When Labor’s Senator Kimberley Kitching died, that led bulletins on 2GB for most of a day, but I found myself in a similar position to you wondering who she was despite the fact I’d seen or heard her a zillion times on 2GB and Sky.
Personally I think an event which will mean a change to the composition of a parliament (even if the party mix doesn’t change) is more important than most of the house fire, crime and car crash stories which fill 2GB News, but also agree it probably doesn’t need to lead every bulletin. But it’s not the most dubious piece of story selection in that news service and I was particularly taken aback by the editorialising in a pre-Aus Open story about it being the best tournament in the world and “tennis how it should be”.
As a generally-conservative voter, I took no offence to your comment. I thought it was a perfectly fair observation.
Kitching too is interesting because coverage of her death was elongated by the bullying allegations made against other Labor MPs and the political football that ensued.
Well it was a matter of not knowing what to expect - on a station that was previously purely talk, but then employing the former breakfast team and adding a music director from 4KQ to add music to their format.
Also her death was sudden and in public whereas Jim Mollan had been fighting cancer for some time, I was surprised he put his hand up for preselection at all.
Massive week for Ben Fordham on 2GB breakfast. Skewered the PM in an extended interview to expose Albo’s lack of knowledge of any real detail on his pet Voice project. Then Ben busted the PMs office doctoring the interview transcript. Ben has made 2GB breakfast his own … it should be a titanic battle again this year versus K&JO for No. 1 overall brekky here in the Harbour City. Bring it on.
isn’t that a good thing, though, that even though they’re the same network they are tailoring content to their individual markets, rather than turning everywhere else into Sydney-lite.
What a hero! Fordham and all the other insignificant little worms of talk back radio and Sky News plus the opposition should be getting together with Albo to ensure (as you call it the Voice project) is a success. First Nations people need this and a treaty, treaty should have been in the constitution.
Such a pity for Fordham and his ilk that the conservatives lost the election! Need to get over it and realise we now have a competent PM unlike Morrison, Abbott etc.
One thing I am grateful for is that Fordham is on Sydney radio, used to find his “starey eyes” very off putting on Ninja Warriors. He was made for radio where we don’t have to look at his face.
Interesting that the logo on this ad now has, “2GB” then beneath that, “SYDNEY”, then beneath that, “STREAMING & 873AM”.
As I mentioned when these new logos rolled out - wouldn’t it be easier to just remove “SYDNEY” and have kept “873AM”?
Mentioning the city in a logo is a complete waste IMO. I mean, when will we ever see the 2GB Sydney logo in Brisbane/Melbourne/Perth? Listeners know they are in Sydney. Thanks for the reminder Nine Radio.
As much as I don’t mind getting into the mudpit of political discussion from time to time, it’s not for everyone and I do think there’s potential scope to split this topic into:
Nine Radio (Talk) Content - for things like Ben Fordham vs Albo, Hadley in general, Neil Mitchell vs Dan Andrews etc.
Nine Radio (Talk) Technical Discussion- for things like the logo changes, technical issues, announcer changes, anything else really
I feel like the similar split for the Digital Radio topics has worked really well. Given that no other radio network in Australia is as politically charged or likely to lead to political debates I feel that a split here could work well too. Also allows for a bit more freedom when it comes to the political debate side of things (without risk of going too much off topic).
He was made for radio where we don’t have to look at his face.