Voice-over talent could be costing radio millions
2 May 2010 Word is that radio missed out on the first round of the multi-million dollar Medicare campaign because it was felt that the creative used on...
2 May 2010 This forum is never short of posts bemoaning the diminishing job opportunities in radio since the big networks have taken over all but a few...
2 May 2010 As workplaces go, radio stations can get pretty “lively”. But apparently it got a bit too lively at 3BA soon after Reginald David Mowat, joined...
2 May 2010 It’s been said that you’re not really a career broadcaster unless you’ve worked Christmas Day. It’s a Radio rite of passage.
2 May 2010 What’s news worth to radio? Management certainly knows what it costs. For many music stations that three minutes at the top of the hour can...
2 May 2010 This week in Melbourne a group of radio academics and researchers from around the world gathered for the Radio2005 conference. You will read some of...
2 May 2010 Podcasting has become a phenomenal success, almost overnight, for radio. While Austereo’s reporting about 300,000 downloads per month, the ABC’s up to 500,000+ for Radio...
2 May 2010 Commercial Radio Australia this week released their latest commercial for commercials in the long running series written by Ralph van Dijk of Eardrum Australia. For...
2 May 2010 So James Packer reckons media of the future will be much more individualised. Perhaps he has forgotten that radio already is.
2 May 2010 Starting with Ray Hadley, there are plenty of people ready to knock John Laws off his ever-diminishing pedestal. The latest to join the queue of...
2 May 2010 Two weeks ago the papers told us that Alan Jones has no real political influence. This week, with Jones under attack from ACMA, the Prime...
2 May 2010 When researching recent stories on the 40th Anniversary of Talkback Radio and the longest on air breakfast teams, the first thing that became apparent...
2 May 2010 As a young jock in 1973, I thought I had really made the big time when I joined 2KA, Katoomba – a station taking the...
2 May 2010 Over recent months, radioinfo has looked more like an obituary column than a Radio news website. Sadly we have lost at least half a dozen...
2 May 2010 The awards for Australian of the Year will be announced tomorrow and you can get exclusive audio here on radioinfo (see our story in the...
2 May 2010 Radio and country music legend Smoky Dawson has died and an era of radio and hillbilly country music has died with him. Its one of...
2 May 2010 In 2004, John Laws was pilloried and taken to court on a vilification charge for calling “front man” for Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,Carson...
2 May 2010 If there’s such a thing as a protected species at commercial stations, surely it’s sales people. Regardless of the way in which radio is delivered,...
2 May 2010 It’s official, the switchover to digital TV would be complete by December 31, 2013, federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy told the Australian Broadcast Summit in...
2 May 2010 Is Radio, in general, of a better quality today than, say, 10, 20 or 30 years ago? Is it still amongst the very best in...
2 May 2010 When Sydney’s Daily Telegraph (excellent journal that it is) put the boot into Mix 106.5’s Todd McKenney after he was allegedly found unconscious from a...
2 May 2010 The ever popular Heckler column in the SMH the other day took a swipe at Commercial Radio. Difficult to imagine how or why, yet...
2 May 2010 In this week’s movements section we noted that: Irish funny man, Ricky Keegan, is heading back to the emerald isle after spending six months on...
2 May 2010 Paul Thompson tells radioinfo this week that an organisation is most effective culturally when it stands for something beyond its business objectives (see our main...
2 May 2010 Despite the CRA media release that boasts a 5.76% rise in revenue for commercial radio in metro markets, the fact is that many stations...
2 May 2010 It’s the cyberspace equivalent of coming home to find your space has been invaded. Nothing of value taken but you feel violated by an unknown...
2 May 2010 Over the next 17 days there will be wall to wall media coverage of yet another Olympic Games. How will it compare with past games...
2 May 2010 This week Ron Camplin was presented with a Commercial Radio Lifetime Achievement Award for his 60 years in the industry – he started at 2CH...
2 May 2010 Cameras in studios and pictures on the radio. What's the radio industry coming to? As two of this week's stories indicate, radio is becoming a...
2 May 2010 Governments, special interest groups and concerned citizens are all keen to influence the ABC in a way they’d never try with the commercial outlets. So...