Game Changers: Radio

In this wrap of 2016, Craig shares his top ten moments from the game changers interviewed in 2016 (from Seasons 1, 2 and Season 3: UK). Tony Martin talks about going to too much trouble, Hamish Blake talks about dealing with challenges as they come up (and not letting them fester), and Jamie Theakston talks about the importance of understanding your strengths and limitations... among other great moments. Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.

Nick Ferrari is breakfast host of LBC London’s number 1 commercial talk format. Nick is a formidable broadcaster. No issue is off limits. No listener is left behind. His pedigree in journalism is second to none, and he brings a 'newspaper daily planning' approach to his show every morning. 'My show is a rambling tabloid news conference. All human tragedy is there, but also lots of light in the shade.' Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.

Mike Toolan started in radio way back in 1991, and is now the host of Key 103 Manchester's breakfast show. He has dominated the market for 15 years. Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.

Jamie Theakston is one of the most versatile and durable media performers in the UK, with a career spanning TV, radio, theatre and sports media. He has spent the last ten years co-hosting Heart Breakfast with Jamie and Emma (Emma Bunton of Spice Girls fame) in London. Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.

Ken Bruce has hosted mornings on BBC Radio 2 for more than thirty years, and is a bona fide radio legend. He has the second largest radio audience in Europe, and is known for segments include Tracks of My Years and Pop Master which have become a permanent part of the radio landscape. Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.

Christian O’Connell has been the host of The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio for a decade, and is one of the UK's most creative radio presenters. Fans of Hamish Blake and Andy Lee will remember Christian from the world's first international radio simulcast (18 May 2012), when Christian's breakfast show (in London) broadcast live with Hamish & Andy's afternoon show (in Melbourne). Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.Support the show.

In Season 3, we venture beyond our Australian shores to the United Kingdom, where we speak to the best of the best in UK radio. In this preview episode, listen to a sneak peak as Craig introduces you to the best in radio talent (that you may not have heard before). This season is for radio lovers in Australia and the UK. Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.Support the show.

Listen to Craig Bruce share what he learned from interviewing the best of the best - Hamish Blake, Matt Tilley, Amanda Keller, Fifi Box, Richard Stubbs and Tony Martin. Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.Support the show.

Tony Martin joined the D-Gen - a truly revolutionary FM breakfast show -  in 1987,  and continued with them until 1992.  In 1995 he and Mick Molloy re-imagined the way we would listen to drive radio. They created Martin/Molloy, which became Australia’s first national drive show and dominated the FM landscape for three years. In 2006 he created one of the most talked about radio shows ever, Get This, with Ed Kavalee and Richard Marsland. The show’s fan base is as rabid today as it was a decade ago.  In 2017 he released an innovative new show, Childprrof, which is an unprodcued TV sitcom recorded live at the Melbourne Fringe Festival and released as a podcast. Tony’s success is a combination of incredible writing skills, along with the ability to perform his own words, a prodigious work ethic and an obsession with the infinite possibilities of audio. His career is a benchmark in our industry and an inspiration for anyone wan

Richard Stubbs literally changed the game for breakfast radio in the mid 80s as the first stand-up comedian to cross-over to breakfast radio. He started at 3XY on the Morning Zoo in 1985 before moving to MMM in the late 80s. In 1992 The Richard Stubbs Breakfast Show replaced the D-Generation, and went on to become one of the most successful shows of the time. Stubbsy then forged a new path for FM hosts by crossing over to the ABC in 2004. After 11 years of success in the afternoon slot, he made the decision to hang up the headphones at the end of 2015. Richard’s observational humour, natural intelligence and listening skills are some of the reasons why his career has been successful. 'Radio is hideously personal... My mantra's always been if someone's a moron, I'm going to be better. I'll be 10 per cent better to cover your moron-ness'.  Find out more about Richard here. Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Cra

Fifi Box got her first break on the national stage as co-host of MMM's Shebang with Marty Sheargold and Byron Cooke. The show reached #1 around Australia in 2004. Her on-air chemistry with Marty is still recognised as one of the most potent combinations on FM. Fifi moved to the Today Network in 2008, hosting a national weekend breakfast show before taking on national drive with Jules Lund in 2011. The show became one of the first truly social, multi-platform shows on radio. Fifi now hosts Fifi, Fev and Byron on Fox in Melbourne.  'I just realised I’ve got to give this everything... You've got nothing to lose… I will give you everything I’ve got, because I know what it’s like to fold people’s clothing and do their ironing, and I didn’t love that.' Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes&nb

Amanda Keller's contribution to radio and the community in Sydney has been so good over such a long period that she was awarded an Order of Australia in 2016. If it’s true that great storytelling is at the heart of radio’s connection to its audience, then it is easy to see why Amanda is recognised as an elite radio performer. She started her career at 2MMM in the late 90s on the Andrew Denton Breakfast Show, and their on-air partnership resulted in a #1 show. In more recent times, Amanda has reached #1 again with her great mate Brendan Jones on Jonesy & Amanda - a feat few broadcasters have achieved in the Sydney breakfast market.  'They want your loyalty, they want you to share your life, particularly breakfast radio, that's the gig... You share your life and people respond to you, and then you can be told to leave without even a chance to say goodbye to your audience.'  Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get

