Grace Gibson Productions produces and syndicates radio programs to radio stations in Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific rim, the Caribbean and other overseas locations.

Grace Gibson (a Texan by birth) opened her own production company in 1944, having been brought to Australia in 1934 by the General Manager of the then fledgling 2GB/Macquarie Radio Network. Her task was to set up ARTRANSA (the American Radio Transcription Service of Australia) and then sell and "Australian-ise" American radio soap stories for them. Initially she was only coming here 'on loan' for 6 months but ended up staying a lifetime.

Grace Gibson's great strength was in creating 'daytime' soapies, such as "Doctor Paul", "Portia Faces Life" and "Life Can Be Beautiful" but she also created other drama classics like "Dossier On Dumetrius", "Cattleman" and "I Christopher Macauley". Grace sold the business in 1978, yet Gibson's were still to produce their most popular radio serial of all-time "The Castlereagh Line" which ran for some 910 episodes and is still heard on many commercial and community radio stations to this day.

Comedy has always been a Gibson speciality too, with classics like "Chickenman", "Chuck Chunder" and "Captain Kremmen", and today we are proud to be the distributor of Australian radio's longest running comedy/satire "How Green Was My Cactus".

We also represent the best long-form music shows from overseas syndicators, including "Dick Clark's Rock Roll & Remember","The Classics", "Legends of Jazz", "Backtrax 80s" (& Backtrax 90s), "Casey Kasem's American Top 10"(& Casey Kasem's AT 20), "House of Blues" and "Country Giants" and - in New Zealand and South Pacific Island markets only - "Rick Dees Weekly Top 40" and "Ryan Secrest's American Top 40".

To many people, the name Reg James is synonymous with that of Grace Gibson. Reg started with Gibson's in 1946 as an office-boy and ended up being the best known person in the company, remaining with us for his entire career and progressing through to Sales Manager and eventually General Manager of the company. Even in retirement, he remains our Archives expert , much admired and greatly respected by all who know him.

Grace Gibson Productions today is owned by Bruce Ferrier, who has been in radio since 1972, and in the program syndication business since 1979 (when he headed up Macquarie Special Events, which he re-focussed from being a sports report service into a program producer and syndicator). In 1982 he established Independent Radio Services and produced (mainly in association with Doug Edwards and Triffique Productions) a string of comedy hits including "The Boys From Benalla", "For The Term Of Her Natural Life", the ground-breaking "Samuel Pepys Show" and was part of the birth of "How Green Was My Cactus" which Grace Gibson Productions once again distributes for Triffique. Bruce acquired Grace Gibson Productions in 1991.