Central Coast Radio

[TV-Expert]

@RFBurns

Not sure who’ll win, but there’ll probably be a high Others figure, there’s quite a lot of over 40’s people on the Central Coast who listen to Smooth 95.3 Sydney in particular.

If last year’s Wollongong ratings released by Xtra is any indication, I would imagine the Sydney stations would get listed in the upcoming Central Coast ratings survey.

Interesting to read of Smooth’s popularity on the Central Coast on among the over 40s. Given that 2GO & Star doesn’t really play anything earlier than the 80s, it’s not really surprising.

Going Off-Topic, I imagine that it’s a similar story down in Wollongong for a similar reason, as evidenced by the post below made in the “Random Radio” thread back in May:

@NewsWeary

I know of a bowling club on the South Coast where the regulars insist on having Smooth FM playing rather than one of the local stations. Events are sometimes hosted by WAVE FM personalities at this club so it’s odd that management has the Sydney station piped through the club instead of the local one on which they advertise.

There was a time when the over 40s listeners on the Central Coast & Wollongong were well catered for by one of the local commercial stations, before pressure that’s caused by the competition force themselves to go younger.