I’m not talking about one station, but multiple. have a HOR station, a senate station, a (for example) Qld Legislative Assembly station. Let the user pick
if they don’t than they don’t need to broadcast that.
According to the ABC frequency finder, Wilcannia gets ABC Broken Hill but Menindee gets ABC Western Plains. I thought it would make more sense for both to be on the latter with the time zone and NRL coverage
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I guess that leaves you with one of not two unused AM allocations in the capitals cities. What do you do with them? Just turn them off?
Really DAB should have been the thing to avoid the need for shifting Local Radio to FM, but clearly that hasn’t happened and isn’t going to, not nearly enough to be effective in a disaster (plus DAB radios consume a lot more power than analogue ones).
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Personally, I’d do a radio 2 clone for DAB and put it on AM as well to use the frequency
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Makes me think back to the times when the ABC TV network was expanding into rural areas. The ABQ / ABN / AB*V etc format only allowed for a maximum of 26 unique call letters. So in Queensland we started to get 5-letter call signs like ABCAQ, ABCLQ, ABCTQ
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Newsradio should become like BBC 5live. Live news, live talk, live sport.
Free up local radio for local / national content.
You’d just have to split for afl / nrl content on the new live station.
No, you leave them running and well resourced and maintained to ensure maximum coverage.
Or you convert the AM high power allocations to DRM+ and show Australia what digital radio should be about rather than a sardine fest of low bit rate stations.
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I don’t understand why ABC TV stations need to have a callsign that starts with “AB”, really. They could have just had “A”. So, using Queensland as an example, the Brisbane station is ABQ, but the regionals could be ACQ, ADQ, AFQ etc etc. and use them up before moving to four letters.
Then again, why do TV callsigns only have 3 letters, one of which is dictated by the licence area. Four letters would have been better and then they’d all have been uniform.
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If you look at the coverage area, for example, of 3LO’s AM signal and then compare to the DAB+, you can see why DAB is unsuitable.
Driving west from Melbourne, I can get well past Ballarat before 774 drops out. I can barely get past Melton on DAB.
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If anyone has captures of ABC Sydney from this morning, the full AM theme played at 8am due to technical issues.
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