An excellent 2000th comment for this topic @MarkHD
In that case, I’ll party like my post was 19 99.
25 years ago – a nice round number
Hard to believe it was now 25 years ago that we thought the Y2K bug was going to cause the world to end.
And my floppy somehow got infected with the Melissa virus in computer class. How time flies.
Scary, isn’t it?
Bob Hawke will have been out of office for 33 years this December. I heard the news on my late mother’s car radio as we were returning from an event to mark the 25th anniversary of the Sir Edgar and Lady Coles Kindergarten, which i attended as a little man from 1982 to 84. She had on 3LO which had that naff “Sounds of Summer” positioner at the time.
Ahh, that takes me back.
Always had Apples, never had a problem.
I’m loving the new Chili log. It’s easily the best AC regional playlist in the country.
So just for my own clarity.
Chilli, Sea and 7HO are one network in Tassie, 7SD, 7XS and LAFM are one log, and 7AD and 7BU are another…
Is that correct?
I must admit, don’t listen to 7HO much but now each morning they do a 20 song marathon, and the other day in the car, it was fantastic…
You’re correct about the Chilli/Sea/7HO being part of one network, with Chilli having its own log separate from the other two stations.
LAFM/7SD/7AD/7BU run on the “Classic Hits” log, whilst 7XS run on the AC log.
So, are there 4 separate logs in Tasmania?
- Chilli
- 7HO/Sea
- 7XS
- LAFM/7SD/7AD/7BU
Yes, that’s right.
That gives me hope that the ARN takeover of the SCA regional stations will mean more logs are available for local network stations to choose from.
It’s ridiculous that here, Triple M Newcastle and Central Coast are always playing the same music 24/7 - both are major population centres and deserve to have some diffentiation (as well as branding).
Don’t get your hopes up. Just look at the mess with WaveFM and 94.9 PowerFM sharing the same logs.
We’ll wait and see what happens.
However, IMO the Chilli log is much better than the 7HO/Sea and 7XS logs, so hopefully ARN will roll this one out to more regional markets.
Maybe they are using Chilli is a test market station for this format, and maybe later we will see this rolled out to other stations across ARN.
…question remains:
Is being live and local still important?
Even a cursory glance at the first Ipswich radio survey for three years would suggest the answer to that is a resounding YES.
I don’t think it’s just live and local though. River play better music than 97.3 and Triple M, and they don’t have talk heavy breakfast and drive shows.