Ford Ennals

Ford Ennals resigns as CEO of CRA, effective immediately

15 April 2024 The CEO of Commercial Radio & Audio (CRA), Ford Ennals, has announced his resignation effective from Monday April 15, 2024. Ennals has been CEO for...

Radio industry welcomes recommendation made by Senate inquiry – but more needs to be done

11 April 2024 Commercial Radio & Audio (CRA) has welcomed a recommendation that priority is given to the implementation of radio prominence on devices such as smart speakers...

2024 ACRA Award entries now open

2 April 2024 Entries for the 35th Australian Commercial Radio and Audio (ACRA) Awards are now open, with winners announced at the October 12 ceremony held at The...

35th ACRA Awards to be held at The Star on 12 October

18 March 2024 The 35th Australian Commercial Radio and Audio (ACRA) Awards, presented by Commercial Radio & Audio (CRA), are set to be hosted at The Star in...

Xtra Insights surveys expand to include more regional markets

12 March 2024 With GfK Radio 360 Survey 1 just days away of the five metro markets of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, the surveys conducted for...

Podcast ad revenue nearly cracks the $100 million mark

26 February 2024 Audio advertising in Australia continues to grow year on year with podcast ad expenditure up to $99.1 million according to new figures released by IAB Australia...

Championing Radio: Mark Ritson talks media with Peter Saxon

19 February 2024 The first time I saw a presentation by Professor Mark Ritson was 10 years ago at another CRA event, Radio Alive, where he brought proceedings...

Shameless tops the Australian Podcast Ranker, podcast listening up 33%

14 February 2024 There is a lot to like in this month's Triton Australian Podcast Ranker. Shameless, the podcast for “smart people who love dumb stuff” hosted by...

Celebrating World Radio Day 2024

13 February 2024 Today is World Radio Day. In 2013 UNESCO’s Executive Board recommended to a General Conference the proclamation of this day, chosen because of the formation...

Senate inquiry toward free-to-air television access needs to include radio: CRA

12 February 2024 Commercial Radio & Audio (CRA) have submitted an amendment to the Senate inquiry on the Prominence and Anti-siphoning Bill. The Bill is aimed at ensuring...

First data from the GfK MediaWatch shows radio listening strength over Summer

11 February 2024 The first data showing the listening habits of people wearing the MediaWatch has been released Commercial Radio & Audio (CRA) and compiled by GfK, with some...

Radio ad revenue down, digital audio ad revenue up in 2023

1 February 2024 Commercial Radio and Audio (CRA) have released their annual and quarterly ad revenue figures with both down a small amount for broadcast radio but significantly...

Australian Podcast Ranker reveals more than 1 billion podcasts were downloaded in 2023

17 January 2024 Australians still have a voracious appetite for podcasts, according the newly-released December 2023 Australian Podcast Ranker.It reveals that we downloaded 1.03 billion podcasts in 2023, up 26% for the year.Released today by Commercial Radio & Audio (CRA) and Triton Digital, the Ranker is a monthly snapshot of the top 200 podcasts listened to by Australians,… Read More

Record breaking year for commercial radio and DAB+

20 December 2023 Commercial radio and DAB+ have ended 2023 on a high with record listening as evidenced in GfK Radio 360 Survey 8. Radio across the five...

Hamish and Andy No 1, ABC debuts: Australian Podcast Ranker

14 December 2023 The November Triton Australian Podcast Ranker looks different this month extending to a top 200 and with the two debuts in the top ten as...

Ford Ennals on Australian radio turning 100: ‘The best is yet to come’

23 November 2023 Birthday celebrations (and one heck of a lot of candles) are in order today, as commercial radio in Australia turns 100.It’s a day to reflect on how far we’ve come as an industry, and consider what lies ahead.Commercial Radio & Audio (CRA) today pays tribute to all those in the industry, past and present, and… Read More

Play and Pay Fair: Australian music vs radio

21 November 2023 Let’s imagine that you grow and supply bananas. There are major international supermarket chains and local shops.

CRA figures show commercial radio revenue steady

26 October 2023 Figures released today by Commercial Radio & Audio (CRA) show ad revenue across Australia’s five major metropolitan markets is mostly steady for Q3 2023, down...

Daneie Geddes winner of 2023 Brian White Scholarship

13 September 2023 University of Newcastle journalism student Daneie Geddes is the winner of the 2023 Brian White Scholarship and receives a four-week paid placement in one of...

And the finalists are…….2023 ACRA Awards

24 August 2023 The finalists have been announced for the 34th Australian Commercial Radio & Audio (ACRA) Awards, with the winners revealed at the ICC in Sydney on...

Record entries, new awards and 100 years of commercial radio to be celebrated at the 2023 ACRAs

15 August 2023 The 2023 Australian Commercial Radio & Audio (ACRA) Awards will shine bright with more entries, nine radio hosts, a lineup of Australian music talent and...

Referral of bill to amend copyright laws welcomed by commercial radio industry

11 August 2023 The referral for review by the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee of Senator David Pocock’s private member’s bill to amend Australia’s copyright laws covering...

The commercial radio industry responds to bill seeking to remove 1% cap on broadcast sound recordings

9 August 2023 Senator David Pocock has introduced a private member’s bill seeking to amend the Copyright Act to remove a long standing 1% cap, which limits the...

Commercial radio’s billion dollar boost to Australian economy

3 August 2023 With commercial radio in Australia turning 100, a new report has shown the industry contributes $1 billion to the nation’s annual GDP, which includes a...

Little change in metro commercial radio advertising revenue for financial year 2023

20 July 2023 Metropolitan commercial radio stations recorded advertising revenue of $685,961 million for the financial year ended June 30, 2023, Commercial Radio & Audio has reported, little...

GfK Radio 360 Survey 4 – commercial radio listening surges

12 July 2023 The latest GfK Radio 360 Survey 4 shows people are listening nearly an hour longer each week than in 2022. Commercial Radio & Audio...

Radio industry responds to ban on gambling ads

28 June 2023 The response, from the Australian commercial radio industry to recommendations outlined in the final report of the House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal...

Australians’ leaders in digital audio listening in The Infinite Dial Australia study 2023

27 June 2023 The seventh Infinite Dial Australia report, released today by Edison Research and sponsored by Commercial Radio & Audio, LiSTNR and Triton Digital, has shown that...

2023 ACRAs to be hosted by Ray Hadley and Sofie Formica

20 June 2023 The 2023 Australian Commercial Radio and Audio (ACRA) Awards celebrates 100 years of radio in Australia, with Nine Radio’s Ray Hadley and Sofie Formica announced...

Radio 360 Survey 3 shows radio listening and streaming still growing

7 June 2023 GfK survey 3 used Commercial Radio and Audio’s Radio 360, the industry’s new audience measurement system, which delivered for the first time the total, broadcast...