4RO moved began broadcasting from their new studios this morning. They’ve posted a tour of the station on their Facebook page.
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Touch Screens and Announcers shudder
Imagine how grotty they will get and announcers arent renowned for cleaning
I think id rather stick to a real surface with real buttons and faders
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Agree. It’s all a budget move to save.
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This is Dave Warner’s replacement.
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Thanks @TV-Expert, interesting the media release mentions Jim as a new GM, I recall reading his name on earlier media releases on survey day.
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Breakfast with Jack and Dannii commenced on Star 106.3 today replacing Anthony Salame and Crystal Vas (Vas who left for a Marketing Director role late last year).
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A bit hard for them to be there for nearly 50 years as Hot 100 has only been around since 1991. Unless they’re referring to the old 8DN.
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Correct. Just look at KIIS 101.1 and Gold 104.3 on the ACMA where 1927 and 1930 the licences are listed as having started, not 1990.
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The original 3DB and 3KZ for those playing along at home.
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Isn’t there a difference though. 8DN didn’t covert to FM but actually ceased operation.
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Yes. February 1992 I do believe it closed down permanently. What the circumstances were, I’m not sure.
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well, presumably they’ve combined the history of two different stations for publicity purposes.
But – and this is correctly so – the ACMA list the licences of 3TTT and 3KKZ as having been first issued when their AM originals were.
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I think by coincidence Hot 100/Mix 1049 just took up residence at the old 8DN studios. There is no formal link between them and 8DN as far as I know.
Hot100 actually began as a competitor to 8DN, but when 8DN breached ownership limits by having undue control over the Hot100 licence was when its licence was withdrawn. Ironically, if they’d held off a year or so, what 8DN did would no longer have been considered a breach as the two-stations rule came into effect?
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Interestingly, the ACMA shows a licence for a microware link from the new premises to the transmitter which was approved in May 2023. They’ve clearly been working on this for a while.
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It’s Darwin, stretching the truth is a top end pastime. Remember the newsreader at NTD who claimed to be an Olympian yet was an Olympic sized fraud?
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Who was that?
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Enjoy.
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The rubbery as ever regional radio survey aka phone poll aka testing market recall will begin for Ipswich on Monday, River 949 offering a $20 000 phone call giveaway.
Probably a chance to win $20 000, not the real thing.
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Just spent a week in Tassie, with LAFM and Chilli both on in the car a fair bit.
The main observation I’d make would be about lazy promos/news that didn’t cater for the local market. I’m assuming it was probably Sydney produced national content, but NRL references in news/promos are a bit jarring that far south.
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