Page 23 - Ciaran Davis News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Advertisement 2GB host Ben Fordham has experienced his first big ratings hit since taking over the station’s breakfast slot from Alan Jones last June. The breakfast host’s audience share dropped to 15.5 per cent, down 2.6 per cent, in Thursday’s second radio ratings survey of the year. It’s his worst ratings result yet in the breakfast slot and the biggest drop across Thursday’s survey. 2GB breakfast host Ben Fordham. Credit:Louise Kennerley Despite the hit, Fordham maintains his lead in the 5.30am-9am timeslot, outpacing ABC Sydney’s Wendy Harmer and Robbie Buck...

Vivienne Kelly speaks with both SCA’s Grant Blackley and ARN’s Ciaran Davis to see if LiSTNR could change the game. I first heard rumblings of SCA launching LiSTNR in January. Rumour was SCA was ditching its relationship with the US-based PodcastOne in favour of its own digital audio brand, complete with a new brand and identity – in this case LiSTNR, a seemingly early-2000s branding decision complete with a mix of upper and lower-case letters and a missing vowel. Tumblr. Flickr. LiSTNR. My exact enquiry was: “I’ve heard murmurs PodcastOne Australia could be set to rebrand to Lis...

This week on Radio Today Tonight, Jake and Viv cast their eyes over the latest financial results from Australian Radio Network, Nine Radio and Southern Cross Austereo, following updates to the ASX – how much each company received in Government handouts, and how much this propped up their bottom lines. Plus we discuss how ARN CEO Ciaran Davis and SCA CEO Grant Blackley are framing the competition between digital platforms iHeartRadio Australia and LiSTNR. Radio Today Tonight is back for 2021, coming to you each Thursday and mixing the biggest news of the week, along with a discussion of al...

4.43PM – Feb 24, 2021 Harmoney, MoneyMe lift personal loan originations in bank tech battle Loan originations are on the rise at two new, tech-driven personal lending brands, Harmoney and MoneyMe, which presented plans to beat the major banks at finding customers and assessing their risk but failed to convince the market. Harmoney and MoneyMe have both developed machine learning tools using broad data sets to assess customers; Harmoney said a new model using data from 53,000 Australian loan applicants had resulted in its ‘Libra’ system doubling originations in the middle two we...

More news about iHeartRadio's partnerships in Australia will emerge this quarter.