Makes sense. She’s quite an experienced broadcaster. Especially on 6pr. Great to hear a different voice on AW.
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She’s quite awkward though. She keeps randomly saying … er 693 when throwing to the break.
Also “you’re talking with _____ have a chat with him”
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Karalee Katsambanis unashamedly pro-Trump and pro-Dutton on the Sunday Morning program, so much for unbiased radio hosts! Good on Nick McCallum for mentioning how it’s a love-fest for the Liberal Party
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The famously unbiased world of commercial talk radio.
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Imagine being too right-wing for 3AW though
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The station isnt nicknamed 3LP for nothing.
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O’Neil’s decision to switch to 2GB wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment choice, rather, it was driven by a desire to stretch his skill set and explore the depth of talk radio.
“Because as a broadcaster, I want to continue to expand my horizons and learn new facets of my craft and also because I’ve got a great interest in talk radio and in communicating in a longer form,” he explained.
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Nothing new. Just the same 3x Nine Radio tactics on rotation.
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4BC news bulletins now networked on weekends
Brisbane’s 4BC is no longer providing its own local news bulletins on weekends, with Nine Radio confirming that Saturday and Sunday’s breakfast news is now being networked from Sydney’s 2GB.
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If they are trying to be live and local why does that not extend to news?
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I don’t see this as being all that different to the national news bulletins through the evening and overnight which seem to alternate between being read out of Sydney or Melbourne. In some ways it seems that the content of these bulletins is actually more interesting as bigger stories from other states take the place of some of the menial filler which would otherwise get regurgitated hour after hour to make up the bulletin’s duration.
As long as the Sydney newsroom is careful about story selection I don’t see a big problem. Would a local bulletin at breakfast at least be preferable? Sure, and even 2CC manage that on the weekend, but this isn’t a terrible outcome.
There was a time in the Southern Cross Broadcasting days when 3AW’s newsroom would pre-record news for 2UE and 4BC overnight. Story selection was key and it worked (apart from the occasional hiccup with a bulletin not playing). This model might be better than just sharing bulletins between 2GB and 4BC, especially during breakfast. But as long as the story selection keeps the whole audience in mind, I don’t have any real issue with it.
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I see it as a lot different to have bulletins in the daytime networked vs overnights. Overnights its almost expected. about the only times (IMHO) its acceptable to have networked bulletins is during national public holidays (Christmas Day, etc), its a quick whip around during sport or the local studio is down for some reason (and this should only be one or two bulletins at most)
the problem is the “bigger stories” are, for probably half the audience filler as well…
I live in Brisbane. If they talk about a crash on the Cahill Expressway, or something Chris Minns said… it has no relevance to me.
This is what i want in a news bulletin on the weekend:
should be no more than 3 or 4 mins and i want the headlines, weather, sport and traffic in my city. as i said above i couldn’t care about the Cahill. tell me the traffic on the M1 to the Goldie… thats what i’ll be driving on more likely.
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You’d think they’d be at least local until 11am.
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I agree, no big deal. 2GB overnights news comes up from 3AW (Gabrielle Hodson usually). Here in Sydney i don’t mind occasionally hearing about the odd early morning factory fire in Clayton or some drive by shooting in Carlton. One needs to expand one’s mind beyond mere geographical state boundaries.
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One thing they need to be careful of is the way they word things in the bulletins when they network. I listen to 4BH and get these 9 News Bulletins from 4BC each hour and there is a bit of a difference between the local bulletins during the day and the networked bulletins at night and it’s this:
The way they write their script can make it feel like the bulletin is for a Sydney audience and broadcasting it into Brisbane is an afterthought. They’ll often make references to “The police minister” or “Premier Chris Minns” when they probably should say “New South Wales Police Minister” and “New South Wales Premier Chris Minns”. They also often say things like “xyz happened at a house in Ryde” instead of “xyz happened at a house in the Sydney suburb of Ryde”. This is especially important for suburbs like Fairfield or locations like Central station where Sydney and Brisbane both have suburbs and stations with these names.
It’s rare that they do the opposite though, when it’s a QLD story, they nearly always will make the qualifier “Queensland Police Minister”, "Queensland Premier David Crisafulli, “xyz happened at a house in Rochedale, south of Brisbane”.
It’s little things like that which can make a Queensland audience feel as though Sydney is the priority and we’re just the tag alongs. A couple of tweaks in wording doesn’t cost them a cent and makes it feel a little bit more like it’s a national news bulletin, not a Sydney news bulletin that’s being aired into Brisbane.
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They need to integrate with the Brisbane 9 newsroom better. Surely there’d be some reporters there to read the local news in the mornings.
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2GB 873AM will be off air today from 1am till 2pm. DAB & Online unaffected.
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1am to 2am
Went off just after 1am about 30 seconds into the news.
2KY 1017 (Sky Sports Radio) 1017 and SEN 1170 also off.
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Good catch. Embarrassing considering i was mentally saying “don’t write 1pm” 
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