Jase & PJ

In October 2017, Australian Radio Network announced that Matt Tilley and Meshel Laurie will leave the station at the end of the year and will be replaced by Jason Hawkins and Polly 'PJ' Harding from ZM in New Zealand.

Jason Hawkins and Polly 'PJ' Harding moved to Melbourne from New Zealand where they have hosted drive on ZM since 2015.[2][3] PJ was called PJ rather than Polly on air because there was already a presenter called Polly on ZM's breakfast show (Polly Gillespie). Previously, Hawkins has hosted Labby, Stav & Abby on B105 in Brisbane, worked with Kyle and Jackie O at 2DAY FM and hosted the Hot30 Countdown.[4]

During 2019, Jase & PJ hosted a weekend breakfast show on New Zealand's, ZM which was packaged content from their Melbourne breakfast show, having previously hosted a drive show on the network throughout 2018.[5]

In February 2020, Australian Radio Network announced that they had extended Jason Hawkins and Polly 'PJ' Harding's contract until 2022.[6]

In March 2020, Jase & PJ extended until 10am due to the COVID-19 pandemic for 2 months whilst the country was in lockdown. The show returned to 6am-9am in May.[7]

In September 2020, Harding returned to New Zealand to co-host the show for the remainder of 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, for family reasons. Harding returned in person on the 11 January 2021.

The show returned on air on the 11 January 2021. It was revealed retired Australian rules footballer Dane Swan would join the show as a regular commentator each Monday in 2021.[8]

In a special podcast released on 15 January 2021 titled "Family Meeting: Someone's leaving" the shows executive producer Alex Perigo announced he would be leaving the show on 19 February and returning to his home country of New Zealand.[9][10] Caitlin McArthur was announced as the shows executive producer replacing Alex Perigo in February 2021. Prior to joining Australian Radio Network, Caitlin was a senior national show producer with the Carrie & Tommy show at Southern Cross Austero.[11]

Jase & PJ have completed a number of on-air marathons, including:

• a 51-hour on-air marathon in April 2015 on ZM
• a 52-hour on-air marathon in August 2016 on ZM[12]
• a 53-hour on-air marathon in May 2017 on ZM
• a 56-hour on-air marathon in June 2019 on KIIS 101.1

The rules are simple No stopping, no sleeping

A team of people are hand at all times to help Jase and PJ and find fun new ways to keep them awake. And a medical professional monitor their wellbeing onsite during the duration of the broadcast.

• 5k Word Play: A word association game. The caller selects Jase or PJ to play. If Jase or PJ match 5 words specified by the caller from a range of topics the caller wins $5,000.
• 6 o' Honk: The caller attempts to play a song via their car horn. Jase & PJ attempt to guess the song from the honks. If they guess correctly the callers song will be played on air.
• Yay or Nay?: Producer Alex poses questions to Jase & PJ prompting a Yay or Nay response.
• Celeb HQ: PJ provides the morning's celebrity gossip and news throughout the show.
• Weekly Wrap: Every Friday, PJ takes the mic and wraps up the week.
• Free Airtime Friday: Every Friday they give callers exactly 9 seconds of free air to plug their business or whatever is going on
• Epic Tales: Listeners share their epic tales with Jase & PJ, revealing moments that have changed their life.
• Give Us the Facts: The listener gives Jase & PJ a few facts about themselves and they will work out what job they do. eg. What time do you knock off, what kind of car do you drive and what footwear do you wear at work.

• Riddly Diddly Doo
• What Are You Cooking?: A caller lists 3 ingredients that feature in a meal that is being prepared, Jase and PJ will attempt to guess what it is.
• Birthday Balls: Jase or PJ will select a birthday month at random from a cage of ‘birthday balls’ in the studio. Listeners who have a birthday within the selected month are then invited to call into the show. Then if a listener has a birthday on the same date that has been drawn they will win the competition. The segment is currently being rested (October 2020).

A podcast of the show is produced each weekday. Each episode includes an intro by Jase, PJ and a rotation of on and off air team members which routinely is over 30 minutes in duration additional to the on air radio show. More recently other team members have debuted additional podcasts within the Jase and PJ feed. They include:

• Help Me, Rhonda (Sacha and Veggie Boy): Listeners submit questions on a range of topics with each question being asked anomalously by 'Rhonda'.
• No Context (Narc and Tonarotti): Audio grabs from Jase and PJ are played without context and discussed, usually with hilarious responses.
• Banana Phone (Producer Alex and Hot Guy): Each episode is devoted to one or two listeners for the team get to know them better. Each guest is able to play Yay or Nay? with a set selection of questions at the end.

• Jase & PJ
• KIIS 101.1