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September Radio News Canberra’s 104.7 and Mix 106.3 remain the leading commercial radio stations in Canberra with audience shares of 17.4% and 17.3% respectively among people 10+ according to the latest radio audience survey released by Nielsen Media Research. ABC 666 share the No 1 mantle also with a 17.4% share. 2CC rated 6.6% with sister station 2CA - 4.1%. Alan Jones has returned to the airwaves on 2GB. He was diagnosed with cancer after a biopsy in May, but didn't tell friends, family and colleagues of his condition until early July. Walking into his studio early this morning, Jones joked with colleagues, giving high-fives as he greeted them. Full story and video. 2GF/FM 104.7 Grafton PD Richie Williamson has been the first candidate elected to the new Clarence Valley Council. Out of 21 candidates, Williamson dominated the weekend vote. Full story. In other political news, it appears that 2LM Lismore breakfast announcer Neil Marks who was running for mayor of Lismore City Council, has not been elected. Ronnie Stanton has signed off after five years, but he is still hoping for a tickertape parade before he leaves the Sunshine Coast in three weeks. Full story. 2GB's Alan Jones will return to the airwaves tomorrow (Sep 16), two months after undergoing surgery for prostate cancer. Full story. Nigel Lythgoe and Imran Khan will headline the Australian Radio conference and Awards. British television talent, well-known for his work in light entertainment, and judge on the American hit show, “So You Think You Can Dance”, Nigel Lythgoe, will headline this year’s Australian Radio Conference and Australian Commercial Radio Awards (ACRAs), along with Imran Khan, renowned Pakistani cricketer and politician. Both events will be held on the Gold Coast in October. More details. It was a short-lived chat when Ernie Dingo was a guest on the 2DAY brekky show with Kyle and Jackie O. The conversation ended with Kyle telling Ernie to "get out of here." Audio. A JJ reader asks: "I am in search of Neal Meaney he used to work as a PD at 2PK Parkes, then moved on to 3HA Hamilton...after that unknown?" Prime Group
Program Director Ronnie
Stanton has resigned to join Astral Media's 95 Crave in
Dave Horspool is
the new production guy at Star 104.5
Brad Mac has been promoted to MIX 106.5 Sydney Assistant MD and ARN's Sydney Digital Music Director. Brad will also remain as the host of the Friday Night Party Mix plus other fill in shifts. My105fm is still recovering from a mammoth OB live from the Gympie Muster 2008. Former breakfast presenter Angelo Di Carlo who is now in Sydney was conscripted to anchor the broadcasts. Using Tieline technology and special IP links they broadcast a total of 27 hours live from Gympie over 3 days. More details.
Lauren Richardson is the new breakfast producer at Hot Tomato on the Gold Coast. Also station Creative Director Denise Noblet has left to spend more time with her family. Dave Horspool is the new production guy at Star 104.5 Cental Coast. He was with 2GO/SEA FM for 15 years and won 7 ACRA’s. PD Mike Duncan told JJ: "Dave joins the Star crew from September 29. It is a fantastic get for Star, and will continue our upwards trend along with the all new Rod and The Flack breakfast show!" Peter MacFie is the new K-Rock/Bay FM Geelong Production Manager. He returns to the station after 12 years with mcm entertainment. The national switch-on for digital radio will take place on 1 May 2009 following resolution of infrastructure issues relating to the rollout of transmission equipment. Full details. FOX FM has knocked off Melbourne's perennial market leader, Fairfax Media's 3AW, in the latest radio ratings. Full story. Former 2LF Breakfast announcer Greg Willmette is back doing a shift with community station Coast FM 963 in Gosford. Greg was at the station when it began as 2CCC before moving to 4LG Longreach and then 2LF Young. He is working full time in the club industry on the Central Coast. Listeners to Helmes Media Solutions segments will now be able to contribute to their content with a national feedback line now in operation. More details. The Survey 6 Nielsen Media Research Metro ratings were released today (Sep 9). FOX FM finally knocked off 3AW to claim the No 1 spot in Melbourne. 2GB, MIX 94.5 and FIVE aa all remained at No 1. In Brisbane, NOVA 106.9 was also No 1 with B105 and 97.3 tieing for 2nd place. Full details. dmg details. ARN details. Austereo details. News from Gippsland and the Latrobe Valley. 3TR-FM’s 2-6pm announcer Aaron Chilcott is off to K-Rock/Bay FM Geelong as floater and production Assistant. Also station Creative Writer and GOLD 1242’s drive announcer Wendy Robinson, will join K-Rock/Bay FM's Creative department. No replacements at 3TR-FM and GOLD 1242 have been named as yet. Also Greg Allen has moved from afternoons on GOLD 1242 to the newsroom. Len Johns now does the GOLD afternoon shift. Get a few breakfast announcers together in a room and it is really dull, says Vega's Mikey Robins. "We just talk about sleep. It's like junkies trying to score. 