Don’t listen to any of these because I live outside the 3AW listening area and even with the option of online streaming, the content would be largely irrelevant to me as a Sydneysider.
I never listen to 2GB these days either, for reasons which can be explained by going through their weekday lineup:
Breakfast with Ben Fordham: If it’s anything like his former drive show was, I doubt it’s particularly riveting listening.
Mornings with Ray Hadley…enough said really.
Afternoons with Deborah Knight/Drive with Jim Wilson: These two should still be on TV.
Money News: Surely a simulcast of the 6pm Nine News Sydney TV bulletin would be a better use of bandwidth than this?
Nights with John Stanley: A good presenter who deserves an earlier timeslot.
Overnights/Wake Up with Michael McLaren: Ditto, although his style would probably only work post-6pm.
Breakfast - rather listen to the sounds of whales being harpooned.
Mornings - Hadley needs to retire.
Afternoons - boring as batshit.
Drive - Why the fuck is he doing anything on radio. About as comfortable as sitting on a bed of nails.
Money News - who cares? I can sum this up in the following sentence: you’re not making enough money, everyone else is, fuck you.
Nights - great as a sleeping aid.
Overnights - to be honest, I’d rather go to sleep listening to Jerry Springer fights. And I do.
From the bits and pieces I’ve heard on 3AW (mostly online), Ross and Russel (and John Burns before Russel), Denis Walter and Dee Dee Dunleavy seems to be tolerable enough on radio. Neil Mitchell and Tom Elliott both sound like grumbling old men who’s dissatisfied about everything in life and it shows in their shows.
Neil can be a dog with a bone, however he does a lot for his listeners. He gets behind charities, people in dire straights and government stuff ups that impact individuals. Big example is Fines Victoria and how people were getting slogged with massive bills because the system was screwed up and it tried to made tax payers pay for it. I feel like Neil genuinely cares.
I agree that he has his moments but in comparison to Tom, he’s all about himself. Probably takes a quarter of the calls that Neil does because he wants to editorialise everything or have pointless segments on that make you wait on the line for an hour to speak to him and he doesn’t even end up giving you the time of day.
Agree to a certain extent. For all the negative tone and pessimistic stuff he says at least he’s pretty willing to challenge anyone who’s spreading outright misinformation (like Pauline Hanson) and seems like a nice bloke otherwise.
He’s certainly more deserving of being No.1 in his slot compared to his Sydney counterpart anyway.
I didn’t see this reported in this particular forum but I reckon 2GB (Nine radio) had a cyber attack on their server in February 2021. Someone attempted to do a reset on an email address I use for this Nine owned site on a particular day in Feb, whilst they weren’t successful with the reset, they were successful in obtaining my email address from the 2GB server & I was flooded with SPAM ever since.
I don’t trust small or medium sized companies with keeping customer data secure or keeping their firewalls & servers robust & up to date.
Radio station 2GB has breached commercial radio disclosure rules during broadcasts of The Alan Jones Breakfast Show by not informing its listeners about a commercial agreement the program had with The Star Entertainment Group.
An Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) investigation found 2GB failed to disclose The Star’s sponsorship of the program on multiple occasions in September and October 2019 when Jones discussed the Ritz-Carlton development, a project commissioned by The Star.
ACMA Chair Nerida O’Loughlin said the comments breached the Commercial Radio Current Affairs Disclosure Standard.
“Licensees and presenters must let their audience know if a sponsor has a commercial interest in material being broadcast that is directly favourable to the sponsor.
"These rules exist so that audiences are properly informed and are able to make up their own minds about what they hear on commercial radio.
"Commercial radio disclosure rules have been in place since 2000, and it is disappointing that 2GB failed to meet their obligations during these broadcasts,” Ms O’Loughlin said.
The ACMA has given 2GB a remedial direction which will require relevant staff including presenters, producers, and commercial and sales staff to undertake formal training on the requirements of the Disclosure Standard.
2GB must also report back to the ACMA on what processes it has put in place to ensure it makes disclosures on-air and online, as required.
If a licensee does not comply with a remedial direction, the ACMA may seek civil penalties.
The standard requires that disclosure announcements must be made at the time of, and as part of, the broadcast. The licensee must also publish specified information
ACMA should have the ability to impose a real penalty on repeat offenders like 2GB. Providing “remedial direction” is not effective in stopping the stations from doing it. If they were serious they should fine the station a significant amount. For example $250,000. Listeners should be informed when an opinion could be influenced by a commercial arrangement. ACMA should have their powers increased to stop this behaviour once and for all.
They have the power to impose conditions on the licence, issue an infringement notice that includes a monetary penalty, take civil legal action, and refer the breach to the CDPP for criminal action. However, it appears that any breaches need to be sustained and deliberate before ACMA will take any real action.
