Tuesday 29 November, 2011
Steve Smith with Emirati partner in the business, General Manager, Mahmoud Al Rasheed
In 2008, Steve Smith gave up his job as general manager of the two ARN stations, Gold and Mix, in Melbourne to take up a new job with ARN in Dubai. But the ARN in the United Arab Emirates is a very different network to the one we have here. For a start, the ARN over there stands for Arabian Radio Network and has no links whatsoever to its Australian namesake. Steve has filed this report about how technology is driving listeners to his stations.
We are very much in an innovative phase at the moment at Arabian Radio Network with the launch of new stations and leading the way with Multi-Platform Initiatives that are being very well supported by the market. More of that later. First though, here’s a bit of background about the UAE and this region.
Read more at: https://www.radioinfo.com.au/news/australian-expat-drives-arn-dubai © Radioinfo.com.au