Speculation is high over who will take the coveted Drive shift at 2GB now that Ben Fordham is moving to Breakfast, ARN has penned a three year deal with Drive Team - Will McMahon and Woody Whitelaw, International radio sales expert Pat Bryson reveals the sectors most likely to restart advertising as the lockdown eases.

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Nine Radio has selected Neil Breen to host the new 4BC breakfast show, While Australia's unemployment rate in April was 6.2% media jobs on offer are down a massive 60.5% in May, Triple M is the runaway leader in the latest Newcastle survey

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Sydney shock jock Ray Hadley says his relationship with Alan Jones over 35 years was like a marriage, SEN's breakfast and morning shows have become the #1 podcasts in their categories, Canberra DAB+ services have ranked highly in the latest official survey of the national capital.

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Media groups are continuing to analyse the impact on Nine Radio of Alan Jones impending departure, Finalists in the 16th annual Siren Awards have been announced but the presentation ceremony will be virtual, Canadian radio giant Stingray is offering $15M in advertising grants to local businesses to kick-start the Canadian economy.

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Alan Jones' planned departure from 2GB has been well publicised but is there a story behind the story?, 2GB afternoon host Ben Fordham has been passed the breakfast baton but what are his risks?, Tributes from across the industry have flooded in following the death of former broadcaster Frank Crook who has died at the age of 81.

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Alan Jones announced this morning on his 2GB breakfast show that he will retire at the end of this month.

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ACE Radio in Victoria has become the latest regional network to be forced into cost cutting and staff redundancies, Omnicom's Jo Dick agrees with SCA that advertisers and agencies have misjudged radio listenership during the COVID-19 shutdown, Radioinfo's Peter Saxon has taken Spotify CEO Daniel Ek to task over this comments that Radio is Dead.

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Radioinfo Publisher Steve Ahern has pulled together the figures for all public company-owned networks to try to get an industry picture of how radio revenues are tracking, ACMA has found Port Douglas HPON, FAB-FM, has breached the programming conditions of its licence, PodcastOne in America has been sold for $18.5M but the sale won't affect SCA's PodcastOne Australia

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Applications are now open for regional radio news operations to apply to the federal government's $50-million grant scheme, SCA has successfully raised $169-million to fund the network through the COVID-19 crisis and renew shareholder confidence, ARN has revealed to shareholders that it is already down 40% on its direct client sales this quarter.

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ARN's new advert technology has been launched as Audio Dynamic and will dynamically target spots in real time, Community Radio has a new website called AMRAP which will link stations and artists, Nova's Red Room is making the most of being virtual with a live-streamed performance featuring Benee next Thursday.

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