Mediaweek visited David Penberthy and Will Goodings in the Fiveaa studios last Thursday. Today, we look behind the scenes and detail the support team putting the breakfast show to air.
Who’s who at Fiveaa breakfast
Lucy Lokan: Executive producer
Sam Daddow: Assistant producer
Tom Rehn: Sports reporter
Jade Robran: Roving reporter (three mornings a week)
Brooklyn Munn: Digital producer breakfast and drive (Facebook/YouTube live-streaming and social media)
Tim Ashdown: Digital producer (works across all Fiveaa shows)
Kendall Brettig: Newsreader
Graham Goodings: Newsreader
Jess Adamson: Newsreader (Fridays)
Executive producer Lucy Lokan arrives at the Fiveaa office between 4am and 4.30am. The show is live on air at 6.05am after the 6am news bulletin. This morning, Lokan was also doubling as news presenter as part of her role as a “makeshift newsreader”. Lokan started in sales at Nova Entertainment before spending time as a breakfast producer and newsreader, then moving into the EP role.
Lucy Lokan with Will Goodings
Sam Daddow also hosts an early breakfast show at 5am for 30 minutes on weekdays. He moved to Fiveaa from SCA towards the end of Covid, at the start of 2022.
Tom Rehn also does a sports half-hour program from 5.30am. In addition to well over a decade at Nova Entertainment, Rehn is a regular on-air at Nine Adelaide, where he presents sport on Nine News Adelaide.
Jade Robran was hosting afternoons at Fiveaa for two years. She stepped away from the shift toward the end of 2023. She joined David and Will early this year as a roving reporter. Robran has also worked for Seven as a sports presenter and on Sunrise.
Brooklyn Munn worked through the Nova Entertainment ranks from sales and reception to her digital role.
Tim Ashdown celebrates a decade at Nova Entertainment this year after working for the South Australian Tourism Commission.
Supercharging the newsroom
Newsroom makeover: Adelaide journalists Jess Adamson and Graeme Goodings were added to the Fiveaa breakfast newsroom earlier in 2024. Goodings presents bulletins on the half hour from 5:30am to 9am on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings.
Will Goodings’ dad Graeme was previously the Saturday newsreader at the station for the past five years. This year, he moved into weekdays. The news veteran was the Seven News presenter in Adelaide for over 30 years.
Adamson presents news bulletins for breakfast on Friday mornings.
Kendall Brettig is a breakfast newsreader on Monday mornings each week.
Speaking earlier this year about the changes, Fiveaa station manager Craig Munn said: “The addition of two of Adelaide’s best and proven journalists will strengthen our breakfast team and allow us to continue delivering Adelaide’s most connected, relevant and news-driven breakfast program to our listeners.”
David and Will TV
Streaming breakfast video
Lokan told Mediaweek the breakfast show is live-streamed for the full three hours on both Facebook and YouTube. “We call it our Sunrise. We can do a news ticker, and we can add weather graphics.”
Fiveaa also streams its afternoon show with Stacey Lee plus the drive show with Stephen Rowe and Tim Ginever.
The David and Will full-show podcast is published daily. There are also separate edits of the feature interviews from each show published online.
David Penberthy with Tom Rehn, Will Goodings, and Jade Robran last Friday in Elder Park
Breakfast team contributors
Fiveaa breakfast under David and Will has assembled an impressive team they lead onto the airwaves each week.
In no particular order, they include Matthew Abraham (formerly ABC Radio), Philip Coorey (The AFR), David Koch (finance and footy), Stacey Lee (formerly ABC Radio, now Fiveaa afternoon host), Jade Robran (roving reporter ex-Seven), and footballers Josh Rachele (Crows) and Dan Houston (Port).
The station parted company with breakfast contributor Jon Blake last year. He hasn’t been replaced directly on breakfast. Penberthy noted they have filled the show with more news content since then.