The ABC has cut journalist allowances in remote areas of Western Australia slashing up to $15,000 from reporters' payslips as the corporation starts to implement its Five Year Plan, SCA's HIT and Triple M stations have reported a 20% increase in live on-line listening and an 80% bump in catch-up radio year-on-year, Earfest is an Australian on-line audio festival which will run in September and feature top Aussie creative talent.

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The constant changing of COVID restrictions and regulations by state governments is creating uncertainty amongst advertisers at a time need certainty, SCA has merged several divisions to create SCA iQ and bring research insights and strategy together, Pop icon Katy Perry has answered questions from fans around Australia during a Nova's Red Room Livestream.

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Commercial Radio Australia and Edison Research have joined forces to create a new interactive marketing tool that's designed to boost radio sales, Standard Media Index figures show that Radio was showing promising signs of recovery in the half of FY21 before the Victorian lockdown, Do Radio and other content creators really know their audience asks Radioinfo Editor Peter Saxon in his latest analysis.

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Commercial Radio Australia believes the draft code requiring Google and Facebook to negotiate with broadcasters for news content is an important step, Craig Bruce from Game Changers is launching a national survey to find out how announcers and breakfast teams have been faring since the COVID-19 restrictions were put in place, The production group BPR has revealed the key elements it uses in developing promos and commercials.

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The ACCC's mandatory code will hopefully see Australian news producers compensated by the tech giants including Google and Facebook, Yet another survey confirming the trend for on-line listening during COVID restrictions and showing a 24% bump in listening via laptop and desktop computers, ACE Radio's regional FM stations in Warrnambool and Hamilton are celebrating 18 years on the air and both are now the #1 station in their respective markets.

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3AW's John Burns retires from his partnership with fellow breakfast host Ross Stevenson today after three decades and a record-breaking 147 consecutive survey wins, Luke Davis has been appointed to the newly-created role of Content Manger - Sydney for Nine Radio, ABC management is getting ready to issue redundancy notices to hundreds of staff between now and Christmas as the national broadcaster begins to roll into its Five Year Plan.

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A US journalist says the days of music piracy aren't over and bootleg music is now being distributed through podcasts on platforms like Spotify, Radioinfo is offering employers free job ads during August to help revitalise the recovery of the radio industry and ensure good people aren't lost to the business, To many COVID-19 is just daily statistics but reality struck home on Tuesday for GOLD104.3's Craig Huggins when sadly his mother passed away with the infection.

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The HIT brand may be disappearing in most of the country but it could be staying put in Perth with SCA cagey about the brand's future in WA, Canadian media mogul Allan Slaight is being recognised by Sydney community broadcaster Eastside Radio 89.7FM, Nine News journalist Georgie Gardner has started hosting a new 10-part podcast series dedicated to the aspirations of women to be called Drive.

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SCA has dropped the HIT Network branding on its metro stations and returned them to their heritage callsigns, Pacific Star Network has had its $1.5M rights issue undersubscribed by more than a million dollars, Ex-Newscorp editor Shelley Hadfield has taken on the role of Content Director of ABC Melbourne after 20 years with the Herald Sun.

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Hit Network rebrands and changes programming strategy. Radioinfo's Peter Saxon discovers why.

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