RADIO BROADCASTERS – NEW SOUTH WALES

Jones saga puts heat on Macquarie

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Original article by Zoe Samios, Nick Tabakoff
The Australian – Page: Online : 11-Mar-19

Macquarie Media has refused to comment on its negotiations with Alan Jones over a new contract for the radio broadcaster, as has Jones himself. Jones has had 216 consecutive rating wins for his broadcasting spot, while his radio station 2GB won survey eight of Sydney’s 2018 ratings surveys with a 14.1 per cent audience share. Not being able to re-sign Jones would mean reduced advertising revenue for Macquarie Media, as well as more angst for Macquarie Media’s parent company Nine Entertainment, following the axing of Karl Stefanovic from ‘Today’ in 2018.

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MACQUARIE MEDIA LIMITED – ASX MRN, 2GB, NINE ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY HOLDINGS LIMITED – ASX NEC, SEVEN NETWORK LIMITED

Seven-year ratings high for kings of morning radio, Alan Jones and Ray Hadley

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Original article by Lilly Vitorovich
The Australian – Page: Online : 5-Oct-18

Alan Jones continues to have the most popular breakfast radio show in Sydney, with the latest GfK survey showing he had a 19 per cent audience share with his 2GB program. Macquarie Media, which owns 2GB, stated it was his best result since 2011, while 2GB colleague Ray Hadley secured a 20.2 per cent audience share for the 9am to midday slot. 2GB was the most listened to radio station in Sydney, with 15.4 per cent of the market, while the Macquarie Radio Network-owned 3AW retained top spot in Melbourne, with 13.5 per cent audience share.

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GFK PTY LTD, 2GB, MACQUARIE MEDIA LIMITED – ASX MRN, 3AW SOUTHERN CROSS RADIO PTY LTD, MACQUARIE RADIO NETWORK, AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, ILLYRIA PTY LTD

PM takes on Jones over gas bans

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Original article by Phillip Coorey
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 1 & 4 : 6-Oct-17

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his ministers are increasingly coming to the view that radio broadcaster Alan Jones is engaging in double standards on the question of gas prices. Jones has publicly advocated against onshore gas development in New South Wales for a number of years. Regulators, business and governments are generally of the opinion that allowing onshore gas development in NSW and other states would help to lower gas prices, and the Federal Government sees Jones’s constant attacks on it over gas prices as somewhat hypocritical.

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AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE TREASURY, COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENTS, QUEENSLAND. DEPT OF THE PREMIER AND CABINET, NEW SOUTH WALES. DEPT OF PREMIER AND CABINET, LIBERAL-NATIONAL PARTY OF QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, SANTOS LIMITED – ASX STO, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY, AUSTRALIA. PRODUCTIVITY COMMISSION, AUSTRALIA. COMMONWEALTH GRANTS COMMISSION, VICTORIA. DEPT OF PREMIER AND CABINET

Kyle, Jackie O slip but Jones still king

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Original article by Max Mason
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 20 : 8-Jul-15

The latest radio ratings survey by GfK shows that 2GB presenter Alan Jones continues to dominate Sydney’s breakfast slot, with a 16 per cent audience share. The audience share of KIIS FM’s Kyle and Jackie O eased from 10.2 per cent to 8.6 per cent, although Duncan Campbell of Australian Radio Network expects their ratings to rebound. The Hit Network’s breakfast show team of Dan and Maz recorded a modest ratings increase.

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GFK PTY LTD, 2GB, MACQUARIE RADIO NETWORK LIMITED – ASX MRN, 101.7 WS-FM, TRIPLE M CORPORATION PTY LTD, KIIS1065, AUSTRALIAN RADIO NETWORK PTY LTD, SOUTHERN CROSS AUSTEREO PTY LTD, SOUTHERN CROSS MEDIA GROUP LIMITED – ASX SXL, THE HIT NETWORK, AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION

Chief scientist may sue Jones over coal seam gas remarks

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Original article by Nicole Hasham
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 9 : 6-Oct-14

Sydney talk show radio host Alan Jones, a long-standing critic of the coal seam gas (CSG) sector, has accused New South Wales (NSW) Chief Scientist Mary O’Kane of bias toward the industry. She had issued a report on 30 September 2014 that found any risk posed by CSG drilling activity was manageable, and she is now considering a defamation law suit against Jones. He has also been attacked by Tom Fontaine, chair of the Magnum Gas & Power company that has had its joint project with Apex Energy rejected by the NSW Planning Assessment Commission

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MAGNUM GAS AND POWER LIMITED – ASX MPE, MACQUARIE RADIO NETWORK LIMITED – ASX MRN, APEX ENERGY NL, NEW SOUTH WALES. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SCIENTIST AND ENGINEER, NEW SOUTH WALES. PLANNING ASSESSMENT COMMISSION, 2GB, NEW SOUTH WALES. DEPT OF PREMIER AND CABINET, NATURE CONSERVATION COUNCIL OF NSW INCORPORATED, LIBERAL PARTY OF NEW SOUTH WALES