2 May 2010 The revenue figures for the first quarter (July – Sept) for commercial radio are not great. A national decline of 0.52% over the same period...
2 May 2010 A few years ago the Radio Conference was abuzz with disparate owners from all over Australia hobnobbing it with their city slicker counterparts. In 2008,...
2 May 2010 Who would’ve thought that, as a news story, the axing of the Religion Report on Radio National would have such legs? Would there be as...
2 May 2010 When asked what makes for a good talkback host, Fairfax Radio chief, Graham Mott told a radio conference, “They should be right wing.” Mott should...
2 May 2010 The once proud and iconic Triple M is in deep trouble in the town where it was born, Sydney. And doing only marginally better in...
2 May 2010 Let’s face it, Radio has never been mistaken for a bastion of job security. But with what is euphemistically called an “economic downturn” well and...
2 May 2010 Although John Laws left 2UE a year ago, he is still costing them money. This week the current management, Fairfax, have agreed to pay $130,000...
2 May 2010 This week’s topic came to us from a question suggested by one of our esteemed subscribers, John Simmons who contacted radioinfo after reading our story...
2 May 2010 Austereo CEO, Michael Anderson told radioinfo this week, “We might not always make the right decision, but we can’t be accused of not making a...
2 May 2010 This week saw a number of networks, Austereo, ARN and DMG, snub the economic gloom and take out advertising campaigns. Shame that the beneficiary of...
2 May 2010 “There is increasing speculation the Rudd Government plans to raise the current one per cent cap on fees that regional radio stations pay the record...
2 May 2010 Nothing the media loves more than a boyish stoush between mature men running multi-million dollar empires. When 2GB/2CH co-owner John Singleton took aim last week...
2 May 2010 Its obvious that special interest groups like The Australian Family Association don’t listen to contemporary FM stations much. If they did they would have complained...
2 May 2010 Everybody’s name was in lights at the dmg launch of their two new digital channels. Literally! Instead of the usual printed name tags, everyone got...
2 May 2010 Every Friday morning Cairns Mayor Val Schier spends an hour on air at 4CA to chat with the good burghers within transmitter reach of the...
2 May 2010 If it’s for real, then we doubt that there has ever been a nastier, more personal stoush between rival announcers, than the one that burst...
2 May 2010 There’s a certain swagger that goes with winners. And when you’re at the top of your game, like Austereo, perhaps the biggest challenge is to...
2 May 2010 DAB+ = CD sound, right? Not quite, says the man who knows better than most, Colin Crawford, CEO of the UK’s biggest digital radio manufacturer,...
2 May 2010 Bill Caralis reckons he's good at picking names. Gorilla is certainly the most 'innovative' name for a digital radio station radioinfo has heard about so...
2 May 2010 Take Triple M for example. From market to market the programming philosophy is the same, some of their major shows are networked.
2 May 2010 Last week the Australian Productivity Commission delivered a draft report that concluded that commercial radio was over-regulated. It criticised the overly-legalistic interventionist approach of the...
2 May 2010 The way Joan Warner and her crew at CRA have talked up Digital Radio, you’d suspect she could sell sand in the Sahara. Stations have...
2 May 2010 Any agency creative worth their Porsche (or, if they’re in radio their Mazda 3) knows what makes a bad ad - product price lists, multiple...
2 May 2010 Taking live calls without a seven second delay is like driving without a seatbelt. Or having unprotected sex with a stranger.
2 May 2010 Outgoing ARN CEO Bob Longwell was there, bright and early in Martin Place, Sydney on a crisp winter’s morn. But his stations WSFM and MIX106.5...
2 May 2010 In an age when most radio promotional ideas are stolen – sorry, subject to “knowledge capture” from the US, its refreshing to see an Australian...
2 May 2010 As one of our stories this week reveals, someone is having fun with a new digital radio playlist featuring bird sounds. Who knows how far...
2 May 2010 One headline says Kyle’s back, the other says, LabRat will take over his shift. According to the Nielsen survey just released, the 2Day-FM breakfast show...
2 May 2010 A straw poll of the people around our table and the tables around us concluded that as ACRAs go, this was a pretty good one....
2 May 2010 On the day after The Chaser’s now infamous “Make a Wish” sketch was aired on ABC TV earlier this year, the broadcaster received a handful...