Listeners were invited to contribute their expertise on a wide range of topics via their website, rather than through the traditional radio phone-in method. Rather than having recurring segments each day, Business Brunch aimed to cover one topic per show. This complemented their regular drive time show which had moved to just be on Mondays. Hamish and Andy returned to daily radio in early 2013 with a new show titled Business Brunch, airing from 9 am to 10 am Tuesdays to Fridays (except in Sydney, where it would air from 10 am to 11 am, following The Kyle & Jackie O Show). The final daily program aired on 3 December 2010. The program won 14 Australian Commercial Radio Awards.īlake and Lee announced in August 2010 that they would be cutting down their show to a single program each week from 2011 onward, in the Friday afternoon drive time slot. Both albums won ARIA Awards for Best Comedy Release. The duo have released two compilation albums of segments from their daily radio show, Unessential Listening (2008) and Celebrating 50 Glorious Years (2010). In 2010, they also presented three shows in London to cover Christian O'Connell on his breakfast show. They were also syndicated internationally, with a highlights package broadcast on BBC Radio 6 in December 2009. During its broadcast, the show had completed two domestic and two foreign caravan tours, a Bass Strait sailboat trip, and trips to Afghanistan, Beijing, Japan, India, and the US, recording live on location.
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The show was the highest-rated radio series in Australian history, with approximately two million listeners daily. It was broadcast in all the seven major cities of Australia in the afternoon drive time slot. The duo hosted a two-hour weekday radio show titled Hamish & Andy from 2006 to 2013. Hamish and Andy signed a deal to present a series of shows to air on Absolute Radio Sunday evenings. On Friday 11 June, it was announced on the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show that Hamish & Andy would be presenting three shows in London during July 2010 to cover O'Connell's holiday. The duo presented two radio specials on BBC 6 Music in the United Kingdom on 21 December 2009 and 26 January 2010. The duo then hosted the Fox FM program Almost Midday on Saturday mornings, which was so successful it was syndicated nationally across the Today Network. In 2003, soon after Hamish began writing for the Fox FM breakfast show ( The Matt & Jo Show), the pair began hosting a Monday night late-night radio program called Almost Tuesday on the same station. The duo began presenting radio on the Student Youth Network, in the Friday afternoon drivetime slot. Radio career (2003–2017) First radio programmes They entered comedy competitions together and just a year after meeting, they started their career in radio by hosting a show on community radio station SYN FM. Hamish Blake and Andy Lee met while both studying at the University of Melbourne in 2001. The pair were ranked the highest-paid commercial radio hosts in Australia, with individual salaries of A$4 million, as of 2014. They also performed in a touring rock cover band, Cool Boys and the Frontman, throughout 20. They have made numerous appearances hosting events, competing on game shows and in celebrity sporting events. The duo have also worked extensively in television, known as correspondents on Rove and for their various seasons of Hamish & Andy's Gap Year which won multiple Logie Awards including Most Popular Light Entertainment Program in 2012, 20. Retiring after 14 years of broadcasting, the duo now produce a weekly self-titled podcast and occasionally publish a secondary programme, the Remembering Project, to revisit their old radio segments. Best known for their various drive time radio programmes on the Hit Network, which aired in multiple formats until 2017, their shows gained consistently high market share and became the highest rated radio show in Australian history. Hamish & Andy are an Australian comedy duo formed in 2003 by Hamish Blake and Andy Lee.
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