Radio
Doyle and Pickhaver wrote and hosted the live, improvised, and satirical radio program This Sporting Life on Triple J from 1986 to 2008. They also broadcast annual live commentaries of the NRL and AFL grand finals (dubbed the Festival of the Boot, Parts I and II) and the Melbourne Cup. Commentaries for all three matches of the annual rugby league State of Origin series are also broadcast (main article: Roy and HG's State of Origin commentary), and they have also broadcast live commentaries of other major events, including the Bicentennial celebrations on 26 January 1988 and the 2007 Australian federal election (Indecision 07). They also provided a half-hour coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics every weekday under the guise of the Golden Ring Show'.
They left Triple J in 2008 and, from 12 January 2009, presented the drive-time program The Life on the Triple M network, on Mondays and Fridays.
In 2011, 'The Life' show was cut to Fridays only, with the last ever episode broadcast on 25 November 2011.
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