3 November 2024 By David Rogerson The Early Years When John Laws announced he was packing up the Golden Microphone after 70 years in the business, it hit...
25 March 2024 Well known announcer, actor and voice artist Ella James was watching an old episode of Four Corners when she heard her own voice as part...
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...
18 August 2023 SCA's John Kelly talks a big game with Peter Saxon - There’s something you should know about SCA’s new CEO and Managing Director, John Kelly’s...
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...
11 July 2023 With 2GB's Ray Hadley celebrated a 150th consecutive ratings win, Ben Fordham up 3.1 and on top with an 18.1 share in breakfast and 2GB...
3 July 2023 Survey 4 will be thrust upon us - NOT tomorrow as previously advised - but on Tuesday, 11 July, at 9:30 am, sharp. Now that...
9 November 2022 Ben Latimer had a mostly happy day on Tuesday. In this interview, he tells radioinfo’s Peter Saxon of the good and the not so good...
9 June 2021 Content from Adthos The Adthos ad server was launched, globally, less than two weeks ago and has already generated thousands of downloads across the planet. It is the...
29 November 2020 John Stanley tells Peter Saxon how he did it. By my rough count, John Stanley has seen more managements come and go in his 32 years at 2GB...
6 September 2020 CB unburdens to Peter Saxon. We all know that after he left SCA as Head of Content, overseeing both the Today and the Triple...
3 September 2020 It’s been five years since Craig Bruce left his highly paid job at SCA without a plan B. “Who the hell does that?”, asks...
16 August 2020 In the U.S. 63 per cent of on air talent in a Boot Camp survey said they hadn’t sat down with their Content Director to...
9 April 2018 The conversation started last week with James Cridland's provocatively titled Live Radio is Lazy Radio. It continued to rage through our reader comments and...
23 February 2017 CEO Grant Balckley tells Peter Saxon how it's going By any measure, it was a great half year result 2016 - 2017. Costs were...
14 February 2017 It was in December 2016 radioinfo's Peter Saxon forecast Magic 1278 would take on 2UE’s Talking Lifestyle format after it axed pretty much all its staff - (for...
26 June 2016 Just for a moment, she has to think about it, but she’s pretty sure she owns 55 radio stations across Australia. 55 stations: which makes Janet...
7 June 2016 Peter Saxon reports from the mosh pit Even the control freaks in the SCA Promotions department couldn’t control the weather. So the big media...
6 June 2016 James Cridland's perspective on Australian Radio: Comment by Peter Saxon There was a time, soon after WWII, when Australia House, based in London, lured the...
24 May 2016 Like Woody Allen, you either love him or can't see what all the fuss is about. Either way, Ricky Gervais is his own genre.
10 May 2016 Last month, we posted an article by Australian expat and media researcher, John Patkin, now based in Hong Kong, who argued that AM/FM and DAB+ would become obsolete...
6 March 2016 Comment from Peter Saxon It has been some years since our last visit to Canberra but the Tom Roberts exhibition at the National Gallery...
30 November 2015 Comment from Peter Saxon Tina Arena is undoubtedly one of Australia’s greatest musical performers - ever. Last week she was inducted into the ARIA Hall...
20 September 2015 Opinion from Peter Saxon Exactly two weeks ago in this column I wrote: If a radio station had had 30 consecutive surveys as poor...
17 August 2015 Comment from Peter Saxon Phil Dobbie, Director Loudmouth Communications certainly knows how to get attention for himself and his business. Yet, here we are giving...
27 July 2015 Hughesy and Kate go two on one with Peter Saxon radioinfo: Seriously, were the early starts the main reason you quit Breakfast at Nova 100? Kate: Well, 12...
23 June 2015 Comment from Peter Saxon By way of disclosure, I should state from the beginning that I’m a huge Apple fan - have been since 1984 when...
12 May 2015 Comment from Peter Saxon On the invitation only facebook page, The Radio Green Room, a thread discussing CEO Rhys Holleran’s imminent departure from SCA, devoted...
11 May 2015 Comment from Peter Saxon This article was first published on April 1, 2014 and is now unlocked. My late father was my hero.
26 April 2015 Comment from Peter Saxon Shortly, if not already, Southern Cross Austereo, owners of 2Day FM should receive notification of the penalty that the ACMA will...