Nova Entertainment pays tribute to Mike Perso’s decade of Melbourne breakfast

Mike Perso has been breakfast host on smoothfm and Melbourne’s 91.5 (the station’s name before smoothfm launched on 21 May 2012) for 10 years in May this year.

The experienced broadcaster has performed key roles both off air (PD, programming, promotions) as well as on air for many stations over his 42-year radio career.

Mike Perso and his on-air colleague Jennifer Hansen from smoothfm’s 91.5 More Music Breakfast show have contributed significantly to smoothfm 91.5’s 10+ results with smoothfm 91.5 consistently the #2 FM station in Melbourne for eight consecutive surveys (survey 7 2019 to survey 2 2021).

smoothfm's Mike Perso, Jennifer Hansen and producer Lauren Saylor

Mike Perso and smoothfm 91.5FM 10+ ratings highlights

2021 – smoothfm 91.5 was #2 FM with 8.9% share and 972,000 listeners in survey 1 and #2 FM in survey 2 with 8.4% share and 910,000 listeners

2020 – #2 FM for all surveys

2019 - smoothfm 91.5 was #1 FM for 2 surveys, #2 FM for 3 surveys and #3 FM for three surveys

2018 – smoothfm 91.5 was #1 FM for last four surveys (5, 6, 7 & 8) of the year and #2 FM for first 2 surveys (1 & 2) and #3 FM for surveys 3 & 4

Airing in the competitive Melbourne radio landscape, up against high profile personalities, the More Music Breakfast Show has performed strongly and resonates with the loyal smoothfm audience. The smoothfm 91.5 More Music Breakfast Show was the equal #2 FM breakfast show in Melbourne in survey 1, 2021 with 7.2% share and #3 FM with 6.3% share in survey 2, 2021 and has performed strongly over the past 10 years including - #1 FM breakfast show in Melbourne twice in 2019 and #2 FM five times in 2018.

Perso has often enjoyed success across a long radio career. One of them came many years ago when he was hosting breakfast at Fox FM in 1990 in addition to being station PD. He’s also seen success as a radio programmer over the years.

Perso moved from management back to on air at what was then Vega FM over a decade ago. He also helped program Vega for a time. Other programming gigs around the country included Triple M Brisbane, Gold and Fox in Melbourne. He also did time at TTFM (later Mix 101.1 and now KIIS 101.1, Perso was PD and breakfast host) and consulting for 4BC under previous owners.

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