Fed: Nine years of effort brings better radio to bush: ABA

AAP General News (Australia);  December 21, 2001 ;     376 words ......1992, there were only a handful of commercial FM radio services in Australia outside...radio market, in Tasmania, that lacks a commercial FM service and that is due to a lack of...generated by industry and business. A new commercial FM licence will be auctioned in Perth...

Sen. Snowe Introduces Bill to Conduct Economic Study on Impact of...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 6, 2007 ;     224 words ......FM stations will have on full-power commercial FM stations." The bill was introduced...FM stations will have on full-power commercial FM stations. Be it enacted by the Senate...STUDY ON IMPACT OF LPFM ON FULL-POWER COMMERCIAL FM STATIONS.(a) In General- Not later...

Bill Caralis expands NSW radio network.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  September 2, 2005 ;     120 words ......Wales (NSW). The service will cover areas of Byron Bay, Brunswick Heads, Mullumbimby and Ocean Shores through a new Radio Tweed Heads FM translator, FM 103.5. The move gives Caralis, owner of Sydney's 2SM, a total of 54 commercial licences and translators in NSW...

FCC to sell 288 radio licenses.

Washington Times (Washington, D.C.);  November 1, 2004 ;     686 words ......licenses that grant authority to build commercial FM stations in specified towns and cities...new radio stations. There are 6,218 commercial FM stations, but many towns and small...and South are getting most of the new commercial FM radio stations. There are 28 licenses...

FCC to sell 288 radio licenses; Auction piques interest of conglomerates,...

The Washington Times;  November 1, 2004 ;     629 words ......licenses that grant authority to build commercial FM stations in specified towns and cities...new radio stations. There are 6,218 commercial FM stations, but many towns and small...and South are getting most of the new commercial FM radio stations. There are 28 licenses...

APN makes radio waves against FM licences.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  May 12, 2003 ;     242 words ......media group, APN News & Media, says the issuing of new commercial FM radio licences should be delayed. If not, some radio stations...called for submissions by 9 May on whether the issuing of four commercial FM radio licences should be delayed. APN argued in its submission...

APN seeks FM licence delay.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  May 12, 2003 ;     245 words ......media group, APN News & Media, says the issuing of new commercial FM radio licences should be delayed. If not, some radio stations...called for submissions by 9 May on whether the issuing of four commercial FM radio licences should be delayed. APN argued in its submission...

Contest hotting up for FM licences.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  June 29, 2003 ;     207 words ......2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) New commercial FM radio broadcasting licences will be sold for four Australian...Australian Broadcasting Authority has decided to auction new commercial FM licences for Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. The...

Fed: Melbourne to gert first new radio licences in 20 yrs

AAP General News (Australia);  June 27, 2000 ;     219 words ......CANBERRA, June 27 AAP - Melbourne is to get its first new commercial FM radio stations in 20 years, after the Australian Broadcasting...last month paid a record $155 million for Sydney's fifth commercial FM licence, which had also been the first on offer since 1980...

Qld: Tomato fights for radio ratings

AAP General News (Australia);  August 1, 2003 ;     201 words ......Murdoch-Mann and her brothers Jaan and Hans Torv pursued the first commercial FM licence auctioned on the tourist strip in 14 years because...family listeners. The company plans to bid for a Brisbane commercial FM licence when it is auctioned next year. AAP dp/sc/ldj/jlw...

Fed: Melbourne to new commercial radio licences after 20 yrs

AAP General News (Australia);  June 27, 2000 ;     197 words ......radio licences after 20 yrs Melbourne is to get its first new commercial FM radio stations in 20 years, after the Australian Broadcasting...last month paid a record $155 million for Sydney's fifth commercial FM licence -- the first on offer in Sydney since 1980. An auction...

Music for the over-50s.(News)

The Journal (Newcastle, England);  April 14, 2006 ;     67 words ......to broadcast on the North-East's airwaves. Saga Radio beat off competition from a dozen other operators to win the 12-year commercial FM radio licence from Ofcom. It will be broadcast to a potential two million listeners in the region, although its target audience...

Hot Tomato sows seeds on Gold Coast.

Australasian Business Intelligence;  July 28, 2003 ;     197 words ......Broadcasting Company, will be launched in August 2003. The commercial FM radio station is owned by Anna Mann, the former wife of Australian...experience in the media industry. Hot Tomato will be the third commercial FM station in the Gold Coast's relatively small $A11m radio...

Broadcasting from Pole to Pole ; Life And Culture

Evening Standard - London;  September 5, 2007 ;   Roy Greenslade;   115 words ......classic example of their enterprise is the proliferation of media devoted to the community. One of the latest launches is a commercial FM station, Radio Orla, which is aiming to build an audience in Ealing, Hillingdon and Hounslow. It is also has a website which...

FM daze.(Capital Watch)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable;  April 26, 2004 ;     101 words ...At long last, the FCC has rescheduled its oft delayed auction of hundreds of new commercial FM channels. On Nov. 3, 290 allotments, mostly for small markets, will be put on the block. Minimum bids range from $1,500 (Idalia...