Danny's back on the air
Posted April 9th, 2010 by debritz
Danny Hoyland, for many years regarded as the heart and soul - and visible presence - of Brisbane's 4BC, has been quietly toiling away in Ipswich these past few months presenting a program for River949 FM. Hoyland, who is also well-known in surf lifesaving circles, says the program, Great Weekender, on Saturdays from 6am to 9am, is "radio the way it should be - fun". "It's just me being myself," he adds. If you're not in the Ipswich, Logan or the southwest Brisbane area, you can hear the station online here.
Update Danny writes:
It is a lifestyle programme with a difference, lots of good music with interviews about boating safety, fishing, camping, gardening, quirky interviews, interviews that you probably wouldn’t hear on mainstream radio. It’s like a chat between two mates, laid back, nothing political, no crudeness, nothing contravercial. I try to get them to talk about themselves, what they like, why they do what they do. I have a quickie recipe segment with the International Chef Glenn Austin (this weekend it’s Drunken Prawns), food history with Sizzlers food scientist Jeremy Ryland, and I talk to veteran Channel Nine cameraman Peter Collins about what he has seen behind the camera lens the previous week, I chat to the Voice of the Outback Neale Stuart, who reports in from various outback (Western) locations with deadset Queensland characters, and I have a segment at 7.15am called 60 seconds with Dano that goes for 949 seconds. I talk to well known people, unusual people, people with a different story eg: Wendell Sailor, Wally Lewis, Susie O’Neill, Ray Martin, The Planet worker, the original surfing Gidget, Bepo the Clown (50 years as a clown entertaining kiddies), Tommy Radonikis, Elvis the concierge at Sofitel, horticulturist Graham Ross, Laurie Lawrence, the man who invented a shoe phone that really does work ... anything, or anyone that has a different story to tell, has a message. I keep it clean, non political, happy, unusual, quirky, different, hopefully different to any other radio programme. I call myself Danny Hoyland, the Little Queenslander banana bender from the Great Weekender in the great Southern Land on the hill at North Ipswich.
That's great News about Dr Dan!.. I wondered where the little fella with the HUGE heart had gone to.. I'll set the clock and tune in. Onya Danny! Wish they'd wake up in main stream metro radio and get you and some other quality talent back on air.
Danny is unique, he is not from the cookie cutter production line of radio people and his enthusiasm and commitment is a great asset to have in a radio station.
Well done to the River management for looking outside the square.
about time Danny got some coverage here, I've known him for years and call him a friend. Hang your heads in shame 4BC. River enjoy the little banana bender
Dan was the man that first put me on the road to promotions and marketing in radio, about a thousand years ago! He had the energy of ten men then and not much has changed. Good on you Danny and good on Mike and David at River 949 for giving him a radio voice again.
More than 30 years ago, Danny organised Wednesday morning runs in the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, followed by breakfast at the Park Royal. I'd like to let Dan know those runs are still going with not one Wednesday missed since early 1981. They start at 6am, over the Story Bridge and back over the Victoria Bridge. Yeah, we're a bit slower and there are fewer of us but it was Dan and 4BK who got us together in the first place. 30th Anniversary Run to be celebrated on Ekka Wednesday 2011! Thanks Dan. We still talk about you!