ARN Media Ltd., formerly Here, There & Everywhere and APN News & Media, is an Australian media company. Divisions include broadcast

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. The company previously had assets in New Zealand, and previously owned Adshel, APN Outdoor and Gfinity eSports in Australia. Its commercial radio stations include the Gold Network,

KIIS Network The KIIS Network is an Australian commercial radio stations owned and operated by the Australian Radio Network, ARN. Formerly branded as the Mix Network, the network was rebranded as the KIIS Network in 2015 following the relaunch of KIIS 101. ...

, CADA,

ARN Regional ARN Regional is an Australian regional radio network founded after the purchase of a group of radio stations from Grant Broadcasters by ARN parent ARN Media. It includes a small number of metropolitan radio stations. History Grant Broadcaster ...

and

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brands. The company operates the ARN News service in Australia, which uses international correspondents and source news stories from AAP in Australia,

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from the United States and

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and

Independent Radio News Independent Radio News provides a service of news bulletins, audio and copy to commercial radio stations in the United Kingdom and beyond. The managing director, Tim Molloy, succeeded long-term MD John Perkins in November 2009. Perkins had been ...

from the United Kingdom. ARN has newsrooms in

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and

Adelaide Adelaide ( , ; ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and most populous city of South Australia, as well as the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "Adelaide" may refer to ei ...

. Originally ARN was a joint venture of APN News & Media and Clear Channel (now

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). On 19 February 2014, it was reported that APN News & Media had agreed to purchase Clear Channel's 50% stake in the ARN. As a result, ARN is now fully owned by ARN Media. The company continues to operate the Australian version of iHeartRadio. Until 2014, ARN also included New Zealand radio networks

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Classic Hits FM The Hits is a Hot adult contemporary music radio network, broadcasting to 26 markets across New Zealand. It was set up by Government broadcaster Radio New Zealand in 1993 by consolidating existing stations into a single brand and has been priva ...

, ZM,

Radio Sport Radio Sport (previously Sports Roundup) was a New Zealand sports radio radio network, network and the talk radio, talkback sister network of Newstalk ZB. It held commentary rights for most cricket matches, international and domestic rugby uni ...

Radio Hauraki Radio Hauraki is a New Zealand rock music station that started in 1966. It was the first private commercial radio station of the modern broadcasting era in New Zealand and operated illegally until 1970 to break the monopoly held by the state- ...

Easy Mix Mix was a greatest hits radio station in New Zealand, broadcasting music from the 70s, 80s and 90s. Mix was owned and operated by New Zealand Media and Entertainment. Mix is targeted at 35 to 54-year-olds. Its head office and studios were lo ...

, Flava and

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under umbrella company The Radio Network. These are now part of the

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. In August 2021, the company removed the words 'Australian Radio Network' from its name, now being known as simply ARN. Three months later, in November 2021, Here, There & Everywhere, ARN's parent company, purchased

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, who intend to integrate it with its own business by January 2022. The deal was finalised on 4 January 2022. Having already acquired a 15% stake in

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(SCA) earlier in the year, in October 2023 ARN launched a

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for SCA in partnership with

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. To satisfy

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regulations that allow one party to only own two radio stations in one market, in capital cities ARN would add the

Triple M Triple M is an Australian commercial radio network owned and operated by Southern Cross Austereo. The network consists of 45 radio stations with flagship stations broadcasting a mainstream/classic rock music format in Sydney, Melbourne, and B ...

network to the

, while Anchorage Capital Partners would control the Hit and Pure Gold networks. In 2015, HT&E's two largest shareholders were the Australian fund manager Allan Gray Australia and

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. Irish company

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and

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's Baycliffe held an approximately 30% stake in the company before selling it in March 2015.

History

ARN Media had its origins in Provincial Newspapers (PN), a listed company that published regional newspapers in

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and

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. The

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, which owned a significant proportion of PNQ, was taken over by

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in 1987. To comply with an order of the Trade Practices Commission, News Limited was required to sell its PN shares. The 48% stake in PN was acquired in 1988 by interests associated with the family of

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, the principal shareholder of Independent Newspapers of Ireland. The company was renamed Australian Provincial Newspapers Holdings and listed again on the

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in 1992 following a public share issue, and in 1998 the name was changed to APN News & Media. In 2001, APN acquired 25% of Soprano Design. Later going on to acquire steaks in Conversant Media and Unbnd Group. These acquisitions have been listed every year in their financial reports. Soprano Design was valued at over A$500 million in November 2019, giving APN over A$125m in equity. Following Soprano's acquisition of SilverStreet Intl in December 2020, Analysts have stated that Soprano Design could be worth upward of $1 billion. In June 2016, the company completed the demerger of its New Zealand radio and publishing business,

. However, the company maintained a presence in New Zealand via its outdoor advertising business, Adshel NZ. Also in 2016, the company announced it would sell its regional newspaper division, Australian Regional Media, to

for $36.6 million. The deal was reviewed but not opposed by the

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. The sale of ARM, encompassing APN's remaining newspaper assets, was completed in December 2016. APN News & Media Limited changed its name to HT&E Limited in May 2017, changing its ASX Listing Code to HT1. In June 2018, oOh!media purchased street furniture business Adshel for A$570 million from HT&E, in a competitive

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against rival (and former HT&E subsidiary) APN Outdoor. In January 2023, the company sold its 25% stake in communications firm

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. In May 2023, Here, There & Everywhere was renamed ARN Media. In June 2023, ARN acquired a 15% shareholding in major competitor

. In October 2023, ARN launched a

for SCA in partnership with

. To satisfy

regulations that allow one party to only own two radio stations in one market, in capital cities ARN would own the KIIS and

networks, while Anchorage Capital Partners would control the Hit and Pure Gold networks. The deal collapsed after Anchorage withdrew.

Assets

ARN operates 58 radio stations, targeting the 25-to-54-year-old demographic. These stations include *the top 40 (CHR),

adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul ...

, and

active rock Active rock is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations across the United States and Canada. Active rock stations play a balance of new hard rock songs with valued classic rock favorites, normally with an emphasis on the harder edge o ...

-formatted

*the classic hits and

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-formatted Gold Network *the

rhythmic top 40 The Rhythmic chart (also called Rhythmic Airplay, and previously named Rhythmic Songs, Rhythmic Top 40 and CHR/Rhythmic) is an airplay chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine. The chart tracks and measures the airplay of songs played on ...

and

urban contemporary Urban contemporary music, also known as urban music, urban pop, or just simply urban, is a music radio format. The term was coined by New York radio DJ Frankie Crocker in the early to mid-1970s as a synonym for Black music. Urban contemporary r ...

-formatted CADA *joint venture stations Mix 106.3 and Hit104.7 in Canberra with

*other radio stations via

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and

*46 radio stations acquired from

KIIS Network

A vibrant network alive with influential personalities who energise, engage and excite, immersing audiences in the best music their city has to offer.

Gold Network

An iconic network making audiences feel young, positive and full of life, immersing listeners with the Gold hits they know and love.

Other stations

Digital radio

ARN also broadcasts a number of digital only radio stations.ARN Digital-radio

Former stations

Outdoor/Advertising

*CODY Out-of-Home (Hong Kong) *Emotive (creative agency)

References

Bibliography

External links

Company website
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