Sydney radio would not have been the same without the pioneering DJ and won’t be quite the same again.
Sydney radio would not have been the same without Bob Rogers and won’t be quite the same again. He was one of the first to play popular music, the first to have a Top 40 show and one of the first to fight for announcers to get proper pay and secure contracts. He went on working into his 80s, chatting, gossiping, playing music that people liked and having a good time on air.
In Hobart, Rogers started playing popular music records, which he obtained from American sailors visiting the city. He was well ahead of the rest of the country because in those days records could take six months to be legally imported.The Hobart station wouldn’t pay him any extra for what became a hit show so he walked and got as far as Brisbane. He got a job with 4BH and then returned to Sydney, first on 2UE before moving to 2SM.
Bob Rogers met Bob Hawke, then prime minister, at the opening of the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra in 1984.“I looked at the competition and saw 2GB was the No 1 station, he said. “It had Andrea and Eric Baume and Dita Cobb in that order. They were all rather outrageous. Andrea would talk about homosexuals, Eric was always preposterous and Dita always played it a bit kinky.
In 1975, he left 2UE to go back to 2SM on a salary that was rumoured to be $75,000 a year, when the prime minister was earning $62,000, but nine months later he was off air again, saying “I didn’t expect the culture shock I found in dealing with a younger market” and moved back to 2GB because “I wanted to get away from the attitude that there is nothing more in life than ABBA”.
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