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Speaker 1: And much loved radio announcer Ronnie Sparks is being remembered

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Speaker 1: as a national radio treasure. His broadcasting journey began in

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Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies and finished at WSFM in twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: Jonesy has paid tribute to his friend and former colleague

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Speaker 1: who's passed away, saying Ronnie would very much appreciate a

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Speaker 1: little shout out on the airwaves once again.

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Speaker 2: Well nineteen seventy eight school excursions to the TWOSM at

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Speaker 2: Blue Point ride there and Ronnie was adj on air.

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Speaker 2: He used to hate me bringing that up when we

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Speaker 2: ended up working together. We worked together when I was

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Speaker 2: at Triple M and he was at two Day. We're

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Speaker 2: up against each other. And then when he came up

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Speaker 2: to WS he convinced management to take me on at

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Speaker 2: WS as well. And so you know, he was an

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Speaker 2: idol and he was a colleague and he was a mate,

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Speaker 2: and like we certainly had to have some need of words,

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Speaker 2: but we always ended up having a laugh afterwards. It

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Speaker 2: was just he's like when people say old school radio,

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Speaker 2: you know you think you guys you were cranny and

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Speaker 2: Ronnie Sparks, and Ronnie Sparks has just we've lost the

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Speaker 2: national radio treasure. It was very dry off are, very

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Speaker 2: very I used to say, mate, you should just be

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Speaker 2: on talkback radio. Just let fly with your opinions and

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Speaker 2: your stuff. Because he was from that era where you

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Speaker 2: didn't really share much on air about yourself. That that

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Speaker 2: was the time in the early days. Now everyone blabs

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Speaker 2: about themselves, but back in those days you didn't. But

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Speaker 2: off air, gee, he was funny. Of course Ronnie would

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Speaker 2: love fuss about him because we used to a lament

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Speaker 2: like radio and announcers used to be big deals, like

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Speaker 2: big deals, and then all of a sudden it got

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Speaker 2: taken over by celebrity, real estates and chefs, and then

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Speaker 2: and then after that, now it's I don't even know.

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Speaker 2: We don't even exist anymore. So for tribute to Ronnie Sparks,

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Speaker 2: one of the greatest radio announcers in the history of

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Speaker 2: the world, he needs to be made a big deal

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Speaker 2: of