Radio host Ian 'Macca' McNamara is to broadcast his popular weekend ABC talkback show from Cook Park this Sunday.
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Mr McNamara said it was the first time he had done an outside broadcast of his Australia All Over show from Orange.
"We're in Cook Park on Sunday morning," he said.
"We haven't been in Orange for ages."
The show will be broadcast from 5.30am-10am.
He said the public was invited to come to the park to be part of the show.
"We'll talk to the locals and not so locals," he said.
Mr McNamara said while most of his shows were broadcast from a studio he enjoyed outside broadcasts in towns across Australia.
He said he recently did a broadcast from Condobolin where about 150-200 people attended.
Mr McNamara said it was likely a similar-size crowd would be in Cook Park.
He said a service club would be cooking breakfast to help feed the early risers in the park.
Mr McNamara said he expected to arrive in Orange earlier in the week to organise some guests and have a chat to locals on the street.
He said with his broadcast on the same day as the opening of the Fairbridge Children's Park at Molong he expected people involved in that event would also attend Cook Park.
Mr McNamara said he was not on air last Sunday to allow for a special International Women's Day broadcast and therefore had been unable to promote his visit to Orange.
However, he would promote the visit on Facebook.
While Mr McNamara is now recognised as the long-standing host of a show popular with grey nomads, travellers and people seeking help with regional and rural causes, his path to this role was not straightforward.
According to the ABC website Mr McNamara said he trained in industrial relations before getting a job as a finance clerk at the ABC.
He said he moved into the industrial relations department as a clerk before taking courses in radio production that eventually led to him being a trainee reporter on regional radio and an on-air announcer.
"My Sunday morning show has become the focus of my life really, not only because I enjoy revealing some of the characters of Australia but also because I have made so many wonderful friends," Mr McNamara said.
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