The Good Oil
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The Good Oil is a radio program on SEN 1116 in Melbourne, Australia. It airs between 12pm-4pm and is hosted by Mark Doran. The Good Oil is so named due to the fact it provides information on a wide variety of news in the world of sport. Good Oil on everything from the world of sport.
[edit] Host
Doran is an experienced journalist/commentator that has called the AFL Grand Final as well as witnessing numerous Olympic Games. This experience is important in terms of knowledge of the show. Host Mark Doran is an experienced. Mark was a former boundary rider on both channel 7 and Fox Footy before switching to K-Rock radio station to commentate the footy.
[edit] Regular guests
- Rodney Hogg: "Hoggy" always has something controversial to say on the world of cricket.
- Andrew Gaze: Australia's greatest ever basketballer and SEN's top basketball commentator joins Mark during the NBL season talking all things basketball on Wednesday's.
- Carlos Alberto Diego: As australa approach the exciting time of the 2006 Soccer World Cup
- Sharelle McMahon: Melbourne Phoenix and Australian team captain Sharelle McMahon often brings the lsiteners up to date on what is the latest in the inner sanctum of netball.
- Chris Anstey: The man himself often brings everyone up to date on the progress of himself and Mark as well as always being willing to take calls from devoted basketball fans.
- Mark Robinson: One of the Herald Sun's leading journalists joins Mark to recap and discuss all the big stories from the world of the AFL.
- Footballers Brad Green, Andrew Thompson, Brent Harvey and Nick Holland are just a few of the footballers that join Mark for the Lunchroom on a Tuesday.
- Daniel Harford and "Rippa Rita" join Mark on Fridays between 12-2 for Casual Friday where they take a look at who is Pumped up or Under the Pump from the week in sport.
[edit] Notable segments
- Every day between 2-3 join Mark as he brings you up to date with everything in "News, Sport and Weather together.", He catches up with Rebecca Maddern host of Channel 7 news (4pm) to get all the latest headlines from the world and in Australia, before Matt Thompson joins Mark to bring the listeners up to date with all from the latest in sporting news. After Matt you hear from the weatherzone.com's weatherpeople who let us know what is happening in the weather land.
- On Thursday between 1-2 Mark is joined in the studio by a special guest on "Feature Thursday" where there is an hour interview regarding this sporting personalities life or a sports life. Some of the guest on Feature Thursday so far have been Jim Stynes, Heather McKay, Michael Long, Michelle Timms, One Day International Cricket, Sarah Fitz-Gerald and Drew Ginn, Peter Thomson, Michael Klim, Brett Hawke, Mark French, John Steffenson and Jana Pittman just to name a few.