Last night was Mike Brady’s final regular show for 3AW, hours after singing Up There Cazaly at the MCG before the AFL Grand Final. Brady has hosted Mike to Midnight for 17 years and is staying with the station, but in what capacity is still to be defined.
Next Saturday (October 5) Dr Sally Cockburn will host evenings on 3AW from 6pm to 10pm, followed by Simon Owens from 10pm to midnight.
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Sign of the Times there at 3AW with Networking from 2GB becoming a new Normal Starting Tomorrow Night with John Stanley from 8 until Midnight.
Overnights will be coming from Sydney also but no announcement as yet.
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Will Dr Cockburn’s New Saturday Night Program be head in Sydney and Brisbane as well?
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Yes, I believe it will be heard nationally.
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I was told that 2GB was hoping to have Warren Moore back on Saturday evenings but whilst Sally Cockburn is getting a bit long in the tooth it would be good to have something different. I know that George & Paul will be extending to 2pm I just hope that Saturday and Sunday afternoon will have something interesting and not this weekend detention nonsense which is more suitable to MSR.
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It appears it will be The Weekend Edition with Natalie Peters and Erin Molan 2:00 - 4:00pm on Saturday and Sunday.
When Dr Feelgood was on Sydney radio many years ago she was like a slightly cleaner version of Bettina Arndt. Has her act changed?
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Listening to her FM radio show in the early ‘90s helped me though some sticky situations as a young adult. Up to that point my education in that area had been limited to the book “Where Did I Come From”, awkward high school health classes and Dolly Doctor. Haven’t heard her Macquarie show.
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What station was Bettina on and in what capacity? What years?
Wait. So Dr. Cockburn was also Dr. Feel Good?
I always wondered where the name came from 
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Arndt had a 6:00pm Saturday night sex talk show on 2GB in 1984 during the early days of 2GB Newstalk 87. The Rev Fred Nile did the Sunday night religion show at time and was against Arndt being on the station.
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I think that show started in 1983. She was originally a contributor to John Tingle’s morning show before Nigel Milan gave her the Saturday “dirty talk” slot when the football wasn’t on. I remember the Broadcasting Tribunal taking a keen interest in the show following a complaint from a listener concerned about discussion of oral sex. They directed 2GB to broadcast warnings before and during the show after that complaint.
There was more support than prudishness directed towards the program because it was becoming important to talk frankly about STDs and safe sex with the AIDS epidemic and the fear surrounding it taking hold around that time.
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Thanks. My memory of it is slightly hazy.
My mother used to make me leave the room when she came on the radio or appeared on The Don Lane Show. That just made me more curious about her.
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Macquarie shareholders Mark Carnegie and Geoff Wilson are angling for a better deal from Nine than the current takeover offer, the AFR reports. If Carnegie does take the offer then Nine will move to over 90% ownership and can compulsory acquire the rest.
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The AFR will ultimately be proved wrong as often is the case.
Solly Lew held out on Woolies South Africa with just over 10% of Country Road for years but for MRN, others eg retail investors will agree and Carnegie’s 3% will be mopped up in the compulsory acquisition.
Has Tim Hughes sold his tiny parcel? Former media mogul wannabe, protege of Reg Grundy with day job as contrarian investor.
Cameron Williams has a small holding too, iirc. Alan Jones has apparently indicated he will be accepting the offer.
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Really? The list grows doesn’t it of people who want to say they have a share in 2GB and likely sit around at a boozy lunch together and talk about it more.
That’s been the problem with 2GB and now the whole former Lamb/SCB/Fairfax network, it’s been treated as a private club instead of a business responsible to shareholders.
Singo freely admitted the listing was more for ego than money, a public beauty parade to trade shares in full view rather than the far less visible and glamourous unlisted vehicle that Jones and Hadley were first allocated shares in.
@littlegezzybear, yes, I believe you 
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