Jamie Dunn to leave B105
Tejas
B105 breakfast host Jamie Dunn will end an amazing 16 years on air with
B105 this December, he announced this morning.
“I’ve loved my time with B105 – it’s been a incredible time and I’m sad
to leave,” Jamie said.
“But I’ve been offered a lifetime contract with Noosa 96.1FM on the
Sunshine Coast, where I live, and I’ve got to think about spending more
time with my family.”
Austereo Brisbane general manager Richard Barker said: “This is the end
of an era - Jamie is the longest-serving breakfast host in Australia
and he has been responsible for some fantastic successes over the years.
“He spent almost 15 years at number one – from his very first shifts in
1990 to December last year.
“He’s also been responsible for helping raise more than $10 million for
great community causes, including being a significant force behind the
B105 Christmas Appeal for the Royal Children’s Hospital.”
The Morning Crew will continue broadcasting until December, with the
final months dedicated to celebrating some of Jamie’s greatest moments
of the past decade and a half.
Mr Barker said a new breakfast team will be announced soon, with
co-host Penny Cooper also leaving the station.
“We’ve decided we need a fresh approach for B105,” he said.
“It was a mutual decision with Jamie, who has a great opportunity on
the Sunshine Coast.
“I’d also like to thank Penny, who has been an integral part of the
Morning Crew for the past three years. It was a tough decision to end
the Morning Crew, but an honest one.
“We’re looking forward to the next three months, which will be a
celebration of the show for the past 15 years. True to the form of this
show, it will go out helping others through the B105 Christmas Appeal
for the Royal Children’s Hospital.”
thetruthwillsetyoufree
Before Marcus celebrates the moment in Australian radio he's been
looking forward to for years, I wanted to get in first.
Firstly, I agree that with the changing landscape in Brisbane, the
writing was on the wall for Jamie after so long at the top.
However, we should acknowledge that the B105 Morning crew is one of the
best winning runs in Australian FM radio history, if not 'the' biggest
winning run. He was the key to that for 15 odd years.
Enjoy your 'semi-retirement' on the Sunny Coast Jamie.
You will be a hard act to follow for the next lot, whoever they may be
:)
TTWSYF
Tejas wrote:
> Just announced by Austereo:
>
>
> B105 breakfast host Jamie Dunn will end an amazing 16 years on air with
> B105 this December, he announced this morning.
>
> "I've loved my time with B105 - it's been a incredible time and I'm sad
> to leave," Jamie said.
>
> "But I've been offered a lifetime contract with Noosa 96.1FM on the
> Sunshine Coast, where I live, and I've got to think about spending more
> time with my family."
>
> Austereo Brisbane general manager Richard Barker said: "This is the end
> of an era - Jamie is the longest-serving breakfast host in Australia
> and he has been responsible for some fantastic successes over the years.
>
> "He spent almost 15 years at number one - from his very first shifts in
andyk...@hotmail.com
Agro on the radio - u can't be serious ?
Rock in Stereo
Are we surprised? "On The Wireless" on Jul 22, referred to a Brisbane
Courier-Mail gossip page. He wrote:
If you're referring to the tripe that was in Di Butlers Q-Confidential
today... it's hardly major news. So what... Jamie Dunn was spotted at
HOT-91 on the Sunshine Coast?
Hot 91.1 and 96.1 The Heat are owned by the same company. It all makes
sense now. God help Gympie and Noosa listeners from 2006... although
Dunn has his occasional moments...
Regards
Leigh
P-FOD
Jamie Dunn has done sh*tloads and you can't deny this fact. He was and
still remains one of the best on air talents in the country even if the
survey result wasn't great.
What was your last ratings result Rock In Stereo and for what market?
PFOD.
On The Wireless
Noosa's & the northern tip of the Sunny Coast are in for some great radio
I'd say!
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Rock in Stereo
Sure he was a ratings winner, but he had a reputation for being an
extremely offensive individual, (ALLEGEDLY) both on air and off air.
But there is too much evidence to dismiss it. The reality is that this
is what pissed off many listeners, and his former co-host, and frankly,
is why he was forced to leave. He virtually said to Ten News that he
wasn't pushed, but it was clear the show was going nowhere. His ratings
success is indisputable, but it was WITH Ian Skippen.
While we are talking ratings success... Gibson & Duckworth had no
ratings success on 4MMM, but for many listeners, their talents were
vastly superior to The Morning Crew.
I'm not bashing Dunn, and fuck, that would be kicking a man when he is
down anyway. Not my style. I wish Dunn all the best, and I look forward
to hearing him in breakfast at the Heat in January. He and Skippen have
indeed created history and that in itself is an admirable achievement.
