LECTURERS

The School's lecturers are highly experienced professionals with diverse experience in commercial radio and the radio industry in general. Each lecturer specialises in one or more areas of the course and presents his lesson in person.

In addition to the lecturers, the School invites industry representatives to speak briefly to the students. One regular and entertaining speaker is Michael Gordon-Smith a member of the Australian Broadcasting Authority.

Following is a brief profile of each lecturer :-

LECTURER PROFILES

He has been on air in Sydney for 21 years, including 11 years on high rating commercial stations (2WS, 2MMM-FM, and 2Day-FM) and the last 10 years on Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s respected radio outlet 2BL.

He is a frequent public speaker, presenter and an Australia Day Ambassador as well as a lecturer at the Australian Film & Television and Radio School and Charles Sturt University.

Bob spent 10 years writing a weekly page for The Sunday Telegraph, Australia's largest selling newspaper.

For 20 years he has been a professional voice over artist represented by Sydney's leading agency, RMK.

As a presentation trainer for ABC Radio over 7 years he worked extensively with on air and management personnel to improve their communication skills.

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Ian MacRae
began as an office boy at a Melbourne radio station and worked his way down from there! He became a panel operator and then moved to first on air job in a country regional station.

Sold his car to pay for ticket and went to the U.K. where he worked for two years on the off-shore "pirate" stations.


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He is also a teacher at the Australian Film Television & Radio School and has his own consultancy business, Strategic Media Solutions.

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Brian Newington
is considered to be one of Sydney’s top Radio Production Gurus.

He has worked at several radio stations, and his own recording studio, over several decades.

He has won many awards for creative radio production, local and International.

Now he is passing on these skills needed for today’s creative communication.

Brian tutors students at the Sydney Institute of Technology, covering all aspects of digital audio production, and continues major work for advertising agencies and radio stations.

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Bob Hughes
is a communications coach whose training is based on a thorough understanding of the media, and professional presentation.










Ian then returned to Australia to a job in Perth then to Sydney where he joined Radio 2SM and stayed with that station all the way to the top of the ratings. Hosted the breakfast show for 13 years.

In 1987 Ian presented a weeknight network programme and thus became Australia's first satellite music show presenter.

Three years after that Ian joined news-talk radio on the 2GB (Sydney) breakfast session.

In 1993 Ian joined the Sky Radio Satellite Network to once again present a
night-time music and fun show.

Now Ian freelances concentrating on radio sales and marketing, writing scripts and doing M.C, compere and speaker engagements plus some casual on-air work and programming an internet radio station as well as running the radio school.


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David Rogerson
has more than 25 years experience in the industry as an on air announcer, group marketing manager and Group Program Director for the Australian Radio Network (ARN) responsible for Mix 106.5, 2WS & Edge 96.1.

Now Brian can show you the tips, tricks, and shortcuts needed for good radio production.

The first tip is not to get bogged down with technical side of things, but rather concentrate on converting your ideas into sound.

Whether you’re recording an interview, or creating a commercial, or station promo, certain sound design principles will always apply. These techniques will be passed onto students of the Ian MacRae Radio School

There is an old saying “When the Student is ready, the Master shall appear”
 

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