26 June 2004 In the US, an appeals court has blocked new rules to lift media ownership limits, in a blow to a federal regulatory agency and major...
24 June 2004 Veteran British DJ, Tony Blackburn, has been suspended from his morning radio show for defying a ban on playing Cliff Richard records! Classic Gold...
22 June 2004 In the United States, fines for airing indecent material on radio and television will be increased substantially. The measures - approved by the Senate...
21 June 2004 Venezuela's media will meet to try to ease tensions and foster a peaceful climate for a 15 August referendum on the rule of President Hugo...
20 June 2004 The New York based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the murder of a crusading radio journalist in the southern Philippines. Eliseo Binoya...
15 June 2004 In the United States, there is a growing trend for record companies to pay radio stations to play entire songs as paid commercials - a...
10 June 2004 Visitors attending BroadcastAsia2004 can expect to see 'best-of-breed' solutions from 860 exhibiting companies from 44 countries at the Singapore Expo from 15-18 June. The...
10 June 2004 British satellite broadcaster, BskyB, has announced plans to launch free to air digital radio and television channels, alongside its pay to view services. The...
26 May 2004 BBC correspondent Chris Hogg reports that Hong Kong's government rejects suggestions that freedom of speech and the freedom of the press are under threat...
23 May 2004 Pope John Paul has urged governments to regulate the media, saying a rampant 'anything goes' mentality is damaging the family. "The media can wreak...
19 May 2004 More than 20 radio stations in New Zealand will be floated publicly, as part of plans by Canadian broadcast and newspaper group, CanWest Global Communications,...
16 May 2004 In the US, two Portland DJs have reportedly been fired because of remarks they made, while airing audio of the beheading of American hostage, Nick...
12 May 2004 Nick Berg, the man beheaded in that gruesome terrorist online video, was in Iraq doing work on radio towers for the new regime. Berg...
12 May 2004 In a move that may eventually be replicated by ARN in Australia, US parent company Clear Channel is now moving into special event program production....
6 May 2004 Today is the deadline for entries in the 2004 British NTL Commercial Radio Awards. The NTL Broadcast and Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA) awards...
5 May 2004 At the recently finished NAB Convention in America, NAB President and CEO Edward O. Fritts gave the opening address, where he imagined that radio was...
5 May 2004 The recent ruckus over Howard Stern's battle with the FCC and Clear Channel has seen his ratings increase on all stations which kept the program on...
28 April 2004 You've heard of the old Buy Swap and Sell radio segments. A US radio station has taken it to the next level, beginning a whole...
28 April 2004 Two Miami radio chatshow hosts, who duped Cuba' President, Fidel Castro, with a prank call, are soliciting one cent coins from their fans to pay...
28 April 2004 British publication, MediaWeek UK, says that US money man Tom Hicks is getting ready to retire next year, and that before he does he is...
25 April 2004 A Spanish language radio station in Miami, which crank called Cuban President, Fidel Castro, faces a $5450 fine, according to federal regulators. The station,...
10 April 2004 In the United States, Clear Channel Communications has dropped Howard Stern permanently from its programming, after earlier suspending his show, citing indecent content. The...
31 March 2004 Tributes are starting to come in for broadcaster, Alistair Cooke, a legend in Britain and his adopted United States, who has died at the age...
31 March 2004 Clothing chain, FCUK, is about to launch its own radio station in the UK. Independent radio production company, Somethin’ Else, has been commissioned to...
29 March 2004 Audience figures, provided by Britain's GfK electronic watch system, are twice as accurate as the diaries used by Rajar, according to the explosive results of...
25 March 2004 There are signs and predictions in the UK that radio advertising revenue will be overtaken by the internet, possibly by the end of next year....
25 March 2004 In Belfast, Ireland, a truck driver told a court the reason he plowed into another car and killed the driver and passenger was because he...
22 March 2004 NTL Broadcast and the UK Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA) have announced the categories for the 2004 NTL Commercial Radio Awards. The awards seek to...
21 March 2004 In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined Infinity Broadcasting for apparently wilfully broadcasting indecent material in connection with The Howard Stern...
17 March 2004 Now here’s an interesting contest out of the USA. Lex & Terry do a syndicated morning show on 22 rock / classic rock stations across...