Aussie Rules legend Leigh Matthews has signed a new two-year deal to continue his association with 3AW.
Matthews will feature with his special comments in AFL matches for 3AW on Friday nights and Saturday afternoons.
In addition, he will be a regular contributor to the all-new Wide World of Sports radio program to be hosted by Sam McClure and set to launch in November.
Leigh Matthews said: “It has been my privilege to be part of the AW Footy Team for many seasons and I look forward to continuing my involvement with the crew for the next two years.”
Stephen Beers, 3AW Station Manager, said: “Leigh is the voice of footy. When he talks, everyone listens. We are delighted that Leigh will be continuing to set the agenda on Wide World of Sports and 3AW Football”
Matthews played 332 games for the Hawthorn Football Club from 1969 to 1985. He would later go on to coach Collingwood from 1986 to 1995 and Brisbane Lions from 1999 to 2008. He played in four Grand Finals and was named in the AFL Team of the Century.
Following the success of Nine’s pioneering Radio Internship Program earlier this year, Nine are now taking applications for the program’s third round, which will focus on building new talent within its radio newsrooms.
The paid internships run for six weeks at each of Nine Radio’s newsrooms – Sydney’s 2GB, Melbourne’s 3AW, Brisbane’s 4BC and 6PR in Perth – and provide candidates with the chance to gain invaluable experience while learning from the best talent in the industry.
Successful applicants will spend time with our industry-leading journalists in Nine’s radio newsrooms to learn how to chase stories, create fast and accurate news bulletins, and even create content with our producers and on-air talent. They will also be provided with hands-on training in not only journalism, but also radio producing and broadcasting.
Tom Malone, Managing Director of Nine Radio, said: “We’re delighted with the talent we’ve been able to uncover and nurture through the first two rounds of Nine’s Radio Internship Program. In fact, the program has proven so successful that all of our interns from the last round are staying on to work with the stations!”
“I’m proud of Nine’s commitment to helping build the next generation of radio professionals in Australia and looking forward to welcoming the next cohort of budding radio journos who will be trained up ready in time to get hands-on during the busy summer period.”
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Great Australian Lives is coming to an end at the end of October. Program host Laura Turner is also leaving Nine. This program has been produced by SEN/Crocmedia, so I think the program finishing has something to do with the SEN distribution deal finishing at the end of October (because that’s when Sportsday is also finishing). So from November, all of 3AW’s content will be their own from Nine Radio.
As for filling the gap on Sundays from 9pm-10pm, I reckon they’ll either extend Remember When to three hours (9pm to midnight), or maybe Emily Power will host a one-hour program, if this is what the rumours in the Herald Sun a few weeks ago were actually about.
Presenter Alex Riddell just read an emergency alert verbatim instead of re-scripting it for the news bulletin and then it sounded like she was having trouble pressing the button to cue the next story so we got 5 minutes of complete silence before 2GB simulcast of Luke Grant and money news kicked in.
Alex Riddell read the weather at the end of the news report from inside the main 3AW studio as the news booth isn’t working.
Technical issues and the phones are down too. Grubby called in last minute to host Nights so he can talk on the line to Denis Walter who is back home in Geelong, in the absence of calls.
Bill Woods’ overnight program will be heard on 3AW this morning due to technical difficulties, but strangely Tony Moclair read out the weather forecast at the end of the midnight news out of the 3AW studio.
So Tony has still come in to work this morning, yet will just be reading our weather forecasts for the next five hours?? That’s one way for Nine to make the most of their resources, lol.
