Department of Communications releases annual report

29 October 2008 Stephen Conroy’s Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has tabled its Annual Report in Federal Parliament. Department Secretary Patricia...

New technologies the focus of ACMA’s annual report

29 October 2008 It’s annual report season in Canberra. This week ACMA released its annual report with the central focus being “the rapid evolution and uptake of new...

Austereo signs digital radio equipment deal with All in Media

29 October 2008 All In Media (AIM) has just signed a major deal with Austereo to power data applications across all the company's digital stations. Digital radio is...

Mikey Robins flying high and jumping for joy after vega overtakes Triple M

28 October 2008 Nielsen’s 7th survey for 2008 turned out to be a big milestone for Sydney’s vega 95.3 fm. Having trailed the commercial field ever since its...

Nova Sydney plays a prank on Nova Perth – Buchanan dissed: Audio

27 October 2008 Perth’s Nova 937’s Breakfast team Nathan and Nat received a prank call from Kate Ritchie - with bad Rosso in her ear. Kate called in...

Free online digital radio training modules

26 October 2008 Digital Radio Australia has developed a range of free training tutorials for program makers and retailers. The tutorials are available online at the Digital Radio...

Rupert Murdoch to Deliver 2008 Boyer Lectures on Radio National

26 October 2008 Australia’s most successful businessman, News Corporation’s Chairman and Chief Executive officer, Rupert Murdoch AC, will deliver ABC Radio National’s 2008 Boyer Lecture series titled A...

Greg Henricks back home and talking again

23 October 2008 To my family, friends and fellow broadcast travellers. What a difference a week makes.

Fairfax sells 2UE’s call sign to Nintendo

23 October 2008 Fairfax Radio Network’s Sydney radio station 2UE has announced plans to change its name and on-air call sign. In a shock move the iconic Sydney...

Triple M shows feminine side

23 October 2008 With an idea that could be made into a script for a chick flick, Triple M Adelaide’s recent “Who wants to Date My Dad” breakfast...

APN merges Outdoor and Radio under one group executive

22 October 2008 APN has announced the renewal of CEO Brendan Hopkins’ contract for another three years. In a statement to the stock exchange today, APN also announced...

Australian Independent Country Artist 1st to deliver Blu-ray music video

22 October 2008 Brad Cole is taking country music to the forefront of technology with the release of Australia’s 1st locally produced and manufactured Blu-ray music video. Not...

The Chaser to chase the US election on triple j

22 October 2008 The Chaser’s Chris Taylor and Craig Reucassel will be taking over the triple j airwaves to present a daily program covering the US election called...

Radio streaming and podcasts on the increase: ACMA research

22 October 2008 Australians use the internet most to email, do on-line banking, pay bills, get news & weather and check maps. Research released by the Australian...

RN specialist program changes not driven by budget cuts: Mark Scott

22 October 2008 Speaking at the regular Senate Estimates hearing this week, ABC Managing Director Mark Scott talked about the corporations push into online, and also tackled the...

Worldspace in Bankruptcy court: gets funds to pay salaries a bit longer

22 October 2008 Worldspace has received approval in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the first part of an interim Debtor-in-Possession (DIP) financing in an amount up to...

ACCC begins consultation on digital radio access undertakings

22 October 2008 The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a discussion paper on access undertakings for digital radio transmission as the paper work continues towards the...

Final batch of ACRAs speeches winners didn’t make and you didn’t hear

20 October 2008 In this final instalment in our series of ACRA speeches that never were, we’ll “hear” from two Music Directors, Presenters of Sports and News, a...

Radio National presenter suspended for critical comments

20 October 2008 Radio National Religion Report presenter Stephen Crittenden has been suspended for making unauthorised comments about RN programming changes on the show last week (see our...

Nova sets its sites on the iPhone

20 October 2008 The technical boffins at what Nova calls its “Fun and Games Department” have shown that they actually do some useful stuff by launching new national...

Two more community stations run foul of ACMA

20 October 2008 The Australian Communications and Media Authority has found the licensees of community radio stations 2PSR Port Stephens and 3BBB Ballarat breached the conditions of their...

‘Glamour and Grit’ the theme for new Austereo home in Melbourne: Studio photos

19 October 2008 After twenty years in St Kilda, Austereo has made the move to the new Clarendon Street premises in South Melbourne, which they say houses the...

dig Digital Radio gets intimate with artists and audience

19 October 2008 dig digital radio and the 774 ABC Melbourne Evening Show with Derek Guille held an intimate evening with Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu in the ABC Southbank...

Media has dropped the ball on serious current affairs

17 October 2008 Commercial television has dropped the ball on current affairs according to Ray Martin, who delivered the annual Andrew Olle Media Lecture last night at the...

WIN Radio gives line-up a shake

16 October 2008 In what they say is an effort to maximise the talent and resources across the WIN Radio Network, i98 Wollongong and C91.3 Campbelltown will feature...

Who’d pay $500 for this smelly old broken pair of Converse shoes?

16 October 2008 Sydney’s 103.2’s Dan Widdowson would. Dan, who co-hosts the breakfast show host with Aaron Wright travelled to Haiti with a team from Compassion Australia earlier...

Latest news on Greg Henricks from son Blake

16 October 2008 Hi all, It seems everyone is keen to get updates on Greg’s condition, so here is another chapter in what I hope will be a...

ABC Radio National confirms 2009 broadcast schedule

15 October 2008 ABC Radio National has confirmed its program schedule for next year (see our earlier story). The new lineup will begin on Monday 26 January 2009,...

Next Gen radio moguls plant an acorn in Warragul and Charters Towers

15 October 2008 What were Guy Dobson and Rex Morris thinking when they quietly bought two bush stations from Macquarie Southern Cross Radio two and a half thousand...

It’s a hit! CRASH FM

15 October 2008 The students in the Commercial Radio course at Swinburne in Melbourne chose the name themselves. CRASH FM stands for Commercial Radio At Swinburne Hawthorn.