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Gold Coast survey released
The first survey for 2012 on the Gold Coast has been released today. See the full results here. As usual for this market, it is close, however Southern Cross Austereo have taken out the 1 and 2 ...
DMG goes ‘Smooth’
The industry rumour-mill is in overdrive that DMG will be relaunching Sydney's 95.3 FM and Melbourne's 91.5 FM as 'Smooth 95.3' and "Smooth 91.5' within days. The domain names smooth953.com.au ...
New MCM Digital Boss
MCM Media have announced a new appointment, with Lachlan Brahe (left) joining the company as Commercial Director – Digital. Brahe's most recent role was Head of Digital Strategy for Carat, ...
How do the other half live?
Well in Sydney, one of the places they live is Dover Heights. However the peaceful, serene atmosphere of Dover Heights, where the majority of noise tends to occur when a poodle sees a spoodle on ...
Nova and More FM ‘flop’
A great piece of content from Nova Brisbane and More FM Auckland with an 'Australia vs New Zealand belly flop competition'. Not only is a strong on-air content, it provides good water-cooler talk ...
More DMG sackings
There have been further sackings at DMG Radio, on this occasion in Sydney. Late yesterday afternoon, the News Director for Nova 969 and 95.3 Denee Savoia and 95.3 presenter Anthony Maroon (right) ...
Nova get tight with Olly Murs
This week Nova have hosted UK singer Olly Murs playing live in the 'Red Room'. The 'Red Room' is a regular event where Nova listeners and clients have the chance to see high-calibre talent play ...
DMG axes 3 from Melbourne newsroom
DMG Radio have this afternoon halved the staff in their Melbourne newsroom, making three journalists redundant, including one of the last remaining members of the Nova 100 launch team, News ...
Triple M rocks Anzac Day
The Anzac Day public holiday is tomorrow in Australia and New Zealand. The sense of occasion and importance of the day becomes stronger each year for people in both countries, and radio ...
Linda Wayman a ‘mover & shaker’
Only weeks after being inducted into the 'WA Womens Hall of Fame' (read here), and winning a prestigious award at the Campaign Brief Awards, Linda Wayman, General Manager of 92.9 and Mix 94.5, ...
Mix 94.5 Perth shakes things up
Southern Cross Austereo have made a number of changes to the product team at Mix 94.5 in Perth. The Executive Producer of Breakfast, Erica Hodge (left), will add Assistant Content Director ...
MTR finances settled
The Macquarie Radio Network and the Pacific Star Network today will finalise the settlement of the financial terms around the failed Melbourne talk station MTR. The bulk of losses will be ...
Sea FM in a survey state of mind
Sea FM Central Coast's Breakfast Announcer Dan Taylor, at the time of writing, has received just under 90,000 hits in 7 days on youtube for his parody song 'Central Coast state of mind', set to ...
Mothers Day Digital Radio campaign
Commercial Radio Australia has launched a campaign targeting Mothers Day sales of Digital Radios. The campaign is specifically focused on Myer and Dick Smith. CRA chief executive officer, Joan ...