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

My 1^st introduction to Radio was with Bendigo’s old 3BO back in the mid 1990s when I was doing “Summer Road Crew’ , this involved doing live crosses from events and giveaways.
I started a KLFM not long after when we were only broadcasting on weekends, David Kippen and myself used to rotate closing service on a Sunday Night, with a Christian program.
I moved on quickly to Saturday afternoons presenting a Rock n Roll and 60s show, then on to Drive shows for a number of years.
When the opportunity arose to present Friday Nights from 8 till 11pm, I was excited to introduce a 70s and 80s program  ( which music were were not playing at the time) This allowed me to  secure interviews with  some of my Australian artists that were touring in the region.
In recent years the show (and station) has received an increasing international listener ship. So, on wards and upwards for Radio KLFM

 

Deanna Troy

VIDEO GAME MUSIC
Tuesday nights from 11pm till early morning

David Kippen

CONSUMER NEWS, Thursdays 11:30am-Noon &

SUNDAYS THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES 9am - noon.

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

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, 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 Fridays 7am-9am

Peter Le-Suey

Thursday Breakfast 7am-9am

Mark Coombes

Thursday 9pm-11pm

Mike Weeks
Wednesday 9am-noon

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
Monday, 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.

S.J. & DONJ

Sunday Weekend Wind Down
6pm - 11pm

SJ & Donj (Sonya & Tony) share a passion for good music.  Both growing up in close knit European families, they fondly remember days and nights spent with family listening to the hits of the 50’s, 60’s & 70’s. Their musical education also included Country, Latin, Italian, German, Classical & Rock.
Donj is a little bit Country whilst SJ is a little bit Rock and Roll. He loves Johnny Cash and the classic country artists, while SJ is a child of the 80’s and thinks that nothing makes a chore easier to do than a great 80’s playlist.
When they are not working or planning their show, Tony writes his own music and has a band with his Cousin ‘Cumpare Cumpare’ (Italian for Good Fellas). Sonya loves to draw and has been known to pen the odd Australian Bush Poem or two.
They live on a property in Country Victoria which they share with their 4 dogs, 3 cats, 4 Horses, a swearing Macaw, chickens and the odd lizard or two.

Jess Hunt

Saturday, Ramble on
10am -12noon
"Ramble On With Jess is a show based on music Jess and her brother have grown up with. Her Mum, Dad and honorary aunt educated her well over the years, and through her own exploration she has found her own favourites from the Tubular tunes of the 80s, the Funky sounds of the 70s, Groovy songs of the 60s and the Ginchiest records from the 50’s.
Make sure to tune in on Saturday Mornings 10am – 12pm for a mix tape mash up of the best of the best from those era’s."