30 March 2012 Two new radio books have recently been released. Sean Street’s The Poetry of Radio: The Colour of Sound and Ellie Rennie’s Life of SYN: The...
30 March 2012 Radio Students from the Australian Film Television and Radio School will be broadcasting live at the 2012 Sydney Royal Easter Show from tomorrow. It is...
29 March 2012 Some think that Fitzy & Wippa sound more like an ice cream brand than Ben & Jerry, so it could be fortuitous they get together....
29 March 2012 From 6am yesterday, anchor of K-ROCK’S B Team Leroy Brown has been broadcasting a 27 hour quest to highlight the issues suffered by those in...
28 March 2012 Sydney community station 2RRR is launching a week long Radiothon, from Friday 30th March to Thursday 5th April, asking its listeners to show their support...
28 March 2012 With a vision of increasing cultural diversity on Australia’s airwaves, youth project Next Generation Media has taken to the air every Sunday on SYN Media...
28 March 2012 ARN has begun an Outdoor Campaign for Mix102.3’s Adelaide breakfast show with Jodie, Mark and Snowy. The Outdoor campaign started this week and will include...
28 March 2012 “The ABC is negotiating the great shift, from 20th century broadcaster into 21st century digital media organisation,” acting ABC Chairman Steven Skala told parliamentarians in...
28 March 2012 The PPCA has lost an appeal aimed at increasing the licence fee required from commericial radio stations. The music copyright collecting agency lost its appeal...
27 March 2012 It happened in 1943, the same year that retired 3AW mid-dawn announcer Keith McGowan (who sent us this clipping) was born. The headline Died At...
26 March 2012 It is the second Nielsen survey for 2012. In Sydney, leaders 2GB and ABC702 both increased with MMM and WS FM dropping slightly and Triple...
26 March 2012 Regulator ACMA has ruled that Kyle and Jackie O breached commercial radio’s decency codes in a verdict handed down at a media conference in Sydney....
26 March 2012 But pulls a punch on his bosses with an iron fist. The pack of journos gathered at the ACMA media conference were baying for the...
26 March 2012 Of course, you can't get away with telling lies about survey results without a swift rebuke from your competitors. But given the intricacies of the...
25 March 2012 Focus groups show audiences respond when an interview sounds like “real people talking,” but zone out when what is on the air sounds fake or manufactured....
25 March 2012 Has it happened to you? You’re driving your 11 year old to school and The Kinks come on the radio. Suddenly you find yourself having...
25 March 2012 A big day today! At about the same time that Nieslen releases the results of its second survey for the year, ACMA Chairman, Chris Chapman...
25 March 2012 An ad for Broo Premium Lager called “BBQ”, which promotes an Australian-owned beer, has won the single and overall categories for round five of the...
24 March 2012 When tickets to One Directions’s intimate concerts sold out in Brisbane in about 3 minutes, Zoe Ash and Cas, fans who’d missed out, were desperate...
22 March 2012 Harold Mitchell has launched a groundbreaking new resource for Australian media history at Foxtel’s Sydney headquarters. The Media Archives Project database, developed by Macquarie University's...
22 March 2012 Central Queensland's 990 4RO AM is celebrating it's 80th Anniversary on 2nd July 2012. All the old 4RO jocks from the 1970s are getting back...
22 March 2012 Radio Australasia has launched a new show called MindFood Radio – Smart Thinking, a new variety radio show that’s fun, entertaining, relevant and fresh for...
22 March 2012 Dee Curtis has been appointed Assistant Program Director at Nova 106.9 FM Brisbane. The appointment will mean a dual role for Curtis who is also...
22 March 2012 Line-up changes are in progress at Sydney’s 95.3FM and Melbourne’s 91.5FM. From next Monday, 26th March, the stations will share daytime shifts and have local...
22 March 2012 1029 Hot Tomato is revving up it's RequestFest night show with the appointment of David "Christo" Christopher. Christo is returning home to the Gold...
22 March 2012 A new series on the future of news has begun on NewsRadio, in conjunction with Melbourne University’s Centre for Advanced Journalism. The first program in...
21 March 2012 A loophole has been closed by the ACMA’s latest decisions on commercial radio Standards for advertising and disclosure. The original compliance standards were brought in...
21 March 2012 The Australian Radio Network outperformed the radio market last year, with revenue up 5%, compared with all Australian radio advertising revenue, which grew by 0.9%....
21 March 2012 The commercial radio industry has welcomed changes to the draconian ‘trigger event’ rules in the Broadcasting Services Act. The changes, which relax reporting and the...
20 March 2012 Sammy Power is leaving Wave FM Wollongong. She has told radioinfo: “I'm finishing the survey here and then going back to Brisbane.” She...
