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Sounds of the Mountains
Tumut 96.3FM
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Young 92.3FM
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The Goanna
Sydney 1611AM
Sydney 1701AM
Tamworth 1611AM
Grafton 1611AM
Bathurst 1629AM
Dubbo 1629AM
Armidale 1638AM
VICTORIA
Flow FM
Healesville 106.3FM
Murrundindi 89.3FM
Vision Australia Radio
Melbourne 1179AM
Albury/Wodonga 101.7FM
Bendigo 88.7FM
Geelong 99.5FM
Mildura 107.5FM
Shepparton 100.1FM
Warragul 93.5FM
Warrnambool 94.5FM
Radio Upper Murray, Walwa 88.7FM
Goldfields FM, Maryborough 99.1FM
3MFM
Sth Gippsland 88.1FM
Phillip Island 89.1FM
Foster 89.5FM
WMA FM, Castlemaine 107.5FM
Southern FM, Mentone 88.3FM
Surf FM
Cranbourne 87.6FM
Frankston 87.6FM
The Goanna 1638AM Melbourne
QUEENSLAND
Jazz FM, Gold Coast 94.1FM
Ten FM, Stanthorpe 98.7FM
Triple T Townsville 103.9FM
Live FM Townsville 99.9FM
Crow FM Kingaroy, 90.7FM
My105 Mackay 105.9FM
Sunshine FM, Sunshine Coast 104.9FM
Rhema Sunshine Coast, 106.5FM
96FIVE, Brisbane 96.5FM
The Goanna, Brisbane 1638AM
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Territory FM
Darwin 104.1FM
Alice Springs 98.7FM
Palmerston 104.1FM
Jabiru 104.1FM
Gove 106.9FM
Adelaide River 99.7FM
Batchelor 98.5FM
Lake Bennet 96.9FM
Tindal 90.2FM
Flow FM, Tennant Ck 100.5FM
SA
Riverland Life FM Loxton 100.7FM
Flow FM
Coober Pedy 99.7FM
Prominent Hill 91.3FM
Roxby Downs 97.9FM
Woomera 101.7FM
Ceduna 106.1FM
Streaky Bay 99.3FM
N Yorke Pen 90.9FM
S Yorke Pen 98.9FM
Kingscote 95.5FM
Barossa Valley 99.5FM
Pinaroo96.3FM
Victor Harbor 97.7FM
Tatiara 100.3FM
Limestone Coast 107.3FM
WA
Gold MX Albany 1611AM
Hedland FM, Port Hedland 101.3FM
Radio Mama, Geraldton, 100.5 FM
TASMANIA
Coast FM
Wynyard 106.1FM
Burnie 106.1FM
Ulverstone 106.1FM
Devonport 104.7FM
Smithton 88.9FM
STAR FM
St Helens 93.7FM
Bicheno 98.5FM
St Marys 100.3FM
The Goanna
Hobart 1620AM
Hobart 1638AM
AIRSPORT heard on
KLFM
Bendigo, Vic 96.5FM
Castlemaine 106.3FM

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Meet some of the people involved in the delivery of the AIR news service.
Our people are spread across Australia, and we have a wonderful partnership with Feature Story News giving us access to some of the finest reporters across the globe. |
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| ARTHUR (ARTIE) STEVENS - MELBOURNE - artie@airnews.com.au |
| Artie is the man behind the AIR News operation. He conceived the niche service and now oversees the main operation, including presenting the Breakfast news Monday to Friday and hosting The World.
He's been a broadcaster in one form or another since 1969 after starting out as a weekly Soccer reporter on Shepparton's 3SR. In the 70's he worked in production in the television industry with the Seven (Sounds Unlimited) and Nine Networks returning to Commercial radio in the 80's with Melbourne's 3KZ/KZFM/Gold 104, including a stint in the newsroom during the original Gulf War.
He's also produced and packaged the original highly successful Magic 693 Football programs with Ian Major/Alan Jeans, then Kevin Bartlett/Stephen Quartermain/Sam Kekovitch and spent a couple of years as a producer at Sport 927.
