AUSTRALIAN INDEPENDENT RADIO NEWS, known better around the industry as AIR News has been in operation since the end of 2004, and has been delivering National News and Sport services to Radio stations since then.
As of the end of 2009 AIR News is delivering the following every week:
- 97 National News/Sport bulletins
- 45 State/Territory bulletins
- 5 Evening news/sport "capsules"
- 10 News headlines
- 5 editions of AIR Sport Australia
- 5 editions of The World
The bulletins are delivered via the internet which allows for inexpensive transfer of audio files with no requirement for expensive satellite equipment, just a broadband connection and some special download software which we provide to clients.
Each bulletin is pre-recorded by a short period to ensure that material is as up to date as possible. The audio is professionally recorded and edited to present as professional a finished product on our network stations as possible.
Stations can choose whether to receive the News and Sport as a single audio file for ease of broadcast or as separate items so that they can have their own intros or sponsor announcements. There is no news theme, so stations are at liberty to brand their own to best suit their audience.
From 7:30 each morning Monday to Friday stations in all states and territories have a local bulletin available which they can run anytime they like during a morning covering stories of interest in that particular state or territory, and additionally stations in or around the Riverina can have access to our Riverina local bulletin each morning Monday to Friday. Stations are at liberty to run these particular bulletins a couple of times during the day.
The headlines service is designed for Breakfast and Drive sessions and usually runs about 1:15. For stations that like to keep a "news focus" this can be an ideal driver to the next bulletin.
AIR Sport Australia is a solid wrap of all major sports news and results from overnight. It usually runs between 3 & 4 minutes and is ideal for the busy Breakfast show, perhaps at 7:30am or suchlike. It covers all the major sports of interest to Australians.
The World is our international news magazine which is available every day Monday to Friday. It runs 10 minutes exactly and consists of major stories from all the world hot spots covering terrorism, politics, economics, health and technology stories. |
