8th birthday celebrations for The Christian O’Connell Show

This morning, ARN’s The Christian O’Connell Show celebrated its 8th birthday, marking a significant milestone for Christian and his team.

Christian (pictured above with team members Patrina Jones and Riordan ‘Rio’ Lee) first joined the GOLD Network in 2018 following a successful career in the UK, where he was the youngest ever inductee into the UK’s Radio Academy Hall of Fame and had won more Radio Academy Awards than any other person.

He has since recorded over 1500 shows for his Australian audience and remains the only radio host in the world to have reached #1 in two different countries.

In Melbourne, he achieved the top spot within 16 months of arriving as an unknown foreigner and is the first to host a national breakfast show in Australia, fulfilling a dream he’s carried since landing here eight years ago.

Speaking on air this morning, O’Connell said, “Eight years ago, 2018 June the 4th is when I began this show. It is our eighth birthday today.”

“Honestly, you’ve probably seen that this year’s been a very explosive year in breakfast radio, but it feels like since I’ve been here for eight years, it’s always explosive for breakfast radio in Australia….Today is actually show number 1,512 and I wanted to say thank you for each of those shows because that’s what it takes to build something that hopefully adds value in the morning to people who have been part of it the last couple of years…We really do make this show together every single morning.”

To celebrate the milestone on-air and a total number of 1,512 shows, Christian decided to give away 1,512 Viennettas!

The Christian O’Connell Show can be heard every weekday morning on GOLD101.7 in Sydney, GOLD104.3 in Melbourne and GOLD DAB+ in Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane.

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