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10 December 2003 U.K. “stand and deliver”; Diaries vs watches, “Dr Fox” quits U.K.

S-E-N Management Team for 3AK announced

10 December 2003 The Sports Entertainment Network, new lessors of 3AK, today unveiled its management line up while announcing that S-E-N 1116AM will now begin broadcasting in “early...

Catterns beats Jones in Sydney, AW romps home in Melbourne – Survey 8 released

10 December 2003 The last radio survey for 2003 has been released, with a historic single figure result in the Sydney market. Overall results are all now...

Radio National feature wins Human Rights award

10 December 2003 Lea Redfern and Phillip Ulman won the Human Rights Radio award at a gala luncheon to celebrate International Human Rights Day in Sydney this week....

Further Wagin station fallout from ABA licence decision

10 December 2003 West Australian broadcast company Cybervale has had further fallout from the ABA decision to rescind its commercial broadcast licence (see last week’s story). This...

Daryl Williams to switch on Sydney digital radio trial next week

10 December 2003 Digital radios are expected to be one of the hot Christmas gifts in the UK this year – and now Sydneysiders will have the opportunity...

ABC Radio National’s new 2004 schedule

10 December 2003 In the midst of its industrial trouble, Radio National has announced its 2004 lineup which will come into effect on Monday, 26 January 2004. ...

Staff vote no confidence in RN Manager

9 December 2003 ABC Radio National staff last week voted a unanimous no confidence motion in Program Manager Gordon Taylor, over plans to make three features producers...

Mikey Robbins and Phil O’Neill leave Triple M

9 December 2003 Mikey Robbins will leave ‘The Whole Shebang’ and 2MMM at the end of his contract. His place will be taken by comedian Peter Rowsthorn ('Brett'...

Youth clean up at National Community Media Awards

9 December 2003 Australia’s youth broadcasters emerged as the strength of Australia’s community broadcasting landscape recently, with Hobart and Melbourne’s youth stations picking up major awards in...

What if Santa hired a radio consultant?

9 December 2003 Cory Deitz on 'radio.about.com' takes a humorous look at the suggestions a radio consultant might give Santa, including “less talk...one “ho” is more than enough…we’re...

Who’s filling in for whom this summer?

8 December 2003 CAPITAL CITY SUMMER LINE-UPS It’s that time of season where the stars go off on holidays and stations find others to fill in. Sometimes they’re media...

Ethnic Broadcasters Conference told: lobby and include youth

8 December 2003 Broadcasters at the NEMBC Conference in Canberra last weekend were reminded that there is an election coming up, so they should lobby politicians on a...

Jared Sheldon wins our Survey 8 comp with 10 from 15

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Doogue moves to ABC Local Radio in 2004

7 December 2003 Geraldine Doogue is leaving Life Matters, a program which she has presented for the past 11 years on ABC Radio National, and will join the...

Plans for SEN/3AK Sales emerge

7 December 2003 In a press release it is revealed that SEN, the new lessors of 3AK, have awarded their national agency sales representation contract to newly created...

More disclosure breaches for 2UE’s John Laws

5 December 2003 2UE’s John Laws program is in hot water again, breaching the Current Affairs Disclosure standard and the station’s special licence conditions on 25 occasions. As...

2UE / 2GB merger off

4 December 2003 The proposed merger of the 2UE/2GB newsrooms and sales operations will not go ahead as planned. 2UE will still move premises to Pyrmont, but will...

Adelaide icon signs on for 5DN Breakfast

4 December 2003 5DN has announced that Anne Wills, best known as “Willsy”, will join Jeff Sunderland ("Sundo”) as the newest voice on 5DN’s breakfast team. ...

Edge Radio Hobart wins station of the year at CBAA conference

3 December 2003 Newly licenced Hobart youth station 'Edge Radio' won the coveted Station of the Year award at this year's CBAA conference. The station has made...

2UE/GB newsroom merger raised in Federal Parliamentary debate

3 December 2003 During the second reading debate of the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Media Ownership) Bill on Monday in the House of Reps, Independent MP Peter Andren...

Radio advertising awareness campaign hits the mark

3 December 2003 An evaluation study of the commercial radio industry’s brand campaign shows it has improved advertisers’ opinions of radio as an advertising medium. Half the advertisers...

Rare Tex Morton Recording Found – Free Audio

3 December 2003 SEVENTY ONE years after they were cut, the fabled first records ever made by the father of Australian country music Tex Morton have surfaced again...

NTC Section 40 commercial network rolls out in Grafton, Hobart and Sydney

3 December 2003 While one Section 40 licencee is having trouble, another is successfully expanding. Australia’s commercial country music and lifestyle radio network, NTC (News Talk and...

ABA wants to get rid of Section 40 stations says Wagin licensee

3 December 2003 Wagin Section 40 off-band commercial licencee Sherryl Chilcott believes she is a a pawn in a move to close down Section 40 off-band commercial licences,...

Media Bill debate continues in Federal parliament

3 December 2003 The Government's new Media Bill was reintroduced into the Parliament this week and has been the subject of much debate. Apart from providing an...

RN’s water challenge outside broadcast

3 December 2003 The pressure is mounting for listeners of Radio National’s Bush Telegraph. Over the past five weeks, they have been given the responsibility of debating and...

4MBS Radio Summer School

3 December 2003 Last summer, 4MBS presented a successful “Summer School” for the first time, which it will expand this year to satisfy various age groups. Last...

Guy Sebastian’s radio airplay advantage through MusicPoint

3 December 2003 The radio and music industries have embraced MusicPoint’s digital technology to deliver 1,100 new songs and 22,000 audio transfers to radio stations in its first...

Walkley Award winners and ABC bias

3 December 2003 The Walkley Awards for journalism excellence were announced last week, with ABC Radio winning the three main radio category awards. The winners were: ...

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