After 8 years on the CBAA board, Natalie Pozdeev stepped aside from her role this year and looked back on how Community radio has changed in the past decade and on the bigger role women are now taking in the sector.   Natalie began her...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland   About 50% of all radio listening happens in the car (the figure’s lower in countries like the UK, but higher in places like the US).   In many ways, radio’s best in the car. Radio - the...

The 2018 CBAA Community Radio Awards were presented last night on the Gold Coast at the conclusion of the community broadcasting sector's annual conference. This year, the CBAA introduced a number of new awards to its annual event, and presented 34...

Director at Media Diversity Australia, Antoinette Lattouf, addressed the CBAA conference on the importance of Media Diversity, especially within news and current affairs programs.   She says the general population isn’t properly reflected...

When the IAB Australia's Audio Council went looking for a cross-platform audio-advertising campaign to demonstrate what best practice sounds like, they couldn’t find one. So the Audio Council, and the team at Eardrum, an Audio Council member, went...

Copyright collecting societies may be on their way out, as a new era of digital rights management looms. Paying music rights for new audio delivery formats such as podcasts and online DJ mix shows has so far been too difficult, so music is generally...

First Nations Media Australia is holding its national gathering of First Nations media organisations, CONVERGE Sydney on 21-23 November at TAFE NSW, Ultimo. The gathering will bring together broadcasters, content-makers, station personnel,...

A record 4.9 million listeners per week 1.2 million listeners added in the past 3 years No 1 UK commercial radio breakfast show More awards than any other UK Commercial radio station.   At today’s International Radio Festival conference in...

Steve Ahern reports from the International Radio Festival in Malta.   Malta is a mixture of languages and cultures, a perfect place to celebrate radio.   For the last 5000 years, the little Mediterranean island, situated just south of...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland It was interesting seeing one of the pieces of news coming out of Radio Alive, the radio conference in Australia, recently: the Australian radio industry are putting together a Podcast Working Group “to...

​Journalist, Tracey Spicer, was critical of commercial radio as an industry that deals poorly with sexual harrassment in the work place. She told the RadioAlive conference "I’ve worked across all the mediums, and some of the most toxic workplaces I’...

It was a surprise to many to see CRA CEO Joan Warner on stage flanked by two music industry heavies, Dan Rosen, CEO of ARIA and Dean Ormston, Chief Executive of APRA, AMCOS at Friday’s Radio Alive conference.   In recent...

At Friday's Radio Alive conference in Melbourne, CRA and GfK have announced a world-first super pilot that will begin in the first half of 2019. It's to test the measurement of radio listening using a combination of diary and electronic meters....

Commercial Radio Australia will establish a Podcast Working Group, comprised of major radio players - commercial, ABC and SBS - to spearhead the development of the growing podcast industry in Australia. Announcing the initiative at today's Radio...

Opening today’s Radio Alive conference, Joan Warner said radio “continues to be the most accessible audio medium.”   “Radio’s influence and reach is sometimes forgotten… the live and local nature of Australian radio enables connection in a way...

The ABC’s third annual podcast survey has found the popularity of podcasts is on the rise with Australians listening to more podcasts more often, driven in part by the growing appetite among women for true crime tales.   Now almost half (44%)...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland I still remember my first look round a radio station. In spite of writing to Signal Radio in Stoke-on-Trent and being ignored (shame on you, Signal), Radio Aire in Leeds held an open day, and I got to...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland New technology enables us to delight our listeners even more - particularly, radio operators are now offering more choice than ever before. In Australia, Southern Cross Austereo have been doing a crafty...

Nominations for the CBAA board close next Friday. In 2018, there are four Board member positions to be filled as well as the youth representative role. The vacancies are Vice President (Radio) for a term ending at the 2020 CBAA AGM. Three (3...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland I had a conversation a while ago about FM RDS, that thing which tells you what radio station you’re listening to on a big screen in your car, so you don’t forget. For some reason, this US radio company...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Last week in London was the Next Radio conference - a great fun day with a lot of very good speakers.   Regular readers of this column will remember that a while ago I wrote about Triple J’s Hottest...

The ACMA has released its program for RadComms 2018, its flagship event dealing with the management and use of Australia’s radiofrequency spectrum. This year’s conference will explore how efficient and effective management of the radiofrequency...

What’s behind the radio numbers and who is listening to the radio these days?   GfK’s John Carroll looked at those questions about radio numbers in last week’s Next Radio conference.   “The problem with predictions is that they are often...

The future of voice technology and the implications for consumers and brands will be the subject of a keynote address at Radio Alive 2018. Amazon Alexa Skill’s Country Manager for Australia and New Zealand, Kate Burleigh, will deliver the address....