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Additional free digital radio creative workshops
20 May 2010
Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) continues to promote the opportunities available on digital radio to the advertising industry with the announcement of two additional free digital radio creative workshops to be held in Sydney and Melbourne in June. Joan Warner, chief executive officer of CRA said this round of creative workshops was specifically targeting advertising creative teams. “Ad...
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Digital radio trial to begin in Canberra
5 May 2010
The number of commercial and SBS radio stations available to listeners in Canberra is set to increase with the announcement today by Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) and multicultural and multilingual broadcaster SBS that a regional trial of DAB+ digital radio would begin in Canberra in early July 2010. Commercial Radio Australia chief executive, Joan Warner said the first regional trial...
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New Mother's Day ads for digital radio
19 April 2010
A new series of radio and online advertisements promoting digital radio as the perfect gift for Mother’s Day begin this week, across 42 commercial radio stations in the five digital radio metropolitan markets of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth. The six new radio ads form the next phase of Commercial Radio Australia’s (CRA) digital radio awareness campaign and begin ...
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Digital Radio study tour
12 April 2010
Radio broadcasters from Malaysia and Hong Kong are visiting Sydney this week and taking part in a Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) digital radio study tour to gain firsthand knowledge and experience of DAB+ digital radio. The trialing and subsequent roll out of DAB+ digital radio will begin over the next 12 to 18 months in Hong Kong and two delegates from (RTHK) Radio TV Hong Kong are taking p...
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Radio industry releases first official digital radio data
22 March 2010
The first official data relating to digital radio broadcasts in Australia was released by Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) today, showing six months after the consumer launch of digital radio in the five state metropolitan capitals of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, there are 449,000 people listening to digital radio in an average week, around 104,000* digital radios in the m...
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Digital radio industry report to be released
18 March 2010
Radio industry body Commercial Radio Australia will release its Digital Radio Industry Report on Monday, 22 March 2010. The report will include digital radio listening data from the Nielsen Company, digital radio market data figures from consumer electronics market researcher, GfK and consumer research from the Hoop Group. Joan Warner, chief executive officer of Commercial Radio Australia sai...
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Digital Radio retailers & manufacturers meet with radio industry
18 February 2010
Leading manufacturers and retailers of digital radios met with the radio industry in Sydney yesterday for the first time this year to discuss the ongoing promotion of digital radio and welcome new representatives from Sony, Phillips, Denon and Target to the Broadcasters, Retailers and Manufacturers Digital Radio Advisory Group. Following the meeting chief executive officer of Commercial Radio ...
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