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Austereo

Australian mass media company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 6, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Austereo was an Australian mass media company based in Melbourne. It was founded in 1980 by Paul Thompson, and operated 16 radio stations in metropolitan and regional Australia under the Today Network and Triple M brands. In 2011, the company's majority shareholder Village Roadshow sold its shareholding to Southern Cross Media Group, which began trading as Southern Cross Austereo from 21 July.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Austereo” as australian mass media company. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Austereo, Australian and mass.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Austereo, Australian and mass providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Austereo”, the useful work is to connect “australian mass media company” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 6, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1980 and 2011.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Austereo”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Austereo primary sources, Austereo archive and Austereo research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
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This entry incorporates text from “Austereo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.