This is really sad, rectal cancer doesn’t have good survival odds.
Both great broadcasters.
5MU/Power has batted above its average for many years now with their presence and the team around them. Almost as good as the early/mid 90’s, it is a treasure of a duo to listen to.
They have always done well despite what’s probably quite a low budget and strong competition from the big metro stations
Any word on who is/are the new 98.1 PowerFM breakfast team?
Andrew Harrison and a young lady named Dana
An internal recruit?
Also, who is the new CD there with Stolzy now gone?
Emma Murphy is transferring to program a station for them in NSW.
Farewell video on Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-murphy-867978a2/?originalSubdomain=au
It appears 94.9 Power fm has switched logs again. They are once again taking the same log as Wave fm.
This is ridiculous considering the good fortuitous coverage Power fm has in Wollongong and further reduces music variety in the market. Is Grant worried Power fm could be taking too many of Waves listeners?
The Krock log was quite good I don’t know why they would have dropped it.
This also creates further music overlap between 2ST and Power Fm.
Also, looking at Lava, it appears that Hot Tomato is now sharing the same log as that of Wave FM & Hot 91 (who the latter were on their own log earlier this year, but are now on the same log as some of the others).
That means in parts of Brisbane, you now get the same songs played whether you’re tuning to Hot Tomato or Hot 91.
Maybe the plan is to streamline the logs, maybe Krock will end up on the Wave fm log and play some rock songs again.
I still think having the same log on Wave and Power in the Wollongong / Nowra market is a bad idea, but they are in different markets and not competing with each other. However I am sure people still listen to it as a third station from time to time, now there is no point.
I really enjoyed the old Power Fm log and it was my pick of all the receivable CHR / Hot AC stations.
Looking through various websites of Grant stations, it’s worth noting that Marnie, who does breakfast on River 949 with Campo, does morning on Zinc 96, presumably voicetracked from Ipswich. Same for Hinksy, who does afternoons on River and drive on Zinc, which has been mentioned before on this thread.
Its Sunshine Coast sister station, Hot 91, will be far more local when Nugget & Al start their new drive program up against the other local drive shows on Sea FM & Mix FM from next Tuesday (6th October).
Meanwhile, it’s worth noting that River 949 does the “The 3pm Shut Up”, in which they advertise on their website that:
While all the other stations [in Brisbane & Toowoomba] just talk ALL afternoon from Sydney and Melbourne, River 94.9 stays live and local and plays the best music mix non stop for almost 60 minutes!
I think that’s quite a clever way to illustrate the point that River is the most local of the commercial FM stations in SEQ. 
I’d say the Marnie on Zinc arrangement will only be temporary until Zinc can find a permanent breakfast show with Bilko returning to workdays.
Looking at their Song History pages, as of this morning, 94.9 Power FM are taking a different log to that of Wave FM, but is still basically the same format as the latter. They are now taking the 7HO log, which is different from the log taken by most of their other Hot AC stations.
Meanwhile, River 94.9 & Bay 93.9 are now carrying the same log, which is also being heard on 2ST, as well as on 3BA, LAFM, 7SD, 7XS & Mix 104.9. 7AD, 7BU & 5RM are now carrying the “Classic Hits” log that seems to originate out of Zinc.
Along with all the others that are already taking the log, K Rock are now taking the same log as heard on Wave FM. Power FM Ballarat, Magic FM SA, Power FM Murray Bridge, Chilli Launceston/NE Tasmania, Sea FM NW Tasmania & Hot 100FM Darwin are now also taking that same log.
so what log is power fm here ballarat taking wave fm or krock?
Wave FM & K Rock are now sharing the same log to one another.
so Power FM Ballarat is taking the wave FM log?
Yes.
Why are they skewing their hit music stations so old??
94.9 Power fm’s previous log offered more of a point of difference between Wave and i98 now there is three stations with almost the exact playlists in the Illawarra.
IMO a log similar to Eagle / Snow fm would be the way to go for Grant’s Hit music stations, lots of new music, and quite a bit of new Australian music which Capital Radio includes in these stations logs.
I think this is the trend for most CHR/Hot AC stations in this country today, no doubt inspired by Hit’s recent move to skew older in their format.
Agree but it’s also a worldwide trend, particularly North America. Not many CHR stations doing well in the ratings. In most major markets like Chicago and LA you’ve got the top 3 or 4 stations being AC or classic hits/rock.
I was in Toowoomba on a typically stormy December afternoon some years ago where the storms build up intensity over the hot air of the Darling Downs and rise with the altitude for the clouds to explode on the Great Dividing Range over Toowoomba.
River was running the same liner then, Drew has it easy, onto a good thing and sticks with it.
During this 3pm hour, the liner was played over and over, yet nothing for the severe storm warning for Toowoomba, Lockyer Valley, Somerset and Ipswich Council areas which the warning stated was for immediate broadcast.
It wasn’t mentioned on 3 or 4pm news on River which was then (and hopefully still is) edited and read from Ipswich.
Certainly wasn’t mentioned on the four Toowoomba commercial stations which by 3pm are piping in irrelevant dross from Newcastle, Sydney or Melbourne. Nor the Toowoomba based ABC regional drive program which covers multiple markets well beyond the severe weather warning.
Thankfully, the wide coverage of 612 ABC Brisbane booms into Toowoomba and it made the 4pm bulletin as well as in programs of Steve Austin’s drive show.
After the demise of CHR on AM in the 80’s, you must all remember the almost 15 year wasteland that was metro FM radio with old skewing formats in prime time and current/emerging music only at night via a ‘countdown’.
Hence the rise of 961 on the Sydney fringe and the youth aspirants in the community licence beauty parade that lopped off share from Austereo in all metro markets that there were TCBLs. None beside Fresh in Adel and Radio Metro on the Gold Coast were successful for a permanent licence due to pressure on the ABA and pollies from Canberra by licensees and that was because there were no better organised aspirants with less commercial formats.
Long term, it was only DMG’s wow factor entry to the market with Nova ‘sounds different’ concept between April 01 - April 05 across the metros that forced long term action. And Austereo buggered it up in Brisbane with another lurch towards oldies with the laughable position by Rex Morris of “hits and songs we’ve brought in from home”.