To come: Saturday I interview Leo who broadcasts the footy and soccer on SFM.

 I rang Jim Write, president, to see if i can get an interview with him tommorow.

Aim:                      To learn and explain the history of 88.3 Southern FM

How and why it started, what direction are they heading for the future?Duration:                10 minutes Information:           88.3 Southern FM website, www.southernfm.org.au Content:                Interview, music, voice-overs, adds for Southern FM, intro for shows. Key Questions:          How did the station start?                              Why did the station start?                              What is the purpose of this station?                              What is the aim of the station?                              Where is the station heading in the future?Interview Sources:          Andrew Rutherford (morning announcer)                             The president                              Reg Pitt (morning announcer)                             Leo (Sports presenter)                              Someone who broadcasted the soccer                   

The Script

Intro: Southern FM pug and an announcer introducing his show.

Jack: For the past ?? years this is the sound you have been listening to when your radio dial  is tuned to 88.3 FM.

Add for SFM: This is the Southern Sounds of Melbourne 88.3 Southern FM!

The President: “88.3 Southern FM has been (Jack with voice over)

Jack: (The President) has been working at Southern FM for ?? years and has seen the highs and lows.

The President: Tell us the about the beginning of Southern FM, how did it come about?

                          Why did we need Southern FM?

  The station first came about because ????? 

Reg Pitt is one of Southern FM’s finest. He has been apart of SFM for ?? years and has been on the board for ?? years plus produced and presented more than two thousand shows.

He presents the Country Music hour(s) between 9-11/12 on Wednesday mornings.

Reg Pitt: How many shows have you done?

                What has been the highlight?

                 Has there been any lows? If so, what?

Southern FM now broadcasts out of Balcome Road, Mentone but ? years ago their home was the Moorabbin Town Centre.

President: Why did you move from Moorabbin?

                  Was it a difficult process?

                  What was the hardest part about it?

                  Did you lose many presenters/members?

Through these tough times, SFM has always been there for anyone.

Each winter they broadcast the Southern Football League and have been for ?? years.

Leo: What’s the best thing about broadcasting footy?

         What are the grounds the love & hate broadcasting at?

         What are some of the awards you have won by doing this?

Southern FM also broadcasted the first Melbourne Victory, A-League soccer season and did so with flying colours.

(Someone who broadcast the soccer): What was it like?

                                                              How did you go about it?

 Was it tough to get permission off the A-League/SFM?                                           

SFM has also had many presenters that have gone on to become bigger and better.

They include:

(Voices of people that have been on SFM that are now on different stations) 

Southern FM continues to grow with leaps and bounds.

The future looks bright for SFM,

President: What has the station got planned for the future?

                  What are your aims from here on?

 Outro: Lets hope we here more of this fine station for years and years to come, 88.3 Southern FM, the Southern Sounds Of Melbourne! You’ve been listing to 88.3 Southern FM.

 Yes going to the footy on your own doesn’t sound exciting but being a positive person I look at the good side of life and thought here is a chance to sit without careing about anyone and listen to my favourite radio station, SEN, while they call the footy.

The only other time I have listened to SEN, or anyone for that matter, call a game was way back in round 1 Melbourne Vs St.Kilda, which was the first game of the year. Ironically the 2nd game I listened to was the last game of the home and away season, Melbourne Vs Carlton.

Since round 1 SEN have improved dramattically. It was very, very funny and I was caught laughing out aloud at some stages. The call team was Huddo, Matt Grandland, Dermie and Billy Brownless was on the boundry line.

 The game was buildt up as the Kruzer Cup as who ever lost got more draft picks in the November National Draft. So throughout the match the callers were making fun of situations where the teams could of tanked. Carlton captain, Lance Whitnal, could of given the Blue baggers a 2 goal lead in the first 3 minutes but missed on both occasions.  If you were playing for your spot in the side, which he was, he should have kicked both goals or should have been dragged for such a poor effort, but being the game that it was no one cared if he missed!

It was light entertainment and the callers match the enthusiasium of the game which wasn’t high.

 Now bring on the finals!      

 I love SEN but went you hear two of your favourite songs back-to-back on another station I beliveve you can adjust.

 It was great and more important ‘refreshing.’

Gold 104.3 stick to their slogan which I like: Classic Hit’s All Day Long!

They have this competition going were you have to make a choice on what would you do in a certin situation and it always makes me stop what I am doing and listen in to see what I would do. I first heard about it when I was getting a hair cut and who else but Leon was making the choice.  I was amazing, Leon won!     

 As surprising as it sounds I worked/volenteed my services at Gold last year. It was great because I was helping ‘The Coach’ with his morining sport news and learnt heaps.

 So when I am surfing for stations on the FM side of the radio I will always tune into Gold 104.3 but most of the time the radio is stuck on SEN 1116!!!!

Doran has nicknamed the first 2 hours ‘Casual Friday’ with Daniel Harford and Ripa Rita.

I say refreshing because they don’t always rely on callers like other shows on SEN. Sure they do have callers but it’s usually a humorous question and people have to give silly answers. A prime example would be one day a singer wrote a song about Mark Viduka (Australian Soccer Captain) and a bloke rang in and said “why doesn’t the singer write a song about me, I haven’t scored a goal for Australia either.”
I found that hilarious.

Casual Fridays are good because it is almost nice to hear a women talk about sport. Rita has got great knowledge of sport and speaks with sense and is unbiased.

When you listen you almost feel that you have a day off because it sounds so relaxed. I bet its one of the most hard working show on 1116 because it sounds that way and they all know when to talk.

