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The upcoming live Australian Commercial Radio Awards gala (ACRAs) has been scrapped.Plans were the hold the ACRAs on Feb. 13, 2022, with an event that would recognise the best in commercial radio…

Commercial Radio Australia CEO Joan Warner has handed in her notice. The commercial radio sector’s long-standing leader has advised the peak body’s board of her plans to step down early next year,…

The debate around radio's local music quota debate appears to be rearing its head again.

The federal government’s inquiry into the music industry is gathering pace, as scores of submissions have been delivered, accepted, and many are now open to public scrutiny. TIO understands the…

"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."

He didn’t utter the words “content” and “quotas,” but Tony Burke’s message to the Australian music industry was clear. Intellectual copyright matters, and legislators need to keep tabs on the…

As the music community convened yesterday for the start of Bigsound, executives from Commercial Radio Australia, Nightlife Music and the local film industry fronted a senate inquiry 1,600 km away in…

“I call on all Australians to take a minute to email or call your local member of parliament to tell them ‘We want you to support our Aussie artists and new Aussie music!’”

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…