"Today the Government took a significant step to protect the independence of the ABC into the future", said Glenys Stradijot, a spokesperson for Friends of the ABC (Vic). 
Ash Bradnam is doing it a little tough at the moment and at one stage today it got a little tougher. After failing to show up at Beenleigh Magistrates Court this morning on a drink-driving charge an arrest warrant was issued but later withdrawn. The case has been adjourned until November 12 on medical grounds.
FORMER Highland FM community radio co-manager Graham Moir was elected to the Highlands Media Co-operative Ltd board at a heated annual general meeting on Monday night.
4WK’s parent company has been fined $8500 for underpaying one of its staff at a rate of just $6.66 an hour.
Austereo has renewed its contract to receive programming from mcm entertainment group Ltd for a further two years.
CRA release: Chief executive officer of Commercial Radio Australia, Joan Warner, today welcomed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Victorian Government, making commercial radio stations official broadcasters of emergency services information.
Glenn Hampson is back on the airwaves 3-5pm every Saturday over summer with “Saturday Siesta” on 98.7 and 98.3 3RPP and on the web www.3rpp.com.au.
Austereo will launch a new digital radio station and an enhanced version of the Hot30 FM radio show that lets listeners to select the music as it goes to air. Austereo together with US company Jelli say this concept will allow listeners to select the music being played in real time. This will be via a new digital radio station called Hot30 Jelli and FM integration on the Today Network. Jelli is a multiplayer web-based game that lets listeners control the songs that go on the air.
Listeners were given a special treat when John Blackman dropped by 3AW's Nightline to have a chat with Bruce Mansfield and Philip Brady tonight. Just before the 9pm news Blackers and Bruce rekindled the magic of Story Time, a segment the duo used to present at 6.55am every morning on their former top rating 3AW breakfast show. Have a listen to all the old gang from all those years ago. Audio
This morning on Nova 969’s Merrick & Rosso & Kate Ritchie the dump button was dusted off and used, and the game Kerplunk was to blame!
Access ABC: An extensive search through the ABC's Anzac Day picture archive has helped bring some comfort to two listeners who lost everything in the Black Saturday fires.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority will make new FM frequencies available to commercial radio broadcasting services 7LA and 7EX in Launceston to improve reception in the central business district.
Triple M Melbourne’s Music Director Vinnie Shannon has departed the station. He can be contacted via email: vinkel1@bigpond.net.au
MCM is ceasing production of Planet Rock as of the 29th of November while American Top 40 will finish at the end of December. Take 40 is changing format on December 5, with MCM deciding that stations can only play it on Saturdays between 2-6pm. MCM wants a 12 month commitment to the show, however this could play havoc with stations that take live sport such as NRL and AFL during the winter months.
Have a listen to this classic 2SM sales promotion audio from 1979.
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Joel Helmes is about to hit the 4BC airwaves again. Joel will fill in for Walter Williams on weekend nights over Christmas and will co-host the breakfast show with Chris Adams on Christmas morning. He says he can’t wait to get back on the air at 4BC. Helmes Media Solutions operations will continue as normal.
Further to the recent article on Crocmedia and their entry into calling AFL games for regional radio we can now confirm that ACE radio, Grant Broadcasters and North East Broadcasters will be taking the commentary in 2010
Nova 106.9 morning presenter Ash Bradnam will take time off to deal with alcohol issues after being caught drink driving little more than an hour after finishing work. Bradnam was caught driving at 0.214 - more than four times the legal limit - at a service centre off the Pacific Motorway at 10.20am last Thursday, just 80 minutes after the end of his daily radio show with co-presenters Meshel and Tim.
The husband of 2Day FM radio host Jackie O has been badly burnt in an accident on the couple's Southern Highlands property. Lee Henderson was flown by helicopter to Concord Hospital after the accident at the couple's home overlooking Kangaroo Valley on Saturday afternoon. In a rather ghoulish twist, photos of Henderson's burns and treatment by paramedics were posted on the 2Day FM website under the heading "Jackie Hubby Lee Gets Burnt". "Jackie's husband Lee was burnt over the weekend when a fire went wrong on the farm. He is being cared for in hospital and is doing well," the caption for the photos said. The pictures have since been removed.
