Some interesting oddity between 2ST’s Nowra and Bowral service on a Tuesday Night. 102.9 is currently carrying John Stanley from 2GB Sydney while 91.7 and 106.7 is playing automated music. Same thing with their iHeartRadio streams. I Thought that they only had seperate programming before midday.
2EC Bega is still carrying John Stanley so much be another fault.
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I’ve been in Townsville over the past week and I am absolutely loving Power100. They have tweak the music since last time I was in Townsville. Personal
choice, I would say this is the best station I have listened to in a long while. This is how the metro M’s should sound. 
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Last Hour of The Edge 96.1
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Good to see they’ve taken a leaf out of the IHeart rock stations in the US! Finally an active rock leaning station in Australia and it’s sounding great!
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Disappointing that Angela Walsh has left 2ST. She was a credit to the station.
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Probably already mentioned here but…
For the week of Friday May 6 to Thursday, May 12, 2GN Goulburn ( 1368AM ) will be conducting test broadcasting on 107.7FM in preparation for their swapover later in the year.
Apologies if already posted.
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Are they really going to use the crappy name GNFM? Why can’t they just keep 2GN?
2WS didn’t drop the 2 straight away. Why does ARN/Capital have to do this?
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Does ARN actually own Grant’s half of 2GN? I thought all the joint ventures were left out of the deal?
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I thought Capital bought Grants share of the joint ventures?
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According to the ACMA media ownership register, Grants still has a part of it. Strangely, the JV stations are listed as Capital Radio but the ones that Blyton owns 100% of (XLFM/Snow FM, 3GG and the 3UZ relay in Ballarat) are listed as owned by Radio Snowy Mountains.
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Didn’t Capital Radio buy out Grants share of 2CA / 2CC in Canberra to allow ARN to keep their joint venture in Hit 104.7 / Mix 106.3, and Capital to keep their existing duopoly?
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Not all of Grants was sold to ARN: they still part own the joint venture stations, and fully own K Rock and Bay FM in Geelong and KIX Country. Even though these stations are on iHeart Radio and they promote it. Also K Rock has a 90s Easter weekend along with the ARN Regionals, do they still use the same log as similarly formatted ARN stations such as Power FM Ballarat?
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Yes. Same for Bay FM, which carries the same log as the ARN-owned 3BA, LAFM/7SD, 7XS, River 94.9, Mix 104.9 & 7HO River.
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Capital Radio Network Pty Ltd was owned 50% by Kevin Blyton and 50% by Grant Broadcasters.
It in turn owns the Canberra and Goulburn licences.
Separately, 6IX was owned 50% by Kevin Blyton and 50% by Grant Broadcasters.
Kevin Blyton then owns 100% of the Snowy Mountains licences and 3GG.
Together, all of these stations operated as the Capital Radio Network which was managed by Blyton’s side of the business.
The Grant Broadcasters share of the above was not included in the ARN purchase as ARN purchased the individual stations and their operating companies, not the GB parent company.
It was rumored that Blyton was buying the remaining 50%, but that hasn’t been finalised yet. It’s quite possible that it still in progress.
Alison Cameron is a director of HT&E and Grant Broadcasters so has a control breach in Canberra and Perth which will need to be resolved within 12 months, but can easily be extended to 24 months. This is most likely to be resolved the Grant Broadcasters selling their 50% of Capital described above.
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Looks like TRSN now re-directs to ARN. https://www.trsn.com.au/
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Mix 106.3 was sounding very much like Triple M this morning, playing Faith No More’s ‘Ashes To Ashes’. Is a rebrand imminent? Sorry, I don’t really follow these things very closely.
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Doubtful. They’re programmed by SCA as part of the Triple M network, but I doubt they’d ever rebrand.
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I thought that Mix 106.3 had to keep ARN’s branding as part of the joint venture which prevents Mix 106.3 becoming Triple M.
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If anything, I could see Mix106 take on the 96FM log/format.
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That would make sense for Canberra.
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