John Kerr (broadcaster)

"For other people called John Kerr see John Kerr (disambiguation)"

John Kerr (Born 19 February 1942) is an Australian radio announcer.

John Kerr hosts the weekend edition of the "New Day Australia" from Midnight to 6am on 2UE and many other Fairfax Media owned radio stations.

Between 1994 to 2005 John hosted the weekday version of "New Day Australia." In 2006, his on air shift was changed to the weekend edition of the show. Radio announcer Stuart Bocking replaced John in the weekday shifts of "New Day Australia".

John Kerr's Career

*1957: John started off in radio working behind the scenes for the Jack Davey Show.
*1958: John became a cadet announcer with radio 2PK Parkes.
*1959: Moved to 2DU Dubbo.
*1960: Became the breakfast announcer for 2CA Canberra In this role, John made appearances on television station Southern Cross Ten.
*1966: John moved to Canada and worked with BOAC (now British Airways), after six months he visited Scotland and became part of "pirate radio" and joined Radio Scotland, where he stayed until it closed 18 months later.
*1967: John returned to Australia and worked briefly for Channel 9 before joining 2UE for five and a half years.
*1973: John went back to Canberra briefly, before moving to Gosford where he hosted the 2GO breakfast show for 13 years.
*1986: John left radio to start a public relations company
*1994: John was asked by 2ue's station management to rejoin Radio 2UE as the host of the "New Day Australia" program on weekdays between midnight and 5am.
*2006: John was moved to the weekend version of "New Day Australia".

External links

* [http://www.mytalk.com.au/Stations/Talk/2UE/Pages/ProfileJohnKerr.aspx Biography at radio 2UE]
* [http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/djsk.htm#jkerr The Pirate Radio Hall Of Fame]