'Do you nap? What time do you go to bed?"' Full story. Gary “Gazza” Sands after a few years in Emerald is leaving 4HI and going to 4ZR in Roma to do the brekky shift on transfer with the Smart Radio group. Steve Curtis will take over the brekky show at 4HI. Gazza’s last shift will be on the 12th and he commences in Roma on the 22nd September. Tony Veitch, former TVNZ and Radio SPORT broadcaster, is reportedly being closely monitored by family members amid concerns for his health and safety. The 34-year-old, who is accused of assaulting his former partner, was rushed to Auckland Hospital on Friday after apparently disappearing from his Auckland home and being found in a remote area of Northland following a frantic search a few hours later. Full story. A nation-wide hunt for Australia’s best unsigned musical acts for commercial radio is underway with the announcement of nine finalists. More details. CROW FM Wondai breakfast host Wayne 'Kratzie' Kratzmann, sports commentator Skip & friend Noodles will walk 230 km across the South Burnett in South East Queensland commencing Monday morning. The trip will take the boys 6 days and will end at the Kingaroy show grounds. The Crow FM Crew put on a radiothon on Friday September 5 to help support Kratzie and the team. By 10 am a total of $12,500 was raised and will go to 'Relay for Life' which is aiding the Queensland Cancer Council. Melbourne's Magic 1278 has more listeners than MIX and Vega. It rates just a couple of points behind Gold, Nova and Triple M. Yet many have never heard of Magic, the often-overlooked AM oldies music station. Full story. An ABC Classic FM live broadcast of a concert by tenor Steve Davislim and students of the Australian National Academy of Music was cancelled last night after the threat of legal action against the singer. Full story. Nova 106.9 Brisbane has appointed two new APD’s! Kate Casey will step up to be Nova 106.9’s MD and Assistant Program Director. PD Ryan Rathbone says: "We’d like to recognize all the amazing work Kate has done for Nova 106.9 in her three and a bit years here and we can see the potential for her to grow into a bigger programming role within the station, It is the next logical step in Kate’s career while not taking her away from her passion of music." Tim Lordan also joins NOVA as APD. He is currently the Music Director/Assistant Program Director at SEA FM on the Gold Coast. He has been with that company for the past 9 years during that time he had held PD and MD positions within the network. Iris Williams, a 72-year-old former teacher, died shortly after leaving the Sunshine Coast Rhema Radio annual general meeting when she was involved in a two vehicle crash. Rhema Radio manager Des Morris said the station staff and volunteers had been devastated by the news. Full story. Chris Holland formally Hot 100 Darwin Music Director has been promoted to Assistant Program Director of Hot 100 and Mix 1049. Hot 100 also welcomes Joel Gelding to breakfast and Hot 100 music director. 3AW drive announcer Derryn Hinch says he will not drink again because decades of alcohol abuse nearly cost him his life. Full story. ABC's Media Watch program (Sep 1) has reported on 2LM's Neil Marks - who is running for mayor in Lismore. More details. Steve Ahern, Director of radio division of the Australian Film Television & Radio School, is the author of a new novel about a teenage community radio announcer who gets caught up in a plot to kill a member of the British royal family in Harbour Terror. Steve is also the author of the popular radio text book, Making Radio. More details. SMH reports: "To casual observers, Wil Anderson is having an impressive year. Punching above the station average on the Triple M drive show with comedy partner Anthony Lehmann, hosting this year's hit television show, The Gruen Transfer and keeping busy on the stand-up circuit. Full story. Dean Clairs, Nat Foster & Shane McFarlane from The Big Couch have celebrated 600 shows together on air in the drive slot on Mix 94.5 in Perth. A property owned by 6PR Perth drive broadcaster Howard Sattler has been reduced by almost $1 million after a 10-month stint for sale. Full story. Former 2LF Breakfast announcer Greg Willmette is back doing a shift with community station Coast FM 963 in Gosford. Greg was at the station when it began as 2CCC before moving to 4LG Longreach and then 2LF Young. He is working full time in the club industry on the Central Coast. Listeners to Helmes Media Solutions segments will now be able to contribute to their content with a national feedback line now in operation. More details. The Survey 6 Nielsen Media Research Metro ratings were released today (Sep 9). FOX FM finally knocked off 3AW to claim the No 1 spot in Melbourne. 