Australian radio getting nervous?

My buddy Shane (yes, the guy who bought the Storm Trooper outfit) pointed me to this article in The Australian IT section today:

THE powerful commercial radio lobby has called for free spectrum and a decade of protection from new market entrants in return for investing $400 million in new digital technologies.

Peak industry lobby group Commercial Radio Australia said it was increasingly difficult for analogue, free-to-air radio to compete for advertising revenue against interactive digital technologies like the internet.

A spokeswoman for Senator Coonan said she hoped to decide by mid-year how government will regulate the transition to digital radio.

Regulate!! Yeah... regulate THIS.

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[James]

Hey Cam, I'm doing a session at the International Radio Forum at RMIT on podcasting

http://incsub.org/blog/?p=89

You should come along & tell em to their faces :D

Cheers, james