The radio industry is converging on Brisbane for this Friday's Radio Alive conference and Saturday night's ACRAs.

It's the big industry event and of course radioinfo will be there to cover it.

Our advance team, Peter and Wendy are already in sunny Brisbane and report that there may be some showers tomorrow for anyone arriving the day before, but that Friday will be sunny. Hot days between 28 - 31 degrees are expected.

New York-based digital prophet David “Shingy” Shing will feature with radio stars Kyle and Jackie at the upcoming Radio Alive 2019 national radio conference.

The full program has just been released.
 

radioionfo is once again shouting drinks at the end of this year's CRA Conference in Melbourne next week.
 
Join us as we sponsor the function that finishes up Australian commercial radio's big day of networking and conferencing.

This year’s conference  includes sessions on the use of AI voice assistance, the latest in Automated Holdings as well as a look at Australian Music Quotas.

Award winning documentary maker and presenter, Todd Sampson, former CEO and chair of ad agency Leo Burnett will present the session Brain Power and provide practical tools and strategies to boost creativity and brain power.

By and large, radio in Australia is still dominated by white males. 

The Future of News in Radio was placed under the spotlight recently at the National Radio Conference in Melbourne.
 
Moderated by ABC Radio Presenter Patricia Karvelas, the panel included 3AW News Director Gail Watson, Head of Strategy and Transformation at ABC Radio Jeremy Millar, Mark Cummins from SBS Radio and Nova Entertainment News Director Michelle Stephenson.
 

The commercial radio industry will join forces with the ABC and SBS to launch the first Australian mobile app that will allow listeners to live stream more than 250 Australian radio stations.

Commercial Radio Australia announced the new RadioApp at today's National Radio Conference, as part of a strategy to make listening on tablets, smartphones and computers much easier.