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.

Well, we made it halfway through the year and that can't be a bad thing, a month here and a month there, during which there's been "Much Binding in the Marsh".

I'm indebted yet again to radio veteran/industry analyst, Brendan Sheedy, who draws my attention to another major watershed in the business... the final nail-in-the-coffin for AM radio?

Radio ratings, Doug Mulray, Mike Drayson, NSW election, NRL, and US gun control.

2LF Young, John O'Reilly, radio ratings, Australia Day, UFOs, the Olympics and television and movies.

Farewell to John Tingle and Bob Cooke; radio ratings; Kay Cottee; Anthony Albanese and climate change.

Radio ratings, Mike Walsh, Federal Election 2022, TV crime dramas and what happened to the drop kick?

Federal election, 2MG, Russia and China...

Alan Jones, Cameron Williams, Geoff Harvey, Ukraine, COVID, sport and television.

The year is ending badly with the death of a long-serving industry veteran and a former colleague, Glenn Daniel.

Bert Newton, latest Sydney survey, and AUKUS.

Brian Henderson, Ernie Sigley, Sydney survey, Tokyo Olympics, COVID, and a $250 hose.

Peter Sharp, Jonathan Coleman, Mike Bailey, Sydney radio ratings, COVID, the CSIRO, Hong Kong, the USA, and the Olympics.

Sydney radio, Bill Marsden, Five Things that Could Wipe out Life on our Planet, When Will We Open the Borders and Patrick White.

Coronavirus, John Brennan, Jim Graham, Sydney radio survey, television and Brexit.

Coronavirus, US election, radio ratings, Bob Hughes and Yowies.

Coronavirus continues to stalk us all with a second wave in Victoria having a devastating impact on the national economy. Donald Trump and Joe Biden are trying desperately to fight out a US Presidential election in the middle of all of this drama. Radio has just revved back into life with our first ratings in six months. It continues to be pretty average in TV land. This has been a pretty special football season in the UK.

2GB is front and centre on our radio dial this month with the shock resignation of the News Talk superstar Alan Jones.

PM Morrison is right about that. I went through WW2 and the Coronavirus is worse than that.

We've just lost another big name in radio with the death of Grant Goldman, aged 69.