Game Changers Radio

This series of podcasts we've called the mentoring tapes. They feature Craig Bruce and Kate Meade, who works at Ace radio. Kate co-hosts the Jon and Kate Breakfast Show which is networked to 8 radio stations in the Victoria/NSW region. She's also an aspiring program director.   Kate is an inspiration.    In her career before radio she created Victoria's largest dance festival f...

This series of podcasts we've called the mentoring tapes. They feature Craig Bruce and Kate Meade, who works at Ace radio. Kate co-hosts the Jon and Kate Breakfast Show which is networked to 8 radio stations in the Victoria/NSW region. She's also an aspiring program director.   Kate is an inspiration.    In her career before radio she created Victoria's largest dance festival f...

This series of podcasts we've called the mentoring tapes. They feature Craig Bruce and Kate Meade, who works at Ace radio. Kate co-hosts the Jon and Kate Breakfast Show which is networked to 8 radio stations in the Victoria/NSW region. She's also an aspiring program director.   Kate is an inspiration.    In her career before radio she created Victoria's largest dance festival f...

This series of podcasts we've called the mentoring tapes. They feature Craig Bruce and Kate Meade, who works at Ace radio. Kate co-hosts the Jon and Kate Breakfast Show which is networked to 8 radio stations in the Victoria/NSW region. She's also an aspiring program director.   Kate is an inspiration.    In her career before radio she created Victoria's largest dance festival f...

Abby Coleman is a Game Changer. From the street team to top rating breakfast presenter. Abby Coleman shares her story of resilience with Craig Bruce.  Abby Coleman has hosted breakfast on Hit 105 for seven years. The current line-up includes co-hosts Stay Davidson and Matt Acton, and in 2018 they rate #1 in Brisbane. Abby previously worked at SA-FM on number of different shifts, including mor...

Tim started his career in Perth at 929, before moving to Melbourne and Sydney where he hosted the National Hot30 countdown along with music shifts on 2day-FM and Fox. Tim has been nominated for an ACRA in the best music announcer category 3 times, winning it in 2011. He's now home in Perth working on 929 whilst also managing the station's digital platforms. Tim Lee is one of Australia's best CHR a...

Todd Campbell has been one of the lead programmers in Australian radio for more than a decade. He ran NOVA Melbourne for 10 years and programmed stations for Southern Cross Austereo in Perth and Newcastle. He's now running the Hits Network in New Zealand.  Todd is inspiring, creative, enthusiastic and one of the best at working with on-air teams. We can learn a lot from his ability to connect...

Ben Fordham  is a Game Changer. A Walkley Award-winning journalist, he's been the host of 2GB Drive  in Sydney since 2011. Ben is one of only a handful of presenters who has had success on both radio and TV. He was a reporter for A Current Affair for ten years, a regular on the Today Show and now hosts Ninja Warrior on 9. Get in touch with Craig on Twitter here . Join our...

Game Changers: Radio is the study of success in broadcasting. One of the most potent comedic forces in Australian radio is Merrick and Rosso. From stand up comedy, to Triple J Drive to Nova's inaugural breakfast show. By their own admission, Merrick and Rosso are two very different people. Together, they are one of a kind.  Get in touch with Craig on Twitter here . Join our Game Changers...

Brad Blanks is an Australian entertainment/street reporter who's been working in NYC for 17 years, originally with the Scott and Todd show on WPLJ and now on Scott Shannon's big breakfast on CBS FM. Brad was also a regular on the Hamish and Andy show from 2005-2010. He's interviewed over 5,000 celebrities at red carpet events all over the world. Brad's story is one of perserverance, risk and hustl...

Dangerous Dave Williams is an icon of radio broadcasting. From music jock to anchor, his story meanders from regional radio to major shifts in capital cities to his current role as anchor of Triple M's National Drive show, Kennedy Molloy . Get in touch with our host Craig Bruce on Twitter here , and our producer Jay Mueller here . Support the show: https://www.amazon.com.au/Game-Changers-Insi...

Adrian Brine is a Game Changer. Voted Australia's #1 Content Director in a recent survey by Radio Today, Adrian is a thoughtful, smart, empathetic leader.  Don't miss our next Facebook Live Q&A, On Friday 29 June at 11:00AM. Submit your questions on Facebook . Get in touch with our host, Craig Bruce on Twitter here , and our producer Jay Mueller here . Support the show: https://www.a...

Game Changers is the study of success in broadcast. This episode features New York's Patty Steele and Wayne Cabot. In addition to their work on-air, Patty and Wayne host the News on the Rocks podcast.  While Craig interviews them for Game Changers, he appears as a guest on their show. It's a simul-pod. Enjoy.  Subscribe to our newsletter here . Say hello to Craig on Twitter . O...

