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When did all this happen? I wonder wither they still see then self as the Christan station of the Redlands?

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3515

Recently (this year I believe - couldn’t date it exactly), but I know their branding changes and an iHeartRadio player featured on their site, which led me to question IF (I’m unsure) they’ve fallen under new management.

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Screenshot of their new site homepage.

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3516

Plenty of community stations in Australia are on iHeart radio. including in the Brisbane area 4EB, Family Radio, Bridge, Switch, Vision - pretty much all of them.

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3517

2BBB Bellingen are also on iHeart too.

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3518

It looks like the council gave the a grant so they have rebranded and made a new website. This was from Bay fm FB page "Bay FM 100.3 is grateful for the grant given to us, through the

“Mayor and Councillor’s Community Benefit Fund”. This grant has enabled us to develop

and release a new website, including new branding and a whole new look."

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3519

Anyone whose station isn’t on iHeart can register here: Submit Your Community Radio Station to iHeartRadio | Community Broadcasting Association of Australia

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3520

Being on iHeart is free if you take up the stream hosting package from the CBAA.

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3521

It’s free even if you have another stream host. You just need to meet some basic technical parameters.

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3524

Some kind of work going on with 88.5 2RRR late this morning.

First RDS disappeared.
Then audio & stereo carrier.
Now TX off from 12.07pm.

Now back on air a few minutes later.
RDS Encoder programming lost, no PS & PI showing as 5200.

Now all back to normal 15 mins later :slightly_smiling_face:

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3525

A bit of shameless self promotion, but here’s some pics and info about my recent studio upgrade work at 2GLF.

https://www.mediarealm.com.au/articles/recent-work-2glf-axia-studio-upgrades/

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3526

89.9 Pulse FM Hawkesbury off-air at the moment.
Did they suffer storm damage this arvo?

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3527

They were still sounding awful when I scanned the dial last night. Being off air for a bit could be a good thing.

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3528

Switch Brisbane excluded from Transurban tunnels.

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3529

Getting metro community radio stations into tunnels has been difficult in Sydney too. I don’t think there’s a legislative requirement, and the tunnel operators barely know retransmission exists let alone how to add another station into the existing system. If you find the right people and hassle them for long enough, you might get added when they next do a hardware refresh (which is maybe every 10+ years? :laughing:).

The good news for Switch is that they’re on DAB+, and that should be retransmitted into all the tunnels.

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3530

As far as I’m aware none of the tunnels in Brisbane retransmit DAB+

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3531

Nope they don’t have DAB in any of the tunnels and no 1197 is not retransmitted in the tunnels and this has been the case since the beginning as far as i am aware

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3532

Lucky I said ‘should be’, not ‘is’ :wink:

But that’s insane. Why is DAB+ not in any of the tunnels? Do the commercials not care? :smiling_face_with_tear:

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3533

I guess they feel it’s not worth the investment, given DAB hasn’t set the world on fire here.

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