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Mike Perso goes dry this July to raise funds for cancer research

10 July 2024 Smooth FM 91.5's Melbourne Breakfast host Mike Perso is giving up alcohol this month, raising money for the Dry July Foundation, supporting people affected...

Deep dive into DAB+ sees audiences dropping: GfK Radio 360 Survey 3, 2024

4 June 2024 While DAB+ consumption is soaring globally, one of my jobs on survey days is to take a closer look at those results across the metro...

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...

Looking after all of radio’s parts

27 April 2024 As the dust settles post GfK Radio 360 Survey 2, 2024 and most of us look to the Monday April 29 launch of Kyle and...

Jennifer Hansen leaves smoothfm’s More Music Breakfast

19 December 2022 After nine years Jennifer Hansen has made the decision to turn off the alarm clock and leave the smoothfm 91.5 Breakfast Show. Jennifer has been...

AGE is the new radio reality

14 July 2022 Comment by Dave Charles, President of Media RESULTS Inc. There are many experienced executives and exceptional radio professionals on the sidelines because the young newcomers...

Human Nature joins smoothfm’s Christmas long lunch

29 November 2019 smoothfm is celebrating the festive season with a special Christmas long lunch featuring one of Australia’s most successful groups, Human Nature. Next Tuesday Mike Perso...

Jo Hall joins smoothfm as guest news presenter

12 July 2019 Nine News presenter Jo Hall will join smoothfm 91.5 as guest news presenter from Monday 15 July and team up with Mike Perso, for breakfast...

Mike Perso gives us a jock’s eye view of the journey to smooth’s success

20 May 2019 Today marks smoothfm’s seventh birthday. There’s much to celebrate as the brand’s success has eclipsed even the most optimistic of forcasts.

How smooth picks the songs that make it the music leader

7 May 2019 Paul Jackson reveals the secret to smooth's success Undoubtedly smoothfm is the station brand launch of the 21stcentury. From a vague hope that it might reach...

smoothfm turns conventional radio wisdom on its head

17 March 2019 "It was a matter of reverse engineering," says program chief Paul Jackson Conventional radio wisdom dictates that a station’s success flows from its Breakfast...

Mike Perso on smooth: ‘It’s good to be better, but it’s better to be different’

18 May 2017 With over 20 years radio experience, Mike Perso has worked in numerous cities for multiple networks as an on-air announcer and in programming, promotions and...

smooth radio has plenty to celebrate this Sunday as it turns 5

15 May 2017 In 2012, when NovaEnt content supremo Paul Jackson approached seasoned presenter and PD Mike Perso to do breakfast in Melbourne on 91.5 it wasn't even...

First time winner bags 46 thousand dollars

22 September 2016 smoothfm listener, Jennie has won $46,400 by guessing smoothfm’s Mystery Word. The competition had been going for a month and it was clue number four that prompted Jennie...

smooth journo Making Headlines of her own

8 February 2016 When a media personality writes a “tell all” book it’s sure to attract a lot of attention from the media - in particular, other media...

Smoothfm’s Parenties Party

3 November 2015 Forget Schoolies celebrations, Smoothfm’s Mike Perso and Jennifer Hansen are throwing an end of VCE exam party with a difference, inviting fellow stressed-out parents to...