Sport
7 April, 2024
From radio to selling AFL
BELOVED radio announcer Dave Warner has traded the studio for an oval in his new role as events, marketing and communications manager of AFL Cairns and says he’s excited to take on the new challenge.
After 20 years as the host of Star 102.7 FM’s Breakfast with Dave and Inkie, Mr Warner decided it was time to try something new, and coming into his fresh role in mid-March he hopes to combine his two passions – his love of footy and Cairns.
“When I saw the role advertised, I knew this was perfect for me,” he said.
“I left radio after 20 years of doing the breakfast show at the end of last year because I needed to do something different. I thought I would take some time off and after a trip to Bali I decided it was time to look for a job.
“I have a huge love of AFL footy, and I’ve been following the Cairns clubs for over 20 years, so this job seemed to marry my skills with my passion.”
Mr Warner said he’d bring his expertise to attract even more fans to local footy and bring a little bit of his passion for audio into the role.
“It’s been a week, and it’s obviously a very different way of operating to a breakfast radio show. It’s challenging but I’m learning new stuff which is what I wanted after leaving radio,” he said.
“We’ve got a season launch coming up, a rep game in Darwin in May, a Legacy round coming up in April so I’m trying to wrap my head around it and I hope by the end of the season I’ll have a much better handle on the role.
“Maybe in the future I’d like to get audio involved in AFL Cairns. There used to be a podcast each week that discussed each round of the season and I’d definitely would like to look at relaunching a podcast once I have more experience in the role.”
With the launch of the season one week away, Mr Warner said he was excited to get to work.
“I’m looking forward to getting around to all the grounds and meeting everyone from all the clubs,” he said.
“What excites me is to grow the league in participation both juniors and seniors. I’d love to help it from the communication side of things, trying to get more matches up here, and promote more events so we make use of this amazing setting we have with Cazalys.
“To the community I say get around footy, I’ll be getting around you with AFL Cairns.”
AFL Cairns has partnered with Streamer, the online service owned by Seven West Media, for the exclusive streaming of all of AFL Cairns’ senior games in season 2024.
Streamer, a destination for community sports in Australia, is set to revolutionise the way fans engage with their favourite sports.
Head to streamer.com.au and type in AFL Cairns in the search bar circled and your league will appear. You can then click on it and it will take you to the AFL Cairns homepage.
Alternatively you can head straight to streamer.com.au/league/aflcairns
All of the upcoming matches will be under “Live & Upcoming“.
There is a carousel of the teams in the league which you can click on and all replays of games will come up under “Replays”.
