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  APRA Awards announce new pop category, date, venue

  Thursday, May 02, 2013

  “Almost 65% of APRA members categorise themselves as songwriters in the pop/rock genre and songs that fit this category feature significantly in our own statistics."

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  The Hot Hits unveil makeover

  Monday, October 29, 2012

  The release of an iPhone app coincides with the launch of The Hot Hits mobile site and new look website.

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  Wrap-up: Commercial Radio Awards

  Monday, October 15, 2012

  Southern Cross Austereo dominated the night picking up a total of 39 awards – close to half the total prize pool.

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  MTV can Headbangers Ball

  Friday, September 14, 2012

  Jose Mangin, host of seminal heavy metal show Headbangers Ball has come out swinging against MTV’s decision to axe the 25-year-old program.

• BuzzMedia acquire four more punk music websites

  Tuesday, August 28, 2012

  Since purchasing SPIN Media in July, BuzzMedia has now announced the acquisition of four major punk websites.

• CRA axe NA2R to launch new initiative

  Friday, August 03, 2012

  After a decade introducing Australian airwaves to new tunes, the NA2R (New Artists To Radio) initiative has been given the chop by Commercial Radio Australia.

• WA's Coast FM ban Madonna

  Thursday, July 19, 2012

  After Madonna cancelled her Australian tour yesterday, Mandurah radio station 97.3 Coast FM have banned her music.

• Triple J’s Andrew Haug launches metal station

  Wednesday, June 27, 2012

  Andrew Haug, who hosted The Racket on Triple J from 2001 to 2011, will launch a 24/7 dedicated rock and metal station.

• SEA FM make a splash in Central Coast ratings

  Wednesday, June 20, 2012

  If yesterday's metropolitan radio ratings survey didn't quench your appetite for market share surveys, there is another out today, covering NSW's Central Coast.

• Radio Ratings Survey 4, 2012

  Tuesday, June 19, 2012

  The results are in for the next metropolitan book of radio ratings for 2012, Survey 4. Here is what went down this survey.

• Mix 94.5 holds #1 for 100th survey

  Tuesday, May 08, 2012

  Mix 94.5 has made history with today's radio rating survey. In the third survey to be released in 2012, the SCA station clocked it's hundredth #1 position in Perth's metropolitan survey results - a feat over ten years in the making.

• The Wire's Omar Little to play Ol’ Dirty Bastard in film

  Friday, March 23, 2012

  In a curious case of art imitating life imitating art, Michael K. Williams who plays The Wire's Omar Little has been cast as legendary Wu-Tang Clan rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard in an upcoming film.

• Jason Derulo to judge Australian talent show

  Friday, March 16, 2012

  Jason Derulo is touching down in Australia once again, this time as a judge and overseer of a new talent show; Making Future History.

• Jazz FM broadcasts gay porn

  Tuesday, February 21, 2012

  A UK radio station is under fire for "unauthorised activity and inappropriate behaviour in the studio.”

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