Cheers
Leigh
im_liste...@hotmail.com
Jamie Dunn has my respect for what he did and continued to do for over
a decade in Brisbane.
Brilliant for Noosa to get him, the guys there must be singing the
praises of the new owners. Thank god Coralis doesn't still own them,
as I doubt that this would ever have happened if he did.
Go Jamie! Go Noosa ... Go ... er .... WOTEVA :)
DontTouchThatDial
> Just announced by Austereo:
>
>
> B105 breakfast host Jamie Dunn will end an amazing 16 years on air with
> B105 this December, he announced this morning.
A great innings for the big fella. I wonder if he'll play his '70s hit
"Jamie Come Home" on his last shift...just to piss everyone off.
I'm not especially a fan - I've only heard his act a few times - but
anyone with this kind of track record in radio can't be let go without
due recognition. It's a big achievement.
Jamie joins an impressive list of other long-time servers in Brissie
breakfast radio. All great blokes - strong performers. Johnny James
(4BC, '50s-'70s), Skippen (KQ, 105, MMM, '70s - now) Poo (4BK, 4BC
'70s-'90s) and Mothershaw (4BK, KQ and BH '70s-Now).
Regards
MAC
www.waynemac.com
Ian
hit the Sydney airwaves.
Well Dunn !
Ian
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Mobbs
mobbs
Matt2 - Amstereo
> has he really signed a TEN year deal ?????
>
>
> mobbs
>
>
Andrew Bayley
> Austereo Brisbane general manager Richard Barker said: "This is the end
> of an era - Jamie is the longest-serving breakfast host in Australia and
> he has been responsible for some fantastic successes over the years.
15 years. longest serving breakfast host? Didn't a Tasmanian brekkie host
recently retire from the shift after 23 years? Also go back many years, and
this is before my time, but i think John Eden at 3DB also had a marathon
stint at breakfast something like 16 or 17 years, ending in 1975. There was
also Peter Evans at 3LO in Melbourne, i know he was doing breakfast for many
many years but i'm not sure how many. And this may not qualify, but Grubby
and Dee Dee on Gold 104.3 have clocked up many years as breakfast shifters,
first at FOX and then at Gold.
Jabber
Jabber.
kevcat
Tejas wrote:
>
> Just announced by Austereo:
>
> B105 breakfast host Jamie Dunn will end an amazing 16 years on air with
> B105 this December, he announced this morning.
It's about time
I listened to him from the days of 4BK and then B105
but after 3 years he just got on my nerves
Ian Skippen I've always liked, from his days at 4KQ when it was a
country station
(He once MC'd at a festival at Caboolture in the late 70s, a very young
skinny 12 year old Kid called Keith also played that day, couple of Slim
Dusty songs if I remember correctly)
But the Jaimie Dunn thing went to shit when he had Agro on MMM
and it just got plain boring because it was basically the same thing
every day
Kev
Edward Thirkill
>
Ian
Ian
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Radio Chick
Yes, he's talented - he does an excellent job in reciting the lines his
producer and writer create for him. An arrogant, supercilious, pr...
(ahem). He's also an excellent trader of horse-flesh (his own).
Doesn't anyone remember the debacle when he left B105 for Triple M - FM
104 for a nano-second?
Hogged the boardroom for a few days, (mind you, there was an idiot GM
at Triple M at that stage - thanks Larry...), found out all the
forthcoming programming plans, turned the place upside down - and
then... Well, wot-do-ya-know? Didn't even make it for a full shift
before he decamped back to B105 for a hefty pay increase. (So much for
honour amongst thieves...)
After seeing the changing tides at B105, he's also been clever enough
to wangle an outrageously lucrative contract up the Sunshine Coast -
nice and close to the awful little family shack he's living in (no
tedious commutes to the 'big smoke'), and then jumped before he was
pushed.
Even managed to stick around until December so he can go in a blaze of
glory, rather than being frog-marched to the elevator immediately -
which is what happened to the person he ALMOST replaced on Triple M.
Exactly why are we sad to see this radio dinosaur go??? I would rather
mourn the loss of Penny Cooper (boy, did SHE get caught in the middle
of a maelstrom), plus the myriad of un-sung, behind the scenes creative
talents who have propped him up over the years. They are the poor sods
that will never even come close to tethering, plucking, choking,
skinning and boiling the Golden Austereo Goose that Jamie has so
artfully done for over a decade and a half.
BearCave
> > B105 breakfast host Jamie Dunn will end an amazing 16 years on air with
> > B105 this December, he announced this morning.
