22 March 2019 2Day FM's Grant Denyer was in Perth this week promoting the new series of Dancing with the Stars, which hen hosts with rival Sydney breakfast...
18 March 2019 The SCMA X Awards were announced last Saturday at a ceremony in Wagga, during the SCMA's annual conference dinner. The award winners are: Best locally...
17 March 2019 The ABC’s Director of News, Analysis & Investigations, Gaven Morris this week spoke with Peter Fray on 2SER’s Fourth Estate program. He discussed the ABC’s independence,...
16 March 2019 At this year’s SCMA conference the association’s seven board members discussed the roles of community radio boards and the importance of community radio. “Boards need a...
15 March 2019 The 2019 Southern Community Media Association conference is underway this weekend in Wagga. On the conference agenda are sessions about managing a non-profit small...
15 March 2019 The 2018 Quill Awards for Excellence in Victorian Journalism were presented last night at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne. 29 categories were announced, along with...
14 March 2019 Sydney’s FBi Radio is bringing back its auction of musician-made masterpieces on canvas, Brush with Fame. Brush With Fame offers bidders the chance to own...
14 March 2019 Leroy Brown’s Airheads podcast interviews leaders in the radio business with the aim of getting the best tips for anyone aspiring to a career in...
12 March 2019 Amazon Alexa has just launched new skills for those who forget the names of songs. Song ID, released this week, is a virtual radio announcer,...
12 March 2019 ABC staff in the national broadcaster's Sydney headquarters have been warned to beware of people tailgating them through security, after an incident where an intruder...
11 March 2019 Our analysis of the networks and cities for this survey. Raw results here, Trend Graphs here, Spin Cycle here, Digital results here.
11 March 2019 Here are the trend graphs for each city for the latest survey. View the raw results here and Spin Cycle here.
11 March 2019 2Day beats Triple M. Nova back on top in Brisbane, drops in Sydney. Results for the first radio ratings survey of the year have just been...
9 March 2019 Steve Ahern's assessment of the continuing evolution of audio devices and consumption. A few years ago I started tracking the divergence of media consumption devices,...
9 March 2019 Amazon Alexa… with a knife… in the kitchen. As an aside to our developing series of reports on smart speakers comes a story...
9 March 2019 Steve Ahern experiences immersive object-based 3D audio. At last week’s Digital Broadcasting Symposium in Kuala Lumpur I was treated to a demo of Fraunhofer’s latest innovation,...
7 March 2019 “Soundcards are so very 2005.” Macquarie Media’s Chief Technology Officer Aaron Alphonso, this week delivered a wide ranging technology presentation in Malaysia at the annual...
3 August 2001 The latest ratings have been released (Survey 4 2001). See Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth.
15 April 2001 DMG and ARN have teamed up to buy the new Brisbane FM licence for $67 million. DMG and ARN have formed a joint venture company...
13 April 2001 The AFTRS students working on Show Radio this year can now rightly claim to be Sydney's newest station - going on air just a few...
13 April 2001 Austereo has shut down the internet audio streams of its radio stations. Over the past few weeks FOX FM, 2DAYFM and other Austereo stations have...
14 February 2001 Former Triple J drive personalities Merrick and Rosso have been confirmed as the breakfast presenters for DMG's new Sydney station. DMG Group PD Dean Buchanan...
29 November 2000 In this current debate about audience and restructure the ABC has not pitched the extent of its influence well enough to convince politicians of their...
29 November 2000 After hosting the national "Nightzone" programme for the last year, Phil Lentz has moved into the Programme Director's chair at Sky Radio in Sydney, replacing...
29 November 2000 The Australian Radio Network has appointed American Bob Longwell as its new CEO. He has been a manager of radio stations for 20 years and...
29 November 2000 An attitudinal study by Edelman’s “StrategyOne” has found that consumers trust Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) more than they trust business. NGOs include charities and lobby groups...
29 November 2000 Sydney talk station 2GB has appointed Chris Smith as its new Head of News and Current Affairs and is working on further changes to improve...
29 November 2000 It’s contract renewal time in the big city markets. Expect to hear lots about people dropping in and dropping out of the program schedules in...
29 November 2000 A manager, who did not wish to be named, told AMT this week that radio presenters are getting the message about cash-for-comment and are fast...
29 November 2000 As part of 2WSFM’s Spring Cleanup the station has spotted many duplicate CDs cluttering up the vaults in its music library, so has decided to...