23 October 2011 According to Southern Cross Austereo heavyweight, Guy Dobson, yes we are. To put that statement into context, we were discussing the the quality of the...
17 October 2011 There was a telling moment at Friday’s CRA Conference when Rhys Holleran, Southern Cross Austereo CEO, was asked during a panel session whether the merger had...
10 October 2011 This week's Forum Topic has been suggested by James Foord, who contributed the subject of promotions to our "Suggest a Topic" Forum. With the summer...
10 October 2011 Early adopters of digital radios have not all been overjoyed with their purchase. A story in The Australian last week quoted a disgruntled purchaser as...
10 October 2011 Janet Cameron sees value in regional radio. So much so that she has just bought eight stations from Fairfax to add to her family owned...
3 October 2011 At the ACRAs of 2002 (then known as the RAWARDS), Sir Bob Geldoff berated Australian Radio for playing "shite." His argument was that the more...
25 September 2011 If there is something missing from the ACCRAs, it’s certainly not awards - there are near 90 of them handed out in 33 categories. People...
18 September 2011 It is not advisable to run foul of one’s superiors too often, unless you are indispensable. And no one is indispensable.
9 September 2011 If 2UE’s Michael Smith was truly concerned about freedom of speech as he claims, he would have his big interview published in a newspaper or...
5 September 2011 For Media Watch there seems no more fertile pasture from which to harvest a story than 2GB broadcaster Alan Jones. Last week it was about...
29 August 2011 Research recently released by CRA shows that time spent listening to digital radio is well ahead of that listened to on the internet - for...
21 August 2011 Is it just me, or does the quality of the creative in station produced ads sound worse than ever? Flicking around the dial, it seems...
15 August 2011 If any industry reflects the capitalist ideal of free market forces driving productivity through a natural harmony between bosses and workers, then Commercial Radio should...
8 August 2011 Looking through the list of ACRA finalists released last week, among the many awards up for grabs in October is one for Most Popular Station...
31 July 2011 It was 30 years ago today (August 1, 1981) that MTV was launched. The first video clip it famously telecast was the Buggles’ Video Killed...
24 July 2011 You may recall the old story about the psychiatrist and the proctologist who went into business together and were looking for a simple name that...
18 July 2011 With his boss, Rupert Murdoch, over in Britain battling to save his media empire in the wake of the phone tapping scandals unearthed in that...
11 July 2011 It’s been a big week for Queensland. The Reds, defeated the Crusaders to notch up their first ever Super Rugby Premiership.
3 July 2011 Every year the good folk at CRA grapple with the weighty issue of who to invite as keynote speaker to the annual Radio Conference and...
27 June 2011 It is said that most people join a club, be it golf, tennis or dance, for one of three main reasons. Some because they want...
20 June 2011 Its hard to tell sometimes whether radio sets trends, follows them or merely reflects and amplifies them. If you have an opinion on that, we’d...
12 June 2011 The battle for supremacy between Sydney and Melbourne remains, arguably, Australia’s biggest and longest running rivalry. From which has the better food or attracts the...
5 June 2011 No pictures, no touch, no smell, no taste – just sound. That’s all that radio has by which to capture the imagination of its audience.
30 May 2011 As the celebrations surrounding Austereo veteran Lee Simon for reaching 40 years in radio last week rivaled that afforded a winning contestant on Survivor, it...
22 May 2011 There must have been a wry smile on the faces of one or two people at Fairfax Radio on Friday when the front page of...
9 May 2011 As an editor of radioinfo I try to listen to talk radio on a purely professional level and not get personally embroiled in the argument...
2 May 2011 For around 40 years it’s been ‘the same old song’ from the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA); Radio does not pay enough in performance...
26 April 2011 While most Australians took advantage of this super long Easter and ANZAC Day weekend, for many in Radio, particularly on air staff, it was business...
18 April 2011 The headline in The Australian screamed “Dirty little secret: what the radio industry doesn't want you to know.” The article beneath it called into question...
14 April 2011 Darwin’s Territory FM is not your average Community Radio station. For a start, according to station manager Peter Perrin, it commands a 23 per cent...
