Radio News

Fundraising efforts saves SYN

22 November 2023 The six week fundraising effort to ‘Keep SYN Alive’ has raised more than $60,000 and allowed the station to plan for 2024.

Play and Pay Fair: Australian music vs radio

21 November 2023 You want the local shop to keep the percentage of bananas they are required to sell but pay more directly back to you. The local shop is not happy with this, and counteroffers that perhaps they’ll petition to get rid of the quota and buy your bananas less often or import them cheaper instead. Or sell only three fruits from now on, and no bananas. Or get rid of fruit from the supermarket altogether. This analogy is what is happening at present between the Australian music and radio industries.

Why radio news is still king

22 November 2023 ‘Miracle’ is a term that gets bandied around a lot these days, but the Beaconsfield mine rescue back in 2006 would have to come pretty close.Clinton Maynard remembers that day better than most, because he was there.Covering the mine collapse for Sydney’s 2UE, Maynard (pictured above) spent a fortnight in Tasmania’s north east, basically living… Read More

Australian podcast advertising continues to grow

21 November 2023 ARN's iHeart and Magellan AI have revealed the top 15 brands who are advertising on Australian podcasts for Q3 2023 with the data also showing local podcast advertising grew by 88% from this time last year.

PJ Harding back on radio on The Hits Drive show

21 November 2023 New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME) will pair former KIIS 101.1 radio presenter Polly ‘PJ’ Harding and Kiwi television personality Matty McLean for a new Drive show on The Hits in 2024.Harding hosted ZM’s drive show with Jason Hawkins, before both moving to Melbourne to cohost the KIIS’s breakfast show until June 2021. McLean is… Read More

ABC Radio Australia expands into Gizo, Solomon Islands

21 November 2023 ABC Radio Australia’s transmission footprint has now expanded to include the town of Gizo in Western Province of the Solomon Islands. The launch of the FM service is a key deliverable for ABC International Services under the Federal Government’s enhanced funding for ABC services across the Indo-Pacific.

Mark Gibson to replace Stan Shaw on ABC Radio Perth Breakfast

20 November 2023 After Stan Shaw said on Friday he would be leaving ABC Radio Perth Breakfast, Mark Gibson has today been announced as his replacement in 2024.

More change at FIVEaa with Jon Blake’s departure

21 November 2023 Jon Blake has departed FIVEaa with his details being removed from the Nova station’s website. Blake hosted The Jon Blake Show between 7pm to 8pm weeknights and had also done a daily segment called Behind Closed Doors for the past seven years which would feature satirical impersonations of FIVEaa presenters. FIVEaa breakfast presenters David Penberthy… Read More

Dave Warner calls time on Star 102.7 breakfast

20 November 2023 After more than two decades on Cairns’ Star 102.7 Dave Warner has decided to pull up stumps. The recent Xtra Insight survey of the area saw Dave & co-host Inkie well on top in breakfast.Warner literally stumbled on a job at Star during a Cairns holiday and has become a huge advocate for the local… Read More

Tony McManus locked in for 3AW overnights

20 November 2023 Tony McManus has finalised the 3AW lineup for 2024 becoming the new overnights host. He moves from 6PR and will have to think about changing his X (formerly Twitter) handle from @TMACPERTH.

It’s all good for radio says NINE’s Greg Byrnes

20 November 2023 NINE Radio’s Greg Byrnes tells Peter Saxon that both the rivalry between Ben Fordham and Kyle Sandilands as well as...

Stacey Lee joins FIVEaa

19 November 2023 FIVEaa has announced that award winning journalist Stacey Lee will join the station on the afternoon shift next year.After two...

ABC Radio Adelaide Breakfast in 2024 will be Sonya and Jules

19 November 2023 Sonya Feldhoff and Jules Schiller will take over ABC Adelaide Breakfast together in 2024, Feldhoff who has hosted Afternoons for the last decade and Schiller who’s been on Drive since 2017.

Where can I listen to the Cricket World Cup final?

17 November 2023 Australia has qualified for the men's ODI Cricket World Cup Final. I thought I'd share with those of you who are also planning a late Sunday night (Monday morning) your Australian radio listening options as we try to defeat India, in India.

Nearly $2 million already raised for i98FM’s Illawarra Convoy

17 November 2023 The 2023 i98FM Illawarra Convoy is on this Sunday November 19, but already $1.9 million has been raised by the Lead Truck Auction.

