Paul Murray is the regular drive presenter on 2UE, an AM radio station in Sydney. He also hosts Paul Murray Live on Sky News Australia (a panel show examining the day’s news from a different perspective).[1]
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In 2002, Murray won the Brian White Award for radio reporter of the year for his journalistic work on Sydney's Bushfires, the federal election and the collapse of Ansett.
In 2004, Murray started hosting a wide-reaching weekly talk show on Nova 96.9. At the end of that year, he was nominated for current affairs commentator of the year at the annual radio industry awards. He was nominated alongside Alan Jones and Ray Hadley. His show, titled "The Paul Murray Show", was then extended to air from 10pm to midnight Sunday to Thursday.
Late in 2005, Murray left Nova 96.9 to commence his television career. In November 2005, he began reporting and hosting segments for the Seven Network's morning current affairs & variety program Sunrise; later he was a regular guest on Weekend Sunrise.
In 2008, Murray joined The Shebang with Marty Sheargold and Fifi Box on Triple M's Sydney breakfast shift and also co-hosted the short-lived chat show The Night Cap on 7 HD. The latter program debuted with the first known public discussion of the child-hood accident that left him with only nine toes.[2][3] He also joined Sky News Australia where he began hosting 180 with Paul Murray (now known as Paul Murray Live).
At the start of 2009 Murray began hosting the All New Paul Murray Show on Sydney and Melbourne's Triple M from 7pm-10pm weekdays and on Brisbane's Triple M from 10pm-1am. Later that year, he was replaced by Ugly Phil and began hosting a drive program, Paul & Rach with Rachel Corbett.
In November 2010, it was announced that Murray will move to 2UE.
In March 2006, he commenced as the new Triple M network presenter from 6-7pm Monday to Thursday, with an hour long current affairs radio show titled The Paul Murray Hour. In July, the Triple M network replaced Murray's show with an 80s music hour, but in August Murray returned hosting a similar program, The Paul Murray Show, but in the 7-9pm timeslot. In 2007, Lisa Millard (Millie, Millhouse) joined the show as co-host. The show broadcast out of Sydney to multiple cities throughout Australia. Murray often announced the frequency as 104.9 MHz, the relevant frequency in Sydney. The show ended at the end of 2007, although in 2009 it was reinstated on Triple M in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
The 2006-2007 show almost always ended with the song "Watermelon Man" and included:
These included:
On Tuesdays, there was a guest expert who would answer questions about their trade.
This climactic competition every evening followed the common radio-quiz format in which callers call in and the first contestant answers as many questions as they can before the compere passes to the next caller. There were five questions so the winner was the person who answered the fifth question correctly.
When an inadequate number of callers rang in, Mashup (music) of The Doors' Riders on the Storm and Blondie (band)'s Rapture was played as punishment music until enough contestants called.
The quiz was normally run in the last 5 minutes of the show. Hints were given to ensure that the quiz finished on time. These got as simple as just say <answer to question>.
Initially, the prize was absolutely nothing but eventually it became the chance to hear the song "Watermelon Man", which was often the answer to the fifth and last question.
Murray's parodies of Sydney personalities include:
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