I’m sure that many regional radio owners in Australia could barely hide their smiles when the prospect of converting their AM stations to FM was first raised.

Finally, some common sense seems to be glimpsing the light of day after three years of vicious bickering over the simultaneous streaming of radio programs.However, it appears this ‘ray of ...

Have you ever noticed when you talk to young radio executives about AM, you can almost see their eyes glazing over within seconds.To these guys, AM radio belongs to a bygone era. If their ...

Hang onto to your seat – the rollercoaster ride is about to start!With all its twists and turns, 2016 could well become ‘the Year of the Programmatic’. Question is – will ...

Turns out there are now some big-time losers in the wash-up from the US Copyright Royalty Board’s decision late last year. Sure, broadcasters did OK, from what, on the surface, looked to be ...

It certainly looks like PPCA is way out of step with the rest of the World when it comes to internet streaming royalties for radio stations.

Well, here we go again!Malcolm Turnbull is acting more like an investment banker and less like a responsible national leader. I recall criticizing him for taking the same gung-ho approach as ...

Programmatics may well be the next big thing to descend on us in the Australian radio industry, but, it could actually turn out to be a well-disguised attack dog, lying in wait to tear apart ...

When Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey said in his Budget speech he was going to put the GST onto Netflix, we all gasped in horror.Well, it appears Joe isn’t the only pollie who wants to tax the ...

Certainly, the biggest buzzword doing the rounds of the radio industry at the moment is ‘programmatic’.Everyone loves the concept, or pretends to; but then, why wouldn’t you? ...

Australia, it seems, is not the only place on Earth where the recording industry is trying on a ‘Divide and Conquer’ strategy in its dealings with the radio industry.

Australia is not alone in its fight against the music industry, who wants to have its hand deeper in the pocket of commercial radio.

Commercial radio is actually a very polite industry.With the exception of a few operators, the industry always wants to play by the rules; it’s all very civilised really.

How many rookie radio announcers have started their careers in the bush, vowing that one day they’ll own a radio station rather than work for one?Quite a few, I suspect.