SWITCH OFF THE NOISE

THERE IS A RADIO station in my head that I sometimes can’t shut off.

I started my broadcasting career in radio, doing the overnight shift at an FM Station in Brisbane. For five years in the mid-’90s I turned on the microphone between Bryan Adams and Savage Garden songs to encourage people to keep listening after the 3:20am ad break because there was more Bryan Adams and Savage Garden on the way.

Whenever I spoke, I would need to say the positioning statement before I said anything else. It’s the thing the radio station does, and every radio station says it to define what they do almost every time they speak. “AM 788: More Talk, Less Sport…”; “99.6: Music your Mum loves…”; or “FM