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More than 40 different radio stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide put rivalries aside and broadcast simultaneously to a combined potential audience of more than 8.5 million people on Thursday morning in a massive outside broadcast to promote digital radio.

The event billed as “Radio United” saw the highly competitive commercial sector broadcasting side by side with their commercial counterparts and public service broadcasters from 5.30 am to 9.00 am in the central city locations; Sydney - Martin Place, Melbourne - Federation Square, Brisbane - Reddacliff Place, Adelaide – Victoria Square and Perth – Forrest Place.

I got up at 3:40am to get there at 5:30am. All the regular breakfast radio personailities were there as well as some others. I got a photo with Shelley Craft and Jody McLeod and saw Hughesy & Mich (temporarily replacing Kate), Matt & Jo, John Burgess and Dicko. Nova wanted a photo of us and put it on their website. I attempted to DJ with Jody McLeod. I love the DJ and radio world too much to throw it away to be a pilot. What should I do?

UPDATE: I won 2 digital radios! Which is a bit weird as I only entered once and the terms & conditions said you could only win once. I won the PURE Chronos iDock (RRP AU$449) and the Revo iBlik RadioStation (RRP AU$449) which I gave to my friend who got up early with me to come.