Announcers - Radio KLFM

Geoff Anderson

BUSINESS MANAGER

Get the word out there on KLFM by contacting Geoff. He will sit with you and sort out an advertising plan.
Geoff has been in the Radio industry for most of his working life, including 3AW in Melbourne, Sports 927, Bay FM in Geelong and 3SR/Sun FM Shepparton mainly in sales and sales management roles. Geoff has been with Radio KLFM for over thirteen years as a business manager and presenter. His tasks include looking after KLFM's sponsors, writing and producing sponsor announcements and general dutiesof running the station.

Nicko On The Bizzo

9am-Noon Fridays,
Saturday Country 7am-8am

Ian "NICKO" Nicholls, came to KLFM in the year 2000 after a long career in commercial radio and a short stint at the ABC Bendigo.

Recruited by Brad Geier to do Breakfast on KLFM, that gig lasted 9 years before Nicko retired to the Surf Coast in 2009, but the lure of KLFM and its great programming saw Nicko return in 2013. Nicko is now on the Bizzo Friday at 9am 'til noon AND Saturdays at 7am to 8am with Country Breakfast.

Mike Tobin

DRIVE,
Monday to Thursday 5pm-7pm

Mike presents the drive time show Monday to Thursday evenings from 4-6pm. Every 3^rd month he presents the Irish show.
Mike Tobin’s interest in electronics began at the very young age of 10, with his first foray into theory of high power mercury-vapor rectifier and thyratron gas-filled tubes used as a high-power electrical switching controlled rectifier.
Mike has since clocked up decades in the community broadcasting sector as an accredited trainer, KLFM Senior Technician (which he has now handed on to Bill Murray) and founding member of both Technorama Board and the CBAA Technical Standing Committee and board member of the Community Broadcasting Association of Victoria (CBAV),and an active member of the local Amateur Radio club, BAREC.

Brett Dunlop

MUSIC MEMORIES,
Fridays 8pm-11pm

Deanna Troy

VIDEO GAME MUSIC
Tuesday nights from 11pm till early morning

Deanna Troy hails from a rich radio heritage. Born and raised in central Victoria, Deanna began her radio experience in 2018 and has buzzed around Bendigo's community radio airways since. Her late grandfather, Daryl O'Brien, was a radio personality for over 42 years, and her father, Michael Jerman, is a 3CCC/Fresh FM veteran. She earned her Bachelor of Creative Writing from Deakin University in 2024, and now studies for a Masters of Teaching at La Trobe University. A seasoned writer and performer, she has roots in the Bendigo Youth Choir and has won several awards for solo performances. Deanna has released an album and self-published a gaming memoir. True to her Late Night VGM program, she is an avid gamer, passionate about music composed for video games, and enjoys a good couch co-op game with her brother, William.

David Kippen

CONSUMER NEWS, Thursdays 11:30am-Noon &

SUNDAYS THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES 9am - noon.

David’s interest in radio started back in the 60s when a new 3UL announcer joined the Methodist Youth Group in Warragul and gave the group a station tour one evening.
David had a few lessons with Denis Gibbons who was just starting his Radio School in Melbourne. The main activity he remembers is reading ads for “Honey Cured Revelation” cigarettes. However traveling to Melbourne each week, and then a 12 month working holiday in England, meant he did not keep up the training.
Family, work and church commitments, not to mention building a house with his wife Sandra, put radio on the back burner until KLFM (then Bendigo Education Radio) made their first test broadcast in April 1990.
The studio for this broadcast was a room at the Havilah Road site of the Eaglehawk & Long Gully Community Health Centre. David, who was the Health Centre’s Consumer and Tenancy Adviser, began presenting Consumer News and the program has continued since, winning a Consumer Affairs award along the way.
David says that listener feedback saying how Consumer News has helped them is very rewarding. He also enjoys interacting with listeners on “Live & Local” programs such as Thanks For The Memory on Sunday mornings

Graeme Knight

SATURDAY LIVE
Saturday 4pm-7pm

Graeme Knight is a founding member with Brad Geier who developed Radio KLFM. Back in the early days it was called "Bendigo Education Broadcasters" then it went to "Bendigo FM" and now as you know it it's KLFM.
Graeme has many interests, which he pours his heart into, like of course Radio KLFM, The Astronomical society, The Bendigo Amateur Radio club and for the last 8 years he has participated in the Great cycle challenge, raising money for research into cancer for kids.
Graeme has stepped back from many activities with Radio KLFM, but he still presents a show 3 weeks of the month.
Radio KLFM - On Saturday Live, 4 - 7 pm:
Science & Technology Report: Web Watch:
Plus all your favourites from the 50's to the 80's,
On this day in history, news, weather, community events....and more. 96.5 in Bendigo, 106.3 in Castlemaine. Listen live at www.klfm.com.au

Wally Smilie

Sunday from Noon-6pm with country & requests

Wally Joined KLFM as presenter in 1999 doing mostly various weekend shows. His main show was Easy Listening 5pm to 7pm Sundays (Now Music For Wally's Mob). Wally now also present Sunday Country.

