John Blackman (14 July 1947 – 4 June 2024) was an Australian radio and television presenter, voice artist, comedy writer and author.

On leaving school (and home) at 16, he worked in a succession of occupations: customs clerk, cash van salesman for a cigarette distributor, sales representative for a perfume company, and spruiker in the Myer Bargain Basement.

[5] After leaving 3AW in controversial circumstances on 30 April 1986, Blackman became part of the short-lived CBC Network (2UE/3AK) experiment; and, in December of that year, his contract was not renewed.

[5] From 1987 to 1990, he cohosted a breakfast show on 3UZ (now RSN Racing & Sport) with Coodabeen Champions member Ian Cover and, later, Wilbur Wilde.

[5] In 1997, after a seven-year hiatus from radio, Blackman was employed as the cohost of the 3AK breakfast show with Anna "Pinky" Pinkus and Denis Donoghue (Lawyers, Guns & Money) until 2000.

[citation needed] In 2004, he joined Triple M Adelaide and was cohost of The John Blackman & Jane Reilly Breakfast Show until December 2007.

The show, and Blackman, had a longstanding history of mocking people of colour, which was demonstrated in a March 2021 video compilation by John Patterson, which has received 165,000 views as of 2023.

Blackman continued in a solo role until May 2016, when he was unceremoniously dumped by Macquarie Media Ltd.[9] According to the MML COO, Adam Lang: “He's a very respected and highly regarded broadcaster but his style of broadcasting, while excellent, wasn't working on the MAGIC format.”[10] Significantly, in the third radio survey for 2016, (released a few days later) Blackman actually increased his Melbourne audience from 1.5% to 2.2% and his cumulative audience to 19,000 listeners (2,000 more than the station average).

[1] On Christmas Eve 2007, Blackman suffered a seizure brought on by a golf ball size (benign) meningioma brain tumour.