BROADCASTERS HALL OF FAME
John Laws
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History will remember John Laws as the most
successful broadcaster in the history of Australian
radio. The King of Radio signed off for the last time in November 2007 after signalling his intentions five months earlier. At the time of his retirement, the John Laws Morning Show was heard by more than two million people daily on 71 radio stations nationally. When he switched off his golden microphone at Radio 2UE for the final time the curtain dropped on an extraordinary career as an 18-year old in Bendigo in 1953. "Your contribution to public debate and to the media has been quite extraordinary", then Prime Minister John Howard told John Laws on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 2005. "Nobody is more synonymous with talkback radio than you. As someone who has appeared frequently on your programs, I've marvelled at your breadth of knowledge, your capacity to wrinkle answers out of me and your sheer energy and constant commitment to the cause of lively communications and interesting public debate". At one stage Lawsie - as he became known to millions of listeners- was the highest paid radio broadcaster in the world. John Laws has now retired from broadcasting but his support of country music will always be remembered by those who listened to his shows for over 50 years. |