Andrew Maher

Andrew "Andy" "Radar" "Mahery" Maher (born 1965 in Victoria, Australia) is an Australian media personality, having had multiple roles in Australian newspapers, television and radio.

Andy's nickname "Radar", is due to his resemblance to the character played by Gary Burghoff from the 70's TV show M*A*S*H

Maher also gets around in a 'Heron White' HSV Clubsport R8.

Early career

Andrew has been working full-time in the football media since the late 80s when he joined weekly football newspaper 'Inside Football' as a staff writer. He progressed to be the paper's Assistant Editor. He then moved on, doing a stint with 'The Sunday Age' as it's Football Editor in the late 90s.

In 1996 he joined television production company Vuecast (now AFL Films) after it landed the contract to supply content for the fledgling Pay TV operator 'Sports AFL' as part of the Optus Vision network. As part of its ground-breaking Pay TV coverage of AFL football, Andrew mixed duties as host of 'One On One', the producer of its oft-praised Monday night show 'Football Feedback', and as the station's boundary rider on its exclusive match-day coverage.

Joining Channel 7 in 2001, Andrew produced the highly acclaimed ‘Talking Footy’ whilst sharing boundary line duties on Channel 7's football coverage.

=Channel 10=

In 2002 Andrew moved to Channel 10 after they, with Channel 9 and Foxtel won the rights to broadcast the AFL from Channel 7. Andrew has multiple roles at Channel 10, working on-air and also as a part of their AFL/Sports production teams.

Andrew's Channel 10 on-air contributions are as the boundary rider for their Saturday afternoon coverage, the host of their Saturday night preview show "Before the Game" as well as on the Saturday night review show, The Fifth Quarter as co-host (with Michael Christian).

=SEN=

Andrew is the host and presenter on Melbourne Radio Station SEN 1116 morning show "Morning Glory", where he took over from Garry Lyon, after beating Jim Wilson and Tony Jones for the role. [http://www.theage.com.au/news/Geoff-McClure/Sporting-Life/2004/12/05/1102182152261.html]

Andrew's co-hosts on "Morning Glory" are Tim Watson and Billy Brownless

Andrew has also worked on numerous other SEN programs, including "The Insiders" and "Retrospective".

This Wikipedia article was referred to on-air by Tim Watson on Tuesday, September 5th at or around 07:30 AEST and the content was joked about, especially the reference to Andy's resemblance to Radar O'Reilly. Andy asked the crew "Do I really look like Radar", to which Billy Brownless, Tim Watson and guest Richo (who does an overnight sports wrap) conceded that he didn't.

AFL

Andrew works on the [http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=home&spg=default AFL Website] as a presenter for some of their online video content.

Andrew contributes on the following "shows":
* 'Monday's Experts' - a Monday review show showing highlights of the just-past round of AFL with analysis and stat's, co-hosted with former AFL footballer Jarrod Molloy; and
* 'FREE Friday's Tip-Off' where he and, SEN partner, Billy Brownless preview the round of football that is about to commence and provide information about why and who punters should tip in their tipping competitions.

Andrew has confirmed he is a regular poster on popular Australian Football League forum "BigFooty".

Andrew is a keen Carlton Football Club supporter.

External links

* [http://www.sen.com.au/index.php?sectionID=5412&pageID=5421 SEN Profile - Andy Maher]
* [http://www.theage.com.au/news/Geoff-McClure/Sporting-Life/2004/12/05/1102182152261.html Geoff McClure article]
* [http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=home&spg=default AFL Website]
* [http://www.ten.com.au/bio.aspx?siteID=2&bioID=132 Network 10 Biography]
* [http://www.bigfooty.com/ Bigfooty]
* [http://www.senforums.com/ SENForums]