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Michael Tunn (born January 18, 1974) is an Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n radio announcer and television presenter. He hired by Australia's national youth station Triple J
Triple J

Triple J is a nationally-networked, government-funded Australian Radio in Australia , mainly aimed at youth . Music played on the station is generally more alternative music than commercial stations with a heavy emphasis on Music of Australia music and new music....
  in 1990 at the age of 17, making him Australia's youngest professional radio presenter at the time.

Biography
Tunn was born and raised in Adelaide
Adelaide

Adelaide is the List of Australian capital cities and most populous city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of South Australia, and is the fifth-largest city in Australia, with a population of more than 1.1 million....
. He got his start in radio presenting 'Rock and Roll High School', a requests program for high school students, on Triple M
Triple M

The Triple M Network is a radio station network owned by media company Austereo, who also own the Today Network....
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Michael Tunn (born January 18, 1974) is an Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n radio announcer and television presenter. He hired by Australia's national youth station Triple J
Triple J

Triple J is a nationally-networked, government-funded Australian Radio in Australia , mainly aimed at youth . Music played on the station is generally more alternative music than commercial stations with a heavy emphasis on Music of Australia music and new music....
  in 1990 at the age of 17, making him Australia's youngest professional radio presenter at the time.

Biography


Tunn was born and raised in Adelaide
Adelaide

Adelaide is the List of Australian capital cities and most populous city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of South Australia, and is the fifth-largest city in Australia, with a population of more than 1.1 million....
. He got his start in radio presenting 'Rock and Roll High School', a requests program for high school students, on Triple M
Triple M

The Triple M Network is a radio station network owned by media company Austereo, who also own the Today Network....
. Triple J hired him on 25 August 1990 as part of a major change to its lineup of presenters. The decision to hire Tunn attracted a high amount of media attention. He was, however, unable to go on air at the station until he completed high school. After completing school, Tunn moved to Sydney
Sydney

Sydney is the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million . It is the List of Australian capital cities of New South Wales, and was the site of the first British Empire colony in Australia....
 where the station's studios were located and presented midnight to dawn shows over the Australian summer until be was given his own requests program, called 'J-Klub', in February 1991. In May that year he also began hosting 'The Afternoon Show' on the ABC television station. By 1995, when Tunn was aged 21, he had presented shows on almost all of Triple J's shifts.

He is best known for hosting Triple J's evening request program The Request Fest (now called Super Request
Super Request

Super Request is a weeknight radio program broadcast by Australian national youth radio broadcaster Triple J. It is hosted by Rosie Beaton, and produced by Nat the Rat....
, hosted by Rosie Beaton
Rosie Beaton

Rosemary Beaton is an Australian radio announcer, best known for her work at Australian youth radio station Triple J....
). Michael hosted between 1992 and 1997, and was also the presenter of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as the ABC, is Australia's national Public broadcasting.With a budget of Australian dollar840 million annually, the corporation provides television, radio, online and mobile services throughout metropolitan and regional Australia, as well as overseas through the Australia Net...
 Children's TV program The Afternoon Show and a set of TV documentaries on youth body image during the early to mid 1990s.

Michael is credited with discovering Silverchair
Silverchair

Silverchair is an Australian alternative rock band . The band formed as Innocent Criminals in Newcastle, Australia, New South Wales, in 1992, with their current lineup of vocalist and guitarist Daniel Johns, bass guitarist Chris Joannou, and drummer Ben Gillies....
 in some quarters, he was the first to promote the group on Australian Radio on 'The Request Fest'. The response from the Triple J audience demanded heavy airplay and generated excitement. The demo became the most played track in the show's history. This is what resulted in a major record company bidding war, won by Sony Music.

Tunn quit Triple J in late 1999. At this time he was the station's assistant music director, but was frustrated by a lack of promotion opportunities. In June 2000 he joined 'bigfatradio.com', an online radio station that used proprietary web page streaming technology so that the end user was able to view pages sent from the studio. The station featured many ex Triple J staff including Angela Catterns
Angela Catterns

Angela Catterns is an Australian television and radio personality....
, Andy Glitre, Helen Razer
Helen Razer

Helen Razer is a Melbourne-born and Canberra-raised radio presenter and writer. She is the author of four non-fiction books and a columnist with the Australian version of The Big Issue and Melbourne newspaper The Age....
, Ian Rogerson and Debbie Spillane.

After the collapse of the venture in the Dot-Com bubble burst, he joined the Austereo network in January 2001 and became the Assistant Program Director and Afternoon Presenter of Triple M
Triple M

The Triple M Network is a radio station network owned by media company Austereo, who also own the Today Network....
 Adelaide
Adelaide

Adelaide is the List of Australian capital cities and most populous city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of South Australia, and is the fifth-largest city in Australia, with a population of more than 1.1 million....
 and SAFM
SAfm

SAfm is a national radio station in South Africa owned by the SABC.External links...
. He was sacked from this position on 27 March 2006. He was in talks to return to the ABC at the time of his sacking, and took up a position as music director at 105.7 ABC Darwin
105.7 ABC Darwin

105.7 ABC Darwin is an ABC radio station which is located in Darwin, Northern Territory. It is one of the stations in the ABC Local Radio network and broadcasts on 105.7MHz on the Frequency modulation dial....
 on 30 June. Tunn also took legal action over his sacking, and the matter was settled out of court.