2GB, MIX 94.5 and FIVE aa all remained at No 1. In Brisbane, NOVA 106.9 was also No 1 with B105 and 97.3 tieing for 2nd place. Full details. dmg details. ARN details. Austereo details. News from Gippsland and the Latrobe Valley. 3TR-FM’s 2-6pm announcer Aaron Chilcott is off to K-Rock/Bay FM Geelong as floater and production Assistant. Also station Creative Writer and GOLD 1242’s drive announcer Wendy Robinson, will join K-Rock/Bay FM's Creative department. No replacements at 3TR-FM and GOLD 1242 have been named as yet. Also Greg Allen has moved from afternoons on GOLD 1242 to the newsroom. Len Johns now does the GOLD afternoon shift. Get a few breakfast announcers together in a room and it is really dull, says Vega's Mikey Robins. "We just talk about sleep. It's like junkies trying to score. 'Do you nap? What time do you go to bed?"' Full story. Gary “Gazza” Sands after a few years in Emerald is leaving 4HI and going to 4ZR in Roma to do the brekky shift on transfer with the Smart Radio group. Steve Curtis will take over the brekky show at 4HI. Gazza’s last shift will be on the 12th and he commences in Roma on the 22nd September. Tony Veitch, former TVNZ and Radio SPORT broadcaster, is reportedly being closely monitored by family members amid concerns for his health and safety. The 34-year-old, who is accused of assaulting his former partner, was rushed to Auckland Hospital on Friday after apparently disappearing from his Auckland home and being found in a remote area of Northland following a frantic search a few hours later. Full story. A nation-wide hunt for Australia’s best unsigned musical acts for commercial radio is underway with the announcement of nine finalists. More details. CROW FM Wondai breakfast host Wayne 'Kratzie' Kratzmann, sports commentator Skip & friend Noodles will walk 230 km across the South Burnett in South East Queensland commencing Monday morning. The trip will take the boys 6 days and will end at the Kingaroy show grounds. The Crow FM Crew put on a radiothon on Friday September 5 to help support Kratzie and the team. By 10 am a total of $12,500 was raised and will go to 'Relay for Life' which is aiding the Queensland Cancer Council. Melbourne's Magic 1278 has more listeners than MIX and Vega. It rates just a couple of points behind Gold, Nova and Triple M. Yet many have never heard of Magic, the often-overlooked AM oldies music station. Full story. An ABC Classic FM live broadcast of a concert by tenor Steve Davislim and students of the Australian National Academy of Music was cancelled last night after the threat of legal action against the singer. Full story. Nova 106.9 Brisbane has appointed two new APD’s! Kate Casey will step up to be Nova 106.9’s MD and Assistant Program Director. PD Ryan Rathbone says: "We’d like to recognize all the amazing work Kate has done for Nova 106.9 in her three and a bit years here and we can see the potential for her to grow into a bigger programming role within the station, It is the next logical step in Kate’s career while not taking her away from her passion of music." Tim Lordan also joins NOVA as APD. He is currently the Music Director/Assistant Program Director at SEA FM on the Gold Coast. He has been with that company for the past 9 years during that time he had held PD and MD positions within the network. Iris Williams, a 72-year-old former teacher, died shortly after leaving the Sunshine Coast Rhema Radio annual general meeting when she was involved in a two vehicle crash. Rhema Radio manager Des Morris said the station staff and volunteers had been devastated by the news. Full story. Chris Holland formally Hot 100 Darwin Music Director has been promoted to Assistant Program Director of Hot 100 and Mix 1049. Hot 100 also welcomes Joel Gelding to breakfast and Hot 100 music director. 3AW drive announcer Derryn Hinch says he will not drink again because decades of alcohol abuse nearly cost him his life. Full story. ABC's Media Watch program (Sep 1) has reported on 2LM's Neil Marks - who is running for mayor in Lismore. More details. Steve Ahern, Director of radio division of the Australian Film Television & Radio School, is the author of a new novel about a teenage community radio announcer who gets caught up in a plot to kill a member of the British royal family in Harbour Terror. Steve is also the author of the popular radio text book, Making Radio. More details. SMH reports: "To casual observers, Wil Anderson is having an impressive year. Punching above the station average on the Triple M drive show with comedy partner Anthony Lehmann, hosting this year's hit television show, The Gruen Transfer and keeping busy on the stand-up circuit. Full story. Dean Clairs, Nat Foster & Shane McFarlane from The Big Couch have celebrated 600 shows together on air in the drive slot on Mix 94.5 in Perth. A property owned by 6PR Perth drive broadcaster Howard Sattler has been reduced by almost $1 million after a 10-month stint for sale. Full story. 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