11 March 2021 Three of Southern Cross Austereo's metro breakfast shows have had major changes this year, more than in any other network. SCA's Chief Content Officer...
24 February 2021 No final dividend paid. As reporting season continues, Southern Cross Media Group has reported a 16% drop in revenue for the half year ended December...
22 February 2021 Last week SCA CEO Grant Blackley told radioinfo that the company is moving towards a 'digital audio first' strategy. As part of that strategy, the...
14 January 2021 On Monday SCA launches two big breakfast shows that could change its fortunes – hopefully for the better. After seven years of bad luck in trying...
6 December 2020 Dave Cameron explains the strategy behind the changes to Peter Saxon. Next week it will be exactly a year since Dave Cameron was summoned to...
1 November 2020 Sam Cavanagh , SCA's Head of Entertainment and News Content for Digital Audio, talks to radioinfo’s Steve Ahern about podcasting, SCA's on-demand audio strategy and...
29 October 2020 SCA Perth has appointed Marc Eddy as Acting General Manager, replacing Erica McGee. Eddy, who has been with SCA since 2008 as Audio Operations Manager for...
11 October 2020 Australia’s leading regional media organisations have united to fight for urgent reforms to "outdated and obsolete laws that put the future of local media at...
17 September 2020 After a tough few months of stand-downs, redundancies and restructuring, where many radio industry staff in all sectors have lost their jobs, some stations are...
30 August 2020 Fyona Smith speaks with Peter Saxon For the past 34 years a diploma from the highly respected radio course at AFTRS would all but guarantee the...
25 August 2020 It’s a massive irony that while radio listener numbers have increased strongly during the pandemic, revenue has fallen off a cliff. In the June quarter, just gone,...
20 August 2020 SCA’s diversification with its radio portfolio has helped cushion the affects of COVID-19 on revenue for the full year ending June 20. Revenue for the Group...
20 August 2020 SCA has announced that it will introduce statewide breakfast shows across its national Hit Network of regional stations from Monday 24 August, with some announcers losing...
18 June 2020 Over the past few months of lockdown, audiences have been forming new consumption habits. As advertisers adapt to the changes, a new report from GroupM reminds...
8 May 2020 America's PodcastOne has been acquired by LiveXLive in a deal worth US$18.1 million. SCA's PodcastOne Australia has partnered with the American company since 2016.
7 May 2020 This week several radio industry leaders have given updates on how their companies are going during the COVID-19 pandemic. Steve Ahern examines the evolving business...
6 May 2020 Southern Cross Media has successfully completed its equity raising, giving it an expanded war chest of $169 million to see it through the Corona virus...
15 April 2020 Southern Cross Media has dispatched a retail offer to eligible shareholders inviting them to participate in a share entitlement offer for fully paid ordinary shares...
12 March 2020 As SCA takes control of the Spirit Network in Western Australia, there is one station still left with an uncertain future, Spirit FM in Bunbury,...
5 March 2020 Carla Vella, SCA Head of Radio Sales Sydney, has resigned after four years in the role. She and her young family are moving north where Carla...
20 February 2020 Allan Aldworth and Michelle Anderson have been named as the new state wide regional breakfast hosts of Hit Breakfast in Western Australia. Alan comes from Bunbury,...
20 February 2020 Speaking to radioinfo this morning, after announcing SCA’s half year results Grant Blackley says negotiations are well under way for the sale of the Bunbury...
19 February 2020 The eight Redwave Media Western Australia brands that SCA acquired last year have been rebranded to the Triple M and Hit brands. At 8...
19 February 2020 SCA has delivered its half year results for the second half of 2019, with group revenue down by 8.2%. The fall reflects the guidance given...
2 December 2019 Southern Cross Austereo is in the process of issuing redundancy notices to somewhere between 50 and 100 staff this week, as it faces tough trading...
2 December 2019 Last week we brought you the news that SCA's Adelaide stations were trialing a new system which allowed the local breakfast hosts to be heard...
25 November 2019 SCA has begun an experiment in Adelaide that puts its live local breakfast show on each of its DAB+ stations in that city. As of...
31 October 2019 Southern Cross Austereo (SCA) has appointed 20 internal “innovation champions” to lead its The Lab project, calling on its people to act as ‘torchbearers’ for...
24 October 2019 Southern Cross Media is seeking opportunities to grow its regional broadcasting footprint, but wants changes to legislation to allow its regional media businesses to compete...
18 October 2019 Similar to the age old question of what came first the chicken or the egg, when we think of podcasting, we can ask the same...
