As a production assistant for Top Billing, he had opportunities to meet a number of celebrities like the Black Eyed Peas, which he counts as a career highlight.Īfter graduating, Hendricks worked as an editorial assistant and later a staff writer at Men’s Health magazine. My family and friends have seen me at my worst - hustling for jobs and battling - and they have always been supportive,” he says.Īs a student, his in-service training was with Tshwelopele Productions in Cape Town. Sometimes it was tough, and there were sacrifices and failures along the way.
His journey to RSG, where he now produces the morning news and current affairs show Praat Saam alongside presenter Lynette Francis and covers a number of sports events, was not always an easy one. Despite her initial reservations, his grandmother was the first listener to tune in, Hendricks says. During his time as a student, he also got his first radio show at MFM 92.6 community radio in Stellenbosch. He went on to study journalism at CPUT, graduating in 2005. “My mother has always been supportive, but my grandmother urged me to forget the idea and focus on getting a ‘real job’ one day,” he says. At his home in Strand, near Cape Town, Hendricks told his family of this goal. “I knew I’d be on radio one day - I just didn’t know how,” he says.
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Sports commentator, TV analyst and RSG sports presenter and talk show producer Jody Hendricks is living a dream that started at age 14, when he heard Mark Gilman on radio and decided he too wanted to be on air.
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