It’s still 0.3 away though. Juice FM on the Gold Coast seems to cope on 107.3 while being only 0.4 away from Nova 106.9 and triple J on 107.7
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BayFM can be heard basically across Brisbane (can listen to it in Jindalee)
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Bay FM is relatively high power of 3kw and can be heard on the northern Gold Coast.
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Yep, it along with 101 Logan are the strongest in the western suburbs.
And I’ll agree to disagree on Sunshine FM too - it gets slammed by ABC Warwick so much so that it is unlistenable anywhere south or west of the CBD. The weakest of the Sunny Coast stations out our side of town by a long way. But I acknowledge we’re not even close to the listening area.
Likewise the Gold Coast FMs that share frequencies with high powered Toowoomba ABCs can barely be heard north of Pimpama without interference. That is in their listening area.
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You wouldn’t want 100.3 as a Brisbane wide license, 88.5, 94.1 or even 101.3 would be better suited, as they would be in the same stack as the other Brisbane FM stations.
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Agree, though any of those is going to require a shuffling of other stations to make that possible.
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Yes, to me there are two obvious frequencies for a Brisbane-wide FM licence - 94.1 and 99.7
You can’t tell me they couldn’t move the GC community station off 94.1 and find somewhere in between 2 other Brisbane frequencies, like they have with Juice on 107.3
Same with 99.7. A sub-metro community station should never have been put on one of the primary Brisbane frequencies.
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How is moving a station located over 1000km away going to help a spectrum situation in South East Queensland? It’s like me suggesting that 2HHH Hornsby moves frequencies so that the ABC can have 7ZR Hobart convert to FM.
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What is 100.9 in the SEQ region anyway?
Only thing I could think of is ZZZ 100.9FM Nth NSW which can be faintly heard on the southern GC
100.9 is RN Wide Bay - very strong signal, can be heard in Brisbane. It is also unsuitable for use because of the adjacent 101.1 Logan.
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That makes sense.
Contemplating spending my new year’s eve tomorrow hypothetically restacking SEQ FMs 
The joys of MediaSpy nerding
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Do it !! Then send it to the ACMA 
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Is it possible for you all to move your discussion to this thread please: FM Spectrum Replan - General Discussion
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According to the ACMA’s FYSO 2025-30 6-month progress report that has been released in the past few days, the variation of the Hamilton LAP is likely to be consulted in Q1 2026, ie. before the end of March. This would involve the proposal of 3HA converting its main AM service to FM.
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Why is Deniliquin considered a competitive licence area? Aren’t 2QN and Edge Fm (2MOR) both owned by Ace Radio Network?
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You’re talking about ACMA. No one knows why the do things they way they do.
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They consider markets with heavy overlap, nearly everything near the Vic border overlaps with the Shepparton license area - and large amounts overlap with Bendigo as well.
Mainly Echuca which is in all 3 markets, and alone nearly a third of the population of the entire radio market.
See the overlaps here:
https://www.acma.gov.au/section-30-schedule-licence-area
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ACMA addresses this in their consultation documents:
In September 2022, we expanded the AM–FM conversion program to include competitive regional radio licence areas. Deniliquin falls within the expanded conversion program, being listed as a solus licence area with a commercial AM service with greater than 30% population overlap, in Table 2 of the AM–FM conversion principles.
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And here we are in February 2026 with no actual result. Or did I miss something?
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ACMA publishes a list of completed LAP changes - but doesn’t separate out solus or competitive area:
https://www.acma.gov.au/am-fm-conversions-regional-licence-areas#current-conversion-program
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