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This work comprehensively addresses all aspects of working in radio from announcing and presenting to producing, news and documentary, research, interviewing, programming, copywriting, audio production and writing comedy. There is a chapter on broadcast law and regulation, extensive detail on studio equipment, both analogue and digital, and a preview of where digital radio may take us. The contributors are leaders in their field with experience in commercial and community broadcasting and the ABC. They include Malcolm Long, consultant in broadcasting, communications and new media who was formerly managing director of SBS and deputy managing director of the ABC; Lucienne Joy, whose extensive on-air experience includes three years as European correspondent for the "Alan Jones Breakfast Show"; Tony Barrell, award-winning producer of radio documentaries and features for Triple J and Radio National; Kevin Best, multiple award-winning advertising copywriter and joint executive creative director of the Austereo Radio Network; and Kevin Brumpton, former writer and producer for the "John Laws Morning Show" and Doug Mulray's "Drive".