AU & NZ

This Monday – July 3 – Triple M microphones across the country will stay silent for the station’s fifth annual No Talk Day.There’ll be no Breakfast show banter, no announcers, no news or traffic reports and no ads.Over 12 hours from 6am to 6pm, Triple M, with support from Beyond Blue, will create space to… Read More
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Former Australian Test captain Tim Paine is returning to SEN, as it delivers several new programs across the Tasmanian airwaves throughout 2023.Paine will headline a new Breakfast program airing Monday and Friday from 6am.He’ll be joined on the program by leading Tasmanian sports journalist Brent Costelloe.Elsewhere, presenter David ‘Flash’ Lithgow joins former Australian and Tasmanian… Read More
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Two comedians, one curious picture and no clue.Merrick Watts is launching his first comedy podcast, Picture Discuss, on the iHeartPodcast Network Australia.Each episode, Merrick is joined by two guest comedians who are shown a picture from around the world with no context. Using their improvisation skills, the comedians guess the back story of what’s going… Read More
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From the Wheelie Bin of Fortune to Shoot the Celebrity in the Arse, Australian radio has never been short of creative stunts and promotional campaigns.On a recent episode of the Pilots of the Airwaves podcast, legendary former 2SM Breakfast announcer Ian MacRae recalled the famous stunt in which he promised to put a ‘jumbo’ under… Read More
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3AW and Nine’s Jimmy Bartel has been inducted into the prestigious AFL Hall of Fame.In an AFL career spanning 305 games, Bartel played in three Premiership winning teams, won a Brownlow Medal and was named twice on the All-Australian team.Bartel has been a part of 3AW Football for six years.He joins fellow 3AW team members… Read More
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Independent podcast company Acast has announced the launch of host-read sponsorships on its self-serve podcast advertising platform.Now, any advertiser globally can book sponsorship campaigns read by podcast hosts themselves across the entire Acast Marketplace using the self-serve platform.It also enables advertisers to use the self-serve platform to buy sponsorships from right across Acast’s Marketplace including… Read More
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