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Australian Commercial Radio Awards
The Australian Commercial Radio Awards (ACRAs), previously known as the rAWARDS, are an Australian award ceremony held to recognise outstanding achievements in the radio industry. They were first held in 1989, and recognise excellence in all areas of Australian radio broadcasting including News broadcasting, news, Talk radio, talk, Broadcasting of sports events, sport, Music radio, music and Radio comedy, entertainment. They are run annually by Commercial Radio Australia and hosted in either Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or the Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast. There are typically 33 award categories that are Peer review, peer judged across three divisions: Metropolitan area, metropolitan, provincial and country commercial radio stations. All judging panels are composed of industry members. Awards Format The awards are organised into various categories, with nominees being announced a few weeks before the main awards ceremony. Usually four (on rare occasions five) entries ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brendan Jones (radio Personality)
Brendan Jones (born 3 April 1968) is an Australian radio presenter, actor, media personality and motorcycling enthusiast. Jones co-hosts Jonesy & Amanda with Amanda Keller on Gold 101.7. Career Brendan Jones began working in radio on the community radio station 2BCR Bankstown for six months. In 1990 he obtained a night job at Spirit Radio Network, 6KA Karratha, Western Australia, followed by mornings and afternoons at 2NM Muswellbrook and then afternoons at i98FM Wollongong, both in New South Wales. His biggest hosting gigs have been late nights on B105 FM, B105 Brisbane, afternoons with Triple M Brisbane and Triple M Sydney afternoons where he achieved the highest daytime figure for the station at 17.9%, then on mornings and then drive. He also hosted a national countdown show called ''Planet Rock''. Jones is currently presenting breakfast radio on Gold 101.7, with Amanda Keller. The show became the number 1 FM station in 2005 with 8.9% audience share defeating Merrick & Ros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofie Formica
Sofie Formica (born 29 June 1971, Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian radio and television presenter and actress. She is best known for hosting Queensland-based lifestyle show '' The Great South East'' on the Seven Network from 1997 until 2016. ''Afternoons with Sofie Formica'' was launched on Brisbane radio station 4BC in October 2021. Career Formica's television career commenced at age 14 on local Queensland school TV programs. In 1990, Sofie joined the cast of the award-winning Seven Network children's show ''Wombat''; however, the show was axed that same year. Formica then hosted two children's programs: the Saturday morning program '' Saturday Disney'' (1990–1992) and the weekday program '' Now You See It'' (1991–1993) based on the US format '' Now You See It''. In hosting ''Now You See It'', she became the first woman to host a game show solo on Australian television. She was host of the comedy TV series '' Just Kidding'' (from 1994 until 1995), and she was an ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Creasey
Joel Creasey (born 11 August 1990) is an Australian stand-up comedian, actor, television and radio presenter. Creasey has performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, as well as performing at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2013 and 2014 and the Edinburgh Fringe in 2015. In September 2020, Creasey joined Nova (radio network), Nova FM's national radio show ''Kate, Tim & Joel'' (now ''Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel'') as a co-host with Kate Ritchie and Tim Blackwell (broadcaster), Tim Blackwell. Early life Creasey was born in the Sydney suburb of Baulkham Hills and moved to Perth at a young age. His father, Terry, worked as a model while his mother, Jenny, was a singer. The couple met on the set of ''Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back'' in which they both appeared as extras. His father was also the "Solo (Australian soft drink), Solo" man in the iconic 1985 advertisement for the soft drink and currently owns several Mc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Blackwell (broadcaster)
Timothy Blackwell (born 10 August 1981) is an Australian radio broadcaster. Blackwell is currently part of Nova FM's #1 national drive show, Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel with Ricki-Lee Coulter and Joel Creasey. Early life Blackwell grew up in Hobart, Australia. He then moved to Washington DC at the age of thirteen with his mother and step-father before returning to Hobart in his late teens. Career Blackwell's first job in radio at Nova was in 2001, where he joined Nova 100 as Melbourne's late night announcer. In 2002 he moved to Perth to host Nova 93.7’s local drive show and was the first voice heard on air when the station launched with a Red Hot Chili Peppers interview. From 2006 to 2008, Blackwell worked on Nova 100’s '' Hughesy & Kate'''s Melbourne breakfast show as an anchor, before teaming up with Hayley Pearson to host the night show, Launchpad. In 2009, he was a co-host alongside Meshel Laurie on Nova 106.9’s Brisbane breakfast show, and from 2010, Marty Sheargold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Price (broadcaster)
Steven William Price (born 13 January 1955) is an Australian radio and television broadcaster and opinion columnist. He appears regularly on '' The Project.'' In 2022, Price announced his contract with Triple M was not renewed. Price worked at Macquarie Media broadcasting on 2GB, 4BC and 3AW. Previously, he was the program director and breakfast presenter at MTR 1377. He formerly worked for Fairfax Media, presenting the morning shift between 9 am and 12 noon on 2UE. He has been in journalism for over 30 years, firstly with News Limited, and also at 3AW. Career Price was program director and drive announcer on 3AW from 1987, moving to mornings with 2UE in 2002. In December 2009 saw this change, with regular fill-in host Steve Liebmann taking over. He has written weekly columns in the ''Herald Sun''. Price was featured in John Safran's '' Music Jamboree'' in which Safran produced aspirin tablets with the 3AW logo and convinced Price that they were ecstasy tablets being s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel Edwards