He's been heavily involved with Community radio for over 15 years, was the Program Manager at South Gippsland's 3MFM until September 2006 and is currently the multi-track producer for Vision Australia Radio Melbourne and Regional Victoria, as well as providing an automation and live assist consultancy with Vision Australia Radio, Wagga's 101.9 Life FM, Hits and Memories 3MFM and 2HAY FM. He was very pleased to accept Trade Membership of the Southern Community Media Association in 2007 (www.scma1.com)
He is also the voice of "Guide Dog Tales" (the audio version of the magazine) for Guide Dogs Victoria.

His position of News Director at AIR News has led to him also being appointed News Director for South Australia/Victoria/Northern Territory Commercial Radio network Flow FM (www.flowfm.com.au)
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| FABIAN ANTONACCI - MELBOURNE - fabian.antonacci@airnews.com.au |
Fabian came to us from the Gary Mac Radio School and is a regular sports voice on AIR News weekends..
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| BRAD SHIELDS - SOUTH EAST QUEENSLAND - brad.shields@airnews.com.au |
Brad's been in Commercial Radio over 30 years -from Network News Presenter to Network Sales and Station Management and everything in between. Brad presents our bulletins from the Gold Coast hinterland in South East Queensland.
At 17 he was the youngest network news presenter in Australia presenting "TBN World News" across Tasmania.
Brad manages the AIR News operation every second weekend.
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| DAVID HOUGHTON - SYDNEY - david.houghton@airnews.com.au |
David's been with AIR news for over four years now, and whilst this was his first News assignment, he has come along in leaps and bounds. We regularly get great responses to David's bulletins from our clients.
David is undergoing a journalism course in Sydney.
Catch him on AIR News Tuesdays between 10 and midday |
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| SAMUEL GORDON - CANBERRA - samuel.gordon-stewart@airnews.com.au |
Samuel is a former journalism student who is eager to step into mainstream radio one day.
Samuel has gone from strength to strength since he joined AIR News over 4 years ago. He's a good operator. Never lets the side down. |
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| THOMAS McCOY - CANBERRA - thomas.mccoy@airnews.com.au |
Thomas is a journalism, computer science, and education graduate who began his working life at a range of commercial radio stations around Australia.
Ending up in Canberra and seeking new challenges, he became a federal government employee and worked in IT and public affairs roles, but remained involved with media through freelance writing, voiceovers, and casual radio announcing.
Not long ago, he spent several years in the education sector, where he was a department head for journalism and public relations, and taught subjects including journalistic writing, radio journalism and audio production.
These days he’s back in federal government employment again, but keeps his educational and journalistic passions alive through part-time teaching and contributing to AIR News.
Thomas is a regular on Sunday mornings. |
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| CAMERON JACKSON - DARWIN - cameron.jackson@airnews.com.au |
| Cameron is completing a bachelor of E-Journalism at Central Queensland University. He became involved with radio in 2006 as a program producer at AIR News' affiliate, Territory FM in Darwin. Since then he has moved into announcing at another Darwin radio station, Rhema FM, and also works as a Media Liaison Officer for the NT Department of Health and Families. Cameron currently reads AIR News' NSW and Victoria state bulletins throughout the week and regularly files reports for the news service. |
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| BRIAN PORTLAND - QUEENSLAND brian.portland @airnews.com.au |
Brian has worked at a number of radio stations over the past 30 odd years in a variety of positions, including.. Account Executive; Sales Manager; Promotions Manager; Production Engineer; Copy Writer; Creative Director; and Voice-Over Specialist. Started on air as mid’-dawn announcer, moved to Mornings, then Drive and then Breakfast Anchor ; ending up as Talkback Host; (900am -1pm). Won a couple of Awards along the way. Changed direction slightly and became Exec Producer of Third eYe Productions. Produced and directed "The Way We Were" a look back at the 60’s & 70s..These days script & voice Corporate Videos, Documentaries TV & Radio commercials..Brian can be heard weekends from 1100-1300 |
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| GRAHAM DAVIS - MELBOURNE - graham.davis@airnews.com.au |
Graham has been on-air since 2002 presenting the Saturday Evening programme on Vision Australia Radio in Melbourne before moving on to the Racing Show.
