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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Pacific Star Network has been putting its spin on the loss of the Nine Radio syndication deal, Superadio is in a showdown with the Lake Macquarie Council over a 25-metre tower that was erected without a permit, Non-English speaking people now have a multilingual national news service providing information in six languages

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Nine Radio has terminated its syndication agreement with Crocmedia, Crocmedia has settled with SCA on Bunbury's AM station and SENTrack is expected to become the new format, Wide-area digital radio standard, DRM, has held several webinars to highlight its emergency capabilities.

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Listeners to Triple J say they'd be prepared to forego social distancing to attend a music festival even before a Coronavirus vaccine is available, A third of the music played by 2DAY and Nova is common with Triple M, WSFM and Smoothfm also having high percentages of shared music, A creative musician in the Southern Highlands has made the most of isolation by producing an on-line concert series.

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