21 December 2005 With the champagne still flowing after last fortnight’s survey results 92.7 Mix FM Sunshine Coast has announced that the Piscatorial Professor affectionately known as “Phippsy”...
21 December 2005 A Las Vegas radio station’s scavenger hunt contest ended up with several listeners lost in the desert and five needing rescue. Contestants are looking...
21 December 2005 AFTRS has opened applications for the 2006 Commercial Radio Program Directors course. The course centres around the analysis of the three key elements of...
21 December 2005 The Austereo network has launched Australia’s first legal music based podcasts, featuring interviews and music samples. The move is the first successful alliance between...
20 December 2005 News Talk Radio 1116 4BC’s fishing man Dave Downie has been giving listeners the chance to go fishing with their favorite legends of fishing Tim...
20 December 2005 Australian Independent Radio News (AIR News) is celebrating its first anniversary today. as it continues to compete for the Community, Black-Spot and Section 40 radio...
20 December 2005 The Chief Executive of APN News & Media, Brendan Hopkins, has announced that the company has acquired Adspace, which manages some of the highest profile...
20 December 2005 Austereo has teamed up with Sony BMG to launch, in February, a web based music show that they are claiming will be Australia’s first...
19 December 2005 Following yesterday’s radioinfo story that Macquarie Media Group is to acquire a stake in Taiwan television broadcaster Taiwan Broadband Communications (TBC), subject to regulatory approval,...
19 December 2005 774 ABC Melbourne has announced Richard Stubbs will continue to present his afternoon show throughout 2006 having signed on for another 12 months. Stubb’s...
19 December 2005 The New York Daily News is reporting that the former PD of radio WNEW-FM, Frankie Blue (aka Frank Macchiaroli), is being sued by nighttime...
19 December 2005 Volunteers at Alice Springs community radio station 8CCC are upset that Charles Darwin University (CDU) has evicted the station with only 13 days notice. The...
18 December 2005 Dale Sharp, IT Admin at River949 (covering SE Queensland), is very proud of the Radio Data System (RDS) software he has written with the...
18 December 2005 The role of 2GB presenters in fuelling the race riots was questioned in a rally against racism held in Sydney yesterday. Ignorant of...
18 December 2005 After two decades, legendary 51 year old shock-jock Howard Stern has departed terrestrial radio for the new frontier of satellite radio. He hosted his...
18 December 2005 Gabby Millgate, the Australian comedic actress who delivered the iconic film line, “You’re terrible Muriel” in the movie ‘Muriel’s Wedding’, will star as one of...
18 December 2005 The 4BH/QR Toy Appeal for the St Vincent de Paul Society has received a massive boost with Variety Queensland donating a huge 5,000 toys, doubling...
18 December 2005 The Shebang, Triple M’s top rating drive show, appear to be somewhat chuffed to announce they’ve done absolutely nothing to help produce their new CD/DVD...
18 December 2005 Macquarie Media Group is expanding into television, but not in Australia. Since buying the assets of the RG Capital and DMG regionalRadio groups, and...
17 December 2005 Brian Wilshire has 'gone on holidays' early, after fallout from racial comments he made about the Cronulla ‘riots’. Wilshire told his late night talkback...
15 December 2005 The new Higher Education Bill which abolishes compulsory up-front student union fees has already had an effect on one community radio station as Radio...
15 December 2005 The name Infinity Broadcasting in the U.S. is being retired and will become CBS Radio.
14 December 2005 A meeting between ABC management and union representatives has been declined by the ABC today if the basis for talks is to be the alleged...
14 December 2005 The Australian Communications and Media Authority is proposing that a new permanent community service radio service be made available to serve the Perth city area. ...
14 December 2005 What would you do if an aircheck you sent ended up on air as an example of how bad a radio show can sound? It...
14 December 2005 Nova’s Bianca Dye has met many big stars in her time so she doesn’t usually get flustered when she has to interview them. But her...
14 December 2005 Gossip travels fast in the radio industry. When Mal Lees and Mardi Cole were given the “don’t come back after the holidays” speech last...
14 December 2005 Queensland Premier Peter Beattie has called for public debate on journalistic accountability, and the protagonists in the recent Cronulla disturbances have today told the media...
13 December 2005 Commercial radio ended 2005 on a high note, attracting its largest breakfast audiences in more than five years, according to an analysis of full year...
13 December 2005 Talkback radio can inform and entertain. But it is also the haunt of a core of uneducated, bigoted, aged insomniacs carefully orchestrated by clever and...
