Laws pays homage to John Kerr’s 50 years on air: Audio

15 November 2007 Although all the current fanfare is about John Laws' imminent departure after 55 years in radio, the great man was willing to share centre stage...

Sparks expected at Macquarie Radio Network AGM

15 November 2007 Sparks will fly at Macquarie Radio Network’s Annual General Meeting as angry shareholders, some of them high profile 2GB staff, voice their anger over the...

No sparks at Macquarie Radio Network AGM

15 November 2007 Despite rumours within 2GB that sparks would fly at today's annual general meeting, nothing of significance happened in the 20 minute formal meeting. A...

Merrick & Rosso add a third person for 2008.

15 November 2007 From next year it will be Merrick & Rosso & Ritchie - or some combination thereof. Nova 969 has today announced Kate Ritchie will be...

ABC 702 appoints Millar as Manager

14 November 2007 Head of ABC Local Radio Michael Mason today announced Jeremy Millar as the new Local Radio & Online Manager for ABC Local Radio NSW. ...

Tracy and Tim leaving Melbourne’s Mix: Bridget Duclo tipped as replacement

14 November 2007 Melbourne’s Mix 101.1 breakfast team Tracy Bartram and Tim Smith will say farewell to listeners on November 30. ARN will launch a new breakfast show...

Public Float for MCM Entertainment

14 November 2007 MCM Entertainment Group is planning a public float of the company to gain new capital for expansion beyond radio, into TV and online production. ...

Wodonga Students Take To The Air

14 November 2007 Wodonga TAFE broadcasting students will be showing off their skills they have learnt in the Diploma In Broadcasting (Radio Course) as they take part in...

Austereo’s solid start to financial year

14 November 2007 Austereo says it expects “a solid start” to the current financial year with 8% to 9% growth expected, according to chairman Peter Harvie at the...

Meet David Beckham courtesy of Nova

13 November 2007 In a radio exclusive, the Nova Network has pulled off what could be the prize coup of the year by giving listeners the “money can’t...

A new Mix for breakfast in Adelaide

12 November 2007 The speculation, and Adelaide’s worst kept secret, is over – the new Mix102.3 three person breakfast line-up has been revealed. Jason “Snowy” Carter began...

Enough Rope for Laws to admit depression

12 November 2007 John Laws has told Andrew Denton there are days when he is too depressed to get out of bed. He also revealed to Denton,...

Penultimate piece of the Laws replacement puzzle in place

12 November 2007 John Laws is leaving the business at the end of this month with no clear successor to his 70+ station network. The plan, announced some...

Libs pledge $375,000 for new 98.5 SONSHINE FM Christian broadcaster

12 November 2007 The Treasurer, Peter Costello, and Steve Irons, Liberal Candidate for Swan, announced a re-elected Coalition Government would commit $375,000 towards a new premises in Como...

Greens back Community Broadcasters

11 November 2007 The Greens will provide the community broadcasting sector with an additional $1 million a year according to Greens lead Senate candidate for Queensland Larissa Waters....

Historic joint Brisbane conference for ethnic and indigenous broadcasters

11 November 2007 The Indigenous and Multi-Cultural broadcasting sectors held a joint conference in Brisbane over the weekend, where both organizations met together for the first time to...

Radio Australia Connects with Cambodian Audiences

11 November 2007 Radio Australia is to join in the celebrations and festivities at the annual Water Festival in Cambodia this month. Radio Australia’s Khmer and English services will...

103.2 opens HEART to everyone next Saturday

10 November 2007 Guy Sebastian and Wendy Matthews will head the line-up of live music talent at Heart 103.2's seventh annual Open Day next Saturday, November 17th....

Be the smartest person in radio: we have cheat sheet from Thanks For Listening

10 November 2007 With the long anticipated debut of the five part TV series on the history of Australian Radio, Thanks for Listening, coming up next Sunday on...

Virginia Trioli leaving ABC702 Sydney

8 November 2007 Virginia Trioli has resigned from her position as presenter of the ABC 702 morning program to concentrate more on her tv work. 702 acting...

92.9 Perth scores exclusive with PM : Audio

8 November 2007 It seems as if Prime Minister John Howard reads radioinfo (as if). But if he did, last week he would have read our criticism that...

Kyle copies PM’s tactic accusing Nova of being me-too : Audio

8 November 2007 Having buried the hatchet with Dave Hughes now Kyle and Jackie O have turned their attention to breakfast rivals Merrick and Rosso on Nova 96.9...

Fairfax Radio Network: official takeover complete

7 November 2007 Fairfax Media will stamp its authority on the former Southern Cross Broadcasting stations by incorporating 'Fairfax' somewhere into the name of the network as it...

Nova now playing on your radio, computer, phone…

7 November 2007 The Nova network has launched an enhanced Now Playing function on its website, positioning itself to take advantage of music e-commerce, mobile phone integration...

Who is David Kirk?

7 November 2007 Who is David Kirk? That is the question the radio industry is asking about the man now in ultimate control of Australia’s largest commercial talk...

Tips for writing radio creative: Martin Sims

7 November 2007 Martin Sims, the Creative Director And Co-Founder of specialist radio creative company Eardrum has released a range of Top Tips For First Time Radio...

Radio’s future is digital: UK technology companies push multimedia radio

7 November 2007 See, hear, vote and shop with digital radio. A glimpse into radio’s future was unveiled at the recent National Radio Conference by two British...

Fresh sound, new look and new building for 7HO FM

7 November 2007 HOFM has changed its livery, launching format changes, a new look logo and new positioning statement this week. 7HO FM 101.7 Hobart’s ‘feel...

Radio Larrakia licence conditions lifted

7 November 2007 The Australian Communications and Media Authority has taken away the additional licence conditions it imposed in 1988 on 8KNB 94.5 Darwin, held by the Radio...

Fitz farewells Mike and 2UE

7 November 2007 Last Sunday when radioinfo spoke to (now) Fairfax Radio chief, Graham Mott, he assured us that negotiations with both Mike Carlton and Peter FitzSimons were...

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