Proper radio which would make sense for Canberra would be a locally researched, programmed and scheduled log exclusively for the Canberra market.
Lack of basic investment in such fundamentals is why radio is underperforming.
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Won’t happen because 96FM is ARN programmed, and SCA provide programming as part of the J/V agreement.
Mix106.3 programme their own music and do music research in the Canberra market. They have local breakfast and drive shows, day time announcers and Saturday breakfast and sports coverage. They are very local and Canberra programmed.
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I’ve noticed on various websites that the Classic Hits/AC stations in NSW (2ST, 2EC, 2NM) & VIC (3BA, Gold CV, River 1467) are now airing The Christian O’Connell Show at 6pm weeknights, whilst the TAS (LAFM, 7SD, 7AD & 7BU) & SA (5MU, 5RM, 5CS, 5AU, 5CC) stations air it at 9pm, except for 7XS who air it at 5pm. The same stations in VIC are now airing JAM Nation with Jonesy & Amanda at 9pm weeknights, whilst the same TAS & SA stations air it at 6pm, except for 7XS who air it at 4pm.
2ST, 2EC, 2NM, 4BU, 4RO, 4MK & 4CA still take Nights with John Stanley from Nine Radio.
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Intelligent listening…lucky them
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Does the 20 20 retro countdown still go to air or has it been axed? Looking for it the other night, I gave up when other another program came on
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The program is listed on the various station’s website, but no timeslot has been given for most of them. I would assume it’s airing at 7-9pm weeknights.
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just looking at PowerFM Ballarat’s Website it now seems they have added Will and Woody from 6 pm-8 pm on weeknights. not sure if this was airing this week or if this was just newly added to be aired from Monday
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2ST in the Shoalhaven & Southern Highlands of NSW is turning 50 next month.
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2WL (now Wave FM) used to cover the entire south coast prior to 1972. They had a studio in Nowra from which a dedicated Shoalhaven breakfast show was broadcast.
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That doesn’t surprise me, their 1314 AM TX had great coverage up and down the coast, as far north as Forster, where Sydney commercial AMs couldn’t be easily heard via groundwave/daytime reception.
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That’s impressive. I can’t think of another station that had a dedicated breakfast show for part of their licence area? Did they have a separate frequency in Nowra? I know Radio 10 had a second studio on the Gold Coast for a time and ran some shows from there.
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That would have had to be shared with Wollongong as they only ever had the one transmitter.
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5AU/5CS did until a few years ago (I think they now get the same breakfast since Dave Syer left - the websites and social media don’t give away much).
Technically they’re both on the 5AU licence area since the Port Augusta and Port Pirie licence areas and licences merged in the 90s as part of the FM rollout.
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Yep, 5AU & 5CS are the same breakfast show now, generically branded as ‘‘classic hits breakfast’’
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2ST i think still has a separate morning program for the Southern Highlands on 102.9. Breakfast is the same on 91.7/106.7 and 102.9.
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I am not sure if 2EC (2BE) ever broadcast a separate breakfast show for Batemans Bay? Before FM 105.9, the northern service was a synchronous transmission on 765 kHz from Moruya. The ‘mush zone’ fell around Narooma, hence the need for an additional transmitter there on 1584 kHz.
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Your use of the word “synchronous” suggests that it would not have been possible to do so when on 765 at the Bay.
I don’t know if they did when on 105.9, I’ve only been down there a few times over the last 20 years, i never noticed one.
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Quite right; that was a pretty daft statement to make! 105.9 was switched on in 1992 I believe. Localism wasn’t entirely eroded by then so it’s possible that a local breakfast show was put to air. I know they still have offices in Batemans Bay and I think a small studio.
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