17 July 2014 Commercial Radio Australia has teamed up with international radio and audio specialist agency Eardrum Australia and Brussels-based Cobra Radio Brewery to create the Sirens EarApp,...
7 July 2014 The commercial radio industry has recorded growth in metropolitan advertising revenue of 1.99% for the financial year ended June 2014, to a total of $697.127 million, according...
13 June 2014 An Australia-wide digital radio giveaway begins on Monday with commercial radios stations across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth offering hundreds of digital radios to...
23 May 2014 Iluka, the inaugural winner of the Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) and Mushroom Group music initiative First Break will represent Australia tonight at the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting...
21 May 2014 Want to be like ACRA award winners Jonesy and Amanda, Kyle and Jackie or Fifi and Jules? You have to be in it to win...
7 May 2014 The release of the first Gold Coast survey of the year, due out Thursday morning, has been postponed. It will now be released a week...
29 April 2014 The much anticipated first radio ratings results for Canberra in 2014 were released today, with measurement by new radio ratings provider GfK and results for...
17 April 2014 What mum really means when she says “darling just make me something for Mother’s Day” Commercial Radio Australia is partnering with digital radio manufacturer Pure and...
27 March 2014 Southern Cross Austereo's Sydney News Director Deborah Clay will travel to Singapore tomorrow to take up her week long fellowship exchange at MediaCorp, the prize...
10 March 2014 This survey’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas with CRA decorating their facebook page in GfK orange to add colour to the event. It’s...
3 March 2014 The first survey for 2014 began on 19 January and will be released next Tuesday March 11 at 10am. The industry has worked closely with GfK...
27 February 2014 All provisional Gold Standard software suppliers have now achieved final accreditation and are fully-endorsed by Commercial Radio Australia. The providers that have completed final testing...
21 February 2014 Agencies and radio stations have extra time to submit entries for the best radio ad in the 2014 Siren Awards. The Siren Final Call closes...
18 February 2014 ILUKA, the inaugural winner of the commercial radio industry’s Australian music initiative ‘First Break’, will from this week see the start of the massive radio...
16 February 2014 Opinion from Peter Saxon To PPCA boss Dan Rosen’s credit he was quick to accept radioinfo’s request for an interview, despite the risk that like...
13 February 2014 Grant Broadcasting's executive director Grant Cameron, has told Radio National the extra cost to his company would be more than $1 million a year for...
13 February 2014 CRA believes there is unprecedented interest in the release of Survey 1, due to GfK becoming the new radio ratings provider, as well as major...
12 February 2014 The ongoing and increasingly bitter dispute between the PPCA and the Radio industry is back in the Copyright Tribunal today. As reported previously on radioinfo,...
11 February 2014 All across Australia, backbenchers are answering questions from the public and from radio station managements about the streaming dispute. In a range of correspondence sighted by...
6 February 2014 There has been a lot of discussion on the PPCA streaming dispute, but the ABC has been quiet on the subject… until now. radioinfo asked ABC...
4 February 2014 The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) has distanced itself from the decision by commercial radio operators to cease streaming their simulcasts of local radio...
3 February 2014 Opinion from Peter Saxon. Open and fair-minded person that I am, I was prepared to carefully consider the PPCA’s written response to regional radio’s shutdown of...
2 February 2014 The PPCA has not taken kindly to regional stations pulling the plug on streaming, rejecting CRA’s claim that a simulcast licence results in ‘double dipping.’...
27 January 2014 Commercial Radio Australia CEO, Joan Warner has confirmed that the peak body is actively pursuing a deal with Samsung to include a DAB+ radio chip...
12 January 2014 Listening to live and local commercial radio, particularly while in the car, continues to be the activity of choice for Australians, with the summary of...
15 December 2013 Sydney indie rock band Castlecomer is the winner of the commercial radio industry’s annual new Australian artist program, First Break. The First Break program represents...
13 October 2013 A view of the CRA National Radio Conference by Peter Saxon For the past decade or more, each conference and ACRAs has featured a big...
17 October 2012 Until last Saturday night, there were two things Graham Mott did not know: what really happened to Harold Holt and that he was going to...
16 October 2011 Let’s start with my perennial pet peave, the sound. I am pleased to report that the legendary aural curse of the ‘radio event’ has been...
29 October 2002 The rAWARDS evening rounded off a big weekend for the commercial radio industry with a presentation and dinner attended by key industry people. The Awards...
