The Christian O'Connell Show

Though still broadcast live as a morning show, the word "Breakfast" has been dropped from the title to reflect the various times it airs in different Australian markets.

In February 2018, O'Connell announced he would be leaving Absolute Radio and emigrating to Australia to host the breakfast show on Gold 104.3 in Melbourne.

He later moved to the weekday breakfast show on XFM and hosting Fighting Talk on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Additionally, usually two mini episodes are released that focus on a specific highlight of the show, but aren't new material separate are created.

Advertisements started being inserted into the main podcast as of the return of the team from Christmas/summer break in January 2022 (prior to this, new episodes were ad-free).

In mid-August 2018, the Global Liveability index was released from the Economist Intelligence Unit, which showed that Vienna had unseated Melbourne as the best city to live in.

Christian asked bands to reunite and compete for the chance to play at One Electric Day with Jimmy Barnes and The Angels.

In July 2022, the team started a competition to find out who is the toughest, hardest working of all the tradies (tradesmen) for a $5,000 prize from Sutton Tools.

Competitions included a coffee run, a reverse parking challenge, and a Tradie Pentathlon comprising wheelie heavy barrow, skip basketball, the mystery saw, hammerschlagen, the Hero's Crawl, ending in a final sprint to grab the cash.

[13] In October 2022, listeners have been asked to provide short videos to win the opportunity to have Christian and the gang take the show on the road to their house.

In February 2023, just at Valentine's Day, Christian and the team got the idea to help someone get married, as they had an officiant available to perform a ceremony with no real venue or anything else.

Listeners started calling in, not only to be the folks who won the wedding, but also to offer services that the team had not thought of (like rings, or the hair/makeup for the bride).

A couple named Aaron and Laura got married in "Christian's Chapel of Love" in the sales office of the radio station on Feb 17, with a cello player, serenaded by an opera singer, all put together in less than 3 days.

With the 2023 Women's World Cup when the Matilda's score a goal, listeners have the chance to win prizes from ENS on the next morning's show.

Christian and the team is holding a live event in August 2023 at a local club where 100% of ticket sales will benefit the charity, as they've run out of funds.

In November 2023, the show made another plea for Santa Packs for kids that are going to be in care away from families during the Christmas season as they were out of donations again.

While on-air Christian informed the charity that one of the directors of Chemists Warehouse is going to make a personal donation of $52,000, which would raise the total to roughly $162,000 and provide packs to over 4600 children in care.

A few days after they started as of the end of the show Monday, Nov 20, people worldwide (due to the podcast reach) had donated a total of just over $200,000, which will provide packs for 5725 children.

Because of legal entanglements, the team can't do the musical stage version of Grease, so they're doing a parody called "Grouse" as suggested by listeners, and it will be set in Australia in the 1980s.

Grouse the Musical highlights can be seen here A couple of years ago (as of late 2023), the show had the idea of creating a large catapult (6 meters tall) that would fire bags of cash at listeners and it was dubbed the Cash-apult.

In order to win tickets to the Men's Final of the Australian Open, the show had a contest called The Longest Serve that was held on Jan 24, 2024.

The winner finally got possession of her "new" car at the end of March 2024, just before the Easter holiday break, due to the extra amount of time required to work on the Holden.

Listeners were invited to call in during the first week of March 2024 to nominate those that represent footy for them - this could be your childhood idol, a current legendary player, or someone who is a legend to them.

In March 2024, inspired by a discussion on the team, Christian started soliciting recipes from listeners for a "Bogun Cookbook" that they hope to assemble shortly.

In May 2024, the team sent Rio out to give away prizes (like the a show beanie) to people he found with the bin stickers appearing at the curb.

Ahead of the 2025 Australian Open Finals, listeners are invited to attempt to knock a tennis ball into the service box from outside Kia Arena at Melbourne Park.

Glenn Moore (born 20 January 1989) joined the team as the sport newsreader in October 2017 after the departure of Matt Dyson.

Maggie from Wexford, Ireland was the sport and travel presenter on the show before moving to BBC Radio Kent.

Jenny Barsby became resident newsreader in March 2017 taking over from Matt Dyson following the departure of Faye Carruthers from the show.

[22] [23] He currently serves as the co-host of The Dave Berry Breakfast Show and the Saturday edition of Rock 'N' Roll Football on Absolute Radio.