Compiled by Tess Connery
SCA and Cricket Australia announce new, seven-year broadcast and digital audio rights agreement for Triple M and LiSTNR
Triple M and Cricket Australia have announced a new multi-year agreement that will see the network retain the cricket’s exclusive FM metro broadcast rights, together with digital audio metro DAB+ rights to be broadcast via radio and podcasts for the next seven seasons.
David Warner
Under the agreement, SCA’s Triple M and LiSTNR will broadcast all the Australian men’s internationals games played in Australia, including Tests, One Day Internationals and T20 internationals, and this summer will, for the first time, add the three Australian women’s T20 international games against England to its coverage.
Additional cricket content will also be available via LiSTNR podcasts.
Tony Armstrong returns to share the greatest sports stories for the new season of The Pool Room
ARN’s iHeart has announced the return of the 2023 Best Australian Sports Podcast, The Pool Room with Tony Armstrong for a third season.
With the world’s attention will on the biggest sporting event of the calendar, the podcast tells some of the most notorious and unbelievable stories from the games from years gone by.
Who is the Australian Olympic champion and fallen soldier honoured with a statue in a small town in the north of France? What is the story with the over 200 medals the USA won at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, are they all theirs to claim? As well as the rise of the Green and Gold – how our greatest failure on the world stage gave rise to a new generation of athletes and put Australia on the path to Olympic glory.
[Listen to The Pool Room with Tony Armstrong here]
BBC podcasts to tell the story of the Legend of Takhti
In new seasons of the podcasts, Amazing Sport Stories and Mostanad, the BBC World Service brings Legend of Takhti in English and Persian. A collaboration between BBC World Service English and BBC News Persian, these podcasts tell the story of Iran’s iconic wrestler Gholamreza Takhti whose sudden death in 1968 shook the nation.
Legend of Takhti / Ostureh Takhti is a personal journey for presenter Rana Rahimpour, as she tells the story of the first Iranian wrestler to win a medal at an international competition, an Olympic and world champion seen as an embodiment of the spirit of Iran. He was well loved, even by those who fought against him. Then, in January 1968, Takhti was found dead in a Tehran hotel room.
Rahimpour takes a deep dive into the complicated relationship between Iran and its heroes – and explores the way that legends, myths and rumours can eclipse the personalities at the heart of a story. Looking at how she feels connected to Takhti’s story, Rahimpour says: “There was this man I felt I knew all my life, yet I realised I knew so little about him. I felt an urge to uncover the truth and answer the question: who was Gholamreza Takhti?”
Amazing Sport Stories: Legend of Takhti will be available on BBC Sounds from Monday 19 August, and from Monday 26 August on most other podcast platforms.
Podcasters shine in ACRA nominations
The stars who will be battling it out for a win at the 35th Australian Commercial Radio & Audio (ACRA) Awards have been revealed.
The 2024 ACRA Awards are organised by Commercial Radio & Audio (CRA) and will be held at The Star in Sydney on Saturday 12 October.
Podcasting ACRA finalists:
Podcast host/s of the year
Amanda Keller; Double A Chattery, Sydney, NSW, ARN
Amelia Oberhardt; Secrets We Keep: Shame, Lies and Family, Brisbane, QLD, SCA
Ant Middleton; Head Game, Nova Podcasts, Sydney, NSW, NOVA Entertainment
Brittany Hockley & Laura Byrne; Life Uncut, ARN / iHeart, Sydney, NSW, ARN
Christian McEwan; The Dragons Den i98FM, NSW, WIN Network
Hamish Blake & Andy Lee; The Hamish & Andy Podcast; LiSTNR, Melbourne, VIC, SCA
Best podcast by a radio show
Elly & Taz; Sunshine Coast, QLD, Great Southern Land Media
The Kyle & Jackie O Show, KIIS 1065, Sydney, NSW, ARN
Neil Mitchell Asks Why?; 9Podcasts, Melbourne, VIC, Nine Radio
The Reporter: True Stories; 6PR Mornings, 6PR, Perth, WA, Nine Radio
Triple M’s Marty Sheargold Show; Triple M 105.1, Melbourne, VIC, SCA
Podcast of the year
Crime Insiders; Jennifer Goggin, Holly Mitchell, Ed Gooden, Linc Kelly, LiSTNR, NSW, SCA
The Hamish & Andy Podcast; Hamish Blake, Andy Lee, LiSTNR, VIC, SCA
Hannah’s Story; 9Podcasts, Queensland, VIC, Nine Radio
It’s A Lot Podcast with Abbie Chatfield; Abbie Chatfield, Lem Zakharia, Oscar Gordon, Amy Code, Julia Toomey, LiSTNR, NSW, SCA
Secrets We Keep: Shame, Lies and Family; Amelia Oberhardt, Ellen Leabeater, Jake Morcom, Nial Fernandes, LiSTNR, QLD, SCA
Best new talent – podcast
Brittney Saunders, Nova Podcasts, Sydney, NSW, NOVA Entertainment
Eliza and Liberty Paschke, 9Podcasts, Melbourne, VIC, Nine Radio
Joey Watson; LiSTNR, Sydney, NSW, SCA
Tony Armstrong, iHeart, Melbourne, VIC, ARN
[See the full list of nominees here]
J.Mo’s Mental As Anyone: Sarah Murdoch, Michael Clarke, and A-listers launch new podcast series
Although the podcast Mental As Anyone with J.Mo has been live online for several weeks now, host Jonathon Moran officially launched the series this week.
The packed launch event was held at one of Sydney’s most exclusive, and hard-to-find, locations – The Substation at Oxford Street’s Taylor Square precinct. The small room certainly qualifies as a substation. Guests have to navigate a narrow set of stairs that take them below street level. The entrance to the room sits between the Darlinghurst Courthouse, which is home to the Supreme Court of NSW, and the recently opened Qtopia – the home of queer history and culture.
