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Australia's MTR: Docs show debts of $13M for station yanked off-air
Melbourne, Australia’s conservative talk radio station MTR was pulled off the air earlier this month, with debts to Sydney-based Macquarie Radio Network of more than $13 million (Australian), according to documents filed with the corporate regulator. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, minutes of a meeting of creditors show that Macquarie, wh… Read More
Radio's Best & Worst: March 26, 2012
Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending March 26, 2012. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research (or any other) capacity are asterisked.*Station (FM)KRKQ (Mountain Chill) Telluride, Colo. – Our ongoing discussion of “Intriguing Stations” of 2003-today prom…
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Melbourne, Australia's MTR pulls the plug amid owner infighting
It appears there is no Wizard of Oz, after all. Following our Thursday morning report about infighting—read: dual lawsuits—between Melbourne Talk Radio (MTR) co-owners Macquarie Radio Network and Pacific Star Network, the Aussie station abruptly ceased broadcasting at 4:58 Thursday afternoon. Read More
Feuding partners potentially leave Aussie's MTR in the dark
Aussie talk outlet MTR is in danger of deserting the airwaves amid a battle between its owners. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, Macquarie Radio Network, which owns 50% of the station, has issued a notice of default over unpaid loans of $5 million to co-owner Pacific Star Network. Read More
Radio listening is down "Down Under"
The survey done by Roy Morgan Research shows a sharp decrease in amount of listening to radio - down about 20% since 2004. According to the report, the national average of radio listening dropped from 15.5 hours each week in 2004 to about 12 hours as of June 2011.
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Radio’s Best & Worst: October 12, 2011
Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending October 13, 2011. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research (or any other) capacity are asterisked.*Station (Online)Triple J Unearthed – Australia’s beloved non-comm Alternative station unveils a second online/digital…
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Radio Around the World
ISRAEL: A pirate radio operator in Haifa is sentenced to three months of community service. Yehuda Sorogon operated Briza Radio in Haifa from 2005 to 2008 before being shut down ...
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Australian radio hosts in hot water for calling India a "S***hole"
Sydney, Australia's 2Day-FM morning team of Kyle Sandiland and Jackie O are no strangers to controversy, but now they have an entire nation unhappy with them. While appearing on an Australian TV show, Sandiland called the nation of India a "s***hole," and denounced the Ganges River as a "junkyard." The Council of Indian Australians denounced the st… Read More
An Australian radio star is banned from the internet
Melbourne 3AW radio host Derryn Hinch has been told by a judge that he is banned from using the internet or social media for the next five months. Hinch was sentenced to house arrest, after he violated a court order by naming two pedophiles in 2008.
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Radio-Info's Internet & Digital Radio news
INTERNET: Sway Calloway, known as Sway in the Morning from MTV's "World Famous Wake-Up Show", joins Sirius XM to host the morning show on Eminem's "Shade 45" music channel ... Triton Digital, backed by Oaktree Capital, has signed a deal with Lincoln Financial Media to provide the internet streaming for 11 stations, all in top-20 markets ...
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Radio Around the World
CANADA: It's a done deal - the merger between XM Canada's Canadian
Satellite Radio Holdings and Sirius Canada has been finalized, giving
the combined company over 1.8 million subscribers and making it one of
the nation's largest media companies ... AUSTRALIA: The ratings are in for Sydney, where 2Day-FM did slip in
mornings, falling to a 10…
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AUSTRALIA: Despite being on the air for only a year, the Australian Communications and Media Authority has not renewed the license of Melbourne's Lion-FM, the nation's only Jewish radio station ... Fairfax Media has rejected the bid by a Melbourne syndicate to buy the Age newspaper and Melbourne's top-rated talk 3AW ...
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SUDAN: US-funded Sudan Radio Service (SRS) reporter Mohamad Arkou Ali has not been heard from since May 11 when he was arrested and accused of taking pictures without a government permit. His whereabouts are unknown ...
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Australia's Fairfax Media radio selloff could fetch over $260 million
Talks in Australia continue between Fairfax Media and interested parties to sell their radio division, a sale that could exceed $260-290 million US dollars. Fairfax has 15 city and regional network stations in its portfolio, including Sydney's 2UE, Melbourne's 3AW, and 6PR in Perth.
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Radio Around the World
AUSTRALIA: Fairfax Media, which owns Melbourne's 3AW, Sydney's 2UE and 6PR in Perth, has hired the accounting firm KPMG as it continues down the road to selling their stations, with Macquarie Radio interested in 3AW, according to the Australian ... PHILIPPINES: GMA Network, which owns radio, TV and print media, reported ad revenue declined 13% in t…
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CANADA: Toronto's Evanov-owned CIDC-FM (103.5) drops Scott Fox & Ashley Greco from mornings, bringing in "Cory Kim & Ami A" from CKNO-FM (102.3) in Edmonton. Listen to "Z-103.5" here ...
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NEW ZEALAND: Financial issues for public-funded Radio New Zealand could force the company into a public trust, and may require selling off their grand pianos to raise needed funds ... IRAN: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Radio Farda has surpassed 100,000 fans on Facebook, the highest Facebook total of any media in the Islamic Republic ...
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An Aussie DJ is fired for Facebook rants
He's spent the last 12 years on 6NOW, 96fm in Perth. Steve Fitton now finds himself out of a job after he took to Facebook and slammed the station and the PD who took his shift away.
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CANADA: In Toronto, Gord Stellick is leaving sports CJCL-AM (590) for the hockey channel on Sirius. To cover Stellick, "The Fan" moves Andrew Krystal from 1pm-4pm, followed by Primetime Sports in afternoon drive- Discuss it ...
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SOMALIA: The director and a news editor for Mogadishu's independent Shabelle Radio, held for four days by government forces, have been released. The Ministry of Information claimed the journalists were detained for inaccurate reporting ...
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