NOVA Entertainment Commercial Director and Market Lead in Perth, Jamie Martinovich, passed away suddenly yesterday.
 
NOVA Entertainment CEO, Cathy O’Connor, says “We are deeply saddened to hear the news of the sudden passing of Jamie Martinovich, NOVA Entertainment’s Perth Commercial Director and Market Lead, yesterday.
 

Hedley Thomas, who investigated, co-produced and presented the hugely successful The Teacher’s Pet podcast series, will be a keynote speaker at the 2019 Radio Alive national conference.

Andy Kay has been appointed as Nova 100 Brand and Promotions Manager.

NOVA Entertainment has appointed James Hansford to the role of Melbourne Group Sales Manager and he will now lead the agency sales team responsible for the Publicis agencies (Zenith and Starcom) as well as Australian independent agency Nunn Media.
 
James’ team is expected to drive the commercial success for all of NOVA Entertainment’s brands and provide tailored brand solutions in collaboration with NOVA’s media partners.
 

NOVA Entertainment has appointed Jess Roach to the role of Sydney Agency Sales Director.
 
Jess will lead the Sydney Agency sales team to drive commercial success for all NOVA Entertainment’s brands and is expected to provide innovative, tailored advertising solutions designed to grow client’s business.
 

Interview with Andrew Denton is a podcast for anyone who wants to understand what makes people tick with a format is based on the simplest of ideas, two people, two chairs, one conversation, no gimmicks.
 
A companion to the TV series, each podcast episode attempts to get below the surface of an amazing human being, to find out who they are away from the headlines.
 
In an era of outrage and increasing polarisation, the series looks for light more than heat, wisdom more than clickbait.
 

NOVA Entertainment and News Corp have joined forces to produce Police Tape, a new true crime podcast series hosted by Merrick Watts.
 
Part of the True Crime Australia series, Police Tape launches this Friday and will take listeners behind the scenes as Watts speaks with some of the nation’s most elite police officers about their most memorable moments on the beat, while in the process unearthing new insights about some of the biggest crimes of our times.
 

NOVA Entertainment will celebrate International Women’s Day internally and across a number of the company’s digital assets this week.
 
NOVA Entertainment’s mobile-only, millennial platform GOAT, will celebrate International Women’s Day across the entire week with a different masthead banner each day featuring iconic women from TV shows and films including Kath & Kim, Broad City and Steel Magnolias with two additional banners revealed on Thursday and Friday.

NOVA Entertainment have secured the services of experienced radio producer, presenter and writer Katie Andersen, in the role of Producer of Bogart & Glenn’s More Music Breakfast Show on smoothfm 95.3 Sydney.
 

Tanya Simpson is moving on from her role as brand partnerships director at Nova Entertainment after 16 years.