A 2.4% increase in Southern Cross Austereo’s Audio revenue, for metropolitan and regional radio plus podcasting, to $453.4 M has contributed to a modest overall growth in SCA's revenue of 0.5% to $661.0M.

Southern Cross Austereo will outsource all of its radio and television broadcast transmission services to Broadcast Australia.

Boomtown, Australia’s regional media collective, has announced a massive trade marketing competition, offering $1 million in regional advertising to one national agency or brand in Australia.
 
The competition is calling on submissions for a media strategy that speaks to 8.8 million regional Australians, and catches the eye of the Boomtown judges, Southern Cross Austereo, WIN Network, Prime Media Group, Australian Community Media, Imparja, Grand Broadcasters and News Corp Australia.
 

AirCheck, the leader in broadcast monitoring, announced today that it will begin monitoring 51 DAB+ stations across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.
Beginning with Perth, 51 DAB+ stations will be added in addition to the 58 FM and AM stations already monitored nationwide. The process is expected to be completed by the end of October.

This brings the total number of radio stations monitored to 109, in addition to 11 Free-To-Air and Music TV channels in Sydney and Brisbane.

Around 200 specially invited guests have attended the official launch of SCA’s AudioHQ in Brisbane including Dave Hughes, Danny Lakey and Ash London as well as local talent Stav, Abby and Matt from HIT105, Marto, Robin Bailey and Nick Cody from Triple M, Those Two Girls from early national breakfast on Hit and Triple M’s Sports Insider and drive host, Ben Dobbin.
 

The fate of Matthew Cooper may have been decided, with the Daily Telegraph reporting (subscription required) that he has been dismissed.

The report has not been confirmed by SCA.

It could cost SCA sales manager 12K for trying to demostrate that "it pays to advertise"

Barry Keohane has been appointed the role of Content Director for Mix 102.3 and Cruise 1323 and begins his new role on Wednesday 10th July

Triton Digital a global technology and services leader to the digital audio and podcast industry, announced today the acquisition of Omny Studio, the creators of the world’s most advanced podcast and on-demand audio publishing platform, which Triton has been integrated with and re-selling since 2017
 

Finalists for the 2019 Brian White Scholarship held their news workshop in Sydney today at the SCA Rooftop.