Cathy O'Connor

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Cathy O'Connor
NationalityAustralian
Occupationmedia executive

Cathy O'Connor is an Australian media executive. [1] [2]

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Career

Her radio career began in 1985, when she worked as a sales manager for Sydney radio stations 2GB and 2SM, before moving on to Austereo in the 1990s where she held a number executive positions including Agency Sales Manager, General Sales Manager and General Manager. [1]

Since 2006, O'Connor has served on the board at Commercial Radio Australia, of which she was chairperson from 2009 until 2012. [1]

She joined Nova Entertainment as Managing Director in January 2003, when the company was known as DMG Radio. [3] O'Connor was the Chief Executive Officer of NOVA Entertainment, between 2008 - 2020. [1]

In August 2020, it was announced that O'Connor would leave NOVA Entertainment to join oOh!media as Chief Executive Officer. [4]

When ABC Television program Media Watch exposed fake vox pops on Vega news bulletins, which were recorded at the radio station with staff instead of in public with everyday people, O'Connor, as managing director of DMG Radio, brushed the incident off. [5] O'Connor described it as "an isolated case of lazy journalism" and said there was a "clear distinction" between their fake vox pops and the fake listener interactions with bogus callers on rival station 2Day FM. [5] [6] Media Watch presenter Monica Attard disagreed. [5]

O'Connor is a governor at the Cerebral Palsy Foundation and in 2017 was appointed as a director at the Sony Foundation. [7] [8] In 2014, she took the Ice Bucket Challenge. [9]

Awards and honours

In 2015, Australian media and marketing magazine B&T named O'Connor as the 19th most powerful woman in Australian media. [10] [11] At the 2016 Australian Commercial Radio Awards, O'Connor was inducted into the Hall of Fame in recognition of her 31 years working in the industry. [1] [12]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 (8 October 2016) Nova Entertainment CEO Cathy O'Connor inducted into Radio Hall of Fame, Commercial Radio Australia. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  2. ↑ (6 July 2015) Women in Media: It's Nova Entertainment CEO Cathy O'Connor, B&T. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  3. ↑ (26 February 2014) DMG announces rebrand, radioinfo. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  4. ↑ (31 August 2020) Cathy O’Connor quits Nova, Peter Charlton named CEO, radiotoday. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 Attard, Monica (14 August 2006) Vega's staff speaks up, Media Watch, ABC Television. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  6. ↑ Attard, Monica (14 August 2006) 2Day's Kyle disaster, Media Watch,, ABC Television. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  7. ↑ Council of Governors: Cathy O'Connor, Cerebral Palsy Foundation. Accessed 15 November 2018.
  8. ↑ Our Board: Cathy O'Connor Archived 2017-10-24 at the Wayback Machine , Sony Foundation. Accessed 15 November 2018.
  9. ↑ (3 September 2014) Nova CEO gets a bucketing, radioinfo. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  10. ↑ Bastick, John (16 August 2015) The B&T women in media powerlist - the full 30 revealed, B&T. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  11. ↑ (16 August 2015) Cathy O'Connor one of the top women in media, radioinfo. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  12. ↑ (9 October 2018) Cathy O'Connor inducted into Commercial Radio Hall of Fame, radioinfo. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
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