The much-travelled Richard Fowler has been the top-rating breakfast host on the Gold Coast’s Gold 92.5 FM for the past decade.
New Zealand-born Fowler moved to Australia in the late 1970s to pursue a career in radio. He enrolled at a radio school run by Barry Chapman, then program director at Sydney’s Triple M.
He scored his first radio job as a midnight-to-dawn announcer at 2MW (Murwillumbah) in 1981, later returning to his home city of Auckland to host drive and later breakfast on Triple M 89 FM. Both shifts were ratings winners.
A stint at another New Zealand station Radio I followed and then it was back to Australia, moving to Radio 97 at Tweed Heads as breakfast host. While there he won the Gold Coast Media Award for best breakfast show two years running.
The nomadic Fowler then worked as a producer with 2DAY in Sydney and B105 in Brisbane before being offered to co-host the breakfast shift on Gold 92.5 FM in 1994 with Sarah Wharmby.
“We must be one of the longest serving breakfast teams in Australian radio,” says Fowler. “For most of the time we’ve been together we’ve been No. 1 in the market”.
Fowler has also had experience reading television news from his Gold Coast base with Nine and Prime until the latter closed its newsrooms around Australia in 2000.