Jono Coleman OAM died last week. Best known in the UK for the Virgin Radio breakfast show with https://twitter.com/russw777/status/1413903634329374727?s=21&utm_source=james.crid.land&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=james.crid.land:2021-07-11 (Russ Williams), he was also on GLR, Heart 106.2, LBC (no, really), BBC London 94.9 and tradies favourite FIX Radio.
While the BBC snootily relegated him to a https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-57788328?utm_source=james.crid.land&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=james.crid.land:2021-07-11 (local news story) (and called his co-presenter “Russell Williams”), Jono’s death was quite rightly big news all over Australian media, with obits on https://www.9news.com.au/national/jonathan-jono-coleman-dies-cancer-radio-television-host-mourned/fa0880c4-514c-4452-b799-caa145a118c9?utm_source=james.crid.land&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=james.crid.land:2021-07-11 (9 News), https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-10/media-personality-jonathan-coleman-dies/100283424?utm_source=james.crid.land&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=james.crid.land:2021-07-11 (ABC Australia) and many others.
Here’s https://podnews.net/podcast/i4iee/listen/episode/dGFnOmF1ZGlvYm9vbS5jb20sMjAxOS0wNC0wOTovcG9zdHMvNzIyODcyMw==?utm_source=james.crid.land&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=james.crid.land:2021-07-11 (an hour of him looking back at his life) on David Lloyd’s excellent Radio Moments, with the quote: “I’ve been a very, very lucky little fat bunny.”
Jono Coleman was a professional right to the end; the same probably can’t be said for Rex Hunt, a commercial radio sports commentator who decided to drop a commercial break so that he could interview Robert DiPierdomenico, an apparently renowned AFL footballist. Called by the boss and asked why, he https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-great-rex-hunts-onair-blow-up-ends-his-return-to-radio/news-story/c2764e2e6250140aef37290b141be2f7?utm_source=james.crid.land&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=james.crid.land:2021-07-11 (ranted for some minutes on-air), before, it seems, “taking leave of his duties at 3AW to focus on his family”.
While we’re on the subject of Australian commercial radio, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrM-PTp4yIw&t=162s&utm_source=james.crid.land&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=james.crid.land:2021-07-11 (here’s a little clip of Kyle and Jackie O), now officially the #1 breakfast show in Sydney.
The https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/reports/annualreport?utm_source=james.crid.land&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=james.crid.land:2021-07-11 (BBC’s Annual Report for 2021) came out. Usually pounced on by lazy journalists to highlight how much Gary Lineker is paid, Jake Kanter has https://twitter.com/Jake_Kanter/status/1412396156554989568?s=09&utm_source=james.crid.land&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=james.crid.land:2021-07-11 (pulled out a few other data points from it). Particuarly, 1,240 people lost their jobs at the BBC last year.
talkRADIO, a UK talkback station, https://twitter.com/talkradio/status/1413437968644067333?s=21&utm_source=james.crid.land&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=james.crid.land:2021-07-11 (is being promoted as now available on the TV) - streaming only, presumably to get round some TV-related content laws. It’s over here at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGQ472_Nluk&utm_source=james.crid.land&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=james.crid.land:2021-07-11 (YouTube) if you want to take a watch, though is also available on a number of other streaming platforms. They’ve been doing live streams for some time, but this is the first time (for a while, at least) when they’ve been available in a continuous stream. I’m surprised that LBC hasn’t beaten them to this;... Support this podcast
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