"A tale of two quarters" for ad revenue.

Music's back on Nine Radio bigtime with countdown of the 500 greatest songs of all time. 

Stock Exchange trading updates have not generally brought good news lately, but yesterday's trading update by Nine Entertainment went against that trend.

The company expects a further 10% improvement to its profits than it predicted a month ago.
 
 

Macquarie University student Zac de Silva has been named the winner of the 2020 Brian White Scholarship.

Nine Radio's profit (EBITDA) is down 21% in its first full year of being wholly owned by Nine Entertainment, due mainly to the effects of the covid pandemic.

Nine's digital products increased profit, while television profit declined by 89% and publishing was down 17%.

Nine Radio continues to undergo changes to staff with Paul Christenson the latest to leave the business.
 
Paul had been Alan Jones producer for three decades, and more recently was steering Jim Wilson’s introduction to talk radio on 2GB.
 
Nine has moved the responsibility for the sound, content and commercial activity of Wide World of Sports in Sydney and Brisbane to the Executive Producer of 2GB Drive, and following a redeployment of staff, Paul leaves the network.
 

Two of Australia’s favourite broadcasters are returning to radio with Murray Wilton and Murray Olds (aka The Two Murrays) set to deliver five hours of news, sport, entertainment, lifestyle and plenty of frivolity over summer weekends on 2GB and 4BC.
 
Their new show launches this Saturday, October 31, and continues on weekends right through until the start of the NRL season in March 2021.
 
The Two Murrays will go to air Saturday and Sundays 2pm–7pm on 2GB and 1pm-6pm on 4BC.

Talk radio audiences are “informed, knowledgeable, empowered and influential,” according to research presented in the latest ‘It’s Time We Talked’ presentation

“The world has changed, talk radio has changed,” said Ben Fordham, who was part of a panel of personalities in a presentation that revealed new research about Nine Radio’s audience.

Tim Gilbert is returning to radio to host a new Friday night program on Nine Radio’s 2GB, 3AW and 4BC.

Nine Entertainment has won Sales Team of the Year at the 2020 Mumbrella Awards, which were held today in a virtual event, hosted by Ash London.
 

The newly integrated sales team, led by Richard Hunwick, sells across radio and tv now that the former tv network also owns radio stations and newspapers.

Other finalists in that category were Playground XYZ, REA Group, The Trade Desk and Verizon Media.