In its 892 stories written in 2011, radioinfo chronicled happenings in the radio industry from A to Z. And, during last month, we reached a milestone, publishing our ten thousandth story. In 2012 radioinfo will also celebrate another milestone, the site, in its present form, will turn ten years old (it was previously known as AMT and was first begun in 1995).

Our first story in 2011 was ACMA to fix Emergency Services two way radio problems  and the last story was  Digital Radio covers NYE Fireworks for visually impaired.

During this year Ray Gamble passed away and so did Steve Jobs, who was responsible for so many technologies that are now crucial to radio in the multi-platform age.

Kyle and Jackie caused a stir for all the wrong reasons and consumer power forced advertisers to dump the show (at least for a while). Derryn Hinch nearly died and was also put under house arrest, a Sydney bridge protestor stopped traffic and talked to radio breakfast shows to air his grievances, and BBC cricket commentator Edward Bevan kept his composure as he described a shot that was hit for six right into his commentary box.    

John Laws completed his first year at 2SM and the Today network survived its first year without Hamish and Andy’s daily drive show.

The beginning of the year saw a raft of natural disasters hit most states, with radio helping actively in response and recovery for people affected by floods, fires and cyclones.

You can browse through all our stories from 2011 here.

And in case you were wondering what the first story ever on this site was. Click here to see it.  The second story was about the most popular Gold hit.

Wishing you a happy, healthy and prosperous new year from radioinfo.