How Smooth is the new TVC? You be the judge

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Triple M backs National Busking Day to help The Salvos

16 May 2012 For the second year in a row, The Triple M network is helping The Salvation Army’s Red Shield Appeal Doorknock this weekend by presenting National...

Dangi signs up for Souths

16 May 2012 Fitzy & Wippa’s international guest Dangiattended a weights training session this morning with the South Sydney Rabbitohs. It was a case of the world’s shortest...

ABC’s Digital Jazz station’s big concert giveaway

16 May 2012 ABC Jazz has launched what it describes (in hushed tones, of course) as “a massive competition” where one listener and friend will win flights to...

Branding Your Station: Ideas From John Parikhal

15 May 2012 Can an established station be re-branded to get a younger audience? Joint Communications President John Parikhal, who is also a "Beyond Powerful Radio" contributor and...

ACMA imposes harsh condition on 2Day. SCA not happy

15 May 2012 The Australian Communications and Media Authority has carried out its intention to impose an additional licence condition on 2DAY FM, as it had foreshadowed back...

Encouraging results of online trial for radio surveys

15 May 2012 With tenders being called for the radio survey contract later this year, the giant French based international firm Ipsos has made an impression with its...

Julie Goodwin & Star FM’s Wilko – All I Wanna Do is Make Croquembouche

15 May 2012 MasterChef Season One winner Julie Goodwin and Star 104.5 FM Central Coast's Wilko have joined together for a duet about Croquembouche. They've been threatening...

Kyle turns up on The Price is Right

14 May 2012 What is it with jocks and game shows lately? Last week it was Wippa on Eddie McGuire’s Hot Seat. This time it’s Kyle Sandilands on...

Australia ranks 3rd with 11 finalists in NY Radio Festival

14 May 2012 All but one is from the ABC. The other is from Round The Outside Productions.

Radio National takes you to the Sydney Writers’ Festival

14 May 2012 This weekend, from Friday at 10, ABC Radio National will broadcast live from the Sydney Writers’ Festival, the annual literary event which has attracted audiences...

Make listeners like you on Facebook and watch your brand suffer

14 May 2012 “Stop making listeners ‘like’ you on Facebook. Forcing them to act like a dog rolling over to get a bone sets a deep subconscious resentment,”...

B105’s Labby, Stav and Abby talk to dying teenager’s dad.

13 May 2012 They were going to tell Shaun Wilson-Miller on air, in person, that B105 listeners had chipped in to get the teenager to the Gold Coast to see...

98.9 FM Radio Maroon to defy NRL and call State of Origin for Queenslanders

13 May 2012 Sick of listening to a “biased” call of the NRL State of Origin from a NSW stacked commentary team, indigenous radio 98.9 FM will again...

Radio Connects website gives good case studies

13 May 2012 Commercial Radio Australia has launched a new website featuring successful radio campaigns for a range of advertisers. CRA chief, Joan Warner said today the website,...

Fitzy and Wippa stick up for the little man – the littlest they could find

13 May 2012 Dangi fever strikes Sydney as Chandra Bahadur Dangi, the world’s shortest man at 54.6cm, arrives in Australia to a hero’s welcome. Not exactly Nova’s target demographic,...

Victoria’s TAC Gets The Message on Community Radio

13 May 2012 The Community Broadcasting Association of Victoria has just launched a major Statewide Project in association with the Transport Accident Commission (TAC). The 'Get the Message'...

Sony Radio Awards winners announced

13 May 2012 BBC Radio 6 Music wins Station of the Year and KISS crowned Breakfast Show of the Year Classic FM awarded The Special Award and Nicholas...

2UE failed to respond to complaint: ACMA

13 May 2012 The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found that 2UE did not respond substantively and within the required timeframe to a complaint made by...

VAST future for ABC and SBS radio

12 May 2012 The ABC and SBS have emerged unscathed from Treasurer Wayne Swan’s pursuit to cut over $40 billion in order to find a $1.5 billion surplus,...

Digital radio sales continue to rise amid retail slump

12 May 2012 1 in 10 now listening to DAB+ in metro markets. In the first quarter of last year, 53,996 digital radios were sold.

Hot FM’s Tom and Heidi form Boy Band – without Heidi

12 May 2012 Western Australia Hot FM's Tom and Heidi were challenged to put together WA's very first Boy and Girl bands. Tom succeeded with "Wrong Direction" where...

Be positive about radio’s future Warner tells RadioAsia Conference

12 May 2012 At last week’s Radio Asia Conference in Jakarta, Commercial Radio Australia CEO Joan Warner tackled the question, ‘with online around, why does radio technology exist...

Howard Sattler suffers stroke

11 May 2012 I have in fact had a STROKE…maybe two of them, Howard Sattler told his 6PR Perth audience before going on two weeks leave to recuperate....

The difference between a good and a great voiceover

10 May 2012 The difference between a good voiceover and a great voiceover is actually a lot less than you might think. When I'm talking with a would-be...

Kyle back at work after health scare

10 May 2012 Kyle Sandilands was rushed to hospital on Friday morning for what management described as a “health scare.” But by Saturday night he posted this message...

Not quite The Voice… Ugly Phil’s The Horn

10 May 2012 You’ve never heard Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water played like this. It’s an audio story, so it needs audio to tell it.

Shoestring AMRAP funding axed

10 May 2012 Community radio and Australian musicians face a major setback with the government failing to renew funding for the Australian Music Radio Airplay Project (AMRAP). “Community...

7HO FM’s Jane becomes James to test a theory

9 May 2012 After making the on air statement, “it’s easier for guys to get a date than it is for women” 7HO FM’s Jane Turner was challenged...

Julia Gillard tells Nova Drive which Voice Team she would pick

9 May 2012 As Prime Minister Gillard did the rounds of stations this week selling the budget, Nova’s Drive hosts Meshel, Tim and Marty gave her an opportunity...

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