21 June 2006 As Helen Coonan pushes on with reforms (see our other story), ACCC Chairman Graeme Samuel has also been commenting on the changes in media...
21 June 2006 Following its successful ratings result this week, Mix 106.5 has announced the station’s new breakfast team, finalizing recent changes and adding one more player to...
21 June 2006 Legislation to smooth the transfer of community broadcasting licences moved another step through the parliamentary process during the week with the third reading of a...
21 June 2006 The inquiry into community broadcasting has continued this month with the CBAA, the Community Broadcasting Foundation and the Australian Indigenous Communications Association (AICA) appearing at...
21 June 2006 Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group has confirmed its final distribution for the year ending 30 June 2006. Estimated distribution will be 19.5 cents per stapled security with...
21 June 2006 An advertisement for Ford, written by Nick Weller and Phillip van Bruchem from agency, JWT Melbourne, has won the overall and single category for round...
21 June 2006 ABC Melbourne listeners are imagining having breakfast in bed with Red Symons, Tonya Roberts on hand to help with their gardening, or the Grandstand teamcalling...
20 June 2006 The results of the 4th capital city ratings survey have been released. In Sydney Mix increased and Nova dropped.
20 June 2006 Communications Minister Helen Coonan has sent the media industry a clear warning that ownership reforms will be shelved until 2012 unless big media proprietors fall...
19 June 2006 Southern Cross Broadcasting has indicated that buying media companies in the markets it already operates and merging its radio and TV operations is on its...
18 June 2006 Some radio executives are reluctant to cut advertising rates despite weaker demand. Neil Shoebridge in today’s AFR says the erratic state of the capital city...
16 June 2006 U.S. President George W.
16 June 2006 Murri FM, now heard in Mackay, Sarina & the Whitsundays has outgrown its existing accommodation after only 6 months of full time operation. From Sunday...
16 June 2006 Well known Wollongong Radio Personality, Steve Parsons has announced his retirement from the industry after 39 years. “Parso” began his career as an office...
15 June 2006 The UK’s Absolute Radio has flagged it intends to use the jockless JackFM format for an application it recently submitted to regulator Ofcom for a...
15 June 2006 BroadcastAsia2006, Asia’s leading digital multimedia entertainment technology exhibition and conference is about to return with a bigger and better lineup of exhibits and conferences to...
15 June 2006 Communications Minister Helen Coonan has denied the government was stacking the ABC’s board by appointing Keith Windshuttle to a five year stint as a non-executive...
15 June 2006 After five years off air Kiss has returned as a narrowcast dance radio station with twelve transmitters throughout Victoria. Kiss claim to be Melbourne’s...
15 June 2006 “The Official R&B Chart Hits with Wolfie”, which is currently broadcast over 20 commercial radio stations, will now be heard on an additional 45 stations...
15 June 2006 Mix 106.3 has won the latest Canberra survey, knocking off sister station FM 1047 for the top spot in the market. 104.7 is second, followed...
14 June 2006 Reforms being considered by the federal government include the possibility of radio networks being forced to deliver a minimum level of local content. Communications...
14 June 2006 Donald McDonald has been kept on for another six months as ABC Chairman, and two new directors, Peter Hurley and Keith Windschuttle have...
14 June 2006 Macquarie Radio Network’s new digital arm, freedigitalcontent.com, used the host of 'Oh, Brother' (their regular Big Brother review vodcast) Tim Brunero and Big Brother...
14 June 2006 A long running court battle between Sydney narrowcaster Cool Country Radio and ACMA came to an end today with Cool Country’s owner Mike Bedford...
14 June 2006 Aussie journalists “twist the facts” according to convicted bombing conspirator Abu Bakar Bashir. Bashir, speaking after being freed from an Indonesian gaol for...
13 June 2006 It took a 95 year old Grandma to ‘ping’ Nova 969’s Merrick & Rosso back to the top of the iTunes Top 10 chart. ...
13 June 2006 After nine years as breakfast show host at Sydney’s The Edge 96.1FM, Jo Abi is now finalizing her first book, “How to Date a Dad”...
13 June 2006 Musicians around Australia are answering the call to participate in Jamm 4 Genes, the music industry’s campaign in support of Jeans for Genes Day on...
12 June 2006 RadioWest Merredin is turning 65 this year and all former staff are invited to come along to the station, share some memories, tell some stories...
12 June 2006 The Nationals are hardening their position on the federal government’s contentious media reforms by setting out key conditions to guarantee diversity of ownership in the...
