AU & NZ

Boy Swallows Universe wins ABC Radio National’s inaugural Top 100 Books countdown

The verdict is in – book lovers across Australia have crowned Brisbane author Trent Dalton’s Boy Swallows Universe as #1 in ABC Radio National’s inaugural Top 100 Books of the 21st Century countdown. With almost 300,000 votes cast, readers celebrated stories across both fiction and non-fiction, from the court of King Henry VIII and post-revolutionary… Read More
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AU & NZ

Positively thriving: Melbourne radio’s most enduring on-air team celebrates 3000 shows

There’s a reason why Lucy Holmes and Kel McWilliam are the longest-serving on-air duo in the Melbourne radio market. In an often hostile and polarising media space, the Lucy & Kel Breakfast Show on 89.9 TheLight has long been a beacon of positivity. You won’t find any on-air argy bargy, shock jockery or explicit content… Read More
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Trouble ahead for community radio station 2SER as Macquarie University looks to cut funding

In another kick to the arts sector and entryways to audio and journalism careers it appears that Macquarie University has pulled its funding from 2SER. The community radio station is jointly owned by Macquarie and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and operates out of UTS’s Ultimo campus. 
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Triple M crowns Freddie Mercury the greatest lead singer of all time

Triple M’s week-long Greatest Lead Singers of All Time countdown came to an epic conclusion today, with Queen frontman Freddie Mercury taking top spot as the Greatest Vocalist of All Time. For two weeks, listeners across Australia have been voting for their favourite frontmen and women — from Freddie to Eddie, Axl to Annie Lennox,… Read More
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Life Uncut podcast and ARN iHeart part ways

I was in the middle of a SXSW Sydney conference session hosted by Viv Kelly who co-presents MediaLand on ABC Radio National talking broadly about those…
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