Game Changers Radio

This special episode shares the story of one of the most talked about radio shows in Australian radio history: Hamish & Andy. 

This is the story of how two young men met at university and stuck together to build the number one media brand in Australia. At their peak, more than 2.5 million people listened to their National Drive show.

This is their last week on air. Game Changers: Radio has been privileged to speak to Hamish Blake, Andy Lee and their producer Sam Cavanagh in separate episodes.

Thanks Hamish, Andy and Sam for your generosity, your effort, and your laughter.

Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.

Over his long radio career, Dave Gibson worked with Doug Mulray, Andrew Denton, Amanda Keller and Rob Duckworth on some of MMM’s biggest breakfast shows. He also created and voiced some of the most popular radio characters on FM radio, including 'Gloria', 'Nanna' and 'Himey Fimey'.

Dave began his career as a stand up comedian and has enjoyed and long and successful career in a range of different creative roles on TV and stage.

Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.

Jeff Allis spent close to 20 years at Austereo starting as a mid-dawn announcer at SA-FM and culminating in the national programming role during the late 90’s and early 2000’s

He made a significant role in the creation of the MMM Rock, Sport and Comedy positioning and developed some of the biggest stars on radio, including Kyle Sandilands, Hamish and Andy, Eddie McGuire, James Brayshaw and many others.

He is a man of many talents. In 2000 he co-founded Boost Juice with his wife Janine. He left the radio industry in 2007 to concentrate on expanding Boost Juice, turning a one-brand company into a multi-retail branded international company, Retail Zoo.

Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.

From the '15 Days of Fame' radio competition to Fifi & Jules to the forefront of influencer marketing, Jules Lund is a game changer. 

His television career began in 2004 on Getaway, and he appeared in almost 400 episodes during his time with Channel Nine.

He moved to radio in 2007. Along with Ryan Shelton and Tamsyn Lewis, he presented Summer Fling, a breakfast show on the Austereo Today Network. From 2011, he co-hosted Fifi & Jules during Drive with Fifi Box on the Today Network (leaving Friday's show open for Hamish Blake and Andy Lee to get their start in radio). In 2014 her co-hosted (with Merrick Watts and Sophie Monk) Jules, Merrick & and Sophie during breakfast on 2Day FM, until the show was replaced by The Dan & Maz Show (with Maz Compton). Jules then joined Emma Freedman to host The Scoopla Show, an entertainment news segment on the HIT Network between 2015 and 2016.

Jules left radio in September 2015 to launch TRIBE, a marketplace for social influencers and the brands that need them.

Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.

This is a special episode of Game Changers: Radio. Christian O'Connell and Sam Cavanagh return to talk about creativity. 

Where do ideas come from? Are people born creative or can you learn creativity? And what does this have to do with radio?

Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.

Maz Compton began her radio career in 2001 producing Merrick & Rosso (Merrick Watts and Tim Ross). Three years later she landed her dream job with MTV, where she stayed for five years anchoring red carpet broadcasts and hosting its flagship show, Total Request Live. She won the ASTRA for most popular female presenter in 2008. She then moved back to Nova 969, where she co-hosted Launchpad with James Kerley.

She then hosted The Dan & Maz Show with Dan Debuf, which ran in breakfast (on Nova Adelaide in 2011-2012), drive (Fox Melbourne 2013-2014), breakfast (on 2Dayfm Sydney) and national drive (on SCA 2015).

In 2016, Max launched Be, her own digital interview series on Yahoo 7. In 2017 she published her first book, UnEdited, and launched a world first breakfast show concept, Alt-breakfast, which streams live from Facebook.

Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.

Broadway Bill Lee started in radio in 1972. He programmed WTIC-FM in Hartford (Connecticut), and then went on to jock at KFRC in San Francisco (California), WLOL in Minneapolis (Minnesota), and KPKE in Denver (Colorado), before landing in afternoon drive in New York City. He has hosted afternoons on WCBS-FM since 2007. 

Broadway Bill Lee has won numerous radio awards, including the Billboard Radio Magazine award for Radio Personality of the Year, as well as Personality of the Year from Radio & Records Magazine and two New York Metro Air Awards for Best Afternoon Drive Show.

Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.

Founding member of the iconic D-Generation, Tom Gleisner, speaks to Craig Bruce in the return of Game Changers: Radio. 

Tom is a writer, producer and host, with a long history of collaboration with some of Australia's best entertainers and performers, including Rob Sitch, Santo Cilauro, Jane Kennedy, Mick Molloy and Tony Martin. Highlights from Tom's early career include writing and performing for The D-Generation on Triple M, as well as starring in the ABC's The Late Show.

His TV credits include writing and producing Frontline, hosting and producing The Panel, judging Thank God You're Here, and writing and producing The Hollowmen and Utopia. Since 2013 Gleisner has hosted Have You Been Paying Attention. For the movie buffs, Gleisner co-wrote the Working Dog films The Castle, The Dish and Any Questions for Ben? 

And if that is not enough, Tom has published numerous comedic books, including a series about the fictitious cricketer Warwick Todd,  fly fishing books with Sitch, and the Jetlag Travel Guide series with Sitch and Cilauro.

Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.

Zoe Marshall is the self confessed over sharer and current Nova radio host on Meet the Marshalls, a show she co-hosts with husband Benji Marshall on Nova 106.9 in Brisbane (Sundays 7am-9am)

Game Changer: Radio

Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Game Changer: Rising Stars is a bonus season profiling the top emerging talent in the Australian radio industry.

Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.

Ben Harvey started his radio career as a volunteer at Fresh 92.7 in 2012, and Liam Stapleton soon joined him. They became co-hosts, and now co-host Triple J Breakfast nationally (6am-9am).

Best friends from way back, Ben and Liam share a love of stand up comedy. They performed in Adelaide Fringe Show in 2016. Ben has also performed alone, doing his first stand up when he was 18. He competed in the Raw Comedy State Final in 2015 and appeared in the Adelaide Comedy Next Generation Fringe Show.

Game Changer: Radio

Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Game Changer: Rising Stars is a bonus season profiling the top emerging talent in the Australian radio industry.

Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.