Seal joins smoothfm allstars for Sunday show

dmg Radio Australia has announced Seal as the latest high profile artist to join the new radio stations, smoothfm 95.3 in Sydney and smoothfm 91.5 in Melbourne, from Sunday 27 May at 9am.
Currently one of the coaches on the hit series The Voice, Seal has endeared himself to contestants, as well as live and TV audiences, with his insightful mentoring. Seal’s musical background, including international hits "Crazy" and "Kiss From A Rose", and passion for music, make him the perfect complement to smoothfm’s distinctive and unique, soft easy listening format.

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Foxtel and Austar complete merger transaction

Foxtel and Austar have completed their merger transaction, creating a national subscription television service that will deliver innovative new digital products and content for all Australian consumers.
The new Foxtel will directly employ approximately 2,500 people, service 2.2 million subscriber households, and entertain over seven million viewers each week.

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Tablets now in 15% of homes

An estimated 15% of Australian households now own at least one tablet device, according to the latest Australian Multi-Screen Report covering the first quarter of calendar 2012.
New technologies are creating additional opportunities to view, keeping consumers engaged with broadcast television and enabling them to watch when and where they like.
The report also reinforces findings from the previous edition (Q4 2011): viewing via conventional TV sets remains strong and is rising due to the increasing use of Personal Video Recorders (PVRs), now in 47% of homes, coupled with digital terrestrial television (DTT) penetration approaching 100%.

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Spotify launches in Australia

Spotify, the leading digital music service, is available in Australia from today. We’re very happy to be here.
Spotify is a new way to listen to music, giving users instant, on-demand access to more than 16 million tracks on their computer, mobile phone, iPad and beyond, so they can enjoy music whenever and wherever they like.
Spotify offers three levels of service, from absolutely free to two subscription tiers.
The hugely popular free service is advertising-supported and in Australia, launch partners include Commonwealth Bank, CUB, Fairfax Media’s websites Daily Life and TheVine, McDonald’s, ninemsn and Virgin Mobile who will be launching innovative campaigns in partnership with Spotify in the coming weeks and months.

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