Commercial Radio Australia have announced the finalists for the Brian White Scholarship, which gives one student the chance to kickstart their journalism career and gain experience in Australia’s biggest radio newsrooms.
 

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Southern Cross Austereo today launched InStream, an addressable live radio offering for clients, enabling the dynamic insertion of personalised and targeted audio ads into live radio commercial breaks across all connected devices, including SCA websites, apps and smart speakers.

Along with SCA’s exclusive partnership with SoundCloud, the two will be used in tandem to offer clients addressable digital audio solutions with a combined commercial reach of over three million users.

The Boomtown committee hosted a breakfast in Sydney for media agencies and client partners earlier this week to further highlight the gap in advertising spend in metro v regional markets, despite the population of ‘Boomtown’ exceeding 8.8million people.

Southern Cross Austereo CEO, Grant Blackley, is joining the board of the Australian Association of National Advertisers.
 

It was the live and free event Townsville had been waiting for, following the floods Townsville’s 102.3 Triple M along with Townsville City Council ‘Gave Back To Townsville’ with an all ages concert featuring Rob Thomas for a crowd of over 5,000.

Singer-songwriter Rob Thomas performed in the heart of the city on Thursday, 2 May in an event for the whole community.

Southern Cross Austereo’s annual Give Me Five for Kids fundraiser launches next month.

Townsville local Cassandra Cazzulino has been appointed General Manager of Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) in the North Queensland capital.
 
The announcement was made today by SCA Executive General Manager Queensland, Damon Rielly, and will see her leading the operations of Townsville’s two leading stations in Hit103.1FM and Triple M 102.3FM, as well as SCA’s Channel 9 sales affiliation.
 

Southern Cross Austereo have been appointed agency sales representative for 2CH (including DAB+) from April 12, taking over from Macquarie Media.

The addition of 2CH to the SCA stable will increase the ability to deliver to a wider audience across the 25 – 50+ age demographic, which will enable engagement with new listeners and advertisers.