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SCA Hit London
In a clever campaign to create lots of talk at media agencies, and give them a money-can't-buy experience at the Olympics, the Today Network have launched "Hit London" with Fifi & Jules plus ...
Pandora sneak back in
In a recent article on itechreport.com.au, they believe Pandora have quietly snuck back into Australia. Pandora is another online music streaming service that will compete with Spotify, Rdio and ...
Pat Morrish on ABC Far North
The ABC is celebrating its 80th birthday this year. As a part of that, former ABC Far North (Queensland) presenter Pat Morrish has written an insightful and fascinating article on her time with ...
The Power 50 oversights
This week SPA and theMusic released their list of the 'Power 50', the 50 most powerful people in the music industry. Whilst all the people on the list were highly talented, radio was conspicuous ...
Hauraki to poach Devlin
New Zealands TRN is thisclose to poaching high-profile RadioLive presenter Martin Devlin from Mediaworks. TRN's Director of Programming and Marketing, David Brice, has offered Devlin the ...
Macvean leaves SCA
After eight years with Southern Cross Austereo, Jeremy Macvean will leave his role as head of digital and new business development in September. SCA will be establishing a new role titled 'head ...
Nova doing their civic duty
Nova 100 have developed a great piece of story arc content around the confusing parking meter signs in Melbourne. After receiving a parking fine that she felt was undeserved, Nova 100's Breakfast ...
SCA invest in London broadcasts
Southern Cross Austereo today announced that the national drive show Fifi & Jules will broadcast live from London during the first week of the 2012 Olympic Games. As part of that week, the ...
FY radio revenue down slightly
CRA have released the revenue figures for FY12 for metropolitan commercial radio. The figures show that revenue overall was down slightly across the board by 0.47% to a total of $680.7m, when ...
Great co-branding from 2Day & Sony
2Day FM and dance group Justice Crew have filmed a music video to their current song 'Boom Boom'. In a smart piece of cross-brand promotion, featured in the video are Kyle & Jackie O, Hamish ...
Ronnie Wood cleans up in UK awards
The Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards have been run and won in the UK, you can see all the winners, plus a number of interviews on Radio Today in the UK here. However a couple of notable winners; ...
SCA takes ACMA to court
The Southern Cross Austereo tussle with ACMA has taken another turn, with SCA taking ACMA to court over the additional condition imposed on 2Day FM, over Kyle Sandilands. ACMA had ruled that ...
ACMA regional radio changes
ACMA have invited submissions on their proposed changes to the 'trigger event' legislation as it applies to regional radio licensees. The proposal will revoke the existing local content license ...