Few people reach a 60 year milestone in radio. That sort of celebration is reserved for monarchs blessed with longevity and few alternative career prospects.
Gary O'Callaghan's funeral has been confirmed for 1pm this Monday at St Agnes, Port Macquarie.
The former Sydney radio icon passed away last week aged 83.
He started his career at 2SM and joined 2UE in 1956 where he stayed until his retirement in 2003, apart from a short stint at 2KY during Kerry Packer's brief ownership of 2UE.
O'Callaghan moved back to the mid north coast of NSW and continued to work at 2MC.
Did You Know... There was a 37.2% crossover of advertisers between SmoothFM and 2GB on air between 1 - 31 January 2017. That is, 37.2% of the advertisers heard on Smooth in January were also on 2GB in the same period.
Of the stations compared, the lowest crossover was between 2UE and WSFM with 21.2% - meaning the two stations have more spots from advertisers that are not airing on the other.
With 199 survey wins in 30 years of broadcasting under his belt, Alan Jones tells Chris Smith who helped him along the way and who didn’t.
Alan Jones credits radio star-maker John Brennan with discovering him but not everyone at 2UE shared Brennan’s faith. At first, station management agreed to put him on Mornings with a big name female co-host but Brenno insisted he do it alone or not at all.
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