5 June 2002 AFTRS is offering two new courses for Music Directors in the second semester this year. The weekend course will be conducted in Sydney and in...
5 June 2002 Dan O'Day and Dick Orkin are running their 7th annual Radio Creative and Production Summit in Los Angeles on August 9-10. The course, for...
4 June 2002 2MCR’s Matthew Fulton has embarked on his “long arduous fight” to break the Guinness World Record for the Longest Radio DJ Marathon. His aim...
2 June 2002 Pete Rudder has joined 4BH as part of the subtle changes taking place at the station. He will host Drive.
31 May 2002 Britain’s GWR has announced it will sell its 25% stake in DMG Australia. DMG may buy back the share.
31 May 2002 The ABC Board has announced the appointment of Russell Balding as the corporation's new Managing Director, effective immediately. Chairman Donald McDonald says the ABC...
30 May 2002 Red Symons will fill-in on ABC 774's breakfast show while Lynne Haultain is on maternity leave from next week. Symons was recently shafted from Channel...
30 May 2002 The ad was on AMT’s jobs page. The applicants are now sorted.
30 May 2002 2UE has introduced a new Saturday morning program called Money Talk. The program, which will be heard between 11am and noon, will be...
30 May 2002 Former Triple J and ABC TV presenter Sarah Macdonald will be the new anchor of ABC Radio National's Bush Telegraph from next Wednesday. For the...
30 May 2002 Sydney Christian station 2CBA 102.3 officially opened its new Seven Hills studios last weekend. The building was previously the home of 2WS, which has now...
30 May 2002 Radio 16, the NTC Country Music Network, has begun broadcasting into Bathurst and the Central West on AM 1629 after a long period negotiating to...
30 May 2002 Perth’s Curtin University of Technology has decided to “hand back its community broadcasting licence to the Australian Broadcasting Authority" because the licence has no commercial...
30 May 2002 New Sydney community station FBi is securing funding to get its operation up and running by the ABA’s due date. AMT has received leaked details...
28 May 2002 The ABC Board will consider candidates for the position of Managing Director when it meets today (Wed 29/5). A late flurry of activity in favour...
26 May 2002 Sam Chisholm has been appointed chairman of board of the Macquarie Radio Group, which owns 2GB and 2CH. Chisholm was responsible for bringing Alan Jones...
26 May 2002 John Lennon’s Imagine has been voted the most popular Classic Hit by Melbourne's GOLD104 listeners as part of a recent poll - GOLD104’s Top 1000...
26 May 2002 AMT has received this statement from ABC Chairman Donald McDonald about the recruitment process for the Managing Director: "It has been reported recently that...
23 May 2002 RG Capital Radio, Rural Press and WIN Television presented a joint statement to the Senate ahem Committee enquiring into the Media Ownership Bill this week....
22 May 2002 In memorium to the death of Australia's last Anzac, Alec Campbell, Australians will pause for one minute's silence this Friday at 11am. Following...
22 May 2002 ABC local radio stations will broadcast the State Funeral for Alec Campbell live this Friday from 10.05am EST. (WA 8.05am, SA & NT 9.35).
21 May 2002 MIX101.1 Melbourne launched a new line up this week and confirmed Dean Pickering as the station’s new Program Director. The new on air...
20 May 2002 After ten years as Managing Director of MIX 94.5, eight years in the dual role of Managing Director of 92.9 and MIX 94.5 and almost...
28 February 2002 According to a complaint filed at the American Federal Communications Commission, Clear Channel has been using "front" companies to hold radio stations for it, operating...
10 February 2002 A French Radio reporter and two other European journalists were killed during a Taliban attack in northeastern Afghanistan when the convoy they were reporting from...
10 February 2002 Radio has been a crucial service in Afghanistan during the present tensions, providing information and entertainment to a populace starved of other media outlets. The...
10 February 2002 John Bradley, a teacher in Kiribati in the South Pacific, writes to AMT about radio’s role in bringing news of the Terrorist attacks: “This week...
10 February 2002 A Dutch radio presenter has been sacked after jokingly asking listeners to mail powder to the station. The joke worked on wordplay - as the...
10 February 2002 Following on from a successful year in 2001 AV Communications has renamed itself TieLine Technology as part of its global expansion. The company also recently...
10 February 2002 In the USA, the NRSC (National Radio Systems Committee) has completed its evaluation of iBiquity,s FM IBOC digital broadcasting system and endorsed it as the...