His interest in cricket started in his teens when he travelled the UK following the county cricket circuit. More recently he has combined this 40 year passion for cricket, travel and broadcasting with the reporting of Test matches for the BBC World Service, Melbourne’s Sport 927, UK’s TalkSport and AIR Sports attending international matches in all 10 Test playing countries. He has provided Test reports direct from England, India, New Zealand, the West Indies and Australia so far. Graham is heading to Britain to cover the 2009 Ashes series. |
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| TINEKA EVERAARDT - MELBOURNE - tineka.everaardt@airnews.com.au |
| Tineka sure has crammed a lot into the last few years! She’s in her final year of Media and Communications, with a major in Journalism and a minor in PR. She’s also done some work at Today Tonight and hosted a show called 1700 on Channel 31 in Melbourne.
She’s currently broadcasting on AIR news and has done so for over a year… as Tineka says “even at my young age I know exactly where I want to go and am prepared with a heap of enthusiasm to get there!” (Perhaps it runs in the family? Her dad has been broadcasting in Melbourne for 30 years and can be heard on Magic 1278).
Tineka finishes her course this semester and wants to work as a personality or journalist on radio or TV.
Catch Tineka on Thursday and Friday afternoons' 12-3
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| ELOUISE HAHN - SYDNEY - elouise.hahn@airnews.com.au |
Elouise has been working for Air News for over two years. She has completed a Journalism Degree at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, with a minor in politics.
She maintains a keen interest in current affairs and social justice issues, having lived in India at various times throughout her life. She raises awareness among the community through writing articles and organising fundraisers, and plans to return in the future.
Catch Elouise on Fridays 10-12.
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| ROBYN WINSLOW - MELBOURNE - robyn.winslow@airnews.com.au |
Robyn has worked in senior management and creative roles in the government, not-for-profit and arts sectors, and is an experienced thinker, writer, manager, facilitator, singer, voice artist and vocal trainer.
For ten years, Robyn combined general management roles in the theatre and cinema industries with a second career as a singer and voice teacher. She then moved into the Victorian Government and developed policy and programs in the arts, sport and recreation, and IT sectors, maintaining her interest in vocal pursuits.
After leaving the public sector in 2005, Robyn spent a year in Paris working with an international voice school and studying French. Since returning home she has worked as a management consultant, corporate writer and copy writer. She undertook radio studies in 2008 and has been developing her skills on air since then. Robyn volunteers as a reader with Vision Australia Radio and also appears on their breakfast program. She is also passionate about film and is currently developing a number of screenplays.
Robyn has qualifications in writing, arts (English/music), radio, singing and voice over, innovation and service management, corporate governance, arts management and French language. |
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| PAULINE SNELL - MELBOURNE - pauline.snell@airnews.com.au |
Often in a state of loquacity – presenting for AIR News is the perfect starting point for she who dropped off the radio airwaves radar after a promising start graduating from the broadcasting course at the WA Academy of Performing Arts in 1994; hailed as the one most likely to succeed with a career in the media.
The perpetual insurrectionist - she thwarted all predetermined semiotics of radio fame, fortune and glory – and she went headlong into Casuarina maximum security prison, as a teacher! That didn’t last too long as the prison education centre mysteriously burned down.
For the next ten years or so – time that could have been deployed in a desert seeking enlightenment, were misspent using her powers for evil and being a communications and PR biscuit. However – fate has a weird way of smacking naysayers in the fizzog, slapping them silly and then forcing them off the quotidian and back into the land of destiny. Pauline began dabbling in AIR News in 2006 for ‘a bit of fun’ and then decided to get serious and pursue a real radio career on April Fools Day 2009.
She is still in hot pursuit – so catch her here whilst you can! |
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| GEOFF TURNBULL - TUMUT - geoff.turnbull@airnews.com.au |
To understand Geoff’s foray onto the team at AIR News, you need to go way back to his High School days.
