28 March 2024 Comment from Brad Smart I reckon it’s about time that community radio took off those self-limiting blinkers and saw its potential in a new, more...
24 March 2023 Opinion from Brad Smart There’s a well-known saying amongst broadcast owners that brings them back to their senses whenever they’re faced with the dilemma...
18 December 2020 Opinion from Brad Smart One of the biggest gripes I see popping up on the radio forums on social media is about the way...
1 December 2020 Opinion from Brad Smart What is it with some community stations these days? I think many of the people behind them have delusions of grandeur....
19 September 2020 The regulator has responded to yesterday's opinion article by Brad Smart, citing an administrative error for the broadcast of an out of area Triple M...
17 September 2020 Opinion from Brad Smart. Can someone please tell me what the hell is going on? Why is Triple M Brisbane being relayed into the...
13 August 2020 Today, the Hot Country Network turns 20. If you don’t live out west of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, you may never have heard...
6 June 2020 Comment from Brad Smart I’ve seen a lot of posts on websites and social media since the announcement on Friday that Pacific Star Network...
31 May 2020 Opinion from Brad Smart So, here we all are, having waved 2GB’s Alan Jones goodbye for the last time. No doubt, some may have had a...
10 April 2019 Opinion from Brad Smart For ABC News and Current Affairs, it must be Christmas in Paris with new and juicy details of the Ray Hadley bullying...
2 January 2019 A number of aggressive community radio stations are certainly skating on thin ice at the moment. I keep asking myself “why is it that...
30 August 2018 Opinion from Brad Smart I don’t like the idea of government-imposed quotas of any kind …never have. To me they’re demeaning to those they’re supposed...
4 July 2018 Analysis and opinion from Brad Smart When I heard the news that Southern Cross Austereo was saying ‘adios’ to their Head of Regional...
15 June 2018 Brad Smart analyses the latest ratings for Macquarie Sports Radio in this opinion piece Why do I feel that ‘Macquarie Sport’ is yet another...
17 March 2018 Comment from Brad Smart I really don’t believe there are any serious players in the Australian radio industry who’d envy the massive task now...
8 January 2018 Comment from Brad Smart Did someone put a target on the back of commercial radio while I wasn’t looking? Seems these days there are so...
24 November 2017 Brad Smart examines the ongoing battle over Brisbane’s digital radio coverage in this opinion piece for radioinfo. When digital radio finally raised its head in Australia,...
6 October 2017 Opinion from Brad Smart. So, those long-anticipated media ‘reforms’ have got the final tick and are now etched in law. Given their new-found freedom to scoop...
13 September 2017 Adam Lang responds Brad Smart (pictured) has never been one to sugar coat his assessment of the way management run their radio stations, especially those...
15 August 2017 Opinion from Brad Smart. When you stand back and look at it, Australia’s commercial radio networks are doing pretty well, especially when it comes...
21 July 2017 Opinion from Brad Smart It’s great to see that some common sense may be starting to make its way back into commercial radio management...
29 May 2017 Last Saturday radioinfo published an article from Brad Smart titled Wolves at the Door? Telcos introducing new radio broadcast technology. The article suggests that DAB+...
26 May 2017 Analysis by Brad Smart Have you ever noticed how the time periods between major technological advances in radio have become shorter and shorter. It all...
19 May 2017 Opinion from Brad Smart You know, the problem with making predictions is that all too often they come true, even if you don’t really...
17 March 2017 Brad Smart reports on the latest innovation in radio sales technology Don't blink! Commercial radio, as we know it today, may be about to change...
20 February 2017 Opinion from Brad Smart With Macquarie Media set to extend its Talking Lifestyle brand beyond 2UE, to Brisbane and Melbourne, Brad Smart analyses the possibilities...
14 February 2017 Comment from Brad Smart Politicians are funny, and, often insecure, creatures. Seems they never want to be the bearer of bad news …. it always...
18 November 2016 Former regional radio network owner Brad Smart believes Macquarie Media should "play by the rules" or get out of radio. In an opinion piece...
24 March 2015 Brad Smart, who sold his Smart Network - a string of North Queensland stations - to Macquarie Radio Network (MRN, owners of 2GB, 2CH) in...
31 August 2011 Macquarie Radio Network has bought Brad Smart’s regional radio network for $6 million. The sale was foreshadowed in a heads of agreement between MRN and...
