ARN is a group of commercial radio stations around Australia. It includes the Pure Gold, KIIS Network,

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, ARN Regional and iHeartRadio brands. The company operates the ARN News service in Australia, which uses international correspondents and source news stories from AAP in Australia, CNN from the United States and Sky News and IRN from the United Kingdom. ARN has newsrooms in Sydney, Melbourne,

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and

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. Originally ARN was a joint venture of Australian media conglomerate APN News & Media and United States radio company

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(formerly Clear Channel Communications). On 19 February 2014, it was reported that APN News & Media had agreed to purchase Clear Channel's 50% stake in the ARN. As a result, ARN is now fully owned by Here, There & Everywhere (formerly APN News & Media). The company continues to operate the Australian version of iHeartRadio. Until 2014, ARN also included New Zealand radio networks Newstalk ZB, Classic Hits FM, ZM, Radio Sport, Radio Hauraki, Easy Mix, Flava and

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under umbrella company The Radio Network. These are now part of the New Zealand Media and Entertainment. In August 2021, the company removed the words 'Australian Radio Network' from its name, now being known as simply ARN. Three months later, in November 2021, Here, There & Everywhere, ARN's parent company, purchased Grant Broadcasters, who intend to integrate it with its Australian Radio Network business by January 2022. The deal was finalized on January 4, 2022.Grant Broadcasters sale completed
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Assets

ARN operates 58 radio stations, targeting the 25-to-54-year-old demographic. These stations include *the top 40 (CHR),

adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quie ...

, and

active rock Active rock is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations across the United States and Canada. Active rock stations play a balance of new hard rock songs with valued classic rock favorites, normally with an emphasis on the harder edge o ...

-formatted KIIS Network *the

classic hits Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s serving as the core of the format. Music that was popularized by MTV in the early 198 ...

and

oldies Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock) from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as w ...

-formatted Pure Gold Network *the rhythmic top 40 and urban contemporary-formatted

*joint venture stations Mix 106.3 and hit104.7 in Canberra with Southern Cross Austereo *other radio stations via

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digital radio and iHeartRadio *46 radio stations acquired from Grant Broadcasters

KIIS Network

A vibrant network alive with influential personalities who energise, engage and excite, immersing audiences in the best music their city has to offer.

Pure Gold Network

An iconic network making audiences feel young, positive and full of life, immersing listeners with the Pure Gold hits they know and love.

Assets

KIIS Network

Pure Gold Network

Other stations

Digital radio

Former stations

See also

References

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