10 May 2006 The government has renewed SBS triennial funding in the budget, allocating $90.0 million in 06/07, $91.9 million in 07/08 and $93.9 million in 08/09, but...
10 May 2006 This month marks the 30th anniversary of community radio station 2MCE-FM in regional NSW. 2MCE was the first licensed non-metropolitan ‘public’ broadcaster in 1976.
10 May 2006 Radio and television broadcaster Sue Smith died this week in her Sydney home. Sue Smith co-hosted mornings on 2UE during the late 1970s and...
10 May 2006 A national roundtable seminar titled 'Making histories: radio as a cultural technology will take place this weekend in Melbourne. This seminar will...
10 May 2006 A US morning radio co-host has been fired for racial and sexual remarks on air about a rival presenter's wife and four-year-old daughter. Troi...
10 May 2006 Quentin Dempster was elected this week to the position of ABC staff elected director, but may never get to hold that office because the...
10 May 2006 2CHY's Andrew Roberts has begun his world record attempt at the longest continuous time live to air on radio. He started on Wednesday 10...
10 May 2006 Junger Audio officially introduced its Level Magic family of products to the US market at NAB 2006. Level Magic utilizes a sophisticated adaptive level...
9 May 2006 The results of the third capital city ratings survey have been released, with 3AW increasing strongly in Melbourne, Nova winning Brisbane and other capitals fairly...
9 May 2006 The Government is renewing targeted funding of $7.2 million over four years for the Community Broadcasting Foundation, mostly focusing on ethnic programming, but has not...
8 May 2006 ACMA has collected $271.5 million in licence fees from commercial broadcasting radio and tv stations in the 2004-05 financial year, an increase of 11.7% on...
8 May 2006 Advertising revenue for Australia’s metropolitan commercial radio stations increased by 7.1% in April to $47.7 million. The data, compiled for Commercial Radio Australia...
8 May 2006 The Friends of the ABC has accused the government of hiding the debate on axing the ABC's staff elected director by scheduling it to be...
8 May 2006 The ABC has had its triennial funding renewed and has gained a boost in additional funding in the federal budget, including an extra $13 million...
8 May 2006 The Australian Communications and Media Authority has decided to extend current Eureka 147 digital radio trials in Sydney and Melbourne until 30 June 2007. The...
8 May 2006 The Australian Communications and Media Authority has decided to make a new high power open narrowcasting radio service available by auction in Canberra, to operate...
7 May 2006 60 Minutes reporter Richard Carleton has died of a heart attack while covering the story about the trapped miners at Tasmania's Beaconsfield Gold Mine....
7 May 2006 Austereo CEO Michael Anderson has told the Business Sunday program, the radio as a device is almost dead, but the radio business is still...
5 May 2006 The Australian radio industry has lost one of its commercial radio pioneers. Bert Button OAM, died on April 29 aged 98, following a short...
3 May 2006 Coffs Harbour’s Andrew ROBBO Roberts is trying for a world record for the longest radio shift. Roberts, CHY FM’s Sales Person and Drive Announcer,...
3 May 2006 Dubai’s International Radio Conference takes place at the end of May. IRC Dubai is a conference aimed at an international audience of radio professionals...
3 May 2006 The 2006 AFTRS Program Director’s residential weekend was held in Sydney this weekend, with speakers including Macquarie Regional Radioworks CEO Rhys Holleran, Southern Cross Broadcasting's...
3 May 2006 Today's APN Annual General Meeting reported increased profits for its radio division companies ARN Australia and TRN New Zealand. Radio accounted for 20% of...
3 May 2006 2SER's Radio School provides CBAA accredited media training through a series of short courses that cover everything from Radio Presentation to Production, Interviewing, News and...
3 May 2006 A conference for regional, rural and sub metro community broadcasters is beign held in Shepparton Victoria this Friday 5 – Sunday 7 May. The conference aims...
3 May 2006 Small business, particularly in regional areas, is the fastest growing industry in the country, and a new radio syndication segment will target small business people...
3 May 2006 Macquarie Regional Radioworks' owner, the Macquarie Bank media investment fund, has been given the all-clear to acquire the cable TV and broadband provider Taiwan Broadband...
3 May 2006 National television is the most trusted news source, ahead of newspapers and public radio, but the internet is gaining ground, especially among the young, according...
3 May 2006 The Senate Committee enquiring into Communications Minister Helen Coonan’s plan to axe the staff elected director position from the ABC board has backed the Minister’s...
3 May 2006 Media Monitors has announced the acquisition of rival monitoring company Rehame. Both companies have close links to the radio industry with Sydney radio broadcaster Ian...
