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Fletcher's portfolio covers communications, cybersafety and the arts.

Blackley takes over from Macquarie Media's Adam Lang.

Listeners can now ask Alexa to play any Australian AM, FM or DAB+ radio station.

The findings of a review by CRA, ARIA & APRA AMCOS into Australian music quotas were presented at the Radio Alive conference.

"The monitoring actually shows extremely high levels of compliance,” CRA chief executive Joan Warner told the inquiry, while APRA AMCOS' Dean Ormston says this is "not necessarily across the board."

"It's a complete lack of acknowledgement by both radio and by the public that new Australian music is important.”

The inquiry investigated the effect that digital and social have on the media and advertising sectors.

The Q1 2018 Hot 100 airplay chart highlights a positive shift for Australian radio.

For some years, music professionals have quietly grumbled about commercial radio’s failure to hit their content quotas. Those gripes got some serious volume at Bigsound last year. Behind closed…

It’s official: the trade associations representing songwriters, composers and music publishers, record labels and commercial radio have joined forces to enforce compliance of music quotas. APRA…