Digital radio listening has increased in the first survey for 2015 with 3.2 million people now listening  to radio each week using a DAB+ digital radio in the five metropolitan capitals, according to GfK figures released by Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) today in the DAB+ quarterly update. 
 

The best radio ads of 2014 will be battled out between leading ad agencies, radio stations and production studios as part of the national Siren Awards, and will be announced in Melbourne next month.

Sydney artist Iluka is one of 12 finalists in the ABU Radio Song Festival.
 
She was CRA’s entrant into the competition which aims to uncover the best unsigned original music across Asia and the Pacific and will be performing in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 23 May in conjunction with the RadioAsia2014 Conference.
 
The singer was selected after winning the First Break competition, organised by The Mushroom Group and CRA to unearth unsigned talent.
 

ILUKA, the inaugural winner of the commercial radio industry’s Australian music initiative ‘First Break’, will from this week see the start of the massive radio support from commercial radio stations across Australia for her first single “12^th of July”.  The single, released via Liberation Music (part of the Mushroom Group), is a fitting vehicle for the emerging twenty-two year old, whose soaring, yet smoky vocal and unique songwriting finds her positioned well beyond her years.