Anthony Ghergetta is lead mobile development strategist at The App Studio in Melbourne, Australia and was one of the originals at 96.9 Wild FM in Sydney in the 90's.
Anthony has contributed to Radio Today recently with the following pieces :-
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Thursday, 09 May 2013 20:36 Category: Programming

Tom Watson is president of A.C.C. Consulting & Marketing International with clients in major U.S. markets as well as in Europe and Asia. Tom consulted the Australian Radio Networks in the 90's, taking TT-FM from AM to FM and putting MIX-FM on the air in Sydney.
Today Tom shares with us some basics of what should go into a breakfast show. It's well worth having a look through each point he makes to see whether your show could benefit in being reminded of some, or all, of the breakfast basics....
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Monday, 22 April 2013 06:00 Category: Programming
Anthony Ghergetta is lead mobile development strategist at The App Studio in Melbourne, Australia and was one of the originals at 96.9 Wild FM in Sydney in the 90's.
He has written the third article in a series on the next generation of car radio at his website 'The App Studio', and forwarded it to us to share with Radio Today readers.
The first article can be read here, and the second here. Over to Anthony.
Radio broadcasters should be salivating at the revenue opportunities in the next generation of car radio.
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Monday, 08 April 2013 09:00 Category: Programming

Dave Charles is a global broadcast and creative media strategist with over 4 decades of radio, talent development, and new format creation.
He worked for Austereo in the 90's and formed ESP with Greg Smith.
Dave is now the President of MRI (Media RESULTS International). He writes today about developing today's radio talent :-
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Thursday, 04 April 2013 06:00 Category: Programming
Anthony Ghergetta is lead mobile development strategist at The App Studio in Melbourne, Australia and was one of the originals at 96.9 Wild FM in Sydney in the 90's.
He has asked us to share this article with Radio Today readers.
Over to Anthony;
This is the second article in a series exploring the next generation of car radio. The first article can be read here ……
As a radio broadcaster, imagine if you knew the exact location of each listener, where they are, where they have been and where they are going.
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Thursday, 28 March 2013 05:55 Category: Programming
Anthony Ghergetta is lead mobile development strategist at The App Studio in Melbourne, Australia and was one of the originals at 96.9 Wild FM in Sydney in the 90's.
Earlier this week he wrote a piece on the "Future of Car Radio" at The App Studio knowledge bank (here), and he asked us to share it with Radio Today readers.
Over to Anthony;
A content war is coming to the dashboard of the car.
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Friday, 22 March 2013 14:00 Category: Programming

Tom Watson is president of A.C.C. Consulting & Marketing International with clients in major U.S. markets as well as in Europe and Asia.
Time spent listening is often thought of as someone listening to your station and documenting their listening as it happens. Not true! Sweeping music across the quarter-hour and other “games” do not lengthen TSL.
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Wednesday, 20 March 2013 06:00 Category: Programming
Today, ex-Aussie radio boss Richard Burns gives us a fascinating insight into the US radio industry and asks ‘Is this USA model a good one or is the Australian model better?’......
When I was working in the Australian radio industry, the USA always seemed like a place to look to for inspiration – those great stations like KIIS in LA, Z100 in New York, KFRC San Fran and a host of other metro stations; some of which had informal ideas sharing with the great Aussie stations.
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Saturday, 09 February 2013 08:00 Category: Programming
Southern Cross Austereo have made a number of moves at a major regional level lately that have a lot of you fired up.
It started with NXFM dropping the Steve & Kim breakfast show after 11 years, replacing them with Heath & Normy.
Then last week Paddy & Ciel were taken off Sea FM on the Central Coast after 7 and a half years (a month after co-host Dan Taylor left the station).
On Wednesday, SCA announced Sea's new breakfast show would be Dani Pola and Nath Cera, both of whom are from Perth and have been doing a development show on 92.9.
These moves have led to many varying opinions from you, which is awesome, we encourage this dialogue.
But in an effort to get inside the head of the man making the decisions for SCA, Radio Today spoke with Craig Bruce, Head of Content for the network. Below, he gives his perspective and reveals the strategic plan behind these recent changes.....
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Friday, 30 November 2012 07:30 Category: Programming
Liam is the PD and Breakfast Host of 96five in Brisbane and writes for Radio Today.
The ACRA’s have been and gone and the cream of Aus Radio have been crowned yet again.
Let’s remember for just a minute those shows over the years who were very under rated and never got the accolades, success or fame they deserved. Be it, they gave up too early, were in the wrong place at the wrong time or just never lived up to their full potential.
Here is my Top 5 Shows that Could Have Been Contenders....
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Monday, 29 October 2012 06:00 Category: Programming