CRA RELEASE: An ad promoting two television programs on SBS, Mythbusters and Man vs Wild, has won the overall and single categories for round five of the 2010 Siren Awards. The ad called “Back to Back” was written by Danny Wehbe and David Roberts from agency US Sydney. It is the second time an ad [...]

Watch out ladies, Merrick Watts, “Dools” (Scott Dooley) and “Marto” (Andrew Martin) will be going on the blokiest weekend around with 16 “manly” Nova listeners. This week and next, Merrick, Dools & Ricki-Lee are giving listeners the chance to win a “Man Trip” away with the boys from the Nova breakfast team: Merrick, Dools and [...]

CRA RELEASE: The first official data relating to digital radio broadcasts in Australia was released by Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) today, showing six months after the consumer launch of digital radio in the five state metropolitan capitals of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, there are 449,000 people listening to digital radio in an average [...]

Source The Age: IN JANUARY last year, Mal Garvin was awarded the Order of Australia for ”service to the community” and for ”the development of social welfare programs that support and guide young people, and as a broadcaster and author”. Garvin, well-known in Melbourne a decade ago for his weekly religious radio broadcasts, is an [...]

With a marketing push only weeks away it has now been revealed that the official new call sign of 3MP will be 3MTR. This domain name was registered on March 5, www.3mtr.com.au. Their Melbourne Talk Radio domain is now active. Check it out as it comes to life here.

ACMA RELEASE: The Australian Communications and Media Authority has allocated a long-term community broadcasting licence in Geelong to the Geelong Ethnic Communities Council Inc (GECC). GECC, which has been operating a service known as 94.7 The Pulse under a temporary licence, will provide a long-term community broadcasting service on the 94.7 MHz FM frequency. ‘We [...]

Source 3AW:This item will also appear on our sister site People Against Lenient Sentencing. Law and Order will be a major issue in this coming state election and 3AW’s Neil Mitchell wants to know what you think on this hot topic. Today on the Mitchell Program, Neil announced he is surveying Melbourne to obtain a [...]

Have a listen to this long lost audio highlighting 3XY and Roctober, 1984. We last used it on our 3XY tribute page back in 2003/2004 and although it only runs 1min 7seconds it is well worth a listen. Enjoy