The Jono & Dano Show
4pm - 7pm Weekdays
A Short History of Jono & Dano...
In the early 1980’s, Jono was working as a reporter on “Simon Townsend’s Wonder World” and had been doing a few bits and pieces on ABC Radio with Clive Robertson and Graham Bond when 2JJ asked Jono to do a Jonathan Coleman show on a Saturday night. They said, “We’ll give you a panel operator to do all the hard bits for you”. That panel operator turned out to be Ian ‘Dano’ Rogerson. He wasn’t supposed to talk or be on the radio, but after one, then two, then three links later - it was a double act, which quickly morphed into ‘Jono & Dano’. This Saturday night show on 2JJ from 9pm till midnight became very popular very quickly which led to a more high profile timeslot… and a new name.
Enter “Off the Record with Jono & Dano” from 2pm till 6pm on Sundays. This would eventually lead to Jono & Dano doing breakfast on Triple J, before the move to commercial radio and breakfast at 2SM and ultimately their own night show (6pm to 10pm) on Sydney’s Triple M in 1984. At the time, Jono & Dano were the highest rating Sydney night-time show, with 30%+ of the audience.
Jono & Dano left Triple M to concentrate on TV, with “Late Night with Jono & Dano” on the Seven Network, “Have A Go” (also on the Seven Network) and the very successful “Saturday Morning Live”, which replaced “Sounds”.
Sadly when the then Federal Government outlawed tax-free lunches, the boys went their separate ways to pursue individual projects.
Jono & Dano have worked on numerous nationally syndicated radio shows through mcm media, including Cover To Cover ’88, Planet Rock, Rocksat, My Generation and The Jonathan Coleman Experience. In 2009, the story continues…so watch out Australia - your favourite band is back together.
About Jonathon 'Jono' Coleman
Jonathan ‘Jono’ Coleman has been credited as being one of Australia's most successful exports to the UK.
Coleman created a name for himself in the 1980s through Simon Townsend’s Wonder World and as one half of “Jono & Dano”, the popular duo that spanned programs on Triple J, 2SM, Triple M and the Seven Network.
Jono also hosted the number one commercial breakfast show in London, “Jono and Harriet” on Heart 106.2FM with more than 2.5 million listeners per week, LBC's weekend show on 97.3 and breakfast on London's BBC radio 94.9FM. On UK television, Jono still appears regularly on the UK breakfast TV show GMTV.
Since late 2004, Jono has been the host of the nationally syndicated weekly radio series “My Generation” networked to 95 stations around Australia every weekend. It is the second biggest syndicated show in Australia.
Back in Australia in 2007, he launched “The Jonathan Coleman Experience” with Julia Zemiro which aired on the Australian Radio Network’s Classic Hits stations and more than 20 other stations across Australia for 2 years.
Having started his professional life as a copywriter, Jono is also a humorous writer and has had regular columns Punch magazine, the London Evening Standard and The Daily Star. He remains a regular contributor to OK! Magazine.
On Australian Television, Jono has been both a UK correspondent and the movie reviewer for Sunrise on Seven over the past 3 years. He is now a weekly regular on Mornings with Kerri-Anne for Nine as well as the popular face of UKTV on PayTV presenting their Preview program.
About Dano (Ian Rogerson)
Ian originally leapt into radio at 2JJ in 1980, later Triple J with the advent of FM Radio. He presented almost every shift on the station. With his friend Jonathan ‘Jono’ Coleman, “Jono & Dano” 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 hosted four highly individual national television shows on the Seven Network. Sadly when the then Federal Government outlawed tax free lunches the boys went their separate ways but still met for coffee.
Ian was then invited back to Triple J to host “Hard Coffee” with Debbie Spillane. It was a program that launched Triple J into the top ratings spot in Sydney drive time and subsequently established a huge national audience.
Ian was the voice of the Cannes’s film festival award winning short film The Swinger and in 1999 he produced and hosted “Desert Island Videos” for Foxtel. The show was a celebrity interview series filmed on location in America and shown throughout Australia and South East Asia.
He was the face of Visa’s Olympic campaign, he helped set up Big Fat Radio (one of the first Internet radio stations in Australia) and hosted the Seven Network’s “All Star Squares”.
He has worked as a presenter on 702 ABC Radio in Sydney, hosted Live at the Basement on ABC 1 and is an active spokesperson for Autism Awareness - a National non-profit organization.
Over the years he has interviewed many stars, including Paul McCartney, Whoopi Goldberg, Keith Richards, Nicole Kidman, Russel Crowe, Led Zeppelin and most of Australia’s music, acting and political fraternity.