Jonesy and Amanda

Kyle and Jackie O #1 in Sydney, Jase and Lauren #1 in Melbourne: Survey 5 cumes

27 August 2024 KIIS 1065's Kyle and Jackie O have regained lost ground and are leaders in cumulative listening in Sydney in GfK Radio 360 Survey 5, 2024. Jase...

National Radio Day: The joy of an aircheck

22 August 2024 I'd really wanted to celebrate National Radio Day, August 20, in a positive fashion but was floundering, quite frankly, on the right story until, by...

It’s Jones and Keller, but not what you’re used to

6 August 2024 On WSFM's Jonesy & Amanda show while Amanda has been away, Jonesy has had the chance to enjoy several guest hosts with today's being a...

The sights, sound and commentary: Radio shines at the Paris Olympics

29 July 2024 Back in April YouGov released results of research into our investment in the Paris Olympics. A third of Australians said they were unlikely to tune...

Kyle and Jackie O still the most listened to on breakfast, smooth 95.3 on top: GfK Survey 3 2024

4 June 2024 Kyle and Jackie O are still the most listened to breakfast show in Sydney with a weekly cumulative audience of 758K, but that is only...

WSFM’s Jonesy and Amanda, Lauryn and Jake, and Greg – who is NOT having a midlife crisis

5 May 2024 All eyes were turned to Melbourne radio last week where KIIS 101.1's sister station Gold 104.3 had to resort to bin stickers (not chickens) to advertise...

Jonesy and Amanda complete WSFM’s relocation to North Sydney

17 April 2024 After two decades in Macquarie Park WSFM's Brendan Jones and Amanda Keller have officially lifted off from ARN’s new state-of-the-art studios in North Sydney, the final...

Ugly Phil test drives the new WSFM radio studios

11 April 2024 This morning, April 11, Ugly Phil O'Neil launched the new WSFM radio studios in North Sydney for their first on-air test drive, after apparently a...

Is there a market for watching radio?

28 November 2023 Every time someone says, “I watched a podcast video” I inwardly smile at the juxtaposition, but then I watched two radio shows last week. I’ve...

Station of the Year and Best Individual Presenter among the ACRAs for ARN

16 October 2023 ARN’s impressive results at the 34th ACRA Awards ceremony saw the network take home a record 28 awards including station of the year for KIIS1065...

Sarah Macdonald, Jonesy and Amanda feature in new TV series Queen of Oz

25 June 2023 A new BBC/ABC show starring Catherine Tate features some of Sydney radio's top personalities in vignettes throughout the tv series. ABC Radio Sydney's morning presenter...

Tyran Stig joins Jonesy & Amanda

10 January 2023 Tyran Stig joins the self-dubbed WSFM ‘A-team’ as Senior Producer for Jonesy and Amanda , following 3-years producing breakfast shows in Newcastle with SCA. The role...

Jonesy and Amanda re-sign with WSFM

28 October 2022 Breakfast duo Brendan ‘Jonesy’ Jones and Amanda Keller have signed a multi-year deal to continue with WSFM. ...

Jonesy & Amanda to host the 33rd annual ACRA’s

4 October 2022 WSFM’s Jonesy & Amanda will host the 33rd annual Australian Commercial Radio Awards when the event returns to Sydney this month after a three-year hiatus. Radio...

‘Radio the lifeblood of the community at times like this’

7 March 2022 As bad weather continues to batter the east coast of Australia, ARN stations across the country have pivoted their content to provide listeners with up-to-date...

Jonesy & Amanda go back in time on their new summer podcast

8 December 2021 This summer WSFM's Jonesy & Amanda will take listeners back in time with their brand-new podcast Jonesy & Amanda’s Time Travellers. The pair have been on-air...

Lessons in lockdown marketing from ARN

21 October 2021 As Australia’s two biggest cities take tentative steps out of lockdown, advertisers and marketers are wondering what WSFM Sydney and Gold 104.3 Melbourne will do...

Finding compelling, relatable, primal, trigger points: Jonesy and Amanda at AFTRS

18 June 2020 AFTRS recently had a class with WSFM's Jonesy and Amanda via zoom, on the topic Working in Duos. The multi-award winning pair have given permission...

Coronavirus: Does Radio have a Responsibility?

2 March 2020 Comment form Peter Saxon. Just a little over a year ago, I was at Darling Harbour near Sydney's China Town with WSFM’s Jonesy and Amanda...

Pure Gold Live raises $100,000 for bush fire relief

21 February 2020 Now in its fifth year, the hugely popular Pure Gold Live, hosted by WSFM’s Jonesy & Amanda, was a great success. In its biggest line-up yet,...

AFTRS Radio alumni clean up at the ACRAs

30 October 2019 AFTRS Radio alumni have swept the ACRAs, taking home 13 accolades in categories across country, provincial and metropolitan markets. Winning two awards on the night include: Kate Tim...

The ACRAs and beyond. Who’s missing?

20 October 2019 Comment from Peter Saxon In between the constant stream of tweeting the winners at Saturday night’s ACRAs, my wife Pauline, who remained home in Sydney dog...

Saxon on Radio’s Great Yum Cha Challenge

10 February 2019 Observation from Peter Saxon Every now and again I like to take part in a station promotion and mingle, incognito, with the punterslisteners that...

The prank that stopped the office

8 November 2017 Jonesy & Amanda sabotage KIIS on Melbourne Cup day. To make way for a Melbourne cup-themed display, Jonesy and Amanda discovered the WSFM letters had been...

Duncan Campbell: ‘Jonesy & Amanda have a real point of difference’

31 August 2017 It was a Pure Gold Survey 5 for ARN with both the brand’s stations going up in the money markets of Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney’s...

ARN revenue down in half year results

23 August 2017 HT&E Limited formerly APN News & Media has released its results for the six months ending 30 June 2017. On a statutory basis, revenue for the company...

Time flies when you’re having fun: Jonesy and Amanda re-sign with WSFM

17 August 2017 Brendan ‘Jonesy’ Jones and Amanda Keller have renewed their breakfast show contracts for three more years at ARN’s WSFM. Now in their 12th year together...

Why I won’t work with anyone but Amanda: Jonesy

24 May 2017 In the latest episode of the podcast You’ve Gotta Start Somewhere, host Rachel Corbett has sat down with WSFM's Brendan Jones. Jonesy, as he is...

John Laws talks Em Rusciano ‘feud’ with WSFM’s Jonesy & Amanda

18 May 2017 This morning WSFM's Jonesy & Amanda caught up with John Laws after he hit back at 2Day FM's Em Rusciano who reacted on-air to Laws' comments about...

Kyle and Jackie O back and scarier than ever

3 April 2017 KIIS 1065, WS FM101.7 and The Edge have again partnered with the Sydney Royal Easter Show. ARN has ticket giveaways across its three Sydney...