Community Radio Station gives Hope to charity – Winning story by Daniel Anderson

19 October 2003 Congratulations to Daniel Anderson, the latest winner of our weekly free subscription to radioinfo. If you'd like to submit a story, click on...

The Sydney Opera House Turns 30 – Free Audio

19 October 2003 Those of you using our On This Day Show Prep will know that 30 years ago, Monday, October 20th, (1973) Queen Elizabeth the Second opened...

Radio Award winners – John Laws joins Hall of Fame

19 October 2003 John Laws was inducted into the radio industry's Hall of Fame at the Commercial Radio Awards last Saturday night. Laws received a standing...

Radio conference – new Communications Minister in political panel session

19 October 2003 In the Political Panel Session at this year’s Commercial Radio Conference, the newly appointed Communications Minister Daryl Williams spoke by satellite from Perth and took...

Ray Hadley’s $14 million contract with 2GB

19 October 2003 2GB's morning presenter Ray Hadley is now locked in to the station for 7 years after signing a contract worth $2 million per year. ...

RG Capital’s AGM reports 10% sales increase

18 October 2003 RG Capital Radio’s annual general meeting brought good news for shareholders and the radio industry in general, as Chairman Tim Hughes announced a 10% increase...

Court judgement in favour of World Audio

18 October 2003 Justice McDougall of the NSW Supreme Court this week delivered his judgement in World Audio’s action against GB Radio (Australia) Pty Limited. He found...

Rush Limbaugh admits using prescription drugs

18 October 2003 US talk show host Rush Limbaugh has admitted a problem with prescription drugs after being caught out by a leaked story to a newspaper....

Adelaide stations swapping and swimming

15 October 2003 radioinfo continues its focus on the Adelaide market in the lead-up to the FM commercial licence auction at the end of this month. Following...

Commercial Radio industry’s big weekend – awards and conference details

15 October 2003 Austereo’s Hot 30 Countdown host Kyle Sandilands will host the 15th annual Australian Commercial Radio Awards this Saturday evening. An audience of 800 radio and...

Kylie’s wrong song download

15 October 2003 Here is a salutary warning about trying to be first by breaking the rules. Sometimes it can backfire.

US Media Dissident To Speak in Melbourne

15 October 2003 The founder of the award-winning US public affairs program "Alternative Radio" will speak on the media and Iraq in Melbourne at 6.30pm next Tuesday 28...

ABC Radio surveying Australians about their favourite book

15 October 2003 ABC Radio is on a quest to find the Australian book that means the most to Australian readers. In conjunction with the 40th anniversary of...

Senator Santoro says ABC should support ‘Our Troops’

15 October 2003 AM Presenter Linda Mottram, reporter John Shovelan and News Executive Max Uechtritz again came in for flack about bias this week in The Senate....

Triple J goes live at the Arias

15 October 2003 On Tuesday October 21st, Robbie Buck’s Home & Hosed program will set up shop backstage at the Australian music industry’s night of nights – The...

More good revenue news for regional radio

15 October 2003 With the advertising industry enjoying better times recently, Regional Radio appears to have been discovered as one of the media opportunities of 2003. Regional Radio...

New community licence for Moranbah

15 October 2003 The ABA has allocated a new community radio licence on FM 96.9 to Rock FM Association in Moranbah, Queensland. Rock FM Association Inc.

ABA proposes changes to radio services in Cocos Islands

15 October 2003 The Australian Broadcasting Authority is proposing to make additional channel capacity available on FM 105.3 at Home Island, Cocos Islands, for a community radio service....

‘Pirate’ comedian snares night gig on 96FM Perth

15 October 2003 Perth radio has been stirred up again, this time with a subversive comedian worming his way into a job on 96fm. Employees at Perth’s...

Sacked ABC staff re-employed

15 October 2003 40 ABC staff who left the broadcaster during the purge by former managing director Jonathan Shier are now back at work with the ABC according...

New Communications Minister will front this week’s radio conference

14 October 2003 The newly appointed Federal Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Daryl Williams, will make his first official address to the media industry at...

Harker leaving 2UE

13 October 2003 2UE evening presenter Jon Harker has not renewed his contract with 2UE and will leave the station soon. Harker told radioinfo: "We came to...

Senior management changes at Austereo

13 October 2003 Austereo has announced changes to its senior management team. Austereo’s Chief Executive Officer, Michael Anderson says these changes “are an integral part of Austereo’s...

Commercial Radio ad revenues up 14%

13 October 2003 The Commercial Radio industry received some good news in the week leading up to its big conference – advertising revenue rose by 14.2% to...

3AK Up For Auction Late November

12 October 2003 Staff were told of the impending auction at a meeting on Friday. One staff member told radioinfo: "The 3AK staff expect to depart at...

IBOC turned back on but still facing challenges

12 October 2003 The US digital radio technology IBOC, which was plagued with transmission faults and was recently turned off, is now back on air again thanks...

Electronic documentation needed to make radio more accountable

12 October 2003 US Radio Advertising Bureau head Gary Fries believes “end-to-end electronic documentation is necessary for broadcasters to provide better verification and overall accountability.” Speaking at...

3AK dumps newsroom

10 October 2003 In a cost cutting move that is planned to make 3AK more attractive to buyers, station management has dumped its newsroom. DCL's Victorian Radio...

ABC Review Panel upholds more of Senator Alston’s complaints

10 October 2003 The ABC’s Independent Complaints Review Panel has upheld 17 of Senator Alston’s 68 complaints about bias in ABC Radio’s AM program, 15 more than...

Radio Exec Salaries Revealed

9 October 2003 According to published annual reports, the top earner in radio is SCBN's Tony Bell at $1,220,000. A story that appeared in today's Australian also...