I’d also extend it to Wave FM in Wollongong, which should go towards either the original Smooth format or a harder Classic Hits station, to provide a point-of-difference to i98, Power FM Nowra & the Sydney stations. It would also make the station rate a bit more closer to i98 than they were in the 2019 ratings survey.
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Spot on observations and great formats. They live in a fantasy world where Geelong people only listen to their subpar stations.
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K Rock used to be a great modern/classic rock station with some top 40 thrown in. Hence the name K Rock. Back in the early 90s it was owned by Hoyts who also owned Triple M, K Rock used to relay Triple M from midnight until dawn. Then around 12-13 years ago they went CHR but kept the name.
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Agreed. K Rock in the 90s and early 2000s was awesome - playing mainly Classic Rock but more adventurous than Triple M. It was great for summer tourists wanting a slightly different sound to Melbourne radio. The move to CHR was a big mistake in my opinion as it sounds very similar to Fox and Nova.
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Frankie Logan has been promoted to the position of Commercial Digital Manager for the Regional Radio Group, Grant Broadcasters.
https://radioinfo.com.au/news/grant-broadcasters-appoint-commercial-digital-manager
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Lauren Broad has been announced as the newest member of the Digital Commercial Team, where she will work closely with all departments within the digital team, as well as directly with stations & external digital clients. She has previously spent a number of years working as Content Research Analyst at SCA.
She starts on her new role on Tuesday 27th April.
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How much local content is on the two Queenstown stations if there are only three staff?
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Alison is telling porkies again.
Why were journos made redundant with some news now coming from some adjacent markets?
Why have most music directors been made redundant or reallocated to new roles?
Why does each station in each market not have an individual music log as per all previous decades? There is now a handful of music logs across the entire network and often within terrestrial reception distance of each other. That does not sound local.
Why does Hot Tomato Gold Coast, bought end 2018 and assured that it would remain a standalone business unit now not have its own music log, its research team vanished and now the network wide idea of sport chat on weekend afternoons?
Why was the talented, drive time lynch pin, Mal Lees (yes, the Club Veg and C91.3 one) let go? If Hot Tomato was a genuinely standalone business unit, why was it not seen that Mal’s experience enabled increased ad revenue and higher ratings in drive? Alison and Rick are clearly running the show there.
Same at Hot 91, they did not renew the contract of their third breakfast team member yet he was the most experienced to guide the remaining two breakfast members and it’s clear to hear, they are missing him considerably.
Wow, had to add, look at the Zinc website and you’ll find the breakfast show is now the last remaining local show from 5:30 - 10am. The rest of the workday is voicetracked out of Ipswich, then syndicated Nova Syd bfast from 5pm, Crocmedia at 6pm, 20/20 countdown afterwards from internally. Used to be all local with syndicated Alice Cooper and local music scheduled in between.
Then view their overnight music page:
Full of typos and irrelevant mention of miners. Where are the mines within the Gympie RA1? There were in the 1800’s, but not now. Only penny dreadful mining stocks who speculate of raising enough cash to scavenge what past abandoned operations have left behind.
River 949 music log does not have the depth and width it once had, sounds muzzled compared to previous years. Now a Qld wide news bulletin on weekends, rather than local staff from their studios. The Danny Hoyland Saturday morning show, a three hour program full of local events and interviews scrapped and not reinstated under new management, another step away from living and breathing localism, Danny Hoyland epitomised that for the station and network.
So many examples from just a few stations, there would more all over Australia.
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A 3 hour local breakfast show with a local announcer on 7XS.
The other station is running Kix Country - I assume because they think running something like Sea FM would split their audience too much. It does t have it’s own web presence so I can imagine there’s too much local content - probably just some voice tracked bits to meet minimum requirements.
I’m surprise they have 3 staff even - I can’t see the station generating enough revenue to do much other than cover costs.
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All true @crankymedia re the state of Grant’s stations. I despair at River 94.9. It’s even been removed from my presets when it proudly used to sit at No. 3.
I can’t believe what they’re doing at Hot Tomato either. This is a leading station in the biggest city in the country outside the big 5 metros. Over 700,000 people. They bought a winning station in this market yet they risk it by treating it as generic as the others.
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Steve Adermann operated 7XS with three staff, sometimes more.
7XS ‘converted’ to its unused 7AUS s.39 with main freq on 92.1 and remained on the 7XS FM translators elsewhere.
Did the AM 837 mast fall down in bad weather? I forget why, but there was a hasty need to commission and fire up the 92.1 main TX which I recall operates nowhere near the full 20kW ERP it was originally licensed for.
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Zinc was a awesome station back in the day.
I always have liked the music on Zinc until a few weeks ago when I was travelling though Gympie. Personally I think the music has become safe and bland.
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Zinc & other Classic/Greatest Hits stations were doing “80s April” on weekdays at that time, in which they played nothing but 80s.
But yes, I agree that the music on those stations has become bland. That being said, I would still rather listen to 2ST over the other commercial stations in the Illawarra & Shoalhaven.
BTW, I have compared the playlists of Wave FM, River 94.9 & Hot 91 from this day 2 years ago to today on the “Hourly Music Logs” thread, which you can see below.
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Mamma Mia the Musical.
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Sad to hear Rob Gooda has retired after decades with Grant Broadcasters as the voice of Illawarra/South Coast morning radio news.
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I’ve just been trying to think of which radio station he used to read the news on in Sydney, but I can’t remember. A Google search tells me he hosted various shifts on 2KA in the early to late 1980s, but I hardly ever listened to 2KA as reception was very poor in the mid-western suburbs.
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Yes, Rob was an announcer at 2KA then did news for a while.
I think Rob may have been on 2GB news in the 90’s - not 100% sure. Happy to be corrected!
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Rob Gooda I think used to do news on 2WS.
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