Disrupt Radio’s plan for comeback
The radio broadcaster has been plagued by financial woes and staff have now been left without pay for three months but the dire situation could be about to change.
The radio broadcaster has been plagued by financial woes and staff have now been left without pay for three months but the dire situation could be about to change.
Furious staff at Nine Entertainment have accused the media giant of failing to act on serious workplace instances of unwanted sexual touching, indecent exposure, bullying and stalking, with alleged perpetrators still holding senior positions.
One of Nine’s senior managers has announced she is leaving the business just weeks before the company hands down its review into workplace bullying and sexual harassment.
The taxpayer-funded broadcaster’s watchdog received more than a dozen complaints about an article that readers claimed was ‘too sympathetic to Hezbollah’.
The taxpayer-funded broadcaster has sent out new guidelines to staff explaining how to report accurately on the war which includes changes to the language used.
The latest radio ratings which saw audiences for Sydney station 2GB plummet resulted in urgent action being taken before they were released.
The ABC said a tense exchange between a female reporter and Peter Dutton was ‘not a piece of reporting’ or a position taken by the public broadcaster.
Staff making derogatory and offensive remarks are among explosive revelations from the taxpayer-funded broadcaster’s racism review, prompting an apology from boss David Anderson.
The ABC’s major radio stations suffered ratings falls across the country while Nine Radio’s Sydney station also saw listeners tune out.
Start-up station Disrupt Radio is overhauling its strategy in order to attract listeners however its staff are still unpaid.
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