A great article from The Age Online about Peter Helliar’s new radio show with Myf Warhurst is up online. It is well worth the read touching on his previous failed radio program with Judith Lucy and Kaz Cooke which aired on The Austereo Network.

“The thing with Kaz and Jude is that we genuinely got on well and we loved being on air,” he says. “You hear stories about breakfast-radio teams who are at each others’ throats — I couldn’t imagine having to deal with that. No matter what we went through, we could always laugh about it at the end of the day. And if we couldn’t laugh, we’d just get drunk.”

Not that he expects his new job will have him hitting the bottle. His fill-in stints on Nova FM’s Hughesy & Kate show last year reignited his interest in radio. And Triple M, he says, is a perfect fit for a classic rock-loving, footy-obsessed bloke like him. There’s also the luxury of not replacing a much-loved ratings powerhouse such as 2Day FM’s Wendy Harmer. (Triple M’s previous breakfast show, The Cage, was third in the FM ratings when it finished last year).

“You can’t win if you’re trailing on someone’s coat-tails,” Helliar says. “If you succeed, it’s because you’re trailing on their coat-tails and if you don’t succeed, well, you don’t succeed. We’re starting a little way back in terms of ratings and there’s a lot to be done. I don’t expect to be troubling Matt and Jo or Hughesy and Kate any time soon.”