Independent Senators’ views on Media Bill

6 March 2003 With media takeover speculation everywhere and the government working hard behind the scenes to secure enough Senate numbers to allow successful passage of its new...

Help Our Farmers

6 March 2003 Even though we’ve had a break in the weather with rain falling in parts of Australia, the effects of the drought will be felt by...

Festival Mushroom Records Joins MusicPoint

5 March 2003 MusicPoint, the web-based service for Record Companies to deliver their music to Radio Stations, has announced the addition of Festival Mushroom Records to the service....

2UE launches new weekend lineup

5 March 2003 Radio 2UE has announced its new weekend line-up, “reflecting an increasing demand for news, sport and entertainment 24 hours a day, 7 days a week”....

2NSB celebrates 20 years of broadcasting

5 March 2003 2NSB FM Sydney will celebrate its 20th anniversary with an autumn promotional campaign. The 'face' of the campaign will be popular musician Elizabeth...

Noisy Triple J

5 March 2003 Have you ever wanted to remix some great Australian artists like Silverchair or the Waifs? Or play a set of your beats on triple j...

Street FM’s pirate image

5 March 2003 Melbourne based dance station Street FM is branding itself with a pirate image as it expands its narrowcast services. The station is now broadcasting in...

Scottish Radio Series available – The clan of nvarchar(15)y million

5 March 2003 'The Clan of Ninety Million' is a twelve-part radio series about Scottish clans and their homelands, currently in pre-production by East Lothian-based Beautiful Sunset Productions. It will...

Remote WA service area changes proposed

5 March 2003 The ABA is seeking to amend the licence areas of a number of commercial radio services in North West Western Australia, to enable the operator to provide...

Tomato Tx changes on Gold Coast

5 March 2003 The ABA has now officially varied the radio licence area plan for the Gold Coast, to allow the new commercial radio service, Hot Tomato, to operate...

No new community licence for Wollongong

5 March 2003 The Australian Broadcasting Authority has decided not to allocate a community radio broadcasting licence in Wollongong, New South Wales at this time. There were two...

More air time for ABC Tasmania’s gardening guru

5 March 2003 ABC TV's Gardening Australia star, Peter Cundall has doubled his air time on ABC Local Radio in Tasmania due to popular demand. Cundall can now...

Broadcast services expanding in India

5 March 2003 India’s broadcasting authority Prasar Bharati says expansion in radio and TV coverage in 2003 is focused on the Northeast of the country. The Authority...

4CA Secret Sound winner has bad eyes but good ears

5 March 2003 Ray Cowan may have bad eyesight but his perfect hearing has won him $5000, enough to pay for a laser eye surgery operation. ...

Delisle Appointed at BP&R

5 March 2003 Sydney based Broadcast Programming & Research (BP&R) has announced the appointment of another market research consultant, Bill Delisle, to serve its expanding European business....

Austereo’s half year result down 8.8%

5 March 2003 Austereo has released its half year result, showing a net profit after tax from continuing operations of $30.4 million - 8.8% down on the previous...

ABC Friends warning about Radio Australia consolidation

5 March 2003 The Friends of the ABC has written to ABC Chairman Donald McDonald about plans to establish an "International Broadcasting Division" which will combine its international...

ABC covers NSW state election

5 March 2003 The ABC will provide comprehensive coverage and expert analysis of the New South Wales Election campaign on radio, television and online. The election will be...

Blacktown community licence applications called

5 March 2003 The ABA has invited applications for a new community licence for the Blacktown area of Sydney. ABA Chairman David Flint explains: "The ABA previously...

Survey 1 2003 figures released

4 March 2003 Capital City ratings survey 1 for 2003 has been released this week. Use your refresh/reload button to get the latest version of this story as...

ABA warns on Tx issue

4 March 2003 State planning agencies “should be sensitive to the risks of allowing urban encroachment onto the remaining metropolitan AM radio transmission sites across Australia,” according to...

Womadelaide programs on Community Radio network

4 March 2003 Listeners to community radio across Australia will be part of Womadelaide through 2 live to air programs this weekend on more that 60 community stations...

New research gives insight into listeners buying habits

4 March 2003 New research into the lifestyle and buying habits of commercial radio listeners will allow marketers to hit their target audiences more effectively, according to Commercial...

Ace Radio buys Melbourne Radio School

4 March 2003 The Melbourne Radio School has just been acquired by ACE Radio Broadcasters Pty Ltd. The School was purchased from Gary and Joan Mac, who have...

Moriarty at Australian Broadcasting Summit

26 February 2003 The recent Australian Broadcasting Summit in Sydney discussed digital services, DRB, personal recording technology, interactive content, streaming, new advertising opportunities in the digital media and...

WOMADelaide and Port Fairy Folk Festival live on RN and Dig

26 February 2003 Both ABC Radio National and DIG Internet Radio will be giving the nation a chance to hear two of the best festivals on the Australian...

Triple J paints the town red in Tasmania

26 February 2003 Tomorrow (Friday Feb 28) Triple J’s drive time team, Mel Bampton and Charlie Pickering, are heading for Australia’s smallest state, to set a very big...

Ballad for Shane Warne on 4BC

26 February 2003 Renowned poet Rupert McCall has joined John Miller and Ross Davie as a regular on the breakfast program at Talk 1116 Brisbane’s 4BC, “inspiring Brisbane...

Triple S closure – more comment

26 February 2003 radioinfo has had further comment on last week’s story about Triple S FM Canberra closing down. The original item was contributed by Terry Giesecke...

Highlights of the Boyer Collection

26 February 2003 From Sunday, 2nd March at 5pm, Radio National will broadcast a special series based on the ABC’s archive of Boyer Lectures: “Highlights of the Boyer...

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