Hot Tomato still sizzles on the Gold Coast: GfK Survey 3, 2023

17 November 2023 Little has changed on the Gold Coast at first glance for GfK Survey 3. Hot Tomato is still number one and first in breakfast for Galey and Emily Jade. 92.5 Triple M was still second. The two SCA stations, Triple M and Sea FM, saw their audiences drop from 14.0 to 12.8 and 11.1 to 9.4 respectively and now Sea FM sits fourth behind triple j.

Miles apart in style. 0.1 between them in audience share

17 November 2023 Duncan Campbell chats with Peter Saxon –In yesterday’s Survey 7, the great rivals, Kyle and Jackie O on KIIS106.5 and...

Gina Jeffreys: “I had no idea how much I would love radio”

17 November 2023 Gina Jeffreys loves to laugh. Every single day. Preferably until she’s got tears running down her face.And the chemistry she shares with her Star104.5 Breakfast co-host Dave ‘Rabbit’ Rabbetts enables her to do just that.As we prepare to celebrate 100 years of commercial radio in Australia, today we chat to the multi-award winning country singer… Read More

CADA and smooth serving their DAB audiences: GfK Survey 7

16 November 2023 Cumulative listenership to radio was down across the capital cities, but DAB+ was up with youth station CADA the leader in Sydney and the other states enjoying a mix of 80s, 90s and smooth.

Survey 7 cumes: KIIS on top in Sydney and moving up in Melbourne

16 November 2023 KIIS1065 is once again the most listened to station in the country and Kyle and Jackie O the most listened to show with KIIS Melbourne's Jase and Lauren also seeing a 27K growth in their breakfast audience.

Spin Cycle: Survey 7, 2023

16 November 2023 The Spin is in from the PR and Marketing departments for GfK Radio 360 survey 7.

Survey 7 2023 ratings survey results: Kyle and Fordham neck and neck

16 November 2023 The 7th radio ratings survey results for 2023 have been released. Neck and neck between 2GB and KIIS for Sydney...

Survey 7 lands this morning at 9:30

16 November 2023 Get your finger poised to hit the refresh button at 9:30 am and get the latest figures on where metro...

Josh Szeps to leave ABC Radio Sydney Afternoons

15 November 2023 Josh Szeps announced on air today that he will leave ABC Radio Sydney Afternoons at the end of this year.That’s...

Entries and judges for 2024’s 2TM Discovered

15 November 2023 The star-studded judging panel for 2024’s 2TM Discovered Quest have been announced. They are Melanie Dyer, Andrew Farriss and Jarred Taylor. Entries close November 30.

Gareth Thomson: Riding the Wave of AFTRS success

15 November 2023 It was during his primary school days that Gareth Thomson first had an inkling that a broadcasting career might be on the cards for him.“My friends and I made up a fake TV station,” he chuckles. “That’s when I knew there was a certain inevitability to it.”Today, as a graduate student at Australian Film Television… Read More

Hamish and Andy No 1 and Blake’s new podcast debut: Australian Podcast Ranker

15 November 2023 It’s business as usual on this month’s Australian Podcast Ranker, the 50th released by Commercial Radio and Audio (CRA). LiSTNR’s Hamish and Andy was No 1 for a record 22nd time. Mamamia and Mia Freedman’s No Filter was the only new entry in the top 10, up four places to 9th. Hamish and Andy had nearly a million listeners and Casefile True Crime (2nd) had the most (2,377,637) downloads.

Nige! Nigel Johnson gets his own radio station

15 November 2023 Mix 106.3's Nigel Johnson has been given his own DAB+ called Nige!, where he can play what he likes with a promise of no commercials or James Reyne. Amplify Canberra have reassured listeners that this move doesn't mean he's leaving the breakfast show he hosts with Kristen Henry, it's just more Nige, more often.

Howzat! 11 new Sounds of Australia

14 November 2023 Eleven new pieces of audio that resonated with Australians have been added to the National Film & Sound Archive’s (NFSA) Sounds of Australia registry.

How Muriel blazed a trail for women in radio

15 November 2023 For almost as long as commercial radio has been operating in Australia, women have been working in it.Now, as the industry prepares to celebrate 100 years, today we speak to one of the trailblazers – Muriel Cooper, the first woman to become No. 1 on a prime-time radio talk show.Muriel never set out to be… Read More