The 29th annual Australian Commercial Radio Awards (ACRAs) finalists are revealed This year 260 metropolitan and regional radio stations across Australia sent in entries. More than 200 finalists came from country and provincial stations....

Presented by ABC Radio, OzPod returns for a second year with a full day of  panels and discussions in Sydney on Friday 8 September.  The newly announced list of speakers and panellists include international...

The Australian commercial radio industry has launched its latest  brand positioning and identity to underline radio’s strength as a dynamic, innovative and multiplatform medium. The “Radio Alive” brand and logo will be used across the industry...

Returning for its second year on Friday 8 September, the ABC Ultimo Centre in Sydney will play host to OzPod 2017: Australian Podcast Conference.  This year's keynote speaker is Jenn White (USA), the host...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland YouTubers killed the radio star, says the London Daily Telegraph. Video killed the radio star - will automation kill the labor force? asks some legal company. Will it be streams that kill the radio star...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland There are a group of people that make a surprising difference to the quality and creativity of radio programs across the world. Yes, of course, Content Directors are important. A good producer perhaps more so. And...

Phoebe Parsons, Confessions of a Twenty Something Train Wreck, has been named as NOVA Entertainment's  inaugural winner of Podquest, an initiative which was launched to discover and support new and emerging podcasters from around Australia...

The Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) is inviting submissions from those interested in running a workshop at its annual conference. Being held on the Gold Coast from 9 - 12 November, it is seen as the premier event...

86% of regional Australians say local news is important to them, according to research released last week at the ACMA Content Conversation in Sydney. 87% of regional Australians are satisfied with the overall quality of local news available in their...

Youtube is the world’s biggest music streaming platform, but they don’t pay content creators enough, according to Professor Jonathan Taplin, speaking at today’s ACMA Content Conversation. Youtube hosts 85 million songs, according to the Annenberg...

Former advertising and television executive Russel Howcroft is the new chair of the Australian Film Television and Radio School. Senator Mitch Fifield revealed the appointment at today's ACMA Content Conference in Sydney. It was...

Radio Tomorrow with James Cridland I spent last week, partially, at the Worldwide Radio Summit in Los Angeles. This is the most interesting US broadcast radio conference I’ve been to - focusing much more on music programming than on business, sales...

Four independent Senators have combined to initiate an inquiry into public interest journalism, fake news and the impact of new media. The proposal  to form the Select Committee on the Future of Public Interest Journalism has been drafted...

The Australian Communications and Media Authority welcomes Communications Minister over the weekend of a review into Australian content. "This is very timely," said acting ACMA Chairman Richard Bean. "In conjunction with the Department of...

Registrations are now open for Technorama, a conference supporting technologists in Community Broadcasting. It will be held in Campbelltown (Sydney) next month, 16-18 June 2017. Technorama was created in 2008 when four passionate technologists...

“Kinderling has been successful because it creates a community of interest,” Evan Kaldor told the Radio Asia conference in Bangkok, relating the success story of his kids radio station, which is heard on digital radio in Australia. Parenting has...

Now unlocked: How BBC Radio plans to stay relevant in the 21st century. “Radio is resilient and adaptable… but streaming has transformed the economics of the industry,” the new Director of BBC Radio told the RadioDays Europe conference. Radio’s...

WorldDAB's DAB+ workshop, taking place at the start of RadioAsia 2017 in Bangkok, has been revealed. With Thailand recently announcing plans to launch digital radio in 2018, the programme includes key speakers from the National Broadcasting and...

The 2017 CBAA Community Radio Awards are now open for entries. These national awards celebrate excellence in community broadcasting across 20 categories.   Community radio stations with programs, initiatives or practices that have increased...

The 2017 Radio Days Europe conference was full of tried and true exhibitors, such as RCS (pictured), who have been serving the radio industry for years, and there were also some new products and services on show.  Steve Ahern wandered around...

In Amsterdam 1500 participants have gathered to hear 120 of the radio industry’s leading minds discuss ideas and initiatives about the future of radio. This year’s theme is ‘a sound future.’ Opening the conference, organiser Anders Held said: “I...

Audiocraft Conference returns in 2017. The conference is an opportunity for radiomakers and podcasters from all over Australia to come together and skill-up, share new ideas, celebrate original and locally produced content, and meet potential...

The radio world has been watching Norway to see if its bold experiment to switch off Analog FM radio and replace it with DAB+ digital radio will be successful. So far so good, according to Jørn Jensen (pictured) from Norway's national broadcaster...

Comment from Peter Saxon When Mark Ritson, Adjunct Professor at Melbourne Business School, gave his stirring presentation at last year’s CRA conference he went as far as to call some of the methods by which digital advertising is measured, “...