Staff Writer 15 Mar 2012

Staff Writer 15 Mar 2012

Meshell shaves head at 5pm today

Nova's Meshell Laurie is (as of 4pm today) one hour away from having her head partially shaved by co-host Marty Sheargold. Laurie is shaving her head to raise money for the Leukemia ...

Staff Writer 15 Mar 2012

Staff Writer 15 Mar 2012

96FM markets ‘real music’

96FM in Perth relaunched and repositioned earlier this year as Radio Today noted here. Now they are marketing with a television spot based around your ears ageing if you do not ensure you listen ...

Staff Writer 15 Mar 2012

Staff Writer 15 Mar 2012

David Kidd to program 2GB

Respected programmer and research David Kidd has today been appointed Program Director of 2GB.  Kidd has replaced Ian Holland who has, until now, been Program Director across each of the ...

Staff Writer 15 Mar 2012

Staff Writer 15 Mar 2012

The Car Radio

The following story is reprinted from a somewhat bizarre website called Bathroom Reader in the US. You can visit their site here, and read the story of the Car Radio below. Radios are so much a ...

Staff Writer 15 Mar 2012

Staff Writer 15 Mar 2012

Auckland DJ suspended

An Auckland radio station, George FM, has suspended its drive announcer Thane Kirby after offensive comments were made by the presenter on his program last week.  Kirby joked about having ...

Staff Writer 14 Mar 2012

Staff Writer 14 Mar 2012

Games ‘beat radio’ say EA

The ad-tech digital marketing conference is on this week in Sydney with a raft of speakers, including Christopher Erb from EA Sports. Erb is the VP of Brand Marketing for EA Sports, with ...

Staff Writer 14 Mar 2012

Staff Writer 14 Mar 2012

Sea FM Rocky launches new brekky show

Sea FM Central Queensland have this week launched a new breakfast show. The 'Banksy and Brad' show started on monday, and features two local Rockhampton boys. Chris Banks ...

Staff Writer 14 Mar 2012

Staff Writer 14 Mar 2012

Thumbs up to Star FM

Further to the story on Radio Today at the weekend (read here) regarding the excellent work from the 2RG and Star Griffith team on covering the floods – this is the result of it. A ...

Staff Writer 13 Mar 2012

Staff Writer 13 Mar 2012

Clive Palmer eyes Fairfax

Billionaire Clive Palmer has flagged setting up a blind trust funded by himself, and other high net worth investors, to take significant investment positions in Australian media groups. He is ...

Staff Writer 13 Mar 2012

Staff Writer 13 Mar 2012

From Nova to Nine

Former Nova 969 Breakfast announcer Ricki-Lee Coulter has joined Channel Nine’s ‘The Voice’ television show as one of the mentors. The structure of the show involves the four ...