The Triple M Network is an active rock radio network in Australia owned by media company Austereo, who also own the Today Network.

The first Triple M station was 2MMM Sydney which commenced broadcasting on 2 August 1980. Together with then rival station 2DAY (now also owned by Austereo), it was the first commercial FM radio station in Sydney. The station has always been primarily a rock music station, but with a more blue collar/hard rock (Jimmy Barnes, Aerosmith, Guns N' Roses, AC/DC as some examples) emphasis than other stations in Melbourne in particular. Throughout the 1980s, Triple M was one of the highest-rating radio stations in Sydney, spearheaded by its morning show presented by Doug Mulray and featuring the writing of and occasional appearances by Andrew Denton. For all of this period and into the 1990s, Triple M's promotional campaign featured the character "Dr Dan", a guitar-playing satyr with wings, inspired by artwork by legendary Australian cartoonist Peter Ledger, and a theme song that was an extended reworking of the Mike Batt track "Introduction (The Journey of a Fool)", from his 1979 album Tarot Suite.

Jake Carlisle (born 1 October 1991) is an Australian rules footballer for the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Carlisle was selected by Essendon with the twenty-fourth pick in the 2009 AFL Draft. Like fellow draftee Jake Melksham, Carlisle is a local to the Essendon area. He had previously been playing with the Calder Cannons in the TAC Cup and Craigieburn in the EDFL. He represented Vic Metro in the 2009 AFL National Under 18 Championships and was also part of the Calder Cannons 2009 TAC Cup Premiership winning team.

Carlisle made his AFL debut on 13 August 2010, against Collingwood, a game which the young Essendon team lost by 98 points. Essendon coach Matthew Knights claimed that Carlisle and fellow debutant, Stewart Crameri, will have "come away from [the match] with enormous knowledge of how hard they have to train now and how hard they have to work in the off-season to keep building their football."

Carlisle was awarded a nomination for the AFL Rising Star award for round 9, 2012 where, at only 20 years of age, took seven marks and gathered 13 possessions in an 11-goal win to disrupt Greater Western Sydney's first home game at their new stadium.

Nick Malceski (born 15 August 1984) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League. Malceski is a Macedonian Australian, being of ethnic Macedonian heritage.

Malceski was recruited from the Eastern Rangers by the Sydney Swans in the 2002 AFL Draft. He was drafted in Sydney's 5th and last round selection at 64th overall.

In his first year at the club, the talented midfielder played in the Wizard Home Loans Cup and then followed up with a full season for the Swans Reserves, where he impressed coaching staff with his magnificent disposal skills on both sides of his body and excellent decision-making abilities in both attack and defence. After a successful first season with the Swans, Malceski and coaching staff had high hopes for him making his debut for the seniors in the 2004 premiership season. Unfortunately, Malceski ruptured his left anterior cruciate ligament during a trial game, requiring him to have a knee reconstruction, thus ruining any hopes of him making a seniors debut in 2004.

David Zaharakis (born 21 February 1990) is an Australian rules footballer for Essendon in the Australian Football League who is of Greek heritage.

Zaharakis was selected by Essendon, the team he supported all his life, with their second (23rd overall) pick in the 2008 AFL Draft. He had previously been playing with the Northern Knights in the TAC Cup and was captain in 2008. He finished Year 12 in the same year at Marcellin College where he also won the Terrence Cleary Memorial Sporting Award for sportsmanship and sporting excellence.

Zaharakis was awarded Essendon's number 11 guernsey which was previously worn by Damien Peverill and has been his number throughout most of his junior career. Zaharakis kicked his first goal for Essendon in the final seconds of the 2009 Anzac Day match to beat Collingwood by five points.

He played 10 games in his debut season and 20 in 2010. His 2011 season has been his most consistent and impressive season to date. He capped off the year by winning his first Crichton Medal as Essendon's best & fairest player.