Tonight was Liz Kefford’s final bulletin at 3AW after 7.5 years at the station, mostly reading Friday night bulletins. She spoke on-air with Denis Walter after reading the 11pm bulletin.
Interesting to hear them mention various things including Liz recently starting her own law firm, and how one of her first jobs was filing beach reports from the bay for AW (prior to her current stint at AW).
Just announced on 3AW Remember When that Philip Brady has stepped down from his role. Andrew McLaren has been co-hosting with Simon for the last three weeks. Very sad and shocked.
Very sad and sudden. His last show was on 12 January (when he last hosted)
I feel things changed towards the end of last year with him not hosting Christmas Eve.
One would hope it’s not due to his health - Peter Ford Did say he needed a time out to sort some things out .
In saying that he’s in his mid 80’s so it was inevitable he would retiree at some point.
I think Simon said all going well Phil will come on the program in the next week or two to say hello to the audience. It would’ve been too upsetting for him to take calls last night.
Simon Owens announced on his show tonight that his program will now air all-year round (not just summer).
This is because 3AW will now be broadcasting football on Thursday nights instead of Saturday nights, so once 3AW Football finishes at 8pm on a Saturday, Simon’s program will be on until midnight.
What about the AFL finals this September? Matches will be played on Saturday nights and 3AW will be obliged to broadcast them rather than Simon Owens’ show.