Brad Smart

Regional Radio: Why is there a Bullseye on its Back?

18 December 2020 Opinion from Brad Smart One of the biggest gripes I see popping up on the radio forums on social...

Community Stations: Embracing the Concept of ‘MORE’

1 December 2020 Opinion from Brad Smart What is it with some community stations these days?I think many of the people behind them...

ACMA blames administrative error for Rolleston Mine relay

19 September 2020 The regulator has responded to yesterday’s opinion article by Brad Smart, citing an administrative error for the broadcast of an...

Mining decision the pits: Is ACMA playing fast and loose?

17 September 2020 Opinion from Brad Smart. Can someone please tell me what the hell is going on?Why is Triple M Brisbane being...

Happy Birthday Hot Country: It was a helluva ride!

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...

2CH to keep Music Format: That’s a Croc…

6 June 2020 Comment from Brad SmartI’ve seen a lot of posts on websites and social media since the announcement on Friday that...

Jones’ Breach Finding: Is Free Speech now under attack?

31 May 2020 Opinion from Brad SmartSo, here we all are, having waved 2GB’s Alan Jones goodbye for the last time. No doubt, some may...

Macquarie Media’s Bully Problem! Whose job is on the Line – Hadley or the Board?

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...

Community Radio: Heroes or just Cowboys?

2 January 2019 A number of aggressive community radio stations are certainly skating on thin ice at the moment. I keep asking...

Bigger Music Quota? C’mon APRA let’s get Real

30 August 2018 Opinion from Brad Smart I don’t like the idea of government-imposed quotas of any kind …never have. To me...

What’s really behind the SCA Restructure?

4 July 2018 Analysis and opinion from Brad Smart When I heard the news that Southern Cross Austereo was saying ‘adios’ to their Head...

Fair Go, Sport. Macquarie needs a goal

15 June 2018 Brad Smart analyses the latest ratings for Macquarie Sports Radio in this opinion piece Why do I...

Macquarie’s Lifestyle Dilemma: Once More unto the Breach

17 March 2018 Comment from Brad Smart I really don’t believe there are any serious players in the Australian radio industry who’d...

The Digital Assassin: Why is Everyone Trying to Kill Radio?

8 January 2018 Comment from Brad Smart Did someone put a target on the back of commercial radio while I wasn’t looking?...

Brisbane’s DAB+ Dilemma: the Gold and Sunshine Coasts’ unwelcome visitor

24 November 2017 Brad Smart examines the ongoing battle over Brisbane’s digital radio coverage in this opinion piece for radioinfo. When...

The Media Shakeout: Will CBS keep the wolves off radio?

6 October 2017 Opinion from Brad Smart. So, those long-anticipated media ‘reforms’ have got the final tick and are now etched in law....

Brad Smart delivers savage critique of Talking Lifestyle

13 September 2017 Adam Lang respondsBrad Smart (pictured) has never been one to sugar coat his assessment of the way management run their radio...

Media Diversity: Why the Hyenas are circling radio

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...

ACE in the Hole: It’s Time for Common Sense

21 July 2017 Opinion from Brad Smart It’s great to see that some common sense may be starting to make its way back...

Joan Warner responds to Brad Smart’s views on DAB+

29 May 2017 Last Saturday radioinfo published an article from Brad Smart titled Wolves at the Door? Telcos introducing new radio broadcast technology.The...

Wolves at the Door? Telcos introducing new radio broadcast technology

26 May 2017 Analysis by Brad Smart Have you ever noticed how the time periods between major technological advances in radio have become...

It’s Magic – just watch those ratings disappear

19 May 2017 Opinion from Brad Smart You know, the problem with making predictions is that all too often they come true,...

Where listeners have power: Radio’s Digital Horizon

17 March 2017 Brad Smart reports on the latest innovation in radio sales technologyDon’t blink! Commercial radio, as we know it today,...

‘Magic’ is not a Lifestyle

20 February 2017 Opinion from Brad SmartWith Macquarie Media set to extend its Talking Lifestyle brand beyond 2UE, to Brisbane and Melbourne, Brad...

Media Reform: Crashed & Burned

14 February 2017 Comment from Brad Smart Politicians are funny, and, often insecure, creatures. Seems they never want to be the...

2CH Sale: Play by the rules or get out of broadcasting says Brad Smart

18 November 2016 Former regional radio network owner Brad Smart believes Macquarie Media should “play by the rules” or get out of radio.In...

Brad Smart chases $4 million from Macquarie Radio

24 March 2015 Brad Smart, who sold his Smart Network – a string of North Queensland stations – to Macquarie Radio Network (MRN,...

Macquarie pays $6 million for Smart Radio network

31 August 2011 Macquarie Radio Network has bought Brad Smart’s regional radio network for $6 million. The sale was foreshadowed in a heads...