Haxton wins in SA Media Awards

The 2013 SA Media Awards were held on Saturday night.

Winning the 2 radio awards was two time Walkley Award winning journalist Nance Haxton. Haxton is a reporter for AM, PM and The World Today at ABC Radio.

She took home Best Radio Current Affairs or Feature award and the Best Radio Broadcaster award.

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Separated at birth #19

Peter Deppeler, Executive Producer of Merrick & The Highway Patrol, sent us a separated at birth this week. Peter said:

"Is Justin Hill (reporter) from Scoopla going to fill in for Ricky Martin on the Voice? Just made me laugh."

Have a look below....

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Ray Hadley on Australian Story

On ABC's Australian Story tomorrow night, they feature 2GB's Ray Hadley.

The show description says, "Ray Hadley is loud, opinionated and controversial. He's a tireless worker for charity. And he's merciless towards politicians.

In this program Ray Hadley opens up and reveals some uncomfortable truths about the past and about the temper that's been getting him into trouble."

In the Daily Telegraph today they reveal part of the story, regarding the split from his wife Suzanne in 2010.

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Next weekend get on the Sunday Soapbox

Radio Today is not a monologue, rather a dialogue, and the amount of comments we receive each day shows that you enjoy having your say on the various items we publish.

We also encourage you to share news, moves and any other industry related information with us so we can let everyone know.

This time next week we will launch 'Sunday Soapbox', your opportunity to contribute directly to Radio Today.

Mamamia Today to finish up

Mamamia Today, which airs from 3pm-4pm on the Today Network, is finishing up.

Dave Cameron, Head of Today Network at SCA says:

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Power FM's Daft Punk prank on new announcer

Yesterday, the Power FM Ballarat team punk'd their new workday announcer.

Aaron Chilcott, ex-AMD and morning announcer on Mix Melbourne has recently started doing casual shifts at Power and with everyone talking about Daft Punk's appearance at Wee Waa in NSW, they decided to initiate the new guy.

They used social media to get Aaron going and then finished it off with this call from the boss and appearance in the Power FM studio of 'Daft Punk'. Hear the audio below :-

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Jonesy & Amanda drop into AFTRS

Jonesy & Amanda from WSFM recently popped into AFTRS and were guest speakers for the radio students.

They told how their careers developed and what to expect from the radio industry.

Jonesy said: "I can talk about radio all day. It's nice to have people listen to me without their eyes glazing over... I think."

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Go on a virtual tour of Mix 94.5

Earlier this year we took you on a virtual tour of BBC Radio 1 and 1Extra on Google Maps (see here).

Now, Mix 94.5 in Perth have engaged a local photographer Paul Pichugin to develop a similar tour of their station.

Check it out below :-

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Dylan's song for The Power

Nova 919 Adelaide breakfast host Dylan Lewis has named himself the "self appointed, number one, original ambassador" for the Port Adelaide Football Club.

Power player Hamish Hartlett asked Dylan if he’d think about playing footy. HIs response, “I could sing a song at the football, like Meatloaf maybe.”

So instead he has recorded a song for the club and shot a video clip.

Watch it below :-

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Matt & Jo stars of stage

Fox FM's Matt and Jo, along with Troy Ellis, will join the cast of Legally Blonde The Musical onstage at the Princess Theatre for 'one special performance'.

Matt, Jo and Troy have previously performed cameos in Hairspray and Rocky Horror, and will take to the boards for Legally Blonde The Musical with Jules Lund and Byron Cooke from the Drive show on Tuesday 11 June.

Fox FM's Matt Tilley said;

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Mark Geyer takes over panelling The Grill Team

Mark Geyer from the Triple M Sydney Grill Team took charge of the panel this morning.

It happened because MG said he thought Chris Page's job as anchor and panel op looked easy.

So, Pagey took a backseat from 8am and 'Maestro Mark' took over.

Here are a couple of 'best of' bits (mainly just bad panelling) :-

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Who were the winners in the NZ Radio Awards

The 2013 NZ Radio Awards were held yesterday afternoon.

Unlike in Australia where we have the ACRA's night, the radio awards in New Zealand are dished out via a webcast. It is presented in a very light-hearted way with lots of gags and is filmed in a loungeroom in front of a green screen.

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Nova play Space Invaders

Nova's Breakfast show in Brisbane "Ash, Kip and Luttsy" have hosted a tennis version of the iconic arcade game Space Invaders.

Sixteen listeners lined up on one side of the tennis court whilst Ash controlled the automatic ball server on the other side. The last person standing won $2,500.

How did it work? Watch the video below;

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smoothfm turns 1 this Tuesday

This Tuesday will mark smoothfm's 1st birthday, and it's survey day !

dmg Group PD Paul Jackson has spoken with The Music Network about the first year of the station.

Jackson said: "To simply have the opportunity to launch new radio stations into saturated market places, with a format that hadn’t existed here before, was very exciting for myself and all the smooth team to be a part of.

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NZ breakfast host 'fakes it' live on-air

Jay-Jay, Mike & Dom are the breakfast show on New Zealand radio station The Edge.

While interviewing the host of 'Hottest Home Baker', Colin Mathura Jeffree, they decided to play a game called 'Hottest Home Faker' (and yes it is exactly what you think).

Dom was the only one to 'fake it' before they quickly ended the game, with Jay-Jay in particular seeming uncomfortable with the content choice.

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