From 2-3pm its the All Sports Update with Matthew Thompson. This is an hour where Thompson talks about all the big stories of the day in detail. After about half and hour of that they ask for callers about their views on the news.

Then 3-4 is the ultimate sports guide thanks to Michael Eskanda dot com. Mark previews what will happen in sport for the weekend with all the odds thanks to www.michaeleskanda.com.

It would be difficult to find different topic each day for 5 day a week and talk for 4 hours each day. Also by 12pm all the main topics in sport have been covered by Morning Glory (6-9am) and Hungry for Sport (9am-12 noon).

Doran does a great show for 20 hours per week.

Had a good introduction but the editing needed a bit of work.

Reid – Chit Chat

was that your review?

You only had 2 people for your Vox Pop maybe you needed more.

Your dissussion was too long and had a very boring interview.

Laura – Harry Potter Half Hour

The intro was great.

Good review with background music fitted in well.

Maybe to much editing.

I stuffed it up with my story, I told it badly.

Jake – Hip Hop Fresh Beats from the Box

couldn’t really hear the intro.

Review was good but was it yours?

Intro to one of your songs was great.

The sound was low as and your vox pop needed editing.

When you were talking on the phone there were some inconsistencies.

Dane – D.Roy and Sherg Show

Intro = Great

Was it a discussion or review?

Music was loud as.

Interview was a bit jumpy and ouldn’t hear it cos the music was too loud.

Jessy – Comedy Corner

Intro was fantastic as so was the movie review. Only problem was that when you were talking about class mates the audience wouldn’t know who they were.

But Clearly the best

Matt – Non Stop Sport

Intro was great but you were far too fast. I liked the background songs for the discussion topic.

Crystal – ????????? (What was it called?)

You were a bit whiny and didn’t have a show name. Perhaps needed editing a tiny bit and didn’t get what your review was about.

It appears that Red doesn’t know a lot about the AFL but I would believe he would know heaps if wasn’t in charterer. It is good that he stays in charterer because that will wreck the humor of the show.

All three talk about what has been happening in the AFL in the past week. Red makes some quite humours comments about whats happened and there is always a mention of Tuesday’s with Terry (Richmond coach Terry Wallace always has a press conference on Tuesday’s and the media have dubbed it Tuesday’s with Terry) if they talk about Richmond.

Both Andrew and Krackers offer some great comments and questions on who they think will win.

Racing is also covered as Andrew and Krackers put there tips in and tell you how they went the following Friday morning.

At quarter to eight Red wraps it up with a sign off call and its off to the news desk and for the next 15 minutes .

 As i wrote, this is up there with some of the funniest things on radio and its quite simple. 3 blokes, 1 nutter (Red), 1 CEO of a Sport (Demetriou) and 1 that has played at the highest level and won a premiership (Krackers).    

Just prior to this weekend game of footy the latest ratting came in and SEN were up all day. They were the biggest improver out of all the stations that were calling footy this year. SEN were up 0.5, 3AW up 0.4, Triple M up 0.2 and 774 even. This must of been a real confidence builder before the weekend.

To the footy, SEN had recruited former St.Kilda coach Grant Thomas for special comments and Tiffany Cheery as boundry rider. In the calling seat was Anthony Hudson and Matt Grandlin and Dermot Burton as the other special comment role.

 Hudo is a very very good footy commentator. He is accurate, confident, knows his stuff, exciting and never makes a mistake. He was on the ball on Friday night with his famous one liners.

 Matt Grandlin has just recently joined SEN’s team. I am not too sure where he has come from but like Hudo is great to listen to. 

 The spacial comments team in Dermie and Grant Thomas was great. I was a little concerned that Grant was going to be bias towards St.Kilda but to my surprise he wasn’t. He said a couple of things that just made you think why did St.Kilda sack him?

Dermie was his usual self, captain obvious. It is a difficult job, special comments but some can do it and some carn’t. I am not sure were Dermie sits. He didn’t say anything that helped the commentary team. That was disappointing but we have got to remember that he did play in 5 day and 5 night premierships. So he has been to the top an awful lot.

Tiffany Cherry is the best boundry rider in the media. That’s not because of her very good looks its just that she is entertaining and precise as she was on Friday. 

The calling, was exciting and fun to listen to.  

 At half time SEN introduced the ‘half time soap box.’ This were callers talk about the game and get everything off their chest. This is a great innovation for the call.

 In the finish it was a credit to the station and a job well done. After 4 years as Melbourne’s sport/AFL station they finally called footy!     

Vs

3AW 693 – Gerard Healy interviewing Nick Stevens (Carlton FC)

Doran was with Melbourne Storm rugby league champion Billy Slater and they were talking about the Storms round 1 victory over the West Tigers on Friday night. Slater provided good answers and gave a good insight into the game. This interview was in-studio and lasted 30 minutes though 10 minutes were adds.

Gerard was talking to two time Michael Tuck medalist Nick Stevens about Carlton’s big pre-season premiership win against Brisbane on Saturday night. The interview was over the phone and lasted about 10 minutes. The interview wasn’t all about Carlton though as Carolin Wilson, from The Age newspaper, was also there and wanted to know Nicks thoughts on former West Coast Eagle captain Ben Cousins being suspended indefinitely by the club for breaking team rules.

Personally I like the Slater one better as he gave better answers and you learned more about the game he plays. Also it was in a more relaxed time slot which was in the afternoon. The 3AW was alsogood but it was over the phone and they didn’t have a good line but none the less interesting. Stevens didn’t really say much about the Cousins issue maybe because he didn’t want to get into trouble for saying the wrong thing.