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...
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...