Agreement with 9 to simulcast Brisbane 6pm bulletin seems to have ended with River 949.
It leaves only 7 News simulcast via 965
9 News Bris and GC news remain simulcast on the Gold Coast on Christian community broadcaster, Juice 107.3.
It is a shame 9 haven’t found another partner to simulcast their Brisbane bulletin. The audio simulcast provides great brand leverage for 9 or anyone doing the same and with River’s fortuitous coverage area, very helpful to tune in.
That’s a shame. Hopefully someone will pick it up.
Though it mostly seems to be Christian broadcasters who do these simulcasts.
Though I usually found with the Nine News Sydney simulcast on Hope 103.2 that it would often be up to 15 seconds behind the TV. It was almost never in sync or close enough to listen to on the radio and watch on TV at the same time.
I acknowledge that they are probably targeting in car or train commuters, though it doesn’t help when reporters or presenters say things like “as you can see there”.
This is why I don’t think it works. Either run a decent radio news service or don’t bother. They’re different mediums and require different services. Simulcasting is lazy programming IMO.
I don’t really understand your point about it being delayed - in fact by there’s probably no way around a delay given that the feed has to get to the studio then back out over FM or AM, and account for the 8-second (or whatever the programmed delay is) on the radio-side.
Don’t think there’s many watching news on TV whilst trying to listen to it on radio…,
I do remember once when I listened that there was only maybe a second in it, which was workable.
I’m guessing in the case of Hope they were getting a direct audio feed from Nine (ie.not relying on the TV broadcast signal). As there is the usual “digital” delay with DTV which FM radio doesn’t have, meaning Hope has some “hope” of getting it in sync. Though that wouldn’t be possible on DAB radio.
I’ve also noticed some stations block out news services on their streaming service with an announcement something like “This streaming service is not available, due to either Olympic broadcast restrictions or technical difficulties. Check again in 5 minutes”. Weird to think there could be enough Olympic content in a 2-3 minute radio news service to violate broadcast restrictions.
Ws streaming Mix 104.9 from Darwin the other day, the streaming got blocked out for 5 mins from the top of the hour but the news ran about 3-4 min early, so olympic coverage still got through.
The company is currently looking for a new Regional Content Director for its Tasmanian operations to replace Allan Cameron, to be based out of 7HO in Hobart.
Finally! This has been a long time in the making, although I won’t believe it fully until I see it for myself in person or in photos.
Grant Broadcasters own the building and have been renovating it for at least the last 2 years (possibly longer - it feels like forever) and as a result the radio stations are moving to new offices and studios on a different floor.
Hang on, do you have info that’s what they’re doing?
My info is that everything is moving - what I was saying is that they have new offices and studios which are all on the new floor, with the existing floor to be refurbished and leased to someone else.