In English lessons the teacher would go around the class & ask each of the students to read a passage out loud to the whole class. When it came to Geoff’s turn, he would read the paragraph out loud in a manner imitating the number one television newsreader of the day, Brian Henderson. To say the teacher was NOT impressed would be understating the obvious “Why are you reading in that tone & expressing every syllable like a newsreader” came the reply from his teacher “We have newsreaders … they are on tv and radio. We DON’T need another one”. Well, little did he know that he would be proved so wrong.
Geoff has spent a number of years hosting the Breakfast program at Tumut's Sounds of the Mountains, and now he's back on the air in town as a regular presenter with Australian Independent Radio News. Only now, he speaks to the whole nation, and is bringing them the world. |
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| Australian Independent Radio News proudly partners with Feature Story News to bring the stories that matter from around the world. |
| FSN Correspondents listed below: |
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| SIMON MARKS - WASHINGTON AND THE WORLD |
| Simon Marks co-founded FSN in September 1992 and is the company's President and Chief Correspondent. For 20 years, he's reported breaking and developing international news stories for some of the world's leading television and radio networks. Through his work at FSN, he's a Special Correspondent for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", a Contributing Correspondent for The Fox News Channel, and US Bureau Chief for Channel News Asia. He's interviewed many of the world's leading newsmakers, including US President George Bush, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, South African President Thabo Mbeki, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former Czech President Vaclav Havel. Simon travels the world on a continuing basis, and recent assignments have taken him to India, France, Cuba, Venezuela, Turkey, Ukraine, Sudan and his native UK. Simon previously worked for Chrstian Science Monitor Television, Independent Television News of London, and KSAT-TV of San Antonio, Texas, where a patient news director gave him an internship that set him on the road to FSN!. |
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| PRISCILLA HUFF - WASHINGTON |
| Priscilla Huff is a correspondent in FSN's Washington Bureau, and joined the company from CNN in 2001. With extensive experience covering the US political scene, Priscilla invariably spends her days on Capitol Hill, at the US State Department or at the White House, chasing the major issues that matter to FSN’s clients. Her work for FSN also includes extensive travel across the United States - she's sauntered down the Red Carpet at the Oscars and waded through the muck in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Priscilla's reporting has literally spanned the breadth of the United States - from the Tsunami Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, to the halls of the United Nations in New York. A native Washingtonian, Priscilla previously worked for WBIS TV in New York, and the political website Voter.com. |
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| STEVE MORT - ORLANDO |
| Steve Mort is FSN's Orlando Bureau Chief, covering the southern United States for FSN's clients and keeping a watchful eye over developments in Cuba. Steve joined FSN from Independent Radio News, working initially as a radio news editor in the FSN Washington Bureau, then relocating to New York City in 2003. From there, he covered events at the United Nations on a daily basis, reported live on the US trading day from studios at the NASDAQ, and followed human interest and other features in the Big Apple. Today, Steve provides a constant stream of breaking news and feature stories from his base in Orlando.. |
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| ANYA ARDAYEVA - MOSCOW |
| Anya Ardayeva is FSN's Moscow Correspondent, and her TV and Radio reports are seen and heard worldwide. Anya joined FSN as a radio producer in 1997. Today, she travels the length-and-breadth of the former Soviet Union, covering the twists-and-turns taken by the independent nations that emerged from the ashes of the USSR. Recent assignments have also taken her to Baghdad, Brussels, London, Vienna, Islamabad and Calcutta. Anya covers events in the Russian capital for the Fox News Channel, and produces reports in both English and Russian for a wide array of FSN clients. |
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| LARISSA NAUMENKO - MOSCOW |
| Larisa Naumenko is a producer/reporter based in FSN's Moscow Bureau. Larisa covers events in the former Soviet Union on a daily basis for FSN's radio clients around the world, and produces the company's coverage for television clients including the Fox News Channel. Larisa joined FSN from "Russia Today TV", an English-language 24-hour news network based in Moscow. She previously worked for "The Moscow Times", "Kommersant" and Dow Jones Newswires. |
