Mike Carlton

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Mike Carlton is a Sydney Radio announcer. He hosts the daily breakfast program on 2UE with Peter FitzSimons and writes a Saturday column for The Sydney Morning Herald. Carlton is often critical of many public figures including Prime Minister John Howard and radio personality Alan Jones.

In the early 1990s he was a presenter for London's LBC Crown FM (later LBC Newstalk), then under Australian ownership. At first he presented the drivetime programme, but it was as presenter of The Morning Report breakfast programme that he came to prominence, winning a prestigious Sony gold radio award.

In 1997 he wrote a novel set at a London talk radio station called Off the Air.

Carlton hosted Sydney talk radio station 2UE's drive (3pm-6pm) program for a number of years, before moving to the breakfast timeslot (5:30am - 9am). In a move to hopefully improve ratings, 2UE management teamed Carlton with media personality, fellow Sydney Morning Herald columnist and longtime friend of Carlton's, Peter FitzSimons on the breakfast show in 2006. The ratings for the show gradually improved. They are however still behind former workmate, now rival Alan Jones, whom Carlton often ridicules and impersonates on his program.