Thursday, August 25 2016

ARN APPOINTS NEW SYDNEY AGENCY SALES DIRECTOR

Australian Radio Network today announces the appointment of Angus Leech to the role of Sydney Agency Sales Director.This appointment is an internal promotion for Angus, who joined ARN as Group Sales Manager in 2014. Angus will lead the Sydney Agency Sales team to build upon ARN’s already strong client relationships while further driving the company’s customer focus and insight led offering.Of his appointment Angus said: “I am excited to be leading ARN’s Sydney agency team, working with great brands and people. Our ambition is to build upon the strong base in place and set the benchmark for all agency sales teams around Australia.”ARN’s National Agency Sales Director Matthew Granger said: “I am delighted to appoint Angus to the Sydney Agency Sales Director position. Angus’s media and leadership experience, and passion to deliver market leading insight led solutions, places ARN in a strong position in the Sydney market to continue to evolve our offering for our customers.”Before joining ARN two years ago, Angus led the National Sales team at Living Social and has worked across various sales leadership roles within a number of News Limited business.He holds a Bachelor of Management, a Master in Marketing as well as a Master in Business Administration.Angus’ appointment to the role is effective immediately.

***ABOUT ARNARN is one of the leading broadcasters in the country with ownership or investments in 12 radio stations nationwide. Its brands, KIIS, Pure Gold, iHeartRadio and The Edge96.ONE entertain and influence over four million listeners on-air across Australia each week, a digital audience of 2.7 million and a social footprint of 4 million.

In 2014 KIIS 1065 was launched with Kyle & Jackie O in Sydney and immediately went to #1FM. In 2015 the KIIS Network launched nationally with KIIS 101.1 and now incorporates the Sydney and Melbourne stations, Adelaide Mix102.3, Brisbane’s 97.3 and Perth’s 96FM, with all featuring Dave ‘Hughesy’ Hughes and Kate Langbroek in national Drive. The KIIS Network was the leading FM Network across 2015 and continues this success into 2016.

In 2014 the rebranded Pure Gold network was also launched and it now incorporates Sydney’s WSFM 101.7 with Jonesy & Amanda in Sydney, Melbourne’s GOLD104.3 with Jo & Lehmo, Brisbane’s 4KQ and Adelaide’s Cruise 1323.

ARN also launched iHeartRadio, the world’s fastest growing digital service, to the Australian market in 2013 and the platform has had over 800,000 downloads. iHeartRadio is a free, all-in-one digital radio service and live events platform that lets audiences listen to their favourite live stations across Australia, New Zealand and the USA. Listeners can also create commercial-free custom stations and find the best audio casts to create personalised daily custom talk stations.

ARN is an APN News & Media Company.