Vale Wayne Browne

11 February 2026 The radio industry is today paying tribute to Wayne Browne – a man remembered as the doyen of Australian talk radio producers – who has died following a short hospital stay. Browne was just fifteen years old when he began his radio journey as a panel operator for the great Don Lunn at 7LA in… Read More

Radio legend Muriel Cooper launches new book on how to cope when the s**t hits the fan

2 April 2025 Muriel Cooper’s radio career as a top rating talk show host on Melbourne’s 3AW and the ABC spanned two decades before she left the media world to study behavioural science and become a psychologist.Now, she practises on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula and is also a successful writer and author.Tonight sees launch of her latest book, Up… Read More

How Muriel blazed a trail for women in radio

15 November 2023 For almost as long as commercial radio has been operating in Australia, women have been working in it.Now, as the industry prepares to celebrate 100 years, today we speak to one of the trailblazers – Muriel Cooper, the first woman to become No. 1 on a prime-time radio talk show.Muriel never set out to be… Read More