Very few people in Australian radio have had such a profound impact on his colleagues as Andrew “Bag” Sidwell. Everyone who knew him not only loved him, but were inspired by his passion for learning and life.

In today’s episode we’re going to be as fearless, thoughtful and creative as we can be to honour our beautiful friend.

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In this episode we review one of Kyle and Jackie O’s biggest moments from the Melbourne Radio Wars so far, this week’s interview with only fans creator Bonnie Blue. 

With the Olympics finishing up, Irene will reflect on those podium worthy moments from this battle, and another 2day breakfast show bites the dust, who will replace Hughesy, Ed and Erin? We have no clue, but that won’t stop us from taking a wild guess.

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This series contains the use of AI generated voices. Sound design is by Dom Evans at EARSAY

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Ding, ding. In the red corner, he’s the Nova flop with a mouth that can’t stop flapping - Wade Kingsley.

And in the blue corner, the King of all radio who never pulls his punches - Kyle Sandilands.

In this episode we step back in to the ring and discuss Wade’s accidental appearance on the Kyle and Jackie O show, plus we talk about the value of listener research - whether you like your feedback to be thick and chewy or thin and crispy, there’s plenty of reasons why those free pizza sessions with listeners are worthwhile.

And our guest this week is Todd Campbell who fought many a radio battle in Melbourne when he was content director of Nova100 in the early 2000’s. Todd is now programming the legendary Radio Hauraki in New Zealand.

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In this episode Wade doesn’t pull any punches after hearing a less than stellar half hour of the Kyle and Jackie show. And we talk about the value of a good story arc after the Fox won the week their brilliantly executed Underdogs tactic.

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This series contains the use of AI generated voices. Sound design is by Dom Evans at EARSAY

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In this episode Irene shares with us her notes on a side by side by side monitor of all 3 shows, whilst Wade checks out the new tactics on the air for survey 5 along with some thoughts on who is winning the PR battle and why.

Plus we pull apart one of our best listener emails yet with a perspective on Kyle and Jackie O that you might find surprising.

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This series contains the use of AI generated voices. Sound design is by Dom Evans at EARSAY

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In this episode we'll go deep and wide with all the fall-out from GFK survey 4. We’ll discuss a Tik Tok viral video that goes to the heart of Kyle and Jackie’s challenges in Melbourne, we’ll unpack all the survey 4  headlines and PR hair-splitting with another round of Real or Spin and Andrew Bucky Bucklow from news.com.au will join us to talk about the radio chick who’s getting all the clicks.

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This series contains the use of AI generated voices. Sound design is by Dom Evans at EARSAY.

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This week on the podcast with the mid year survey break about to wrap up we finally have some time to get to all of your questions and feedback. Questions like “I can’t work out if you guys like or hate Kyle and Jackie O” and “who was Christian referring to when he was talking about moronic radio contests?” Our evasive and completely unreliable answers will shock you!

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This series contains the use of AI generated voices. Sound design is by Dom Evans at EARSAY

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The guns have gone silent in the Melbourne radio wars and whilst the hosts are on holidays we’ve taken the time to reflect on the learnings from the battle so far.

Also Tim Burrowes returns for his 3rd appearance on the podcast to unpack the carnage of 2024, without question Australian media’s toughest trading year with declining revenue and the pace of structural changes increasing by the day.  

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This series contains the use of AI generated voices. Sound design is by Dom Evans at EARSAY

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This week on the podcast we talk with Canadian radio veteran Buzz Bishop about what he’s hearing and liking on Melbourne radio.

Buzz has been a fan of Australian radio for many years and has some unique insights delivered apologetically like only a good Canadian can.

Also this week we focus on the 3 female superstars who are spearheading their stations’ focus on Melbourne’s 25-44 females.

And was Nova’s Hide & Seek worth the $84,000 investment?  Wade and Irene heard it differently.

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This series contains the use of AI generated voices. Sound design is by Dom Evans at EARSAY

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