Hamish and Andy, Austereo’s comic duo, have again won Best On-Air Team at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards (ACRA) announced this evening at a glittering ceremony at the Sydney Entertainment and Convention Centre. The program is the highest rating drivetime show nationally with an average audience of two million people each week.
CRA release: Chief executive officer of DMG Radio Australia, Cathy O’Connor was today elected as the new chair of the industry body, Commercial Radio Australia.Ms O’Connor will replace the outgoing chairman, Michael Anderson, chief executive officer of Austereo, who has announced he is leaving the radio industry next year.
One of the very same radio stations who were quick to tear this weeks black face skit on Hey Hey's Red Faces to shreds were only last Friday promoting veteran entertainer Issi Dye who regularly dons the boot polish with his Al Jolson tribute show. Lawrence Money has written an article about Issi and his tribute show here
THE AFL has finalised new radio agreements for regional Australia with its existing partners, and added a new player into the market.
Peter Munro takes a look at overnight radio. She was calling from Tasmania and staying away from windows, so they wouldn't spy her. Outside, her dog was tethered to a wheelbarrow to keep it safe from tractor beams. Triple J's Dave Callan, host of The Graveyard Shift, turned up his levels but still struggled to hear her. ''Do you mind talking a bit louder?'' ''No, I can't,'' she whispered, ''because aliens are scanning the area for life forms.'' Read the entire article
Harvey World Travel has teamed up with the Australian Radio Network Mix FM stations to bring listeners a new radio program called Destinations. Hosted by Ed Phillips the program will be heard in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide every Saturday morning between 9am -10am. There will be a different travel destination featured each week.
Derryn Hinch will this week broadcast his program 3AW drive from two different locations known as the Edge. On Tuesday he will be at The Eureka tower in Melbourne. Eureka Tower, a 300-metre (984 ft) skyscraper, features 'The Edge', which extends itself from the building to hang over the edge of the tower and add to the viewing experience. On Friday the program heads to Wangaratta for White balloon day where it will be broadcast from 3NE/Edge FM -out of The Edge FM studio.
Vega 95.3fm has today announced that breakfast hosts Tony Squires and Mikey Robins will not be returning to the station next year.
"Today the Government took a significant step to protect the independence of the ABC into the future", said Glenys Stradijot, a spokesperson for Friends of the ABC (Vic). 
Ash Bradnam is doing it a little tough at the moment and at one stage today it got a little tougher. After failing to show up at Beenleigh Magistrates Court this morning on a drink-driving charge an arrest warrant was issued but later withdrawn. The case has been adjourned until November 12 on medical grounds.
FORMER Highland FM community radio co-manager Graham Moir was elected to the Highlands Media Co-operative Ltd board at a heated annual general meeting on Monday night.
4WK’s parent company has been fined $8500 for underpaying one of its staff at a rate of just $6.66 an hour.
Austereo has renewed its contract to receive programming from mcm entertainment group Ltd for a further two years.
CRA release: Chief executive officer of Commercial Radio Australia, Joan Warner, today welcomed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Victorian Government, making commercial radio stations official broadcasters of emergency services information.
Glenn Hampson is back on the airwaves 3-5pm every Saturday over summer with “Saturday Siesta” on 98.7 and 98.3 3RPP and on the web www.3rpp.com.au.
Austereo will launch a new digital radio station and an enhanced version of the Hot30 FM radio show that lets listeners to select the music as it goes to air. Austereo together with US company Jelli say this concept will allow listeners to select the music being played in real time. This will be via a new digital radio station called Hot30 Jelli and FM integration on the Today Network. Jelli is a multiplayer web-based game that lets listeners control the songs that go on the air.
Listeners were given a special treat when John Blackman dropped by 3AW's Nightline to have a chat with Bruce Mansfield and Philip Brady tonight. Just before the 9pm news Blackers and Bruce rekindled the magic of Story Time, a segment the duo used to present at 6.55am every morning on their former top rating 3AW breakfast show. Have a listen to all the old gang from all those years ago. Audio
This morning on Nova 969’s Merrick & Rosso & Kate Ritchie the dump button was dusted off and used, and the game Kerplunk was to blame!
Access ABC: An extensive search through the ABC's Anzac Day picture archive has helped bring some comfort to two listeners who lost everything in the Black Saturday fires.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority will make new FM frequencies available to commercial radio broadcasting services 7LA and 7EX in Launceston to improve reception in the central business district.
