You may remember the post I made about Tony Martin's Get This show on Triple M getting the chop (you very well should, given that it was, what, yesterday??).Anyway, when they announced it on-air, my immediate response was to go to their website to see if there were any details about it. Unfortunately there wasn't, but there was a form by which you could email the team ... which I promptly did.
Cut to today, with me merrily going about my business as I listened to Get This on my headphones ... when they start reading out my email!!! Out of the (reportedly) hundreds of emails they've received, Tony read mine out on air, with that whimsical lilt he has whenever he recites listener feedback.
I was, of course, extremely thrilled. To be honest, I felt I'd had a pretty good shot at getting it on-air, as my email not only made reference to the show's pet subject of up-skirting, but it also referred to co-host Ed Kavalee as "a giant", "a parade float" and an "engorged man-brute". Little did I know that Ed's giant-like proportions would be a running joke throughout the rest of the episode! Fingers crossed that it gets referenced in future installments ... and fingers double-crossed that my email makes it into the Podcast! (Which, if it does, you can be sure I'll add a link to, and will hold prized position on both my hard drive AND my iRiver!).
In Get This-related news, it seems I'm not the only one upset with the show's cancellation. The following is from celebrity snark blog defamer.com.au;
A surprising development in the world of radio today, with news Austereo has decided to give Tony Martin's Triple M program the boot.
Tony Martin's nationally networked radio show has been axed, despite being one of the top rating programs on struggling station Triple M.
The comedian's Get This program has been a successful annoyance for the Austereo network, which shifted its timeslot three times in just over 18 months.
In a pattern repeated across the country, figures jumped from about 5 per cent audience share to about 11 per cent during the two-hour program, when it aired from 11am. They fell back to near 6 per cent when the station returned to music.
Given, as it says above, that the show is a ratings winner, it does seem an odd decision.
Ratings are not everything, of course, but the program is also highly respected by those in "the industry", with more than a few radio stars and producers declaring to Defamer Australia over the past few months that it is one of the best quality radio shows on air in the country. The general opinion amongst Martin's radio peers this morning regarding Austereo's axing of Get This seems to be a mix of "What the fuck?" and "IDIOTS!".
The Herald Sun's Confidential column reported this morning -
It's believed that the signing of comedian Peter Helliar and Triple J's Myf Warhurst as part of a national breakfast restructure has seen costs rocket, which has led to the station letting Martin go. Some sources said Helliar's yearly salary could be as high as $1 million.
They really are taking quite the punt on the Helliar/Warhurst combination, aren't they? We suppose time will tell if this is as daft a move as it seems. What do we know? Kyle and Jackie O just won Best On-Air Team at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards, and listening to them makes us want to stab our eyes out with broken pieces of Tamara Jaber's Ooh Ahh CD single case, so we obviously don't have our finger on the pulse of what makes good radio.
All of this was interesting to me for 3 reasons -
1) Myf Warhurst is jumping over to Triple M? Triple M??? To do a show with Peter Helliar?? Have I gone mad? Myf's been on Triple J for at least a decade now, so I can understand her wanting to stretch her wings a bit, but Triple M??? They must be paying her an awful lot to put up with that shitty station list they have.
2) I'm pretty much the only one I know who actually listens to Get This, so to see such a shining write-up about it was very validating. That's how sad I am.
3) Kyle Sandilands and Jackie-O won an award for that piece of crap show of theirs? I've listened to that thing ... all it consists of is hysterically-annoying Jackie-O listing all the ways that monolithically-annoying Kyle is horribly abusive to all their staff, and his nasally assertions that he doesn't care if he is. I really have gone mad if that's worth some kind of award!
With my ranting over, I'll retreat back to my box, and will no doubt pop back up again should it turn out my Get This missive has been archived for any and all to listen to. Watch for the link!
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