An interviewee described a woman who would “shame you, stonewall you and you wouldn’t know why she would ignore you. I can think of three friends/colleagues who have been suicidal because of her.”

Another said the chase for ratings trumped everything else. “The goal is just eyes on screen ... at any cost.” Others said employees were warned against going to HR, and their managers covered up poor behaviour.

“[My supervisor] said to me ‘don’t let him touch your boobs’,” one said. “Women were constantly in tears about their interactions with [Individual]. Younger women were scared to speak up.” One interviewee referred to the broadcast division as a “cowboy operation”.

Intersection did not hand any names to the company, and redacted identifying details from quotes. However, several staff members told this masthead on the condition of anonymity that most people knew who the offenders were.

Staff had expected perpetrators to face justice after the review, and many are furious that they haven’t.

Chief executive Matt Stanton’s request that staff use a different process to report individuals – “It’ll be investigated and actions will be taken,” he said on Thursday – came as a surprise to some, who thought their interview with Intersection was the only report they would need to make.

Some also worry that the managers known for using bullying tactics would identify their victims from the quotes used in the report. “It was an awful, disappointing day … there were people who left the meeting in tears,” one broadcast employee said.

“Participants in the interviews were sold fake news that repeat offenders will be held to account. Now we have to rely on the very people who’ve let us down to institute the changes. Are they kidding? There is total and utter dejection with the company.”

Another said that broadcast employees would insist on action. “There’s a bunch of very strong, confident employees who have been here for a long time, whose job is to hold people to account, and that’s what we are going to do.”

Radio announcer Ray Hadley, from 2GB (which is owned by Nine), said he believed he knew the identity of some of the perpetrators. “Some are no longer in the business, but unfortunately some are still in the business,” he said. “How they’re still in the business I’m not quite sure.”

The company’s radio division had the highest rates of abuse of power, according to an employee survey. Hadley called for an end to cover-ups and invited people to raise complaints with him. “Don’t be intimidated,” he said. “I won’t bite your head off … the door’s always open.”

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Melbourne 3AW Mornings host Tom Elliott criticised Nine’s decision not to identify or act against alleged perpetrators. “I mean, there’s not much point in having a report to say some terrible behaviour has happened unless you actually point out who did the bad behaviour.

“Now, I know several people who made submissions to this report who are upset that no perpetrator has been named. I’m not going to name these people, but they are upset because no individual perpetrator has been named. Now, to its credit, Nine as a business has apologised for what has gone on in the past over many years and has promised to fix the culture.”

This masthead spoke to former senior executives at Nine, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because their involvement in the company was historic and accused present management of inflaming the scandal by failing to take immediate action against perpetrators.

They also said that so-called “talent”, or high-profile, highly paid presenters, were part of the problem as they had long been allowed to throw their weight around. However, the employees who spoke to Intersection told this masthead that managers were the problem, and senior female presenters were supportive of junior staff.

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