The first Nielsen Radio Ratings survey for 2011 will be available here from around 10.30am. To view results simply click on the following link. Survey 1 2011
Nielsen Radio Ratings Survey 8 2010
The final Nielsen Radio Ratings for 2010, survey 8, have been released today. Click on the following link to be taken to survey 8. Nielsen Survey Dec 14 2010
Survey 7 Nielsen radio ratings
Survey 7 of the Nielsen Ratings were released this morning BRIS PERTH ADEL MELB SYD
Survey 6 of Nielsen radio ratings
Survey 6 of the Nielsen radio ratings are out today Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney.
Nielsen radio ratings survey 4 2010
Survey 4 of the Nielsen radio ratings are out Tuesday 22 June 2010 .Click on the link below to view the results. Adelaide Brisbane Melbourne Sydney Perth Active from around 10.30am
Radio TAB and that horse whispering moment (AUDIO)
Veteran Adelaide race caller Jimmy Jacques has a legion of devotees who love his style of calling and yesterday he had the whole of Australia listening. Not one to pull a sickie Jimmy soldiered on, sore throat and all. The man who is known as the voice of Adelaide’s Globe Derby fronted up to call the harness racing for Radio TAB. Jimmy recalls yesterdays event, I woke up Monday morning and thought ‘Ah, it’s not too bad, I’ll give it a go’. So I went to work.
“I was trying to use my diaphragm a bit more. I changed my voice to a gruff voice and it was coming out ok, I thought I’d get by. By the time I got about 300 metres from home I thought, ‘No I’m stuffed, I’m not going to make it’.
“I could see some of the horses getting tired, and I thought ‘Well gee, I’m getting more tired than them’.” Listen to Jimmy’s call AUDIO
Industry on edge as watchdog opens a can of worms
Source The Australian: TEN years after the infamous “cash for comment” hearings, which embarrassed the radio industry and saddled it with rafts of disclosure rules, there is new hope that the regulatory burden may be about to be eased.
Then again, maybe not. The answer lies with the media watchdog, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, and reading its mind is frequently harder than making sense of chicken entrails.
The issue of regulation is of vital importance to radio stations and their presenters – who say the rules are costly to enforce and overly prescriptive – and ACMA, which must monitor compliance and manage public complaints.
But it is clear the public couldn’t care less. In the past decade, there have been just nine complaints to ACMA about advertising, disclosure or compliance standards and just five of those have been upheld. In an industry comprising 260 stations, one guy stepping out of line each couple of years is hardly a threat to the world as we know it.
Read the entire article The Australian
Stations pull out the digital for new wave of radios
Source SMH: NEW commercial-free radio stations are emerging for the nation’s estimated 100,000 owners of digital radio sets as broadcasters strive to fill gaps in digital programming.
Public broadcaster SBS and Melbourne commercial broadcaster Pacific Star have launched music stations this month, the first anniversary of full-time radio broadcasts on the DAB+ format.
Broadcasters with AM or FM licences have up to 128 kilobits per second of data to pump out over the airwaves using the DAB+ format. It gives them the flexibility to reassign a data stream into smaller chunks allowing it to broadcast more stations, or to allocate a higher bitrate to fewer stations for better sound quality Full article here