Triple M Melbourne’s Music Director Vinnie Shannon has departed the station. He can be contacted via email: vinkel1@bigpond.net.au
MCM is ceasing production of Planet Rock as of the 29th of November while American Top 40 will finish at the end of December. Take 40 is changing format on December 5, with MCM deciding that stations can only play it on Saturdays between 2-6pm. MCM wants a 12 month commitment to the show, however this could play havoc with stations that take live sport such as NRL and AFL during the winter months.
Have a listen to this classic 2SM sales promotion audio from 1979.
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Joel Helmes is about to hit the 4BC airwaves again. Joel will fill in for Walter Williams on weekend nights over Christmas and will co-host the breakfast show with Chris Adams on Christmas morning. He says he can’t wait to get back on the air at 4BC. Helmes Media Solutions operations will continue as normal.
Further to the recent article on Crocmedia and their entry into calling AFL games for regional radio we can now confirm that ACE radio, Grant Broadcasters and North East Broadcasters will be taking the commentary in 2010
Nova 106.9 morning presenter Ash Bradnam will take time off to deal with alcohol issues after being caught drink driving little more than an hour after finishing work. Bradnam was caught driving at 0.214 - more than four times the legal limit - at a service centre off the Pacific Motorway at 10.20am last Thursday, just 80 minutes after the end of his daily radio show with co-presenters Meshel and Tim.
The husband of 2Day FM radio host Jackie O has been badly burnt in an accident on the couple's Southern Highlands property. Lee Henderson was flown by helicopter to Concord Hospital after the accident at the couple's home overlooking Kangaroo Valley on Saturday afternoon. In a rather ghoulish twist, photos of Henderson's burns and treatment by paramedics were posted on the 2Day FM website under the heading "Jackie Hubby Lee Gets Burnt". "Jackie's husband Lee was burnt over the weekend when a fire went wrong on the farm. He is being cared for in hospital and is doing well," the caption for the photos said. The pictures have since been removed.
Hamish and Andy, Austereo’s comic duo, have again won Best On-Air Team at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards (ACRA) announced this evening at a glittering ceremony at the Sydney Entertainment and Convention Centre. The program is the highest rating drivetime show nationally with an average audience of two million people each week.
CRA release: Chief executive officer of DMG Radio Australia, Cathy O’Connor was today elected as the new chair of the industry body, Commercial Radio Australia.Ms O’Connor will replace the outgoing chairman, Michael Anderson, chief executive officer of Austereo, who has announced he is leaving the radio industry next year.
One of the very same radio stations who were quick to tear this weeks black face skit on Hey Hey's Red Faces to shreds were only last Friday promoting veteran entertainer Issi Dye who regularly dons the boot polish with his Al Jolson tribute show. Lawrence Money has written an article about Issi and his tribute show here
THE AFL has finalised new radio agreements for regional Australia with its existing partners, and added a new player into the market.
Peter Munro takes a look at overnight radio. She was calling from Tasmania and staying away from windows, so they wouldn't spy her. Outside, her dog was tethered to a wheelbarrow to keep it safe from tractor beams. Triple J's Dave Callan, host of The Graveyard Shift, turned up his levels but still struggled to hear her. ''Do you mind talking a bit louder?'' ''No, I can't,'' she whispered, ''because aliens are scanning the area for life forms.'' Read the entire article
Harvey World Travel has teamed up with the Australian Radio Network Mix FM stations to bring listeners a new radio program called Destinations. Hosted by Ed Phillips the program will be heard in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide every Saturday morning between 9am -10am. There will be a different travel destination featured each week.
Derryn Hinch will this week broadcast his program 3AW drive from two different locations known as the Edge. On Tuesday he will be at The Eureka tower in Melbourne. Eureka Tower, a 300-metre (984 ft) skyscraper, features 'The Edge', which extends itself from the building to hang over the edge of the tower and add to the viewing experience. On Friday the program heads to Wangaratta for White balloon day where it will be broadcast from 3NE/Edge FM -out of The Edge FM studio.
Vega 95.3fm has today announced that breakfast hosts Tony Squires and Mikey Robins will not be returning to the station next year.