Grill Team

The Grill Team is an Australian breakfast radio show that broadcasts weekday mornings from 6 am to 9 am AEST on Triple M Sydney.^[1][2][3] It commenced broadcasting on 17 August 2009.

The hosts are Gus Worland and former rugby league footballers Mark Geyer and Matthew Johns. Chris Page is the panel operator, Rachel Corbett is an on-air contributor, Spoonman is the newsreader and Dan Ginnane is the sports reader.

At the end of 2010 former Australian cricketer Stuart MacGill decided not to renew his contract with Triple M and The Grill Team.

Byron Cooke finished up as anchor at the end of 2010 and Sami Lukis finished up also at the end of 2010.

Format

The Grill Team format is based on a format pioneered by Triple M Melbourne in the early '90s, merging sport, comedy and music. Triple M Melbourne is going back to this similar format by starting a new breakfast program called The Hot Breakfast with Eddie McGuire which will be similar to the Grill Team concept which McGuire was originally part of in the '90s.

It has been reported that Triple M Sydney has had five attempts in seven years to put together a successful breakfast program. Austereo's program director Guy Dobson was quoted as saying "sport will be the DNA that courses through Triple M's veins. Sport to men is what celebrity is for women. Rock music is still a large part of Triple M but these days that means everything from Pink to Cold Chisel. Sport is the binding notion that is going to hold Triple M together."^[4]

HG Nelson was the first guest on the show.

Segments

• The Test - on-air contest where listeners call in and are asked a series of sports related questions in a 90 second time frame. If they win, then prizes will be rewarded.

• Knob of the Week - the hosts decide on which person, people or group that has been featured in the media has been the biggest knob for that week.

• Dan's Sports Wrap/All In - Dan Ginnane reports each day on the biggest sports issues from the past 24 hours.

• Chicken - on-air contest where two listeners have called in and compete against each other by either contestant stopping the audio of prizes being read out on-air and winning said prizes.

• Rumour Mill - a contest introduced mid 2010 where listeners are asked to call in or email their rumour and the Grill team judges the best rumour and awards the winner.

• Love Letters - it is a contest where men write a letter to their partner.

Audience and ratings

The timeslot for this show was held previously by Paul & Rach.

Past Production Team

• Erica Hodge
• Rob Logan

See also

• Paul & Rach
• Roy & HG
• The Hot Breakfast

References

External links

• Official Triple M website