After getting his start as a writer on the Grubby and Dee Dee breakfast show at Fox in the early 90s, Matt Tilley went on to have one of the longest and most successful stints with a metro FM radio station.  Alongside Tracy Bartram, he took Fox to #1 in the late 90s, and 13 years later he still dominated the Melbourne FM landscape with Jo Stanley. Matt is a brilliant all-rounder, but he will be best remembered for his 'Gotcha Calls', which became the must-listen-to segment on Melbourne radio (often attracting the highest listenership of any breakfast show at the height of this segment) and later through the 'Gotcha Call CDs', which raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity. Matt spent a year on MMM in 2014, and moved back into breakfast on the newly branded KIIS Melbourne in 2015.  'We always figured we could work harder than other shows... If it took calling people for 10 different segments just to get 30 seconds of radio, we'd do it.' Game Changers: Radio is a show de

Hamish Blake is one half of arguably the most successful show on FM in Australian radio history, Hamish & Andy, and Hamish and his best mate Andy Lee are groundbreaking figures in event radio. Hamish and Andy started as a development show on Fox in 2001, and over the next four years refined their act on late nights and weekends before moving into the national drive slot on the Today network in 2006. Their ratings were astronomical. Highlights included 25 per cent of the Melbourne drive market and a national audience of more than 2 million, making it the most listened to Australian radio show. Ever. With ground breaking ideas - like the Caravan of Courage and the Tall Ships Adventure - Hamish and Andy established themselves as more than just a radio show: they are one of the most potent media brands in Australia.   'I've been incredibly fortunate to be side by side with someone that I think is so funny, but is also so driven... To use a cycling analogy, I can just slipstream h

Listen to Craig Bruce share what he learned from interviewing the best of the best - Marty Sheargold, Chrissie Swan, Eddie McGuire, James Brayshaw, Sam Cavanagh and Mick Molloy. Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com.Support the show.

Mick Molloy led The D-Gen, Martin & Molloy and Tough Love, and became one-third of The Hot breakfast with Eddie McGuire, Mick Molloy and Luke Darcy on Triple M in Melbourne. In 2017 he left The Hot Breakfast to join Kennedy & Molloy, a national drive show on Triple M. Mick’s track record over more than 20 years of broadcast is without peer. 'It's that murky border where business and creative meet. You've got to be really strong at that point or you'll get rolled and if you get rolled, your show is going to be shit'. Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com. Game Changers: Radio - Insights and Lessons from the World's Best Radio Broadcasters and Programmers is available now from Amazon.  Game Changers: Radio is produced by Bad Producer Productions. Support the show.

Sam Cavanagh is one of Australia’s foremost experts in radio content and creative team management. He ws the Executive Producer of the Hamish & Andy Drive show, and National Executive Show Producer at Southern Cross Austereo. In 2017 he became Executive Producer for Kennedy & Molloy, a new national drive show on Triple M with Jane Kennedy and Mick Molloy. At the Australian Commercial Radio Awards, Sam was awarded the Best Show Producer a-record 4 years in a row, 2007-2010. Sam has also received two ARIA awards for executive producing Hamish & Andy’s CDs, ‘Unessential Listening’ (2008), and ‘Celebrating 50 Glorious Years’ (2010). Sam has produced many world first media moments, including broadcasting live from Afghanistan with the Hamish & Andy Show. Follow Sam on Twitter at @samcav. 'There's a lot of hard work, but there's also a lot of good fortune, because when you get an opportunity and you're at uni, it's all a novelty... We were

James Brayshaw has been involved in four #1 shows in Melbourne and Sydney with MMM's The Cage. He has also been at centre of The Rub on MMM - a show with a cult following for football fans around the country - since the early 2000s. 'If anyone out there is starting off, instead of thinking about what you’re going to say next, actually listen to what the person is saying. That might give you half a chance'. Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com. Game Changers: Radio - Insights and Lessons from the World's Best Radio Broadcasters and Programmers is available now from Amazon.  Game Changers: Radio is produced by Bad Producer Productions. Support the show.

The Triple M Grill Team reimagined sports entertainment on FM radio in the early 90s. Eddie McGuire was also the first host and original face of Triple M Football, bringing AFL to FM. Since 2009 Eddie has hosted Triple M Melbourne's Hot Breakfast, taking the show from a 3 share to the #1 FM breakfast show with a mix of news, talk and sport that changed the game in Melbourne and became a template for Triple M's breakfast recovery nationally. Eddie talks frankly about the radio business and the secrets to his success. 'Every day is a new day. Every day is a new show, and it's rate or die. It's as simple as that'. Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com. Game Changers: Radio - Insights and Lessons from the World's Best Radio Broadcasters and Programmers is available now at Amazon.&nbs

Along with Jane Hall, Chrissie Swan led Melbourne’s first all-female breakfast show on Mix that went to #1 in 2014. In 2016, she co-hosts Chrissie, Sam and Browny on NOVA's breakfast show.  Chrissie is one of radio’s best storytellers, and her warmth and honesty has delivered audiences to every station she’s worked on. In this interview, she reflects on life, career and confidence. 'Lots of people are working hard, but I feel really great about where I'm at. The show's great. My family's great. I'm very lucky'. Game Changers: Radio is a show dedicated to the radio industry. Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter @cb_bruce and our producer Jay Mueller @bad_producer. Check out all of our episodes at www.radiogamechangers.com. Game Changers: Radio - Insights and Lessons from the World's Best Radio Broadcasters and Programmers is available now at Amazon.  Game Changers: Radio is produced by Bad Producer Productions.   Support the