About Ian
Ian Rogerson is a successful broadcaster, program maker and writer. He is currently co-host of the podcast Suddenly Senior with Angela Catterns.
He originally leapt into radio at the ABC’s Triple J in 1980. Teamed up with his friend Jono Coleman as Jono and Dano in 1981 they established themselves as a radio and television comedy team for the rest of the decade.
From Triple J’s breakfast show to number one in consecutive Sydney surveys on Triple M nights, 2SM Breakfast and Melbourne’s Triple M they romped across Australia’s airwaves for many years. They also hosted four highly individual national television shows on the Seven Network.
Ian was invited back to the Triple J again in 1990, enticed by the idea of helping to set up a fully- fledged National Network. He went on to host Hard Coffee with Debbie Spillane. They achieved number one in Sydney drive time and subsequently established a huge national audience.
Ian was also the host of Class of 82, 83, and 84 on ABC TV and made numerous television appearances over the years on numerous shows such as Live and Sweaty, the Today show, Sunrise, The Midday Show and many others.He was the voice of the Cannes’s film festival award winning short film The Swinger and in 1999 he produced and hosted Dessert Island Video’s for Foxtel. The show was a celebrity interview series filmed on location in America and shown throughout Australia and South East Asia.
Ian was the face of Visa cards Olympic campaign, helped set up Big Fat Radio one of the first Internet radio stations in Australia, hosted the Seven Network’s All Star Squares and has consulted to Foxtel’s Channel V on its re-branding strategies.
Ian and his family where featured on Australian Story on ABCTV. The show was the second highest rating episode ever of this long running series with an audience of 1.6 million. He is the creative consultant and spokesperson for Autism Awareness Australia a National non-for profit organisation.
For three years from 2009 he was again presenting The Jono and Dano show each weekday to over 700,000 Australians on 28 radio stations across the country. Since then he has hosted many shows on 702ABC Sydney and 2UE. He was the Drive show host on 2CH for the last three years.
Over his time on TV and Radio, Ian has interviewed stars like Paul McCartney, Whoopi Goldberg, Keith Richards, Nicole Kidman, Russel Crowe. John Cleese and many others. Overseas bands from Led Zeppelin through to Public Enemy and U2 plus most of Australia’s music, acting and political fraternity.
Get in contact with Ian
If you’d like to get in contact with Ian, you can reach out via the form or the contact information below.
Phone: 0419 143 170
Email: ian@ianrogerson.com
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