16 August 2010 For those self-interest groups that can afford it, election time is a good time to push oneโs own barrow in the hope that one can...
1 August 2010 How would you characterise the main difference between commercial and community stations? You might say that while one goes all out to make a profit,...
26 July 2010 Ever since the ABC announced its intention to launch a 24 hour TV news channel the Murdoch press have been waging an assault against it....
2 May 2010 Another Radio Award night has come and gone. It's the big night out for the radio industry - or at least for those lucky enough...
2 May 2010 It was only three weeks ago that our Forum topic asked, why isnโt Radio advertising to attract advertisers? And within two weeks Commercial Radio Australia...
2 May 2010 The president of community broadcaster, FBi, Cassandra Wilkinson, certainly knows how to hold an audience โ not just in the Sydney market against astronomically better...
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 weekโs 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 This week Ron Camplin was presented with a Commercial Radio Lifetime Achievement Award for his 60 years in the industry โ he started at 2CH...
2 May 2010 The revenue figures for the first quarter (July โ Sept) for commercial radio are not great. A national decline of 0.52% over the same period...
2 May 2010 Letโs face it, Radio has never been mistaken for a bastion of job security. But with what is euphemistically called an โeconomic downturnโ 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 weekโs 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 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 Thereโs a certain swagger that goes with winners. And when youโre at the top of your game, like Austereo, perhaps the biggest challenge is to...
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 Any agency creative worth their Porsche (or, if theyโre in radio their Mazda 3) knows what makes a bad ad - product price lists, multiple...
2 May 2010 A well considered article in the LA Times caught our attention this week. It suggests that while the old system of selling records through Record...
2 May 2010 The big news this week was not so much the first round of the AFL season, but the first call for Rex Hunt on Melbourneโs...
26 April 2010 The BBCโs Radio 1 has more in common with commercial outfits like 2Day than with the ABCโs triple j. But the really big difference between...
7 October 2009 The recent earthquake and devastating tsunami affecting Samoa, American Samoa and northern Tonga brought forward several shining examples of radio broadcasting dedication in the face...