Yess, I love how unhighed and off the wall this pairing is.
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Iâll have to have a listen 
Jacinta on afternoons was some of the best radio Iâve ever experienced.
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Faine, Jacinta and Raf was a great lineup. Shame they can never get breakfast right.
More on the âinauthenticâ callers Iâve been speaking about..
Bob and Rochelle on the Teachers pay dispute let a caller on twice within the space of around 20 minutes this morning, the caller described himself as a teacher from a school on the Mornington Peninsula in âone of the most disadvantaged schools in Melbourneâ, and appeared to be reading off a script during his two calls to ABC Radio this morning, usual signs such as hardly any breaks between sentences, it just seemed it was read off a script
Yep, it sounded like something the chaser wouldâve done years ago but here we are. And we wonder why ratings are at a 60 year low
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Listening to 774 tonight the way God intended, on an AM-only radio from 1974 with no numbers on the dial that still correctly identifies 3LO after 52 years (even though it has moved from 770 back then)
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Love it!
But why is 4YL in the Victoria section? 4CA Cairns is in South Australia? 2NM Muswellbrook is in Western Australia?
And whoa, thereâs a lot going on in NSW between 2UV and 2SM!!
What was 4YL? I canât find references to it anywhere.
Yeah thereâs a lot I didnât understand and was trying to look up that wasnât immediately searchable.
From something else I found, apparently this unit represents the end of the era of Australian-designed and 100% Australian-made electronics. It was all pretty much done right after this radio rolled out in â74.
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I believe they mean 4VL Charleville. I think it was just a spacing issue that a few stations were plonked in other States.
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Todayâs Saturday Mornings show is being broadcast live from Melbourneâs Royal Botanic Gardens, in front of an audience, to celebrate Carolyn Blackmanâs 25 years at the ABC as a gardening expert.
In a shock twist no one saw coming, sacked ABC fill-in radio host Antoinette Lattouf has returned to the airwaves at the public broadcaster after being invited on to spruik her new book â and duly savaged the media organisation over its decision to axe her.
The former commercial television reporter, who famously received almost a quarter of a million dollars in taxpayer-funded damÂages after being dumped halfway through a week of casual presenting shifts on ABC Radio Sydney in the lead-up to Christmas in 2023, received almost 15 minutes of airtime on the ABCâs Melbourne radio outlet on Saturday morning to dissect the evils of the state-owned media empire.
Proving, if anything, that smashing the ABC is so much fun even its own staff want to get in on the action, the stationâs Saturday mornings host, Jacinta Parsons, quizzed Lattouf at length about what it felt like âto walk into the ABC againâ.
Intriguingly, Lattouf claimed she had been shunned by many of the ABCâs more âdefensiveâ staff in the wake of her successful lawsuit, particularly in Sydney.
You can listen to Jacintaâs chat with Antoinette on ABC Melbourne website.
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Iâm surprised that Antoinette was even allowed back on any of the ABCâs outlets after what happened. Surely they have a âdo not talk to/interview/employâ list at the ABCâŚ
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I mean she literally did nothing wrong at all and that has even been legally determined. âWhat happenedâ wasnât even on air. She reposted verified and legitimate information about Palestine on her own personal account outside of work, and the ABC responded by breaking the law.
Interview starts at 1:34:20, by the way
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Iâm not doubting that, Iâm on her side. Iâm just saying Iâm surprised that the ABC let someone talk to her on air. I thought that the ABC would have a blacklist of people they wouldnât be talking to for wheverever silly or stupid reason, and sheâd be on it for reasons of retaliation.
Francis Leach has recently been filling in on Overnights.
Yeah really if anything itâs to the ABCâs credit. What I have generally observed about the organisation is that there seems to be a large gulf between the attitudes of management and that of the staff. âThe ABCâ is not really one thing, itâs lots of things, many different people with different attitudes and I get the feeling most of them probably support Lattouf.
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Sharnelle Vella paid a surprise visit to Bob Murphy and Richelle Hunt near the end of todayâs Melbourne breakfast show.
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Those two are just too much 
Richelle has been doing a good job filling in too
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I think youâre right. I think those in the trenches support her, and thatâs been demonstrated. She was rightfully vindicated in the courts too. But I suspect the higher ups might be shirty at not getting their way. Thatâs what Iâm getting at.
Upper-middle and upper management can be vindictive arseholes at times - personal experience. Karma though⌠
Yes, but staff like to get square with their employer/managers.
Like how the journos think they own The Age and SMH.
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