We go into Xmas facing the most difficult decision the nation has had to make since John Curtin brought the troops back home over 70 years.

Obviously, it had to happen sooner or later but that didn't stop the shock waves echoing through the industry when the newsflash arrived telling us that John Laws was dead.

You can't trust those old timers: just when you think they're dead and buried you find out that they've actually been hiding behind a rock waiting to pounce.

The FM'rs are ganging up on 2GB with the News-Talk giant still trailing Easy Listening's Smooth FM overall as well as in the critical morning spot in the Sydney radio market.

Forget all of those predictions of 2025 being a quiet year in RadioLand with the AM King, 2GB, holding off the FM challenge.

2GB is a bit like an aircraft carrier... Once she picks up a head of steam she's a bit hard to stop

2025 is heading for another monumental stoush between AM and FM in the Sydney radio market, with the old soldier, 2GB, still firing off a few shots to retain the number one spot overall.

So here we go into 2025 – and a new radio year – with 2GB entering another era for the first time minus their two superstars, Alan Jones and Ray Hadley.

We go into another radio year with a monumental change: for the first time in over half a century there's no John Laws or Ray Hadley on air, both having retired from the business.

Now we've just lost another major radio star to retirement. Is it something in the water here in Sydney?

We're listening to the end people... With the last of the giants, John Laws, confirming that he is leaving the building to go into retirement. The 89 year old veteran expects to leave 2SM in early November, ending 71 years in radio.

...number one overall and on top in breakfast where Ben Fordham has had a handy little 15.6 to put him clear of KIIS and Kyle and Jacki O.

Ron E Sparks, David Morrow, radio ratings, honouring our sporting heros, television crime dramas, and James Bracey.

Bob Rogers, John Blackman, Sydney radio survey, Order of Australia Medal, and the decline of cash.

Sydney radio survey, US TV news, my long campaign to restore rural Australia, The Olympic Games, my Top Ten Movies and Kay Cottee.

The new year started with one of the most astonishing moments of my life when Your Reporter was awarded an OAM, an Order of Australia Medal, for services to the broadcasting industry.

This month let us salute one of the most unheralded figures in Provincial radio history – especially in the 40s, 50s and 60s – the Chief Announcer.

Told ya! That the Sydney radio ratings were heading for a "last man standing" finale in '23: "it's every man for himself" with one survey left before the summer break.

Radio's "Duel In the Sun" – the battle between AM's heavyweight 2GB and FM challenger KIIS FM – is going into the final round with the title still up for grabs.

Sydney radio survey, Mike Webb, Yes What, the ABC, Donald Trump and The Open.