Warning to young announcers: Don’t try this at your home station. Last Thursday K-ROCK Geelong’s breakfast host Paul ‘Chicken’ Dyer failed to turn up to work because the new PD Leigh Kuhlmann insisted he attend daily planning meetings after each shift for the next day’s show.

According to Dyer, “I’m spontaneous, I’m a shock jock, they cannot program me the day before, I’m un-programmable. It’s the pre-planning I’m against, there’s no way I’m going to cope with that, they’re going to lose my personality.”

It sounds like a great story for the local paper, The Geelong Advertiser – especially if both they and K-ROCK wanted to publicise the fact that Dyer had joined the paper as an AFL columnist.

At most stations Dyer would be shown the door for such insubordination, but at K-ROCK after a souvlaki lunch with management at a local restaurant, he’ll be back on air on Tuesday with planning meetings reportedly down to twice a week.