It does look like a cost-cutting exercise, so I doubt anyone new will come on-air until revenue catches up. As I’ve said before music is the key and there are still opportunities there they haven’t explored. Agree on the “Remember When” idea. Back to back “Lunchbreaks” doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.
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Maybe get Rob Duckworth to do a series of prerecorded classic hits specials similar to the old MyGen or Planet Rock shows.
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I know it’s a kinda oldies station, but they really do have to drop most or all of the 60’s music that seems to be the major focus of the station.
1960 was 60 years ago now, 60’s music should now be left to community radio, commercial should be moving forward with their playlists to be from 1970 at the earliest, forward.
Would you have heard on any commercial station in 1980, music from the 1920’s, I don’t think so, but maybe there was?
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Keep the 60s music is my vote, it was when rock n roll started (well maybe the 50s).
They just need to broaden the 60s music. I do agree play a little less. I think drop the decades , just call it classic hits and play modern music even.
Forget the decade focus and focus on what their target audience wants to hear and what they would think are the best songs of their youth
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vega’s 40 Years of Music?
Yeah agree @TVHead they have a feedback line (I did not write down the number). There was one interesting feedback I heard, “why don’t I hear ACDC?” 
. I think that they will be surprised how the audience of 2ch would be ok to hear more rocker or louder tunes. No need to compete with Smooth.
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I remember that “40 Years of Music” positioner. I think it made anyone listening to vega feel very old.
Maybe 2CH could take a leaf out of Magic Music in NZ.
You’re right there wasn’t any 1920s music on the radio in the 80s but here’s the thing - some eras of music last longer than others. For various reasons but at the end of the day it becomes more about the quality of the music than the era it came from.
For example 80s music (like 60s music) is going to be played for a very long time in my opinion.
Prediction - in 20 years time you’ll still be hearing more 80s music than you will 00s music.
Similarly 60s music seems to almost be ‘outliving’ 70s music in some ways. Not across the board of course and stations like 4KQ are playing a lot of 70s music too.
I just don’t think the decades follow a strict pattern of popularity when it comes to music - especially once you get beyond the 90s.
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The current 2CH format I think is similar to 2UW before it became MIX. I think she was in control of 2uw back then?
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2CBA (Hope 103.2) played music from the 1920s thru to the 1980s in the 1980s. It was a very boring station to listen to before it later modernized its format. But yeah, I can’t think of any other station that may have played 1920s music in the 1980s.
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Your favourite music is typically what you grew up with. Gary Jaeger (spelling?) 2UW would often say this. In my case it was the 60s with the Beatles, Beach Boys, Rolling Stones etc etc. In the 1970s I was working in radio in the US and this was also a favourite period for me but I absolutely hated the disco period. I do worry what will happen if and when 2GB relocates and 2CH is left homeless.
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Has pop and rock music really changed from say the late 90s to 2020’s? I think there is a plateau with real innovation. Sure there will be new catchy tunes and some great new songs but it is still pop and rock. Where before the 50s and 60s it did not exist, due to absence of the electric guitar & the synthesiser (more 70s/80s).
It was more big band/classical music before then. Music did evolve from the 60s/70s/80s but real innovation plateaued in the 90s in my view.
Its like listening to ABC Fine Music, the average listener might not be able to really tell the difference between a new piece of music from this century versas something from the 1600s. I might be a bit naive here. Classic Music lovers can put me in my place here.
So I feel this is the difference. Maybe if there is a new instrument invented which will suddenly create a new Beatles in 2050 which will change it all again. Or people will just watch computer games on youtube and not listen to music. Just listening to music is so early century for people who actually drove cars . A good example of this in the last 50 years was the good old fashion radio serial. Now there are audio books.
If you read the article carefully, it says that he won’t let go of filling the shoes of Bob Rogers. That means he is still going to do mornings.
Someone should attempt to do a log of 2CH music played during “Reminiscing with Bob Rogers” tomorrow night (or any Saturday they’re able to) - I’m sure some of the music during this show is from the 1950s or possibly even the 1940s!
Magic 693 when it began had music from the '40s, '50s and '60s.
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They still had this ‘nostalgia’ format at least as recently as the late 90s, according to a 1998 Melway I have. Magic had a ‘top hat’ logo back then.
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With the news that Nine is resurrecting the 2UE brand as a music station, I wonder how long it’ll be until a particular member of these forums again calls for 2CH to be relaunched as a Christian talk (or similarly niche formatted) station?!
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Already happened.
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