Anthony Dockrill reports At the recent CBAA conference a number of great workshops were held, but there was one I felt was particularly special because it grappled with something that is often done badly across the radio dial - the music interview...

Larry Parr, Chief Executive for Te Mangai Paho has been announced by First Nations Media Australia as the keynote speaker for CONVERGE Alice Springs.   Te Mangai Paho is the peak advocacy and funding body for Maori media in New Zealand.  ...

Just as radioinfo tipped, Brian ‘Spoonman’ Carlton will host a brand-new breakfast show, Brian Carlton – The Spoonman, beginning on Triple M Hobart next month.   The veteran radio presenter launched onto the national stage as the youngest...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland A lot has happened since November 2014. At the time, I was working in the roof - quite literally. My office space was in a room that was so illegal, when I bought the house they weren’t allowed to call...

Manipulation of images and audio is becoming so sophisticated that it is producing chilling fakes with the potential to cause discontent and influence elections. The phenomenon, produced with a combination of editing technology and artificial...

In recent years it’s been nothing but good news for radio in terms of revenue. Almost every quarter, revenue rose, year on year. But, this year, just a couple of weeks ago on the eve of the annual Radio Alive conference, radio was hit with the ‘...

Ally Newton offered her audience chocolate prizes as they focused on how they could work towards the big prize of winning CBF grants for their station, at a CBAA Conference session on funding. She began by outlining, who is the CBF and who do they...

Sponsorship is the area where many community stations struggle, so in Stephen Pead’s session at the CBAA Conference, he gave some useful tips on how to increase funding from sponsors.   Don’t rely solely on sponsors, he warned, make sure there...

A group of current affairs producers and presenters spoke about their programs and gave interviewing tips during the CBAA Conference in Melbourne. Lisa Daniel, the host and producer of Word for Word (Joy FM), Jiselle Hannah, the host and producer of...

At the CBAA Conference Abe Killian and Ian Gunn introduced the Collaborative News Network for community broadcasters. The new system, funded by a special government grant, will link community radio stations with newsrooms together to share content,...

ACMA Authority Member James Cameron spoke about the regulator's recent consultation on the Future of Radio at today's CBAA Conference. “Changes in media have prompted us to ask the question how best the future of radio can be facilitated. It was a...

Speaking at the opening of the CBAA Conference today, President Philip Randall told delegates about the consolidation of media and the importance of community broadcasting. “Media is consolidating, these changes present community broadcasters with...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland Last week, the big Australian “Radio Alive” conference was in my home town of Brisbane. I popped along to it, and was quite pleasantly surprised. The high quality of the event wasn’t the surprise. It’s...

Comment from Peter Saxon In between the constant stream of tweeting the winners at Saturday night’s ACRAs, my wife Pauline, who remained home in Sydney dog sitting (two poodles and a cavoodle - thanks for asking) managed to get a text in...

On the back of signing the biggest media deal in Australia, which will take him and co-host Jackie O up to the end of 2024, Kyle Sandilands spoke with Karl Stefanovic at the 2019 Commercial Radio Australia conference in Brisbane, RadioAlive2019....

“I was always troubled that her death had never gone before a court. I felt a reinvestigation could deliver justice,” Teachers Pet podcast producer Hedley Thomas told today’s Radio Alive conference. “I didn’t have a budget for voice actors so I...

Australians are spending seven minutes more time every day listening to audio entertainment than last year, with radio staying dominant and podcasts overtaking owned music for the first time, according to the fourth annual GfK Share of Audio study...

Southern Cross Austereo has advised sharholders that it is about to buy WA’s Redwave Media, with RedFM and Spirit AM stations in Broome, Geraldton, Karratha and Port Hedland and Southwest/Bunbury.   The purchase from the Seven West Media Group...

While CRA has reported a 10.2% dip in advertising for commercial metropolitan stations, and then SCA advising sharholders of an expected revenue drop across their radio and TV networks, some community radio stations in drought affected areas...

ARN contracts for three of its top Breakfast Shows, KIIS 1065’s The Kyle & Jackie O Show, WSFM’s Jonesy & Amanda in the Morning and GOLD104.3’s The Christian O’Connell Breakfast Show have been extended until 2022 and beyond.   The...

 Read excerpts here and now You’ve heard of – or more importantly heard Game Changers: Radio: The Podcast. It’s been a runaway success around the world with radio professionals.   So why write a book? Is it merely a product extension? In...

The Commercial Radio sector has criticised the Community Broadcasting sector in its submission to the ACMA's Future of Radio consultation, for the overuse of temporary licences (TCBLs). The community broadcasting sector says it is an ACMA resource...

Acting ABC Head of Distribution, Cath Dwyer, has presented the results of the ABC’s 2019 Podcast Survey at the opening of OzPod today, with results revealing findings for Australian podcasters on how to reach more listeners.   Cath says “...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland I once sat at the end of a telephone line, helping people tune into their favourite radio station. This was a real eye-opener. Many don’t even know the difference between AM and FM; and some sets are...