Radio fit for a king

Martin King will present drive on the all new Melbourne talk radio station which is set to launch soon. MTR 1377's King will go head to head with Derryn Hinch who hosts drive on 3AW

The Touch wins I am with the band.

Adelaide band The Touch is officially Australia’s hottest emerging music act, beating tough competition to be crowned the official winner of Nova’s I Am With The Band competition today.

Beating a staggering 1,065 bands that entered the competition through www.novafm.com.au , The Touch won $10,000 as well as national airplay on Nova stations to help them along their journey to stardom.

Combining interlocking riffs of television with the electronic dance sounds of Bloc Party, The Touch was shortlisted by an industry-judging panel as one of the top ten bands in Australia.

ACMA declares no more automation

SCOOP APRIL 1 The ACMA will this morning issue a press release announcing that commercial radio stations are and have been in breach of their licensing conditions if they provide automated programming including where the air shift is networked from a sister station or interstate source. All shifts including mid-dawns are going to have to an announcer live to air with stations having a minimum number of 6 daytime jocks. The move will send shockwaves across the industry and station bean counters to the drycleaners. Our source for this item was Issie Joshing.

Jamie Dunn gets agro on air

We wrote over 12 months ago that Jamie Dunn was only ever going to be one person on talkback radio, himself. Since joining 4BC breakfast at the start of last year Jamie has had to find his feet and he is the first one to admit it. 2010 has seen him start to carve out his niche and he seemed to be enjoying it more, well that is until this morning.

Nehama Patkin dies

Talented musician Nehama Patkin has passed away in Melbourne at the age of 70. Nehama Patkin was the oringinal presenter of the ABC television program Play School. Her contribution to radio reached generations and for hundreds of thousands of school children she was the voice of the ABC radio schools programs which Nehama scripted and presented. SMH article

Time tunnel 5KA FM 1047

Want to design your own radio station? This TVC from 1991 gives you the basics.

DMG Appoints Jenny Parkes

DMG Radio Australia have announced the appointment of Jenny Parkes to the position of Group Sales Director. Jenny joins DMG from Austereo, where she has most recently held the position of Director of Sales, Sydney.

Jenny also performed the role of Acting General Manager at 2DAYFM and Triple M for eight months in 2009.

Shawn Cosgrove steps out

3MP breakfast host Shawn Cosgrove presented his final program last Friday, 26 March 2010. John Tamb and Peter O'Callaghan are soldiering on at the station. Mark Johnson, Group Programme Director of both 1116 SEN and 3MP, is also covering Mark Irvine's afternoon program while Eddie Olek pops up for the evening program.

Nielsen radio ratings survey 2 2010

Survey 2 of the Nielsen radio ratings are now in Click on the link below to view the results. Adelaide Brisbane Melbourne Sydney Perth

Classic Rock rolling on

Melbourne's newest radio station, Classic Rock 91.5, is working overtime to get their music mix right. PD Dan Bradley to his credit has been quick to respond to recent comments, good or bad on the old Vega web site and he has now invited the listeners to pitch in and help.

SBS ad wins Round 5 of Sirens

CRA RELEASE: An ad promoting two television programs on SBS, Mythbusters and Man vs Wild, has won the overall and single categories for round five of the 2010 Siren Awards. The ad called “Back to Back” was written by Danny Wehbe and David Roberts from agency US Sydney. It is the second time an ad for SBS, created by agency, US Sydney has won in the 2010 Siren Awards.

Nova 969’s The Man Trip

Watch out ladies, Merrick Watts, “Dools” (Scott Dooley) and “Marto” (Andrew Martin) will be going on the blokiest weekend around with 16 “manly” Nova listeners.

This week and next, Merrick, Dools & Ricki-Lee are giving listeners the chance to win a “Man Trip” away with the boys from the Nova breakfast team: Merrick, Dools and Nova’s sports reporter, Marto.

David Oldfield off 2GB overnight

David Oldfield is no longer presenting the 2GB overnight program. David replaced Jim Ball at 2GB just over 2 years ago and quickly gathered a loyal following. Mike Williams will fill the role in the short term.

Archival news intros

Have a listen to a select number of news intros for radio stations including 4IP,3UZ,2UW.

Elise Mooney says no to 3MTR

A Current Affair presenter Elise Mooney has knocked back an offer to read news on the new Steve Price breakfast program soon to be heard on Melbourne Talk Radio MTR 1377.

Vale Bob Cornish

Former 3UZ General Manager Bob Cornish has passed away.

SportsDay launched

2AY have dropped another 3AW program from their weekday schedule. Sports Today which aired between 6.00pm & 8.00pm has been replaced with a new program called SportsDay. SportsDay has been created by Craig Hutchison and will initially be aired for an hour each evening. In addition to Schwass and Hutchison, co-hosts will include football identities Terry Wallace, Danny Frawley and Nathan Thompson and journalist Damian Barrett. The program will also be heard across other regional stations across Victoria.

Radio industry releases first official digital radio data

CRA RELEASE: The first official data relating to digital radio broadcasts in Australia was released by Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) today, showing six months after the consumer launch of digital radio in the five state metropolitan capitals of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, there are 449,000 people listening to digital radio in an average week, around 104,000* digital radios in the market and 80% of people who own a digital radio would recommend it to a friend.

Mal Garvin The ultimate betrayal

Source The Age: IN JANUARY last year, Mal Garvin was awarded the Order of Australia for ''service to the community'' and for ''the development of social welfare programs that support and guide young people, and as a broadcaster and author''.

Garvin, well-known in Melbourne a decade ago for his weekly religious radio broadcasts, is an evangelist who founded a youth program called Fusion in the 1960s. It now has branches throughout Australia and overseas.

Airwave goodbye?

RADIO coverage of the Ovens and Murray is under threat with Wangaratta community station OAK FM told it has to spend thousands of dollars to improve its coverage and keep it on-air on the Border. Full story available at the Border Mail