I would add the Darwin stations and the Canberra joint venture to that as well. At least with those included, you could have a truly national networks.
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Tas-ites - has ARN killed off 7HO River?
Getting nothing but dead air on their iHeart stream currently, and there’s no song info in Lava since the 2nd of April.
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You’re right, the direct stream URL is silent (apart from a goddamn pre-roll ad).
It’s possible that ARN haven’t noticed that the station has accidentally fallen off, à la SRN and their Sydney DAB+ stations. If it was deliberate, the station listing would’ve been removed from iHeart?
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Its Hobartian, or Taswegian thanks…..Tasites sounds like something you get from the fish and chip shop with a Chiko roll.
7HO River is dead air, IHeart Country is very low level, 7HO and 7HO Classic hits normal. Forgot about CADA…
Current DAB in Hobart is:
The full suite of ABC and SBS Services.
From ARN:
7HO River, 7HO Classic Hits, 7HO, CADA, and IHeart Country.
Community Services:
7RPH, Ultra 106.5, Hobart FM and Edge Radio.
SCA:
Festival Bangers, Fit Hits, Girl Power, Goodvibes, Guilty Pleasures, Heart 60’s, Hit100.9, Homegrown, MMM 70’s, Noughties, Party, Roadtrip, Stress free, Top 30, Tradie radio, Trending Now, Triple M Hobart, and Yacht Rock.
Some of those SCA stations just sound abysmal….
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Wow. DAB+ in Tasmania sounds so much better as opposed to the 3x major network variations of dance, 80s and classic hits we get around the rest of the country.
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Hobart’s the DAB dumping ground to reduce the fees radio stations pay to APRA…
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There are no specialty Dance stations in Hobart. Sydney and Melbourne have 3 each. Not sure why you think they are so terrible? In regards to 80s, they are very popular and along with the 90s, are 2 of the most popular decades for music.
For a regional city, it is a good line up though. Surprised that SCA have 18 stations, at 32kbps each, that would be 576kbs assuming all are EEP-3A.
ARN is a bit light though, compared to their offering on the Gold Coast.
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94.9 Power FM having a few issues this afternoon, the traffic report for 4PM was missed (intro still played), minutes later a voice track from the hour before played which was followed by two full commercial breaks and then the news at 4:50pm.
More commercial breaks airing now at 4:56pm. Last song was heard around 4:45pm…
EDIT: Still going at 5:06… Another repeat VT airing following another commercial break…
5:07pm: News playing again with commercials overlapping,
Note that Power & 2ST hasn’t had any Now Playing data for this hour (according to Lava)
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Surprised they do traffic reports in that market?
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Graham McGillivray has been appointed as the new General Manager of 2ST & 94.9 Power FM in Nowra.
Source: Radioinfo
A shame because now ex-SRN Group GM Gavin Flanagan could’ve applied for his previous job in that time.