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...

Ash Gardner joins Fitzy, Wippa and Kate Ritchie at Nova 96.9

10 April 2024 With all the to-ing and fro-ing in Melbourne radio with Kyle and Jackie O coming, Jase and Lauren moving and Ben Liam and Belle shifting...

Byron Cooke off to radio in Saudi Arabia – a one star review

4 April 2024 I re-watched Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves for the first time in 30 odd years while I was overseas. That film is (in)famous for three...

Byron Cooke departs KIIS 101.1

15 March 2024 It was thought that when Kyle and Jackie O launched into Melbourne on KIIS 101.1 on April 29, Byron Cooke, who has been covering the...

The Kyle and Jackie O launch date into Melbourne radio is………April 29

12 March 2024 KIIS 106.5's Kyle and Jackie O had a chat with Byron Cooke on KIIS 101.1 this morning, announcing that they would launch into Melbourne, and...

Kyle and Jackie O commence in new North Sydney studio

11 March 2024 KIIS 106.5's Kyle and Jackie O started this week broadcasting from the brand new studio created in North Sydney especially for their breakfast show. The...

Jackie O: Worth radio’s investment

7 March 2024 When Wendy Harmer left 2Day FM twenty years ago she was the highest paid woman in radio, apparently earning more than $2 million a year....

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...

World Radio Day 2024: Looking forward, looking back and unwrapping presents

12 February 2024 The themes of 2024’s World Radio Day on February 13, is shining a broad floodlight on Radio’s remarkable past, relevant present and promise of a...

Jase and Lauren return to radio on Nova 100 Breakfast

9 February 2024 After GfK Survey 8 at the end of 2023 showed just how much KIIS 101.1's Jase Hawkins and Lauren Phillips were being heard in Melbourne,...

The Fox’s Fifi, Fev and Nick bring out the big bucks to entice Melbourne radio listeners

31 January 2024 101.9 The Fox have announced ‘The 5 Million Dollar Drop!’ with breakfast team Fifi, Fev & Nick kicking things off by encouraging listeners to listen out...

SmartLess moves to SiriusXM bringing with it momentum back to podcast earnings

30 January 2024 It has felt a long while since I wrote about a million dollar podcast contract being gained rather than lost. The announcement that SmartLess, the...

Kyle and Jackie O pop into Melbourne family to give away Taylor Swift tickets

29 January 2024 Ahead of Kyle and Jackie O's launch into Melbourne 'pretty soon', KIIS 106.5's Jackie Henderson used her time in Victoria post the very exciting Men's...

ARN celebrates 10 years of KIIS

15 January 2024 At 5:54am on the 20th of January 2014, Kyle Sandilands and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson launched KIIS 1065 in Sydney. To celebrate the 10th anniversary ARN...

Kyle and Jackie O not yet ready to launch into Melbourne

14 January 2024 We were incorrect when we assumed that when Kyle and Jackie O returned from their summer break to Sydney's KIIS 1065 on Monday January 15...

How important are weekend listeners to commercial radio stations?

20 December 2023 The final GfK Radio 360 survey for 2023 showed an uptake in music listening, as often happens once sporting seasons wrap up and now that...

Survey 8 cumes: Big growth for KIIS Sydney and Melbourne plus Nova 96.9

19 December 2023 The final survey of 2023, GfK Radio 360 Survey 8, will be poignant for some, particularly Jase & Lauren from Melbourne's KIIS 101.1. The station...

GfK Radio 360 Survey 8 out today

18 December 2023 While most of the metro talent are enjoying a well earned Christmas break, and some making new plans for 2024, all eyes will still be...

Jase and Lauren emotionally announce departure from KIIS 101.1

22 November 2023 Jason Hawkins and Lauren Phillips with news reader Clint Stanaway emotionally announced their departure at the end of this year from breakfast on KIIS 101.1,...

Survey 7 cumes: KIIS on top in Sydney and moving up in Melbourne

16 November 2023 KIIS1065 is once again the most listened to station in the country and Kyle and Jackie O the most listened to show with KIIS Melbourne's...

Are Kyle and Jackie O worth $200 million? The answer’s intangible

6 November 2023 Comment from Peter Saxon - Over the weekend, at a dinner party hosted by a charming couple we’ve known for some years, where neither they,...

Kyle Sandlands donates $20K to fund a neonatal incubator

17 October 2023 Kyle Sandilands couldn’t make the weekend’s ACRAs where he and KIIS1065 won a swag of awards. He did happen to catch Paul Murray on Sky...

KIIS1065 on top in Campbelltown, strong result for local C91.3 – Xtra Insights

10 October 2023 The first Xtra Insights survey of Campbelltown has KIIS1065 on top in the Macarthur region with a strong showing for local station C91.3 FM particularly...

Where is my music radio, KIIS?

25 September 2023 KIIS 1065 Sydney's #1 Hit Music Station. Not really.

Radio salaries – how much is too much and how much isn’t a living wage?

18 September 2023 Speculation is again mounting that there is some sort of bidding war going on between the Australian Radio Network (ARN) and Southern Cross Austereo (SCA)...

GfK Radio 360 Survey 5 out tomorrow

28 August 2023 There are two more GfK Radio 360 metro surveys due before 100 years of radio is celebrated at the 2023 Australian Commercial Radio Awards held...

ACMA investigation finds Kyle and Jackie O have broken decency rules

10 August 2023 An Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) investigation has found comments made during a segment on the Kyle & Jackie O program has breached decency rules...

“It’s a long game, played slowly” – ARN’s Duncan Campbell

11 July 2023 Radioinfo's Peter Saxon caught up with ARN's Chief Content Officer Duncan Campbell about GfK Radio 360's Survey 4 2023. KIIS 106.5's breakfast team of Kyle...

Could SCA lure back Kyle and Jackie O?

3 July 2023 After ARN’s aftermarket raid of a 14.8% interest in Southern Cross Austereo, the rumour mill is postulating that SCA might be negotiating a raid of...