Posted on December 14th, 2020
Vernon Corea
Clifford Dodd, the Australian radio expert and administrator who was sent to Radio Ceylon under the Colombo Plan transformed the Commercial Service of the Station The Hindi Service of Radio Ceylon was instrumental in catapulting the radio station as India’s number one station. Millions tuned in to hear Hindi film music presented by the popular Indian announcers – Vijay Kishore Dubey,Sunil Dutt, Gopal Sharma, Ameen Sayani,Hamid Sayani, Shiv Kumar Saroj,Manohar Mahajan – they helped shape the destiny of Radio Ceylon as King of the airwaves in India. People from all over the Indian sub-continent tuned in to hear the latest film music, some Radio Ceylon programs took the format of a countdown – whatever the format these announcers of the Hindi Service took India by storm. They had no equal. It was also a lucrative money spinner first for Radio Ceylon and even now for
CRA to measure radio listening habits over summer period
Radio ratings surveys may be on a summer break until January 17, but the industry will still keep an eye on how consumers are using the medium over the period.
Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) has commissioned GfK – which also conducts the regular ratings surveys – to undertake a summer listening survey, the fourth of its kind.
The survey will cover consumers in both metropolitan and regional Australia and look into how and why audiences stay connected over the warmer months.
“Radio plays an important role over summer and with the need to stay abreast of the bushfire season and COVID news, it will be useful to see how media habits change as the new year gets underway,” said CRA chief executive officer Joan Warner.
Zac de Silva wins 2020 Brian White Scholarship
Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) has revealed Zac de Silva is the recipient of 2020’s Brian White Scholarship.
The prize includes four two-week paid internships across NOVA Entertainment, Nine Radio, Australian Radio Network (ARN) and Southern Cross Austereo (SCA).
de Silva was selected from a pool of 12 finalists from six universities, following a workshop with leading radio news directors.
COVID forced the workshop to move online this year, and finalists took part in a series of newsroom exercises including recording a live cross about a current news event. The workshop was led by commercial radio news leaders Deborah Clay (national news director, ARN), Natalie Peters (Sydney news director, Nine Radio), Amy Drew (Queensland news editor, SCA), and Michelle Stephenson (national news director at Nova and smoothfm).
VATICAN CALLS FOR JUSTICE FOR KILLERS OF AUSTRALIAN PRIEST IN PNG Submitted by admin on Tue, 08/28/2001 - 00:00
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (August 26, 2001 - Radio Australia) -The Vatican s representative in Papua New Guinea says the killers of an Australian Catholic priest murdered near Port Moresby must be brought to justice.
Archbishop Hans Schwemmer says the murder of Father Fabian Thom is one of a recent series of heinous crimes that casts doubt on Papua New Guinea s claim to be a Christian country.
Father Fabian was shot dead at a Franciscan Friary outside Port Moresby a week ago last Friday. His killers remain at large.
Only 20 Manus Detainees Agreed To Be Resettled In Papua New Guinea Submitted by PIR Editor on Thu, 08/18/2016 - 17:17
Aussie Immigration Minister says asylum seekers will never make it to Australia
By political reporters Anna Henderson and Stephanie Anderson
MELBOURNE, Australia (Radio Australia, August 18, 2016) – Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has conceded that since the Manus Island centre opened fewer than 20 detainees had agreed to be resettled in Papua New Guinea.
He has apportioned some of the blame to advocates and media outlets, and accused the ABC and The Guardian of encouraging asylum seekers not to resettle in PNG.
The Federal Government has struck a deal with Papua New Guinea to close the Manus Island detention centre, but is yet to provide a timeframe for the centre to be shut down.