A familiar face to Australian Television audiences for over a decade and a half, Jabba started out on Pay-TV in 1995 on “Red – The Music Channel” on Galaxy TV.
Originally broadcast into a handful of homes, including his own, Jabba slowly and painstakingly made his name as a first class interviewer and presenter on Channel [V], spearheading Subscription TV’s push into it’s current penetration of over 1.5 million homes nationwide.
Leaving [V] to commence an on-air position in radio for newly launched Nova 106.9FM in Brisbane in 2005 brought a fresh raft of challenges and opportunities and it was only a matter of months before Jabba was back in Sydney having been offered the chance to host Nova’s first Live National Radio Show – “The Official Motorola Aria Chart Show”, which ran from January 2006 to December 2008.
Jabba’s time at Nova turned out to be Award Winning – scoring the Queensland Radio Awards “Goldie” for Best New Talent in 2006, on to ACRA awards for “Best Music Personality” (‘07), “Best Produced Music Special- Jabba & Foo Fighters” (‘08), and culminated in GQ Magazine’s Man Of The Year – “Radio Personality Of The Year” (‘08).
In 2006 The Lifestyle Channel together with Freehand TV created “The Great BBQ Challenge” and this project pulled in some of the biggest viewing numbers seen on the Lifestyle Channel for the Australia Day Grand Final in January 2007.
Jabba featured on the cover of the Foxtel and Austar magazines over this Summer period – traditionally Pay-TV’s peak viewing time.
In 2008 Jabba embarked on the MySpace RoadTour - the largest online production to date created by Fremantle Productions and Fox Interactive to find MySpace Australia’s “Most Extraordinary User” and award them a $10,000 prize.
Over Summer 2009-2010 Jabba was the face of MAX TV’s “PartyMax” – helping to celebrate Xmas , NYE and weekends!
Jabba has appeared in the Television series and feature film of “Fat Pizza”, in the role of Davo Dinkum, and has also acted in “Swift & Shift Couriers” on SBS playing “Dazza”. He has appeared in the Alex Proyas film “Garage Days” as himself.
He has presented Aria Awards, hosted The Jack Awards & the OzMusic Awards, covered the Big Day Out since it’s inception, & featured in the documentary “Homebake-Rebel With A Cause”.
January 2010 sees Jabba host the first ever Rolling Stone Awards in Sydney.
Jabba has written for many publications including “The Sun-Herald”, Grazia and Rolling Stone Magazine.
In September 2009 Jabba went global in the role of “Hayman” - a scarecrow, in a co-production called “DirtGirlWorld” that airs on television in Australia, Canada and The U.K.
In his decade and half of broadcasting to Australian audiences, Jabba has had many fruitful relationships with dozens of the world’s leading brands including Pepsi and Coca-Cola, Sony and Panasonic , Microsoft and Apple, Optus, Vodafone, Virgin Mobile and Telstra, Nokia, Sony Ericson, Motorola , Jack Daniels, Sanitarium, Kelloggs, Nestle, McDonalds, Mattel, Kia, Billabong, and Cadbury, as well as many State and Federal Government Initiatives & Charities.
All the while maintaining a credibility and sense of realness that many feel is unrivalled in this country.
A versatile broadcaster, performer, actor, interviewer, writer, presenter, DJ, VJ, Comic, voice-over artist and much more, Jabba is also the proud father of three children ranging in age from 2 to 13.
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