Producing audio/visual content with a Down Under perspective
Howdy Partners Media provides voice overs, corporate & event hosting, press releases and media training along with a large collection of podcast shows and content. Southern Skies Media are working with Howdy Partners Media to provide audio production services for their verious podcasts, editing the raw audio for each episode and merging it with additional components to create high quality audio content.
Working with Australian Defence Magazine, Southern Skies Media are producing the Australian Defence Media Podcast covering topics related to developments within the Australian Defence Force, the Australian Defence Industry environment, the economics of Defence and strategic planning of interest to the Australian region.
Co-hosted by Grant McHerron of Southern Skies Media, Katherine Ziesing, Managing Editor of ADM, and Ewen Levick, ADM’s Associate Editor, the aim of the series is to offer a blend of topical and sponsored content that brings together discussions from Defence, industry, academia and experts from a range of speakers. The various topics and themes will be explored in a conversational way including a focus on innovation and R&D efforts with coverage of the SME community as well as the Defence Primes.
Grant was invited by the Royal Australian Air Force’s airshow event organisers to join the commentary team for the 2019 RAAF Air Show at RAAF Base Edinburgh.
The Paul Bennet Air Shows team worked with the Tumut Aero CLub to produce an air display on Saturday the 2nd of November. The Tumut Air Show & Fly In included displays by the RAAF’s C-27J Spartan, Army’s S-70 Blackhawk helicopter, warbirds, formation flights and much more.
Grant drove up from Melbourne and performed commentary for the event, including interviews with local pilots and Australian Defence Force representatives.
The Airventure Australia event was held in Parkes this time and Grant was there to perform commentary, PA duties and assist with general setup tasks. Steve was also at the show, managing the airside ground movements from the Friday through Sunday.
Sadly, a major dust storm and high winds followed by rain prevented flying on the Saturday and lead to all non-essential personnel being asked to leave the site for safety reasons. Fortunately, the weather had improved dramatically for the Sunday and the air show was able to proceed as planned.
The Airwaves by Aviation Trader podcast was started by Steve & Grant working with Tony Shaw from the Aviation Trader magazine. The podcast ran during 2019 and 2020 with Steve & Grant hosting the show while Aviation Trader staff provided the editorial direction.
Sadly, COVID killed the market and stopped production of the show. The show was wound up when Aviation Trader was purchased by Sandhills.
An archive of the Airwaves by Aviation Trader episodes can be found on Southern Skies Media’s Airwaves by Aviation Trader site.
Grant joined Ando to perform commentary for the Wings Over Illawarra 2019 air show.
Grant joined Ando to perform commentary on both days of the Hunter Valley Air Show 2019 which was held at the Cessnock airport.
Grant provided commentary at the 2019 Australian International Airshow (aka Avalon) for Paul Andronicou, from Paul Andronicou Aerobatics, who was flying his Extra 300S. You can see more of Paul’s flying on his YouTube channel.
The Lismore air show was originally scheduled for earlier in 2017 but, due to extreme weather conditions and flooding, was deferred until Saturday 29th July. Grant travelled to Lismore with the Paul Bennet Air Shows team to provide commentary for the event. It was a spectacular event which drew a good crowd of people (estimated as 4,000 to 6,000) under clear blue skies and light winds.
