In WA, outside the Southwest, there are only 3 voices. In fact in Albany, the number of voices has dropped from 5 to 3. The Great Southern Weekender wound up and GWN7 and the Albany Advertiser newspaper are now under the same ownership.
Previous voices.
Radio - SCA Television - Prime Television - WIN Newspaper - Great Southern Weekender Newspaper - SevenWest
Current voices
Radio - SCA Television - SevenWest Television - WIN Newspaper - SevenWest
Of course I left out the JV Ten as it is owned by aforementioned companies.
NB: Gold MX left out as they are an S39 licence and don’t participate in audience surveys.
And does not include freebie newspapers; defined as less than half of the circulation being actually “sold”. (The Associated Newspaper Register quote of that definition leaves out a big “not” in that part of the definition… ).
So in the case of @Bergoine’s example, neither of the newspapers (Albany Advertiser is only two days a week) wouldn’t have counted as a point anyway - and is also probably why 7W didn’t face issues in acquiring GWN there, as it wouldn’t have been a trigger event for testing that 4 voices rule.
so looking at ace radio’s regional website: TR Fm (Traralgon, Latrobe valley and east Gippsland) Mixx FM ( Swan hill, Horsham, Hamilton, Colac and coast FM (Warrnambool) from Monday, Jan 16th :
**the Carrie & Tommy Drive show from 3 pm to 6 pm weeknights 2Day FM’sHughesy, Ed & Erin catch up show from 6-7pm , Weeknights Hot Nights with Abbie Chatfield from 7-9pm , weeknights
Jimmy and Nath from 9-11pm, Weeknights
expect the Hughesy, ed, and Erin catch-up show, it will all be live hit programming
Agree, look at how smooth and gold rate in drive. People flick to Spotify if there is too much talk. Then again thinking about it if ACE are taking SCA programs EDGE Wang would clash with Hit Border and GV. Deni will be interesting
We should all pray (or whatever floats your boat) for Josh Nelson, seems a nice bloke who will probably be terribly taken advantage of in his first radio job at Ace Deni.
I know we have a few people here who have survived, moved on and thrived beyond Ace Deni.
We can only wish the same for Josh, and the tip to keep emailing job applications as if you’re in need of a job (because you are Josh).
Gave both Edge drives a listen this arvo. Tyson 15:00 to 19:00 on Wangaratta. Sounded very local and AJ was on Deni till 18:00 also sounding very local. Music was 80s to now Music that makes you feel good. Not sure what’s on at night yet. Great to hear a regional station doing this in drive like old days and a music based local drive show
I just had a look at Lava, except for midday to 1pm, they don’t play any music older then 2010. The music looks very SCA Hit FM. Since Hit and Triple M booms into Deni and Wang, I would of thought they would of differ the music a bit.
I guess they have there am brands on 2QN & 3NE that are classic hits. You really appreciate the old FM 102.5 now days. Remember they would share breakfast announcers to drive
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