Federal Member for Adelaide Steve Georganas grew up listening to community radio.

Business owners say regional media services are essential to the economy of country towns. Regional communities in New South Wales and Queensland are reeling after WIN News announced it would close four television bureaus.

Rewind to 1959 when radio was yet to be knocked off its perch by TV as the dominant mass medium. People listened to, rather than watched, drama and serials. The unsung heroes were the sound effect magicians evoking galloping horses with a pair of coconut shells and thunder storms from sheets of metal. Murder on the Wireless pays tribute to radio’s golden days and especially to its sound effects artists.

If there’s one thing Kid Fury wants you to know, it’s this: anyone can start a podcast, after all, he barely knew what they were when he got started, and now his show has millions of fans.   In 2018, the podcast industry overall generated an estimated $479 million in advertising revenue, according to an International Advertisers Bureau report. By 2021, it’s expected to generate over a billion. Longterm podcasters are concerned about the influx of new money and its effect on the independence of podcasters who are now chasing the big bucks, and whether they will still be willing to take creative risks for fear of alienating sponsors