1 September 2024 Three of Australia’s most respected radio newsreaders are among those made redundant, following changes to NOVA Entertainment’s News and Programming structure.Australia’s most awarded newsreader Steve Blanda – who has racked up close to fifty years in radio news – farewelled Smooth FM listeners on air in Sydney this week.He has been at Smooth for nearly… Read More
6 February 2023 Comment from Peter Saxon. Almost six years ago, I wrote an article titled: 4 out of 5 jobs most likely to be lost to robots,...
1 September 2017 Peter Overton, renowned Australian television news journalist, will join smoothfm as guest news journalist from Monday. Peter joins smoothfm’s experienced news team that includes Steve...
19 May 2017 He’s one of Australia’s most accomplished and respected radio journalists Across two decades when Steve Blanda wasn’t busy winning an ACRA for Best News...
31 August 2015 Australia's most awarded newsreader in the history of radio, Steve Blanda has racked up 40 years in the business. Kim Napier caught up with him. "It's really hard...
4 August 2015 Steve Blanda is back, again, stepping into SmoothFM drive news for a month long stint. The former 2UE newsreader will be covering Glenn Daniel who...
22 June 2015 When radioinfo caught up with Steve Blanda recently (read here), he revealed how he had shed a tear listening to the final 2UE bulletin from...
19 June 2015 When the Macquarie Fairfax merger happened, 2UE news stalwart Steve Blanda was holidaying in London. With fifty staff to lose their jobs from a number of...
11 June 2015 Steve Blanda, once described as the safest man in radio, is back after taking a voluntary redundancy from 2UE following the Fairfax Maquarie merger earlier...
21 May 2015 There are some noses out of joint at the merged Fairfax/MRN company over ACRAs entries. Management at MRN have decided not to authorise ACRA entries...
10 November 2013 With a world record 17 ACRAs to his name for presenting news, Steve Blanda currently working at 2UE, is inarguably Australia’s finest practitioner of his...
