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.

NOVA Entertainment has appointed Tamara Pannett to the role of Melbourne Head of Agency. 

Nova’s Red Room ARIA Week will celebrate the Australian music industry in the count down to the 2018 ARIA Awards with Apple Music with a series of shows from Wednesday 21 November featuring performances by Keith Urban, Amy Shark, Vance Joy and Vera Blue at the Lansdowne in Sydney.
 

Commercial Radio Australia is moving forward to Phase 2 of an industry wide project to automate and simplify the buying of radio.
 
Phase 1 has resulted in the roll out of the AudioNET automated holding software RadioMATRIX.
 
The industry wide system, live since October 2017 and paperless since July 2018, is now used by 131 advertising agencies and 380 radio stations.
 

Survey 5 for 2017 has been dropped and digested.

You can read our analysis here.

Meantime, radioinfo caught up with Nova Entertainment Network Head Paul Jackson, kicking off our questioning with smooth in Sydney where the station and ABC Sydney both took hits, dropping over one share point each with smooth now placed fifth. Does this show, more or less, how fickle listeners can be, Paul?