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RADIO GUIDE On The Air HEATHER CHAPMAN UDD RfOSKMQIlDSIITffS we believe that Mike's program is best suited in its current format" Today, 2GB is bringing in former Channel 9 newsreader Gina Boon to team with Brian Carlton while Gibson takes a week off. Jones's echo ALAN Jones was ill with flu at his country house when his city home was burgled eight days ago. We're told only a television set was taken and that security has been tightened. Still ill, Jones was off the 2UE breakfast show all last week. As a listener told John Laws, this shocker virus is known as "the echo flu because it keeps coming Degeneration THOSE highly successful drive program presenters, Tony Martin and Mick Molloy, were suddenly dropped by Hobart station TTTFM last Wednesday: Their program, heard in Sydney on 2Day FM, is networked around Australia by Austereo.

Brad March, Austereo's group general manager programming, says TTTFM (not an Austereo station) had decided the program was not working and planned to drop it in two weeks' time. "When Tony and Mick got word of this they had a few things to say on the air which resulted in their instant departure," says March. "Hobart's a very conservative place and we can only respect the station's wishes." Birthday bash ABC Radio's prestigious current affairs program, AM, will celebrate 30 years of broadcasting next Thursday and to mark the occasion Peter Cave will present a special edition of AM examining the future of broadcast journalism in Australia. The anniversary program, to be broadcast as usual at 8am, will feature a panel of high-profile guests including the ABC managing director, Brian Johns, and one of the program's originals, Ray Martin. between the studios in Sussex Street 2CH and 2GB and Seven Hills, where information flows freely, continually updating both facilities.

Program pieces generated by 2GB personalities are constantly being inserted in not only the Macquarie Network News but other ARN services. Reporters such as Jason Morrison utilise Macquarie's headquarters as a base. The two key bureaus in Canberra and the State Parliament, again joint ventures, have major input from Macquarie, with Mark Spurway, the group's program director, being involved on a constant basis." Buschman says finance reports generated through Macquarie are "utilised across various ARN news services" and all sports bulletins emanate from Macquarie itself. "Macquarie retains constant input on the choice of journalists and newsreaders and this joint venture has seen Macquarie News now again being broadcast to many major centres," he says. -Although Buschman didn't say so, we understand the On The Air report last week that 2GB was researching the idea of someone to team with Mike Gibson on mornings caused a certain amount of angst.

The report said 2GB may decide on a woman to join Gibson and soften the program's macho style. Buschman says 2GB has a long-term commitment to Gibson. "Naturally we are constantly looking for ways to enhance not only his program but the performance of the entire group," he says. "At this point Snapshot, a quick rundown on community and cultural happenings in Sydney and NSW. Glover's no stranger to guesting on television programs but says he was so nervous preparing for his appearances as a presenter for the next fortnight that "The ABC's had to cancel most of the drama productions because I used up their film stock.

The whole thing is totally terrifying." Glover will be followed by other radio presenters after his two-week stint Prime series THE first of five Australian prime minister lectures will be broadcast on Radio National on Thursday at 9.30am (repeated at 9pm). John Howard's lecture, which will have been on ABC TV the previous evening, will launch the series as part of the Old Parliament House 70th anniversary celebrations. The series will also feature former prime ministers Malcolm Fraser, Sir John Gorton, Gough WhrtJam and Bob Hawke. AM is broadcast on 58 ABC local radio stations across 260 transmitters. Novel retrospective ABC Classic FM's Soundstage tomorrow night begins a series of retrospectives on the radio works of David Foster, winner of this year's Miles Franklin Award for his novel, The Glade Within the Grove.

The series deals with Foster's long commitment to radio more than 20 years with a selection of his best works. Tomorrow's production is Water on the Brain, and others are As It Was An Antipodean Pilgrimage (September 9), Knights Move (September 16), and Hugo's Turkish Travel Pack (September 23). Glover's TV nerves FANS of Richard Glover's 2BL morning program will be able to see him make his debut as a television presenter on ABC TV tonight when he appears at 6.59 in EORGE Buschman, chief 1 1 II executive of the Macquarie I I Network, has vigorously 1 Ij I defended the Macquarie ViNews following comments in this column last week by 2UE's news director, Julie Frynn, criticising 2GB for closing its long-established newsroom to take a service from the Australian Radio Network. Buschman told The Guide: "The Macquarie Network retains ownership of the Macquarie Radio News brand. It has not been given to ARN or 2WS, and we are not taking the 2WS news we have a partnership with ARN to enhance the quality of news.

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