ooh Ahh CD single case, so we obviously don’t have our finger on the pulse of what makes good radio.
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