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Outgoing 7HO Content Director, Mark Johnson, is going to Gold Central Victoria to become its new Content Director. He replaces Daniel Brewer, who is going up to 4BU in Bundaberg to present breakfast after Mark Hamel has resigned.
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Will Grant go away from the “local sport” model next year, surely it hasn’t worked that well. Ive heard way more complaints than positive feedback
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I would rather them fix their logs, the odd country song gets played on Bay FM, it makes me think the radio has been changed to KIX
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Bay FM and Krock are a mess and have been for a decade
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The whole log is a mess, it’s virtually unlistenable on Power FM. Even non radio nuts can’t stand it.
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Bay is even worse than it has been, also have heard recent music on their retro Saturday night show. K Rock is completely unlistenable for me
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Also replacing the previous guy on breakfast with Mark Hyland who was BTS for a few years just sounded like a cost-cutting move rather than hiring new talent.
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Tend to disagree, quite like the variety on Bay compared with Melbourne station options’. Work in Melb and of late we have been listening to Bay or Krock on our google home. Our office have commented on the variety
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Each to their own but it’s also a reflection on how bad Melbourne radio is.
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Personally Power fm playlist is slightly better then most of Sydney’s CHR / Hot AC stations. I still cannot understand why they continue to have the same Log as Wave fm with the overlap and fortuitous reception into each other’s LA’s.
Power Fm was the best when they had a CHR format that they shared exclusively with Krock. They then sounded quite different from Wave and i98.
Ideally Power fm should have a log similar to Eagle fm / Snow fm and would then offer a point of difference between i98 / Wave / 2ST.
Krock should share that log too.
Probably their previous format would have been too successful and taken listeners from Wave fm. Grant don’t want this so they will keep both stations on the same playlist song for song so Wollongong listeners will listen to Wave for the better signal. That is my take on the programming of both stations.
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Power FM Nowra should take the Power 100 log. Just sayin.
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I am fine with this too, just not the same playlist as Wave fm song for song at exactly the same time.
This must be hurting Power fm too because Wave fm have a better news service, and their breakfast show and soon to be launched drive show are more of a metro standard compared to Power Fm which sounds more provincial.
I do remember reading a submission in the Nowra AM to FM conversion of a local garage owner in Nowra. He said the local stations had lost their local focus and was pushing for another commercial licence to be allocated. He said all the car radios of the customers at his garage were tuned to i98 in Nowra!!!
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I remember when I was holidaying in Huskisson in January this year, a local bakery had i98 on instead of Power FM or 2ST.
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That’d be great if 94.9 PowerFM skewed younger. It’d give i98 and Wave a good challenge and better variety for choice down there.
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It’s the same here in Geelong, K Rock has the same log as Power FM Ballarat while Bay is same as 3BA
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It would be good if they did like a couple of years ago.
I don’t understand the programming decisions made for the Illawarra region.
Is it a cost decision to run the same music playlist and some programs simultaneously across Wave / Power fm?
Or is it a decision to sacrifice Power fm for the sake of getting Wave fm to number 1 in the Wollongong ratings? By playing the same music across both stations at the same time Power listeners from Kiama north will tune to Wave fm.
Basically Power fm has become a translator of Wave fm for Nowra and the Shoalhaven region, and any competition it did provide in the Wollongong LA has been eliminated.
This could also backfire in the Nowra LA for Power fm listeners not liking Power / Wave fm going to i98.
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The programming decisions aren’t being made for the Illawarra region per se - they’re being made for the network at large. With only a handful of exceptions (Power 100 Townsville and 4RO Rockhampton), every Grants station now is either on the ‘Today’s Best Music’ music log or the ‘Classic Hits’ music log.
This is working exceptionally poorly in overlap markets (like Wollongong/Nowra; Geelong has already been mentioned above.) Likewise, the two logs seem to have a great deal of overlap - you wouldn’t want to be forced to listen to commercial radio in a Grants-only market at the moment.
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7HO, along with Sea FM in North West Tasmania, are still on their separate log on weekdays.
Looking at Lava, around 10am this morning is a good example of this. Both K Rock & Bay in Geelong, as well as Power FM & 3BA in Ballarat, were playing “Thnks Fr Th Mmrs” by Fall Out Boy at around the same time.
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There is an easy solution here, move Power fm Nowra and Krock to the Power 100 log and make them rock stations like they were in the past, perfect for overlap markets with another Grant Hot AC station.
This would add more choice for listeners in the Illawarra and Geelong. Nowra listeners could listen to Wave if rock is not their cup of Tea. On the Southern Highlands Wave is strong just north of Mittagong, you have Eagle fm and all the Sydney fm stations that boom in.
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