Part Two of Craig Bruce's conversation with legendary New York City broadcaster Scott Shannon.  Scott talks about the philosophies and strategies that guide him as a programmer and broadcaster.  Subscribe to our newsletter here . Say hello to Craig on Twitter . Or leave a question about radio for Craig on  Facebook . Support the show: https://www.amazon.com.au/Game-Changer...

Scott Shannon is a Game Changer. He's dominated New York breakfast radio for decades, and is in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a disc jockey and as a programmer. Scott has a story to share... and it's a story you don't want to miss. This is part one. There will be more from Scott in future episodes of Game Changers: Radio.  Subscribe to our newsletter here . Say hello to Craig on Tw...

Check out Game Changes: Radio on Facebook and join Craig Bruce on Friday, May 4, 2018 at 11AM AEST for our first Game Changers: Radio Facebook Live. Send Craig a question via our Facebook page and he'll include it in Friday's event.  In the lead up to the 50th Episode we are releasing 50 of the best moments from the first 49 episodes.  Our 50th episode is available 5 May 2018. ...

Check out Game Changes: Radio on Facebook and join Craig Bruce on Friday, May 4, 2018 at 11AM AEST for our first Game Changers: Radio Facebook Live. Send Craig a question via our Facebook page and he'll include it in Friday's event.  In the lead up to the 50th Episode we are releasing 50 of the best moments from the first 49 episodes.  Our 50th episode is available 5 May 2018. ...

Our 50th episode is available 5 May 2018.  Check out Game Changes: Radio on Facebook and join Craig Bruce on Friday, May 4, 2018 at 11AM AEST for our first Game Changers: Radio Facebook Live. Send Craig a question via our Facebook page and he'll include it in Friday's event.  In the lead up to the 50th Episode we are releasing 50 of the best moments from the first 49 episodes. ...

Thank you for listening to Game Changers over our first 49 episodes. Our 50th episode is available May 5, 2018.  Check out Game Changes: Radio on Facebook and join Craig Bruce on Friday, May 4, 2018 at 11AM AEST for our first Game Changers: Radio Facebook Live.  Send Craig a question via our Facebook page and he'll include it in Friday's event.  In the lead up to the 50th Episode we...

Ryan ‘Fitzy' Fitzgerald started his radio career at MMM Adelaide as a boundary rider for MMM Football. He moved to Nova Adelaide in 2003 where he joined Tony Moclair, Julian Schiller and Jodie J Hill on Nova's breakfast show.   Fitzy then joined up with Michael ‘Wippa' Wipfli on Nova's national drive show at the start of 2011, and later that year he and Wippa moved into the breakf...

Vaughan Smith is the host of the Fletch, Vaughan & Megan breakfast show on ZM in New Zealand. Vaughan began his career in the early 2000s at the Generator in Hamilton as music director/afternoon announcer. He won a radio contest on The Edge where the prize was to co-host the show with Carl Fletcher. They have now worked together for fourteen years. Fletch and Vaughan won best network music tea...

Jo Stanley is a game changer. She is the only female presenter in Melbourne to host number 1 breakfast shows on separate FM stations. Jo began her radio career on Fox in Melbourne with Jodie J Hill in 2001. In 2004 she moved into breakfast with Matt Tilley, beginning a 10 year partnership which saw the show consistently ranked in Melbourne. Jo then moved to Gold FM in 2015, joining comedian Anthon...

Andrew Denton is a Game Changer. Andrew's career started in the 1980s as a writer on the Doug Mulray show on 2MMM, where he quickly became an key part of the show's on-air and off-air creative process. Andrew returned to 2MMM in 1997 to host his own #1 rating breakfast show with good friends Amanda Keller and Dave Gibson. The show became well known for many of it's world-first radio concepts,...

Kyle Sandilands is a game changer. You know the story, but here are the headlines. Kyle and Jackie O started on 2DayFM breakfast in 2004 when the show was ranked 9th overall (and last FM)  at a 3.5 share. In 2005 they were the #1 FM breakfast show in Sydney and ended up winning 60 surveys in a row. Fast forward to 2014, when they took their audience to KIIS, where they are a 12 shar...

Dean Buchanan is a game changer. Born in New Zealand, Dean spent the early part of his career both on and off the air in New Zealand. He then joining international research and consultancy group BP&R in Sydney Australia in the late the 1990s. After two years in the consultancy business, he became Head of Programming at DMG, where he launched the Nova Network in 2000. Nova went to #1 in Melbour...