Barry is a Comedy Digital Radio

Digital radio in Australia

Digital radio in Australia uses the DAB+ standard and is currently available in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra and Darwin. The national government owned networks, the ABC and SBS, provide their current services and a few digital-only services on the new platform, while the...

 station broadcasting nationally in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. The station is owned by Austereo

Austereo Radio Network

Austereo Radio Network formerly operated commercial radio networks in metropolitan and regional areas of Australia. On 6 April 2011, Southern Cross Media purchased a majority of the company and is in the process of unifying the Austereo networks with Southern Cross's regional brands...

 and is the second permanent digital only station the company has launched, alongside Radar Radio

Radar (radio)

Radar Radio is an Australian national Digital Radio station. It is run by Austereo and was launched on 11 December 2008.-History:Radar started broadcasting online before Digital Radio launched in Australia on 11 December 2008...

. The station launched on 16 July 2010.

Pre Launch

The station aired a 5 minute loop on Digital Radio promoting the station was coming between 4 June to 16 June.

2 weeks prior to the station launch on 16 July 2010, the station ran a campaign to save the name Barry from extinction. Ads aired on all Today Network and Triple M Network FM stations pointing people to savebarry.com.au.

Programming

Exact programming has not been revealed, however Austereo has announced that it will be a comedy format.
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• The Peanut Gallery with Jeff Wortman & Paul Hogan (Triple M Melbourne)
• Running of the Bullsh*t with Pace & Santi (Triple M Sydney)
• Gotcha Calls with Matt Tilley
  Matt Tilley
  Matthew "Matt" "Old Mate" Vernon Thompson Tilley is an Australian radio presenter and comedian who has worked for Melbourne radio station FOX FM since 1990.-Biography:...
  
   (Fox FM Melbourne)
• The Sweetest Plum (Triple M Melbourne)
• Little Dum Dum Club
• Bad Blokes
• The Lunchtime Laugh
• Keith and The Girl
• Monday Night Football - (aest): Live from 6.30PM
• Stand-Up
• Song Parodies

Formerly Broadcast

• Paul & Rach (Triple M Sydney)
• The Heath & Normy Show
  The Heath & Normy Show
  The Heath & Normy Show is an Australian radio program that featured on Triple M Network in Sydney on Monday and Friday between 9:30pm and midnight and in Adelaide on Sunday evenings. It originally debuted in July 2009...
  
   (Triple M Sydney)
• Stefan & Craig (Triple M Brisbane)
• Neville from New Zealand

Availability

The station can be heard on DAB+ radios in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

, Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

, Brisbane

Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

, Adelaide

Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

 and Perth

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

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The station also streams online at the Barry website and on the Barry iPad app.