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NewsCast appoints Rachel Fountain as Content Director, Audio

News Corp Australia has announced the appointment of Rachel Fountain as Content Director, Audio (News, Sport and Lifestyle) for NewsCast, the company’s on-demand audio division.Fountain will work alongside the company’s newsrooms to develop news, sport and lifestyle audio programming as the business continues to build its commercial audio offering. Fountain is a multi-award-winning executive producer… Read More
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KFYI Phoenix & KNST Tucson To Simulcast Morning & Afternoon Shows

iHeartMedia Conservative Talkers 550 KFYI Phoenix and 790 KNST Tucson are synchronizing their weekday lineups starting immediately. KFYI morning host James T. Harris will air on both stations from 6-10am, while KNST morning host Garret Lewis will move to afternoons in both markets from 4-7pm. Both stations air Premiere Networks’ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton […] […]

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NFSA celebrates ‘Golden Days’ of radio

Gems from Australian radio’s ‘Golden Days’ (1920s to 1960s) have been unearthed in the latest instalment in the National Film and Sound Archive’s (NFSA) Radio 100 digital exhibition. They include excerpts from the first broadcast of the Australian Parliament and the first episode of Dad and Dave from Snake Gully.Golden Days celebrates the explosion of… Read More
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Hitz – and 30 years of memories

The 30th anniversary celebrations are in full swing for the crew from groundbreaking youth community station 89.9 Hitz FM.On December 10, 1993, Hitz FM began blasting across Melbourne, broadcasting for 60 days from an old Department of Housing building in Station Street, Moorabbin. And – as reflected in the first survey of 1994 – it… Read More
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Kevin, Jane and the radio segment that was pure Magic

Radio, as we know, is all about human connection.And as Jane Holmes reveals, that certainly came to the fore during a weekly cooking segment in the days when she co-hosted Breakfast with Kevin John on Melbourne’s Magic 1278. I caught up with Jane on the Food Bytes podcast, just a few days after she finished… Read More
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