Robert Buck known as Robbie Buck is an Australian

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announcer.

Career

Robbie's radio experience began in his home town of Lismore where he took up a late night shift on the local radio station. Once he moved to

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he began doing graveyard shifts on community station

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, and eventually became a full-time employee for the station. Following this, he spent time at SBS radio and TV as a sound producer. During his time at SBS, he co-hosted ''Alchemy'' which was a late night TV program focused on the electronic music scene. In 2003, he took on the role of a new show at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's

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, ''Home and Hosed'', the successor to

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's ''Australian Music Show''. The new program aired every weeknight from 9 pm for two hours, replacing the single three-hour timeslot that Kingsmill's show had taken. The show cemented the station's tradition of being a strong supporter of

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at a time when the station was going through turmoil in management changes. In 2006, Caroline Tran took the reins of ''Home and Hosed'', and Robbie started a new program ''Top Shelf Radio'', airing in the afternoon drive timeslot from 3 – 5:30 pm. He remained the host of the program until the end of the 2007 ratings period, to make way for ''Dools and Linda'' in 2008, hosted by

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and

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. Robbie subsequently joined

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and

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to host the new breakfast show, ''Robbie, Marieke and The Doctor''. During his time at Triple J, Robbie also hosted the Lunch and Weekend Lunch shows, and has appeared on ABC TV programs including ''

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'' hosted by

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. In September 2009, Robbie announced that he would be leaving Triple J to host the Evenings program on

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and

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stations across

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. In 2012 he was replaced by Dominic Knight and moved on to host ''The Inside Sleeve'' on

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until the end of the 2013 ratings year. Buck returned to 702 ABC Sydney in 2014 when he replaced Adam Spencer as host of Breakfast 5:30 – 8 am weekdays. On 1 October 2021, Robbie announced via ABC news that he was leaving his ABC Radio Sydney breakfast show that he co-hosted with

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for three years, stating they had decided to "go out on a high".

References

Robbie Buck guest programs Rage

External links

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