3 January 2007 Holiday countdowns have begun. Vega’s Christmas to New Years countdown finished last weekend with AC/DCs It’s a long way to the top if you...
3 January 2007 The fifth test in Sydney marks Jim Maxwell’s 201st test cricket call for ABC Radio. radioinfo spent a day at the cricket, catching up with...
3 January 2007 The Government has renewed funding for the ABC’s Regional and Local Programming initiative, with funding of $19.1 million in 2008–09, to boost the national broadcaster’s...
3 January 2007 As the new year begins, radio managers are looking for guidelines on how the new media laws will affect their businesses. ACMA Chairman Chris Chapman...
3 January 2007 CBS Radio in New York has changed WNEW/New York City into Fresh 102.7. It is currently running on automation without announcers, as the station makes...
3 January 2007 This year will bring a range of conferences for radio professionals and academics around the world. Here are some of them.
2 January 2007 Melbourne-based Radio Sport 927 has rebranded its weeknightly sports program as Sportstalk National to coincide with its live broadcasting into Sydney. The one hour...
2 January 2007 Stan Zemanek’s last show before Christmas had everyone listening, even the Prime Minister, who called in after his annual media Christmas party, telling Stan he...
31 December 2006 Former BBC chairman Marmaduke Hussey has died at the age of 83. He chaired the British public broadcaster for ten years between 1986-1996.
31 December 2006 2006 has been a year where regulation of the radio industry was turned upside down by the new media laws. radioinfo has chronicled this year’s...
31 December 2006 In this second half of radioinfo’s year in review story, we chronicle the stories we covered between January and June 2006 (in reverse order)....
31 December 2006 There are a few red faces at the Supernetwork this week after a junior newsreader was tripped up by a last day office prank. Victoria...
27 December 2006 Tony O'Reilly’s company, Independent News and Media, will try again early in the new year to own ARN’s parent company APN. An earlier bid...
27 December 2006 WorldAudio is out of administration with plans to continue as a commercial radio broadcaster in Kalgoorlie and Geraldton. Other remaining assets will be sold...
27 December 2006 Luke Bewley’s placement in news at the Jindabyne studios of 2XL by Capital Radio chief Rick Wybrew has topped of a record year for placements...
27 December 2006 As ABC Chairman Donald McDonald was farewelled by ABC staff at a send off in Ultimo, CommunicationsMinister Helen Coonan recognised the considerable achievements of...
26 December 2006 Over 70 years of Hawaiian radio art feature in a new online exhibition recently opened at the Radio Heritage Foundation's website. The exhibition brings together commercial...
25 December 2006 As Shane Warne notches up a record 700th wicket, this year’s Boxing Day Test will also mark another significant milestone for one of cricket’s most...
21 December 2006 During 2006 over 10 million people across Australia tuned into metropolitan radio stations each week, according to analysis of the full year’s ratings data. ...
21 December 2006 The Australian Radio Network has announced the appointment of Irene Hulme as the new Program Director for its Feel Good station, Mix 101.1 Melbourne, replacing...
21 December 2006 Experienced broadcaster Paul Holmes who has enjoyed success over many years with Wendy Harmer, Peter Moon and Jamie Dunn, and was most recently on WS...
21 December 2006 ABC radio and tv news staff in Brisbane will be moved out of the ‘cancer studios’ at Toowong within days according to ABC Managing Director...
21 December 2006 Stan Zemanek will not be heard on 2UE nights ever again when he finishes his final shift tomorrow evening, but he won't quit broadcasting altogether...
21 December 2006 Merrick & Rosso love spending Christmas with their families so much (not!), that they are coming into the office on Christmas Day to present a...
21 December 2006 During 2006, across the five metropolitan cities, an average of 3.7 million people tuned into ABC Radio stations each week. Time spent listening to ABC...
20 December 2006 The Austereo Network will appoint Ben Amarfio to the position of General Manager of its Melbourne operations, including Fox FM and 3MMM. Amarfio has...
20 December 2006 The former Victorian Privacy Commissioner Paul Chadwick has been appointed Director of Editorial Policies at the ABC. Chadwick is no stranger to the media, having...
20 December 2006 Melbourne’s leading radio station, 3AW, has been found by The Australian Communications and Media Authority to have broadcast tobacco advertisements in The Overnighters program on...
19 December 2006 Commercial Radio Australia has pulled off a major coup and roped John Cleese into its series of branding commericals. The spot will air on stations...
19 December 2006 Google's much anticipated automatic radio commercial placement system has run into an issue of spot availability. The Internet search giant has signed up around 700...
