AU & NZ

LiSTNR’s BabyLab podcast, hosted by Emma Watkins, today launches its second season in a new partnership with the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development at Western Sydney University and its infant research centre, MARCS BabyLab.The branded podcast series will see children’s entertainer Watkins break down the questions that parents may have about how babies… Read More
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As the industry prepares to mark 100 years of commercial radio, the latest GfK survey results are cause for celebration.That’s according to Commercial Radio and Audio (CRA).The industry body says GfK Survey 4 shows people spent 54 minutes more time listening each week than in 2022.CRA says the average person aged 10+ listened for 13… Read More
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From the station that brought you Triple M’s Cockroach Race comes the next instalment in the State of Origin series … Triple M’s Baptism of Origin.Five ‘new’ Queenslanders have been officially baptised by the Triple M Breakfast team of Marto, Margaux and Dan in the mighty Brisbane River, aka The Brown Snake.The five now-former Blues… Read More
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It’s now 20 years since the first podcast was made.American media personality Christopher Lydon is credited as being the world’s first podcaster, and to mark the milestone, radio futurologist and Podnews editor James Cridland spoke to Lydon about where things stand today.In the interview with Podcast Business Journal, Lydon observes that podcasting is now bigger… Read More
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It was considered cutting-edge for its time: Dave the farmer from Dubbo talking live via satellite to Elton John in London about his new album.It was 1980s Australia, when satellite technology was generally associated with news programs.Music programs? Not so much.But a show called Rocksat would change all that.Rocksat was a weekly hour of live… Read More
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There’s plenty to be happy about over at Nine Radio today; 2GB taking back Sydney, Ben Fordham Live moving back into number one Breakfast, 3AW maintaining its dominance in Melbourne and Ray Hadley’s 150th consecutive ratings win. It’s no wonder Nine‘s Head of Content, Greg Byrnes, celebrated with a Ray Hadley cupcake as the team cheered for more reasons than one. Catching up with Radioinfo’s Peter Saxon… Read More
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