Community broadcasters slam ACMA for proposed frequency changes

8 September 2008 The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) is furious about a proposal to move several community regional radio stations to lower powered frequencies to make...

CROW FM Raises $12,500 for The Relay for Life

6 September 2008 With handles that make you wonder why their parents bothered to choose names at all, breakfast host KRATZIE (Wayne Kratzmann), sports commentator SKIP and friend...

Flo Rida Rocks the Roundhouse as Nova jams it up your class

6 September 2008 Round three of Nova 969’s Jam It Up Your Class was a biggy with Flo Rida playing to a crowd of thousands at the UNSW...

Vale Michael Pate and Kevin Heinze

3 September 2008 Australian radio lost two icons this week, Kevin Heinze and Michael Pate. Pate began his career as a writer and announcer for ABC Radio...

New CBAA General Manager wants improved funding for the sector

3 September 2008 Michele Bawden begins her role as General Manager of the community broadcasting sector’s CBAA at the end of this month. It is at a time...

Research fellowships at National Film and Sound Archive

3 September 2008 The National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) is inviting research proposals from academics, performers, artists, audiovisual industry and archive professionals to draw fresh, innovative perspectives...

Having trouble logging in to radioinfo?

3 September 2008 As you may have noticed a few weeks ago, we had some trouble with a hacker on this site. Since then we have been told...

Radio New Zealand International 60th Anniversary Documentary

3 September 2008 Radio New Zealand International's Mailbox program features David Ricquish of the Radio Heritage Foundation looking at the history of shortwave radio from New Zealand. On September...

Nine finalists announced for New Artist to Radio competition

3 September 2008 A nation-wide hunt for Australia’s best unsigned musical acts for commercial radio is underway with the announcement of nine finalists, three in each of the...

Nova values time wasting

3 September 2008 Wasting time forwarding? Got a hot YouTube video? Nova 100 wants to know about it. Getting in on the You Tube phenomenon, Nova...

Absolute changes planned in UK radio as Virgin deflowered

3 September 2008 After its sale to Times of India Group last month, Virgin Radio in the UK will change its name, as the Virgin brand will revert...

Multi-profile DAB receiver from Frontier Silicon

3 September 2008 Frontier Silicon, the leading supplier of digital radio technology, is enabling manufacturers around the world to produce a single low-cost digital radio receiver with full...

Austereo not drowning just foxing on digital launch

2 September 2008 Austereo CEO, Michael Anderson told Neil Shoebridge in the AFR (01/09/2008) that he wasn’t “sure” when his stations would launch their new digital channels. radioinfo...

ACMA not happy with Bendigo’s Fresh 89.5 FM

2 September 2008 The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found that the licensee of Fresh 89.5 FM, Goldfields Community Radio Cooperative Limited, breached conditions of its...

2LM announcer running for Mayor and into trouble with Bill Caralis

1 September 2008 Neil Marks, 2LM breakfast announcer, is a great testament to the value of local talent who is involved in local issues. He’s so involved that...

Radio doco to be shown on TV

31 August 2008 Melbourne Community Television Station, Channel 31,will screen the 3ZZZ produced documentary “Community Radio Broadcaster – A Guide For Emerging Communities” tonight (Monday) at 8pm. The...

Are you smarter than a vega host? Well, are you, punk?

31 August 2008 Starting today, vega 95.3fm is giving listeners the chance to give Tony, Bec and Mikey a run for their money. For three weeks on air,...

Big Couch celebrates 600 shows

31 August 2008 Dean Clairs, Nat Foster & Shane McFarlane are better known collectively as the The Big Couch which in Perth means Drive Show on mix94.5. 600...

Mile Thai Club Tied up in Thailand for the weekend

31 August 2008 Despite living in Sydney, a city with more Thai restaurants than Maccas and KFC put together, when Merrick & Rosso & Kate Ritchie invited 20...

Mike Carlton sacked from Herald

30 August 2008 2UE breakfast announcer, Mike Carlton has been dumped from his long standing column in Saturday’s Sydney Morning Herald for refusing to submit this week’s article...

Business as usual at Fairfax Radio

29 August 2008 Fairfax Media has begun implementing a “business improvement program” which will see over 550 staff of the company, mostly print journalists, lose their jobs. Fairfax...

ACMA wants programming for the community by the community

28 August 2008 The Australian Communications and Media Authority has found two more community stations guilty of not doing enough to encourage community participation. Bundaberg Burnett Community...

Melbourne Radio School moves to a new home: studio pictures

28 August 2008 Ace Radio has moved its Melbourne Radio School to a new location in Albert Road, and upgraded its training facilities. The new studios were opened...

Strategic Media Rewards Songwriter Of The Year

28 August 2008 Legend of the music industry got together for The Australian Songwriters Association annual awards in Sydney on August 28. Two key highlights of the evening...

Digital Radio high on the agenda at Big Sound Music Summit

27 August 2008 Digital radio is a key topic on the agenda for the Big Sound Music Industry Summit and Showcase being held on Wednesday 10 September...

DMG appoints Nozz to Digital Radio role

27 August 2008 DMG Radio has announced the appointment of Brett “Nozz” Nossiter to the newly created position of Digital Product Manager, signaling, as Austereo did recently, that...

It wasn’t an operation, it was an excavation: Jones’ doctor

26 August 2008 Alan Jones spoke to his 2GB colleague Jason Morrison, who is currently filling in for Jones on breakfast, this morning. Jones says he is...

Breakfast breeders on Fox and Nova

26 August 2008 It must be that time of year. Or at least it was a couple of months ago because two breakfast announcers on rival networks in...

Cal Wilson Cha Chas for her life

26 August 2008 Cal Wilson from Nova’s The Wrong Way Home has cha cha-ed and shimmied her way through rehearsals, now it is time to strap on her dance...

Nova goes Backstage at Idol with James Mathison & Ricki-Lee

25 August 2008 Ignoring the fact that their arch rival, Kyle Sandilands is a prominent fixture onstage at Australian Idol, The Nova Network, is focusing on the action...

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