Mix 106.5’s Claire Hooper and Tim ‘Rosso’ Ross on isolation, ratings and elitist radio
Claire Hooper and former Nova presenter Tim “Rosso” Ross, the new breakfast team on Sydney station Mix 106.5 talk to Mumbrella’s Colin Delaney about:
- The new partnership;
- Why Rosso no longer feels isolated by breakfast radio;
- The great child giveaway;
- Why the best way to find out if you’ve gone too far is reading about it in The Daily Telegraph;
- 2CH’s Bob Rogers – living radio legend;
- The ABC’s Triple J: “repetitive and wanky”?
- Cooking on the radio
- How to orchestrate a massive ratings drop
That has to be the most awkward interview I’ve ever seen. Almost as awkward as their actual radio show
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Who likes my Brian Wilson look?
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ill take Triple J anyday- a real radio station by my standards, playing new Australian music- and no Kyle Sandilands!!
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wow. everything about this is awkward: utterly awkward pairing, awkward interview, awkward knocking of the radio station that gave your career rosso, awkward camera placing. cant believe i stayed through the whole thing.
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Why did he wear that shirt?
hehe 😉
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Also – triple j is repetitive? REALLY? from the network that now play daryl braithwaite’s Horses every hour on the hour? I was starting to think it was the news theme.
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I really like Rosso. But sometimes I can’t tell if he’s joking. Also what’s with that shirt?
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Couple o’ things:
1. Why would you do an interview with Mumbrella and then spend most of the time mocking it’s readers and the people whom contribute to the discussion on the site. Odd behaviour.
2. Rosso’s “we just do what management tell us” stock line is getting tiring. Nobody forces the guy to take the brekky radio money, or the TV money (Australia Vs) or the dress up in a fat suit and flog Carlton Draught money.
3. I actually think they’re probably both better people than this interview shows, and I hope that they do well (especially considering their 2day opposition). The show is awful right now though, and they really should’ve considered not sticking their head up until a bit further down the track.
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Nothing wrong with the shirt @RadioTrent49 but there seemed to be a fair bit wrong with that interview. I’m guessing you were “forced” to do the chat by the 7 or so people in management you refer to.
Not some of your finest work guys.
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Wow, here’s another example of people that contribute to forums not getting humour, or when people are taking the p!ss. Seriously people have a laugh, and surely Sydneysiders have an incentive to see the show thrive to end the drivel coming out of King Kyle and Jackie Hoes mouths.
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well said Marc!!!, from a network that thinks only 85 songs were ever recorded, and nothing after 1991!!! at 41 years of age im outside the triple J demo- but its easier to listen to than anything else
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Clair seems to be afraid to interrupt the great Rosso…who sits there waiting for the moment to hold the floor….Yuck…they actually look just like the other radio pair – princess nobody and vile kyle….
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It seems most people have missed the fact that Claire & Rosso were actually joking with their ‘complaining’ comments. And the reasons it all seemed a bit awkward were:
1. The interviewer wasn’t exactly great at delivering a clear line of questioning
2. Claire Hooper’s whole comedy routine is to act awkward = awkward interview
3. Rosso was just taking the piss out of the inane questions to keep himself entertained… which I would have done too!
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Wow. Zero chemistry. Who decided on this duo? Helen Keller?
I’d much rather listen to Rosso’s (the real Rosso) take on topical news stories and just speak his mind on-air, he’s not a dim bulb. But for some reason he’s playing up this “Rosso” character. MIX106 management should just give him some freedom to talk and stop pretending to talk or read off cue cards, which is what it sounds like so far.
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It just seems like the interviewer hasn’t really developed a rapport with them. It’s a little difficult to have a flowing conversation with someone with questions coming off the page who isn’t reacting to most of everything you’re saying.
I don’t think this interview is really a good test of their chemistry. It’s an interview for mumbrella, talking about relatively ‘serious’ radio and media subjects… not reactions to the front page of Women’s Weekly where the cracks have already been nutted out the previous afternoon with a producer.
I work interviewing musicians mostly and used to fall into this trap in my early days – it all comes down to listening, building a flowing conversation and using your questions as a backup only.
A great interview is when you never have to look down once at your prep.
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