Adelaide radio legend David ‘Daisy’ Day has written a terrific autobiography called ‘Rock Jock’.
It’s a wonderful warts & all account of his drama filled life, from his days of growing up in a small New South Wales rural town to becoming a top Adelaide DJ.
Daisy partied harder than his rock star mates.
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Tuesday, 02 April 2013 06:00 Category: Greg Smith
Greg Smith is an inductee into the Australian Radio Hall of Fame, and a Director of Radio Today.
I’ve made plenty of mistakes over the years & as I reflect on them I realise that most of them came from being talked into actions or out of them by other people.
In other words I didn’t trust my own judgement enough.
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Friday, 08 March 2013 06:00 Category: Greg Smith
Greg Smith is an inductee into the Australian Radio Hall of Fame, and a Director of Radio Today.
There aren’t too many music jocks that are living legends.
Ron E Sparks at WSFM (left) is one of them.
If you missed part 1 of Greg Smith's chat, you can read it here.
Today we find out why he moved from 2MMM to 2Day FM in 1994 and how he still manages to sound as excited about his job today as he did in the 70's.
He will also reveal the story behind how he turned down a lucrative McDonalds franchise to be a music jock.
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Tuesday, 15 January 2013 06:00 Category: Greg Smith
Greg Smith is an inductee into the Australian Radio Hall of Fame, and a Director of Radio Today.
There aren’t too many music jocks that are living legends.
Ron E Sparks at WSFM (left) is one of them.
Over the next couple of days Greg goes one on one with Ron. We find out who he idolised in the early days, why he moved from 2MMM to 2Day FM in 1994 and how he still manages to sound as excited about his job today as he did in the 70's.
Ron will also reveal the story behind how he turned down a lucrative McDonalds franchise to be a music jock.
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Monday, 14 January 2013 06:00 Category: Greg Smith
Greg Smith is an inductee into the Australian Radio Hall of Fame, and a Director of Radio Today.
My secondary school days were spent at Clarence High on Hobart’s Eastern Shore.
My Social Studies teacher, Mr Jim Menadue, told me that I would be digging ditches when I left school. I thought I’ll show him so I borrowed my father’s Trent Memory Course & put it into practice & in the following year I won the School Prize for Social Studies.
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Wednesday, 31 October 2012 06:00 Category: Greg Smith
Greg Smith is an inductee into the Australian Radio Hall of Fame, and a Director of Radio Today.
On Tuesday, in part of 1 of Greg's article on Stephanie Rittenberg (see here), he spoke with Craig Bruce, Jodie Cairns and Dan Bradley to discover more about Steph and why Australian radio lost her programming talent to the U.K.
Today we find out how the popular station tactic 'The Fugitive' was born, the differences Stephanie found between working for Austereo and DMG and her advice to anyone wanting to work in the UK.
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Thursday, 20 September 2012 06:00 Category: Greg Smith
Greg Smith is an inductee into the Australian Radio Hall of Fame, and a Director of Radio Today.
On more than one occasion, Radio Today has highlighted the lack of females as Content Directors.
Brad March recently named Sam Thompson, Irene Hulme & Donna Puechmarin as the only Content Directors to make his list of the Top 27 Most Influential Women in Radio.
In Australia, Stephanie Rittenberg (pictured below) worked in a number of key positions in both Austereo & DMG. However, she was overlooked for the top programming job at several stations.
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Tuesday, 18 September 2012 08:00 Category: Greg Smith
Greg Smith is an inductee into the Australian Radio Hall of Fame, and a Director of Radio Today.
Three simple words that create a very powerful life statement.
Attitude Determines Destiny is used by self-help gurus; it’s featured in self-help articles & there’s even a book out on the subject.
Attitude Determines Destiny is not about sucking up to the boss. It’s all about understanding that having a negative attitude can seriously harm your career prospects.
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Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:00 Category: Greg Smith
Greg Smith is an inductee into the Australian Radio Hall of Fame, and a Director of Radio Today.
Today we publish Part 2 of Greg's piece about 'what's going on at the ABC'. If you missed Part 1 on ABC TV, click here
Let’s talk about ABC Radio.
Kate Dundas, Director of ABC Radio, was kind enough to answer my questions.
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Friday, 13 July 2012 06:00 Category: Greg Smith
Greg Smith is an inductee into the Australian Radio Hall of Fame, and a Director of Radio Today.
Today we publish Part 1 of Greg's piece about 'what's going on at the ABC'.
Let’s start with television.
Why is it that ABC1, 2 & 3 are all doing kids programs weekday afternoons?
If you watch a kids program on ABC2, they say ABC2 is 4 kids. In the daylight hours, ABC2 is all kids programming. I thought ABC3 was the kids’ channel?
Why would you broadcast news (ABC 24) in high definition?
How would you position each of the channels?
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Monday, 09 July 2012 06:00 Category: Greg Smith
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