Peter Newman, 6am to 9am, Monday to Friday

Get your day underway with a great range of music from the second half of the 20th century. Half hourly news and weather updates, plus Peter's comments on the news stories from your suburb to the other side of the world. Competitions, guests and more make this breakfast show both entertaining and informative. Plenty of snap and pop, and even some crackle from those obscure vinyl records!

PETER NEWMAN and his brother Jeff grew up in the Perth suburbs of South Perth, Wembley and Tuart Hill. They were raised by their war widow mother Margaret, who was a strong influence on both boys.
  After doing his leaving at Tuart Hill High School, Peter escaped from the State Government Public Service - the SEC (now Western Power) - after 12 months and started his radio career at 6GE Geraldton. After a stint at 6TZ Bunbury, he joined the 6PR Good Guys, Perth’s #1 radio station in the exciting days of early ‘Top Forty’ radio.
  Then after brief sojourns at 6PM, 6KY and Channel Nine he embarked on a 17 year career at the ABC. While there he presented programs on both 6WF and 6WN, read television news for six years and presented Channel Two’s weather on weekends.
     Peter has enjoyed managerial roles at the ABC as head of Radio Presentation and assistant manager of 6WF and became one of Australia’s highest graded ABC announcers. Then a change of career saw him appointed Manager of the America’s Cup Media Office in Fremantle in 1987 - a great time!! He returned to radio as host of 6PR’s Talk Back Breakfast and was consistently rated #1 in the over 35 listener demographic.
 One of his career highlights was as Director of Media and Public Affairs at the West Australian Police Service, under high profile and reforming Commissioner Bob Falconer, from Victoria. It became one of the most exacting and demanding media roles of the time.
 Peter sees his role at Curtin FM 100.1, where he now hosts the Breakfast Show, as a logical extension of his ‘Golden Years of Rock and Roll’ program which became an institution on Perth radio. He is excited about the challenge of making Australia’s number one community station a significant player in the over 40 radio market in Perth.
 Peter holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree and is a University Prize winner at UWA.
 He and his wife Val have also had several small business ventures and have now embarked on a new hospitality venture in South Fremantle. 
 Peter says his family is the most important thing in his life. The Newmas have raised three children - Scott is a computer programmer, Krista a beauty therapist now working on a six star cruise liner travelling the world, and Paul is in health and fitness.
  Peter describes his passions as music, radio, football and politics.