DontTouchThatDial wrote:
>
> I'm not especially a fan - I've only heard his act a few times - but
> anyone with this kind of track record in radio can't be let go without
> due recognition. It's a big achievement.
I've heard them (Jamie and Penny) a few times. In the times since last
year (3 times) that I've got up to the Gold Coast, I've found both the
B105 and Hot Tomato breakfast shows to have been the two I've most
settled for (depending on whether I was heading to Brisbane in the
morning determined which of the two I would listen to).
One segment that was especially funny was one morning where the B105
crew phoned various businesses to find out how far they could stretch
their weekly $6 tax cuts from this year's federal government budget :)
I think before judging too B105 too harshly for its ratings freefall,
you need to consider that:
1. Everything in life is relative - Premier Peter Beattie has had an
even sharper freefall in popularity in his most recent poll :)
2. B105 are now rating about the same level as they were before their
former identity 4BK crossed to FM. When 4BK became B105, ratings nearly
tripled in the course of a few months.
Now, the reverse has happened, with ratings cut by half in the course
of a similar amount of time.
On both occasions, these significant tipping points in the ratings were
caused by new entrants into the market. When B105 was on the sharp
rise, it was the new entrant. This time, the new entrants were a
reformatted Triple M and Nova.
Keep in mind that had Triple M Adelaide been relaunched with the
Brisbane 'Totally Different' format from the start, instead of playing
Nova-clone and allowing Mix 102.3 to steal away a big chunk of the
adult market, SA-FM may have also suffered a ratings squeeze in between
Triple M and Nova that B105 has.
> Jamie joins an impressive list of other long-time servers in Brissie
> breakfast radio. All great blokes - strong performers. Johnny James
> (4BC, '50s-'70s), Skippen (KQ, 105, MMM, '70s - now) Poo (4BK, 4BC
> '70s-'90s) and Mothershaw (4BK, KQ and BH '70s-Now).
I recall the 'Poo on 4BC' car stickers. I still remember spotting one
on a parked car at a place my family stayed in near Surfers back in
1985.
pppmo...@hotmail.com
Jaime Dunn & co, 14 years at number one but only with the momentum of a
new FM licence in 1990. They never made an indent when they were on the
AM band, and for more than a decade we only had two FM stations. What's
this line from Dunn "I have never liked Triple M" (Courier Mail
22/9/05)? Not everyone has forgotten the time when Triple M poached
Dunn and had him on air for a day before a legal battle had him back at
B105. Those radio battle days before duopolys were much better, caus'
you could suck more money out of indivudual operators then. If Jaime
thinks B105 is getting no support by the company in favour of Triple M,
then he now knows what Triple M staff have dealt with the last few
years, or go ask someone at 4BH how it feels to get nothing so sister
station 4BC can continue its losing 13 year battle to find a
significant talkback audience. That'll do me...I'm Dunn.
Pete M
Keith or Phil at Aussieseek dot com
Radio star quits while he's behind, for Noosa
Lucy Hine
September 22, 2005
IT is unclear why, but Jamie Dunn, Australia's longest-serving
breakfast host and the man who brought the puppet Agro to life, has
quit Brisbane radio for the airwaves of Noosa.
In one of the industry's worst-kept secrets, Dunn yesterday announced
his gruff humour would no longer be heard on B105 from December.
The departure comes after Dunn has spent almost 15 years at No1 on the
city's airwaves. But for the past year, Dunn's ratings have been on the
slide and yesterday he said it was time to move his show to Noosa to be
closer to his five children.
In recent surveys, Dunn, who became a national figure with the acerbic
Agro, had slipped to third place in the breakfast slot.
His departure from B105 follows that of his popular co-host Ian
Skippen, who jumped to rival Triple M in January.
And it proves again that longevity and experience mean nothing in
radio, when advertising revenue starts to fall. "I've taken a lot of
their money for a long time to pull ratings and at the moment I'm not
pulling them," Dunn said.
Dunn and B105 management insist the split was amicable.
"It shouldn't come as any great surprise that this era has come to an
end," manager Richard Barker said.
"Jamie's got an opportunity to combine one of his passions, which is
radio, with a lifestyle with his family."
Dunn said the move to Noosa 96.1FM would mean he could be closer to his
wife and children.
"I tried to get them (B105) to throw more money at me but the business
has changed and there wasn't any more money," he said. "I took the
better deal."
While management searches for new talent with "backward caps" as Dunn
put it, his co-host, Penny Cooper, will be left without a job at all.
"It gives us an opportunity now to look at a fresh start in 2006 and
that's what we'll do," Mr Barker said.
The Australian