Richard Glover
Dear Santa: How about a door for my motel bathroom?
I’m a bit too big for Santa’s knee, but I hope St Nick can fulfil my wish list. After all, I’ve been good this year.
- by Richard Glover
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Scrooge’s guide to Christmas: Great ideas for the gift-giving Grinch
Who needs luxury gifts when you can give the gift of a packet of matches? After all, nothing says “I care” like a can of Fabulon and a 100-pack of teabags.
- by Richard Glover
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Media & marketing
Good chat, nothing more to say: Kim Williams meets angry ABC radio staff
The ABC chairman has met a small group of Radio Sydney staff who wrote to the board last week, incensed over recent high-profile talent changes.
- by Calum Jaspan
Radio finishes its year of big-name exits with a tale of two cities
Kyle Sandilands and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson’s foray into Melbourne has ended 2024 on a low, with their show dropping to a 5 per cent market share, while their predecessors - now on Nova - continue to dominate.
- by Calum Jaspan
Opinion
Real life
Scammers kindly take note, I could teach you a thing or two
Poor grammar, bad spelling, random punctuation and unrealistic, un-Australian terminology: all of this can be fixed, for a price.
- by Richard Glover
Richard Glover questions ‘baffling’ ABC changes, drops the mic for final time
The Herald columnist’s last show as host of ABC Sydney’s Drive followed the axing of fellow presenters Simon Marnie and Sarah Macdonald.
- by Penry Buckley
Opinion
Radio
Sarah Mac is pure ABC. Why don’t the bosses who dumped her listen to their listeners?
The ABC switchboard melted down. I was among the outraged listeners.
- by Jenna Price
‘The end of the dinosaur era’: What next for Sydney’s talkback stations as titans bow out
The departure of some big names this year adds to the challenges facing AM radio.
- by Jordan Baker
Opinion
Spectrum
They’d make a flogging: The case to re-open Old Sydney Town
It was 1976 when the theme park based on Australian colonial history came to life.
- by Richard Glover
Richard Glover to stand down after ‘hogging’ ABC Sydney Drive for 26 years
Sydney radio will sound different in 2025 without the Drive presenter, who praised his colleagues and his listeners.
- by Calum Jaspan
Opinion
Spectrum
Accor? Do you mean the Olympic Stadium at Homebush?
Maintaining an old name, when we’ve been instructed to use a new one, is a form of resistance.
- by Richard Glover
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