I could see Krock becoming Edge, but they can’t brand like metros or share logs as they share way too much of the same broadcast areas
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If only there was no overlap here in Geelong, K Rock and Bay need massive changes but I doubt they will bother changing, I can see less effort being put into the running of these stations when they won’t own any others outright.
I assume the overlap between Adelaide and my home town of Murray Bridge isn’t big enough to affect 5MU/Power FM?
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Correct. Adelaide & Murray Bridge’s radio licence areas only has a 1.05% overlap.
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Hopefully Power FM and 5MU don’t get put on the metro logs as Adelaide stations are received well and listened to by many in the Murray Bridge licence area.
And I’ll be able to listen to Ballarat stations here in Geelong and not have the same logs as on my local stations, unless they use Melbourne’s logs of course
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Do we know if the acquisition happened today because the announcement articles sounded like it already happened, or will it be at a later date
Someone’s already answered it for you
And also…
The deal is expected to complete on 30 November and will give ARN coverage across Australia.
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I could see KIIS973 as it already says this on the Digital Radio Plus listen live web page.
I don’t think Nova would blow up 4KQ as it is highly successful as it is. Besides they wouldn’t want Smooth on AM, and they already have it on DAB+.
Pure Gold 6iX is a possibility but it depends on them buying out the 50% share of Capital Radio Network.
Read talk of the hub functions of Maroochydore.
All departments can easily be relocated and established elsewhere in time.
Radio is a fluid medium, nothing lasts forever and ARN metro locations can assume such roles.
Retaining those functions are not essential at Maroochydore.
Even voice tracking of shifts can be done from anywhere like Sydney or an announcers home back office.
Covid has taught us functions don’t need to be based in an office.
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Speaking of Geelong, Will K-Rock & Bay go it Alone and continue to Broadcast Cats & GFL Matches?
SEN finally coming to Brisbane
I think Tasmania will be intersting.
A) what do they do with 7HO? KIIS, or Gold…Maybe there’s space for a high power Hit music station again…
and
B) Won’t this trigger ownership issues with 7SD/7LA/7AD and 7BU. Overlap of those stations is huge…
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What happens to AFL depends on who buys the Geelong stations if anyone does
I honestly see 6iX getting blown up and moving to the KIIS Network if Capital’s share is bought out - 96FM is a much better station to go on Pure Gold as it has already got an established audience.
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That’s also true. It could be KIIS 104.9
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I agree. The 96FM audience is already there and more aligned with pure gold. Why annoy them by going KIIS FM. They’ll just leave. Might as well start from scratch with KIIS 1049. The existing 6iX audience has to move to FM anyway, just as easy to get them to move to 96.1 as it is to 104.9
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From a Sydney person, that feels wrong, it should be 106.5 
. Triple M lives on 104.9. It would be a shame to lose a forever classic station in Perth.
They could always have 6iX become what Cruise and 4KQ are… Classic Hits 6iX.
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Yes for sure, but it is a shame it seems a trend that FM stations are always skewed to a younger playlist and in general quite repetitive. I am not sure how repetitive is 4KQ when compared to WSFM.
4KQ isn’t repetitive at all compared to WS. They have a handful of songs you hear regularly but nothing like the tight playlists of WS or Gold.
On weekends particularly 4KQ is very random, in a good way
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