Tony Fittock

ROCK IT UP
Thursday Noon-2pm, Friday Noon-2pm

Tony Fittock (Tone the Drone to his handful of listeners) with his mum and brother came to Bendigo in 1980. Tony worked as a marketing manager of the Bendigo Advertiser and spent the next thirteen frustrating years trying to pull that organisation out of the flat earth society without success. Prior to that Tony worked at a number of newspapers, including John Fairfax.
Tony’s Radio career started at 3MA Mildura on the lovely Murray river in 1967, the day of that disastrous train crash in September at Violet Town. After three years in those sunny climes he and Pam moved to Melbourne to expand his career in media.
After several years in Melbourne, Tony and Daryl McClure came up with the idea of a newspaper for real-estate agents which became an enormous success known as Bendigo Weekly.
Tony started at Radio KLFM in 1998 and amazed himself, and the management of the station and long-suffering listeners by still presenting his program on Thursdays and Rock it up Friday.
When asked what he loved about KLFM and radio, he replied “Drugs, Sex, and Rock N Roll” but mainly Rock N Roll.
Pam and Tony raised their family in Bendigo, they just love the place and the people. Bendigo, like KLFM, has so much to offer.

Kath Murley

Mondays Noon-2pm, Tuesdays & Thursdays 9am-Noon

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Bill Murray

AFTERNOONS
2pm-5pm, Monday to Thursday, 2pm-6pm Friday

After 38 years in PMG/Telstra, mostly with their satellite service (Iterra), and some years as an Electorate Officer, Bill’s use-by date expired.
Apart from 2QN Deniliquin's DJ for a Day competition in 1971, Bill hadn’t thought much about radio, but with his interest in community service, KLFM offered an opportunity. Bill's background, as a technician and as an electorate officer, has come in handy around the place. He is enjoying presenting and hopes his music brightens everyone’s day. Bill is in the chair Monday to Thursday afternoon from 2pm to 5pm and from 2pm to 6pm each Friday. After 4pm, Bill's Friday show includes the Goset Top 10 from 1971.

Trevor Hyland

ROCK 'N' ROLL DANCE PARTY
Friday 6pm-8pm & Saturday 8am-10am

With well over 35 years experience in Bendigo Community Radio, including over half that at KLFM, Trev has been presenting 50s & 60s Rock & Roll and Rockabilly to his listeners worldwide.
During this time Trevor presented 113 Rockabilly Shows on the premier internet Rockabilly station Rock-it Radio streaming out of Los Angeles. After the closure of Rock-it radio, Trevor was invited to present a Rockabilly Show streaming out of Memphis U.S.A. 8 times a week from Radiobilly365. With over 100 shows to 2024 on Radiobilly365, Trevor has built up a worldwide following including legends from Sun Records and other famous Australian and worldwide artists.

David Chislett

KOMMOTION CLUB,
Saturday 7pm to 9pm

David’s first interest in radio was in 1962, when he got his first transistor for his 11^th birthday.
Big hits of the time were Teeny by Johnny Chester, Devil in Disguise by Elvis, Telstar by the Tornadoes, among many others.
David listened to 3UZ in Melbourne with DJ’s like Lap Lap (Alan Lappin), Don Lunn and Stan the Man, (Stan Rofe).
Some years later David got together with two friends and presented a show called “The Vault”, a 1960’s program, on 3CR. Then in 1975, playing 45’s featuring mainly Aussie releases with some overseas artists. These were also Saturday nights, with alternating presenters.
When David retired and moved to Bendigo, he heard about KLFM, where he now presents a similar program called Kommotion Club, 10pm on Saturday nights.

Pam Taylor

Wednesdays Easy listening, (NO country), 7pm-10pm,
Thursdays Overnight Country from 11pm

Daryl Headlam

Breakfast Thursdays & Fridays

Formerly a teacher of Drama, Music and Media for over 40 years, Daryl has lived and worked in Melbourne, Cobram, Bright, Mildura and of course Bendigo, with his lovely wife of 45 years, Jan,

Peter Le-Suey

Monday Breakfast 7am-9am

I've been in Bendigo all my life. Grew up in North Bendigo. Went to North Bendigo primary school in Nolan St, then White Hills Technical school. Danced my way through the disco era of the 70s. I then obtained the necessary qualifications to own and operate aged care facilities eventually selling up in 2018. I now work as a disability support worker with the NDIS. A father of four beautiful children, three sons and a favourite daughter. In the late 80s I was invited up to the radio station with a friend to be interviewed and I was hooked. I enrolled in a course at the station to become qualified as a radio DJ, then from the early 90s I began to present a number of programmes on KLFM, which included the weekday breakfast show. Over the journey I've had to come and go due to work and family commitments but I always looked forward to returning. Then on one bright sunny day Brad, the station manager, asked if I would be interested in doing Monday breakfast. My dream came true. I am back at KLFM so here I am, the (self proclaimed) king of Monday breakfast. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would look forward to a Monday, but now I do.