Laurel Edwards (born October 1966) is an Australian television presenter, radio announcer, and singer. Early life Edwards was probably born in early October 1966. Career Edwards' radio career began in 1992, commencing work at Brisbane radio station 4KQ, where she remained until 2022.(18 May 2017Laurel celebrates on-air milestone ''radioinfo''. Retrieved 1 September 2018. In 2005, Edwards was named as Brisbane's longest serving female breakfast radio presenter. 4KQ marked Edwards' 25th anniversary with the station in 2017. Edwards' first television job was hosting Nine Network children's program ''OK for Kids'' in 1987. she was a presenter on Seven Network travel show '' The Great Day Out''. She is the sole remaining original presenter on the show, having been with the program since it was launched as ''The Great South East'' in 1997. Lawrence, Elissa (22 May 2017Laurel Edwards: Reflections over a 25-year career ''The Courier-Mail'', News Corp Australia. Retrieved 1 Septe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Mitchell (radio Presenter)
Neil Mitchell AO (born 21 November 1951) is an Australian former newspaper and magazine journalist, radio presenter and television personality, best known for his long-stint on Melbourne AM talk-back station 3AW. Early career The son of a school teacher, Mitchell entered journalism aged 17, straight after completing high school.A matter of opinion , The Weekly Review 13 June 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2013 He has had involvement in newspapers, radio and television. Newspaper and magazine journalist He was one of the youngest ever editors of a major Australian metropolitan newspaper, '' The Herald'', ho ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
B105 FM
B105 (call sign 4BBB) is a commercial FM radio station broadcasting in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, on a frequency of 105.3 MHz, and is part of Southern Cross Austereo's Hit Network. The station has undergone numerous branding changes over the years; it was branded as B105 following its conversion from AM to FM. This lasted until a co-branding as Hit 105.3 B105, then as Hit B105 (dropping the "B" shortly after) and finally back to B105 in July 2020. History The station began life as 4BK, commencing transmission in 1930 on the AM band, initially on the frequency 1290 kHz before changing to 1300 kHz on 1 Sep 1935 (to accord with the new Australian 10 kHz channel spacing raster). Again the implementation by Australia of the 9 kHz channel spacing raster developed by the ITU and formalised in the 1975 Geneva Plan necessitated 4BK moving to 1296 kHz on 23 November 1978. In 1988, the Austereo group purchased the station from Hoyts, intending to use i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Rogers (DJ)
Robert Barton Rogers OAM (3 December 1926 – 29 May 2024) was an Australian disc jockey and radio broadcaster. He was noted for introducing Top 40 radio programming to Australia in 1958, on 2UE. Before his retirement in October 2020, Rogers presented the six-hour Saturday evening ''Reminiscing'' program on Sydney radio station 2CH. He had previously presented ''The Bob Rogers Show'' on weekday mornings.Sydney's daggiest radio station a giant killer ''The Daily Telegraph'', 10 May 2008, retrieved 10 July 2008. His broadcasting career lasted 78 years. Early life Rogers was born on 3 December 1926 to British parents and raised in |
Ben Fordham
Ben Fordham (born 29 November 1976) is an Australian sports reporter and radio presenter. , Fordham hosts the breakfast radio program ''Ben Fordham Live'' on Sydney radio station 2GB. Early life and education When Ben Fordham was seven years of age, he was diagnosed with epilepsy after suffering a seizure. He did work experience at a radio station as a teenager while a student at Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview, a Catholic college in Lane Cove. Career Fordham began his career on Sydney radio station 2UE, for which he won a Walkley Award for his coverage of the 1997 Thredbo landslide. In 1998, Fordham moved to television and joined Sky News Australia as a reporter and presenter. As of 2008 he was managed by the Fordham Company, which was run by his late father, John. In March 2014, Fordham announced that he would be leaving ''Today'' at the end of the year to concentrate on his radio career. After moving into his radio position, Fordham continued to serve as a fill-i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ugly Phil
Phil O'Neil (born Phillip Surridge; 14 March 1963), better known as Ugly Phil, is a radio DJ and announcer. Born in the United Kingdom, he has spent the majority of his life in Australia. Before adopting the on-air name Ugly Phil, he was known as Phil O'Neil. Throughout his career, Phil has hosted several notable shows, including the ''Hot30 Countdown'', the ''Drive'' on Nova 969, and ''Evenings'' at Triple M multiple times. He also hosted a National Charts Show across major and regional markets called ''Ugly Phil's Hot Hits'', which was previously and is currently known as '' The Hot Hits''. Additionally, Phil co-hosted the breakfast shift on Triple M Sydney with Sami Lukis. Radio Australia Hot 30 Countdown In 1993–94, Phil O'Neil hosted a nightly program with his then-wife, Jackie O (aka Jackie Last), on Triple M Adelaide called ''Phil O'Neil's Hot 30''. Later, Fox FM brought the show to Melbourne, renaming it the ''Hot30 Countdown''. When the Austereo network decided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |