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BY RadioToday Network June 4, 2026
What's New January 28, 2026
Business as usual again at ARN after gremlins strike
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Listeners are being reassured it’s business as usual again at ARN, with an internet outage blamed for the technical gremlins which caused major headaches for its networked metro Breakfast shows this morning.
The Christian O’Connell Show was glitching on the iHeart Radio App, with Sydney audiences hearing the same audio being repeated on a loop every 15 to 20 seconds.
The outage – which is also believed to have impacted Triple M‘s network – left Kyle Sandilands unable to join the KIIS Network’s Kyle & Jackie O Show remotely.
The situation proved a nightmare for radio newsrooms Australia-wide, with Newboss services crashing, and journalists in Sydney’s ARN newsrooms unable to upload their bulletins.
An ARN spokesperson told nine.com.au “There was an outage impacting several networks across Australia this morning.”
“Broadcasting has returned to normal and we will continue to monitor the situation.”
So networking only works sometimes….maybe it should be called ‘NET NOT WORKING’.
What ever happened to keeping things simple ?
I’ve got a great idea….what about a local radio station broadcasting locally.
If 2day was working this morning, it would’ve give them and nova advantage this morning!
Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me you didn’t read the article.
Lucky Sydney listeners, being spared from the trash.
@Neil Alexander
I am blind.
@Nerdy: Unfortunately for 2DayFM & Nova, a lot of their listeners (certainly, the types of people they’d be going for…) are still in holiday mode this week. Sydney won’t be back at school until next week!
… geez people, back in the day when we used to do real broadcasting everything was backed up and redundancy built in to all the paths, now that IT has taken over it’s (shrug the shoulders) “an internet outage” …
@CJ Macquarie Park had so many diverse paths it was impossible to go down for an internet issue(DAB was different, but wont go into that lol). But someone took over the north sydney project and decided it wasnt required.. no idea what tech they ended up with, but they were even talking about no P2P/STL link.. Bonkers putting non tech people in charge of tech. Don’t bag out IT.. There are people that understand both Broadcast and IT and come from an IT background, but getting fewer and fewer.
@C.J @Ex ARN – perhaps all made a little more amusing that the site that ARN relocated to:
1. used to be an exchange
2. Has a massive art installation (an homage to the exchange) in the front window of the building of old cabling presumably from the exchange (2 cups connected by wires – kinda cool, actually)
3. Has the exchange signage deconstructed as a seperate art piece in the foyer
4. Is located next to a massive Telstra exchange (I’m guessing exchange, could be DC)
5. Is across the road from TPG Headquarters (and the building ARN is in was actually home to Vodafone for a period)
6. Is across the road from where Optus HQ used to be
7. Is down the road from Vocus HQ
You’d have to believe it that having diverse, redundant paths wouldn’t be much of a challenge at their location.