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| SAM BEATTIE - BEIJING |
| Sam Beattie is FSN's Beijing Bureau Chief and covers events across China for our TV and radio clients worldwide. Sam has lived in China since 2004, and worked for Australia's ABC TV and Radio before joining FSN. His daily reports from Beijing are carried on the FSN World News Feed, and his television coverage has been seen on France 24, AFP TV, the Fox News Channel and VOA TV. |
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| DANIEL RYNTJES - WASHINGTON |
| Daniel Ryntjes is a Correspondent in FSN's Washington Bureau specializing in coverage of relations between the US and Asia. He joined FSN from the BBC, where he produced Business News for some of the Corporation's leading on-air outlets. Daniel has also worked as a producer for BBC World Service Radio and a reporter for RTHK of Hong Kong. |
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| MALCOLM BROWN - WASHINGTON |
| Malcolm Brown is FSN's Senior Washington Correspondent, and reports events from the USA on a continuing basis. Newsmakers interviewed by Malcolm include - in 2003 - President George Bush. His assignments have taken him from one side of the United States to the other. He's also reported from the Falkland Islands, Macedonia, Singapore, Mexico, Djibouti, Baghdad and Iran. Malcolm is not only an accomplished on-air reporter - he also shoots and edits much of his own video material. Formerly with LBC Radio in London, Malcolm keenly follows the Defence and US Politics beats for FSN's clients worldwide. |
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| OLLY BARRATT - LONDON |
| Olly Barratt is FSN's Head of Audio News, overseeing the company's radio output on a daily basis. He's a hands-on radio editor, compiling and producing the FSN World News Feed, daily news packages and our anchored news updates now from our London Office. Olly joined FSN from London's "Capital Radio" where he was part of the team awarded the 2006 Sony Radio Academy Gold Award for Breaking News for the station's coverage of the London Bombings. |
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| NINA MARIA-POTTS - BRUSSELS |
| Nina-Maria Potts is FSN's Brussels Bureau Chief, heading the company's operation in the heart of Europe. Every day she covers the dramatic twists and turns in Europe's development, and oversees our clients' coverage from across the European Union. Formerly based in FSN's Washington Bureau, Nina oversaw the production of FSN's sound-rich radio features for public broadcasters around the world. She previously lived and worked in Beijing, where she hosted a daily three-hour drivetime show on China's "Easy FM", and where her image was plastered all over the city's bus-stops by station managers eager to promote her show! |
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| PAIGE KOLLOCK - NEW YORK |
| Paige Kollock is a pivotal member of the FSN team in New York, where she's a correspondent who shoots, edits and produces many of her own stories. Paige joined FSN in 2006 from Channel One, an educational television service in the United States. Since then, she's traveled the world on FSN's behalf, producing material from Turkey, Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, and traveling to Africa with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Paige splits her time between FSN's bureau at the United Nations, and our office in Midtown Manhattan. She also reports live on a daily basis from the NASDAQ, covering the stock market's ups-and-downs. |
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| KATE MOODY - WASHINGTON |
| Kate Moody is now heading up radio for FSN at the Washington DC headquarters. Kate regularly contributes material to FSN's radio clients around the world, and works on a variety of the company's TV stories from the Big Apple. Kate is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington DC. |
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| NATHAN KING - NEW YORK |
| Nathan King is FSN’s New York Bureau Chief, and has reported for FSN’s clients from all over the world. Nathan joined FSN from LBC Radio in London, and originally worked in the company’s Washington Bureau as a radio news editor. In 2000 he set up the company’s first bureau in the Big Apple, and on September 11th 2001, Nathan’s dramatic reports from New York City aired on television and radio networks worldwide. Today, Nathan splits his time between FSN's two offices in New York: one at the United Nations, the other in the heart of Midtown Manhattan. He provides daily live reports from the floor of the NASDAQ, offers ongoing-and-comprehensive coverage of events at the United Nations, and - when time permits - produces human interest feature stories. Nathan's work for FSN has included several trips to Africa and Asia. |
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