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12/12/2025

This morning was the last on breakfast for Gold 101.7 hosts Brendan Jones and Amanda Keller, aka Jonesy & Amanda. It was a heartfelt farewell to their listeners with a live performance from Paul Kelly, Murray winning $20,000 with his funny (but also tragic) chemist interaction for Gets My Goolies 2025 and Christian O’Connell joined them for a symbolic handover, with literal hand holding.

Next year the multi ACRA award winning duo, who have hosted breakfast together in Sydney for 20 years, move to the national drive slot across the GOLD Network.

Read more at: https://radioinfo.com.au/news/sydney-is-going-to-absolutely-love-you-jonesy-and-amanda-pass-the-gold-101-7-breakfast-baton-to-christian-oconnell/ © RadioInfo Australia

12/12/2025

Tod Johnston is returning to 6PR Perth for a new Afternoons show and an expansion of the station's local offerings. The news comes on the same day that bids are due in for a prospective takeover of Nine Entertainment's radio assets, 6PR, Melbourne's 3AW, Sydney's 2GB and Brisbane's 4BC.

https://radioinfo.com.au/news/tod-johnston-returns-to-6pr-with-bids-for-nines-radio-assets-due-in-today/

12/12/2025

Nath Roye and Emma Chow announced on air this morning that they will return for the 2DayFM Nath & Emma breakfast show in 2026.

Read more at: https://radioinfo.com.au/news/2dayfm-commits-to-the-nath-emma-breakfast-show-in-2026/ © RadioInfo Australia

12/12/2025

ABC Perth, plus ABC NewsRadio and Radio National in the city will all move from AM transmission to FM in early 2026. The switch follows the outcome of The Australian Communications and Media Authority proposal to vary the Perth and Remote Western Australia radio licence area plans.

Read more at: https://radioinfo.com.au/news/abc-perth-radio-stations-to-switch-to-fm-early-2026/ © RadioInfo Australia

ABC Radio Perth, plus ABC NewsRadio and Radio National in the city will all move from AM transmission to FM in early 2026.

11/12/2025

I became aware today that at least one of the Triple M Pilot Week shows, which are to air next week, is already in the can.

In sharing this I don’t want to diminish what is still an incredible opportunity for new talent to be heard across Australia, but I had assumed that the shows each morning would be live, with the additional adrenaline, listener interaction and risk of mistakes that come with that. That is still radio’s point of difference from podcasting and the reason why talk formats flourish.

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I became aware today that at least one of the Triple M Pilot Week shows, which are to air next week, is already in the can. In sharing this I don't want to diminish what is still an incredible opportunity for new talent to be heard across Australia, but I had assumed that the shows each morning woul...

09/12/2025

Hit 97.9 is the most listening to station across the Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland in the first Xtra Insights survey of the region in three years. What was additionally notable was the increase in radio listening across the board. Local breakfast shows hosted by AJ on the Super Radio Network‘s 4AM and Charlie McKillop (pictured) on ABC Far North also increasing their share of ear.

With 2SM still not featuring in the Sydney metro surveys (yet) the Super Radio Network will be very happy with Chris Smith‘s results on mornings on 4AM. He was the leader there, up 2.7 to a 17.9% share of ear. That was the only day part, including weekends, where Hit was not the top station and bodes well in 2026 for perhaps seeing Chris’s results in other markets too.

Read more at: https://radioinfo.com.au/surveys/hit-97-9-top-in-atherton-good-survey-for-radio-listening-xtra-insights/ © RadioInfo Australia

Hit 97.9 is the most listening to station across the Atherton Tablelands in Far North Queensland in the first Xtra Insights survey of the region in three years. What was additionally notable was the increase in radio listening across the board. Local breakfast shows hosted by AJ on the Super Radio N...

07/12/2025

In wrapping up 2025 Radioinfo wishes to pay tribute to the extraordinary broadcasting talent that we have lost this year. Many of you will have connections to these individuals as colleagues, employers, friends, mentors, heroes and/or, in the case of John Laws, being one of his numerous panelists over the years.

Read more at: https://radioinfo.com.au/news/vale-2025-the-radio-talent-lost-this-year/ © RadioInfo Australia

In wrapping up 2025 Radioinfo wishes to pay tribute to the extraordinary broadcasting talent that we have lost this year. Many of you will have connections to these individuals as colleagues, employers, friends, mentors, heroes and/or, in the case of John Laws, being one of his numerous panelists ov...

07/12/2025

This is what happens when, as ABC Media Watch‘s Linton Besser put so eloquently, SCA ‘couldn’t give a rat's’ about delivering accurate local news to its listeners.

Dylan Hogarth is a senior journalist for The Advertiser in Adelaide. He compiled a story, behind a paywall, about an unnamed gentleman who broke free from custody after assaulting officers on Thursday December 4, and was the subject of a manhunt across the city.

The next morning Dylan woke to floods of messages from friends who had heard that he was on the run, on Triple M Adelaide 104.7 news.

Read more at: https://radioinfo.com.au/news/triple-m-identifies-fugitive-as-adelaide-journo-in-ai-oopsie/ © RadioInfo Australia

05/12/2025

Those in radio will know the value of skilled and reliable Broadcast Technicians because station equipment failure and natural disasters don’t come with a calendar schedule.

For community radio the capacity to find and fund technicians have led to talks at the recent Community Broadcasting Association of Australia conference on grant writing tips and a successful pilot program headed up by Ben Menaglio in Western Australia where stations are working together to contract technicians to look after a group of stations, rather than just one.

The issue isn’t confined to regional Australia however with the CBAA creating an opportunity for an experienced Broadcast Technologist to provide comprehensive technical support services across multiple Sydney station sites.

Read more at: https://radioinfo.com.au/news/sydney-community-stations-seeking-broadcast-technician/ © RadioInfo Australia

Those in radio will know the value of skilled and reliable Broadcast Technicians because station equipment failure and natural disasters don't come with a calendar schedule.

05/12/2025

As the calendar year grinds to a close a signal is being sent about the media industry’s corporate strategy for 2026.

Stability.

The past two years have been an unstable period for radio and the wider Australian media industry as companies positioned themselves to implement or defend takeover bids, or both.

Comment from Steve Ahern.

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Comment from Steve Ahern As the calendar year grinds to a close a signal is being sent about the media industry's corporate strategy for 2026....

05/12/2025

Triple M has unveiled the six shows that will take over national Breakfast for Pilot Week starting Monday December 15.

Read more at: https://radioinfo.com.au/news/triple-m-reveals-its-six-new-breakfast-shows-for-pilot-week/ © RadioInfo Australia

Triple M has unveiled the six shows that will take over national Breakfast for Pilot Week starting Monday December 15.

04/12/2025

So it will be Ducko, now just known as Nick, who is joining the Nova 106.9 team in Brisbane in 2026. Nikki Osborne also departs the breakfast show which is No 1 in the city, with Susie O’Neill returning to replace her. But Nikki, in the same fashion as Susie when she left late 2024, remains with Nova and will host national network programs across next year.

There will be no Ash Bradnam who wrapped up unexpectedly two decades with the station last Friday. That decision, of which there appears to be a bigger story, has been unpopular with listeners.

Read more at: https://radioinfo.com.au/news/nick-luttsy-susie-oneill-for-nova-106-9-breakfast-in-2026/ © RadioInfo Australia