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Radio News
ARCN services on a daily basis more than 110 radio stations across Australia, 55 of which are major country commercial stations in NSW, Victoria and Queensland. The balance are mainly country community stations.
We broadcast over three satellite systems, and are on air up to five times a day over some networks.
ARCN has developed a close working relationship with ComRadSat, the satellite organisation which services the rapidly growing community radio segment in Australia.
Origins
ARCN was founded in the early 1970s as Le Gras News, a specialist wool news service, sponsored by the now disbanded National Council of Wool Selling Brokers of Australia. The service was extensively used by the ABC, Macquarie Radio Network, Reuters and other major news media.
In its early years, the parent company operated rural and suburban newspapers and magazines, as well as radio services. It has made films, and radio programs.
Company founder, Dr Chris Le Gras, was a senior journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Financial Review. He is a widely known as social scientist for his work in Australia and overseas on interpersonal and mass communication, innovation and policy marketing.
Dr Le Gras has lectured at Macquarie University in mass communication at under-graduate and post-graduate levels, and at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management in corporate communications. He is a winner of Macquarie's H E Beaver Memorial Award for mass communication theory, and of the Advertising Institute of Australia's Maynard Shield.
Dr Chris Le Gras remains as a consultant to ARCN, sharing his wealth of knowledge and insights into the rural sector.
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