4 September 2002 The Howard Government’s media bill seems more likely to get a favourable hearing in the Senate since the recent defections from the Australian Democrats. The...
4 September 2002 A landmark campaign promoting the benefits of free-to-air (FTA) television has “bolstered advertisers' belief that FTA is the best medium to drive sales,” according to...
4 September 2002 Community broadcaster Nu Country FM was featured in an ABC TV documentary this week in the ‘Reality Bites’ series. The show featured international...
4 September 2002 DiG Radio – the ABC’s new music-based internet radio station - will be officially launched at the Queenscliff Music Festival in Victoria in November. ...
2 September 2002 Two US DJs have been sacked for encouraging their listeners to have sex in a church. Opie and Anthony, who are heard on 19 stations,...
1 September 2002 ABC Radio's flagship current affairs program AM celebrates 35 years on air this week. AM covers the stories each morning that the other current...
30 August 2002 Radio 2ME has been listed for tender. The station broadcasts in Arabic at the top of the AM dial on 1638AM in Melbourne and Sydney.
30 August 2002 Members of the South Australian Community Broadcasters Association (SACBA) gathered last weekend for their annual state conference. The conference is well known for its strong...
30 August 2002 London’s Daily Mail reports that Chris Tarrant may quit his Capital Radio Breakfast Show at the end of this year. He is now aged 56...
29 August 2002 Two new high powered community licences have been awarded by the ABA for the Adelaide area - Fresh FM won the Adelaide licence (FM 92.7)...
29 August 2002 Mysterious upstart Hot Tomato bid $26 million to edge out DMG for the 3rd Gold Coast FM licence, while local company onestore.com.au Pty Ltd paid...
29 August 2002 Staff at ABC702's breakfast show were pleasantly surprised this week when ABC Managing Director Russell Balding turned up at their studio on Tuesday morning with...
29 August 2002 The ABA has imposed a new licence condition on Ipswich’s River 94.9, owned by the Star Broadcasting Network. The new condition curtails the station’s activities...
29 August 2002 Radio 2 1611 AM has announced the appointment of Michael Hibbard as General Manager. Michael Hibbard, who begins at Radio 2 next week, ...
29 August 2002 Peter Berner will host this year’s Australian Commercial Radio Awards which will also feature performances from an exciting range of Australian music talent. Berner...
29 August 2002 Hobart’s Triple T is in week two of its Triple T Fugitive promotion and the station saw a good opportunity to leverage the competition into...
29 August 2002 Most Australian radio stations are planning coverage of September 11th. One year on from the attacks on the United States, ABC Radio, TV and Online...
29 August 2002 It's radiothon time again at Melbourne’s 3RRR, a community station known for its innovative non-commercial promotions. This year the station has adopted a “community radio...
29 August 2002 Jason Nightingale from 997fm writes to radioinfo in response to an earlier item on Community Radio ratings figures in the Sydney market: I've been...
28 August 2002 Two veterans of Surfers Paradise community station Radio Metro have teamed up for a new breakfast show. Steve Mazza and David Christopher have pooled their...
28 August 2002 In Amsterdam Radio 100 is “under pressure” from a new national policy which wants to “commercially exploit ALL FM and AM frequencies” which may forced...
28 August 2002 APN News & Media, parent company of the ARN Radio Network has announced a net profit of $48.2 million for the twelve months ended...
28 August 2002 The ABA has allocated new community radio licences for Armadale and Wanneroo in Western Australia. The licence for Armadale was allocated to Heritage FM Inc...
28 August 2002 This Saturday 31 August, 774 ABC Melbourne will be the only free to air network to cover the most important home and away game of...
28 August 2002 The ABA has varied the radio licence area plan for the Remote North East Zone, to improve the availability of the commercial radio services, 4SUN/4RBL,...
28 August 2002 Beethoven’s symphonies are generally regarded as the greatest single body of music for orchestra. An Australian orchestra has never recorded them complete – until now.
28 August 2002 When Saturday Comes presenter Francis Leach last week hand-balled the microphone over to an all girl team to present the program, which will finish at...
28 August 2002 Melbourne listeners paid to see ABC774’s Jon Faine shave his beard off to raise money for cancer research at the Royal Children's Hospital. The campaign...
25 August 2002 The ABC's Head of National Music Networks has resigned. Speculation about Breslin's future has been running high over the past month.
24 August 2002 Brisbane’s 4BH is now back on air after a deliberate attack felled the station’s two transmitter towers earlier this week. The station is broadcasting from...