Mark Coombes

Thursday 9pm-11pm

Mike Weeks
Monday 9am -12noon
Wednesday 9am-12noon

Mike Weeks came to Radio KLFM in the year 2001, after a career as a Hotel publican in Rutherglen, a hotel manager in Elmore then a mobile disco operator in Bendigo.
For the next 11 years he presented the morning programs 5 days a week.
Mike then left Radio KLFM for domestic reasons but returned to the station in 2021 and resumed presenting the morning programs.

Brian Carney

A TASTE OF JAZZ,
Tuesday 7pm-9pm

Brian has always been interested in a wide range of music, from classical through to contemporary styles, with a particular interest in Mainstream Jazz.

Since retiring from Optometry, Brian enjoys putting together a broad Jazz program on Tuesday evenings from 7pm to 9pm as part of the Tuesday night line-up.

Graeme Turpie

News reader & JUKEBOX
Tuesday & Wednesday, Noon-2pm

Bendigo-born Graeme Turpie began his media career as a panel operator on radio 3BO in 1956 for such announcers as Russ Pilley and Ken Jalland, and was also a transcription-clerk (logging in all the large recorded radio serials/shows etc. to be played at certain times, which were then either destroyed or sent on to other stations for future playing).

Within two years he swapped to the newsroom and trained as a journalist, making that his main career. Over more than 50 years gathering, writing and presenting the news, he has worked in radio (2AY, ABC, Radio Australia, Macquarie newswire-3AW, 3DB, 3BO, Star-FM, 3CV) newspapers (Bendigo Advertiser, Herald and Weekly times, independent publications) and television (HSV-7) but his favourite medium is radio. So after some “full-time retirement” (traveling, looking after grand kids, walking the dogs etc ) he was lured back to radio on KLFM with the promise of unlimited cups of tea and coffee, the occasional sausage roll, access to the station’s great record library for the Tuesday and Wednesday midday jukeboxes, and have the station cat Bonnie’s help in sub-editing local news bulletins.

Grant McMaster

THE GRANT McMASTER SHOW,
Saturday 3pm-4pm

Grant McMaster has been with Radio KLFM almost since its conception, after a life in commercial radio and television.
There have been many fond memories for Grant, including interviewing Australia’s King of Television, Graham Kennedy and having as guest on his show. The Beatles original drummer, Pete Best, the Bee Gees original drummer Colin Peterson and Naturalist Sir David Attenborough.
An interesting fact came out or Grants interview with the English comedian and actor Reg Varney.
On 27 June 1967, when the world’s first ATM (automated teller machine) was ceremoniously unveiled at a branch of Barclays Bank in Enfield, north London. The then Barclays deputy chairman Sir Thomas Bland was given the honour of drawing back a velvet curtain installed for the purpose, while comedy actor Reg Varney, best known for the sitcom On the Buses, made the first withdrawal – although he wasn’t suddenly cash rich, as the machine only permitted users to withdraw £10 at a time.
For further astounding revelations, tune into Grant with Radio Legend Ian “Nicko” Nicholls (The man who interviewed the Beatles)
Listen every Saturday afternoon at 3pm on Radio KLFM

Lisa Claxton

A DROP OF IRISH,
Mondays 7pm-9pm

When KLFM was granted their full time license, so began "A Drop of Irish", and it’s been going ever since with lots of very loyal listeners who regularly phone in with their Irish requests! We enjoy some wonderful traditional Irish music, some fun facts about Irish people and their contributions to our world, and the occasional interview with Irish artists coming our way.

Hosting "A Drop of Irish" is something completely different from other things I do; Kindergarten teaching, singing on the worship team at church, among other commitments, but it’s something I really enjoy doing on a Monday night from 7pm to 9pm - thanks for your company!

Xavier "Zac" Schobben

Tuesday Breakfast
ZAC’S TRACKS, Thursday 7pm - 9pm

“Zac’s Tracks” is a personal spin on all types of rock music collected and snippets of music trivia from that exciting era, particularly Australian pub rock and pop. As the studio is based at the old Golden Square railway station, the show’s title came to mind. Life’s a lot about having fun and I really enjoy preparing for and doing the show in the KLFM studio.

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