Waking up in the morning is hard enough. I was brought up on the wake-up-to-a-very-annoying-beeping-thing, and never used to be able to wake up to the sound of a radio playing. It was way too subtle for my sleepy ears to tune in to.

Jarod, on the other hand, wakes up at Train nibbling on biscuits. So the compromise is, we play the radio at a medium level, and Jarod is in charge of waking me up. This generally means we lie in bed and listen to the radio anywhere between 5 minutes and, well 45 minutes, depending on how sleepy we are and what day it is.

Until recently, we’d been listening to Robbie, Marieke and the Doctor on JJJ. We both like JJJ’s music (most of the time), lack of ads, and most of the time not annoying hosts. But, there’s only so much of RM&D we can stand. They have this amazing ability to ignore each other and keep talking, even if they all end up talking at the one time.
This means less lay-in time, and a quicker out of bed time so the radio could be turned off. This, clearly, is not something I enjoy.

We tried various other stations on the FM band, but their ability to play a million ads and talk like idiots made for a similar situation.

So, we’ve gone to the side of AM. While we expected similar reactions (for different reasons), we’ve been pleasantly surprised by the quality of ABC Sydney’s 702 AM Breakfast show with Adam Spencer.
We both liked Adam back from his days on JJJ, so it’s a familiar voice, too. Plus even better news coverage, and no annoying gits.

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