Sydney’s smoothfm Breakfast co-host Glenn Daniel believes COVID-19, despite all its tragedies, has changed radio for the better, with greater flexibility, more productivity and improved technological innovation.
In particular, he praised smoothfm’s owner NOVA Entertainment for being prepared for the pandemic, enabling on-air talent to shift to working from home without missing a beat.
“It certainly changed broadcasting, that’s for sure,” he said of COVID-19 in Tucker Media’s 2020 Re-Vision podcast.
“We had some very skilled technicians at NOVA Entertainment, which owns smoothfm and, unbeknownst to us, they did some planning in January after the first word came through about the possibility of an epidemic.