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2SER appoints new managing director

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Macquarie University have appointed a new managing director of the jointly-owned community radio station, 2SER.

Cheryl Northey takes on the role, bringing over 15 years of experience in international digital media, news and entertainment companies with companies including Network 10, the ABC, SBS, and Deutsche Welle.

She succeeds Paula Kruger, who is leaving the station after two years.

Northey will begin in the role on 2 December 2024.

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I was just dial surfing & stopped on 97.3 Lake Macquarie FM for a few minutes & they mentioned a competition they’re currently running where you win a Digital Radio, now what they mean by Digital radio I’m not entirely sure, they just kept referring to it as that, but it has me wondering, if they’re meaning a DAB+ radio then why, just why would they think that giving away a DAB+ radio to a market that doesn’t have any DAB+ stations locally nor can in 99% of the places in it’s coverage area are able to receive any DAB+ transmissions a good idea as a promotion?

Given their coverage is Southern Lake Macquarie/Northern Central Coast & that neither Gosford (Central Coast), Lake Macquarie or Newcastle has any DAB+ transmissions & aren’t even close to getting any, why would you do this?
I guess the DAB+ radio will have FM also that you could use to tune into 97.3 Lake Macquarie FM, but then why not just give away a new FM radio, whoever wins is likely to be very disappointed that it doesn’t work as a Digital Radio & is no better then the FM one they already had, great way to mislead listeners.

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Ignorance? Perhaps they don’t even really know what they are giving away. Probably tied in with a deal from one of their sponsors.

But as you say, it would more than likely also have FM, and that’s all they will probably care about…

Some listeners might be a bit miffed to find you won’t be able to listen to ABC Newcastle or Radio National on it though.

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CBAA has been promoting digital strategies to its members recently.

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More stations need to provide a ‘Listen Again’ service, though it is a bit labour intensive if you archive programmes in house (as I do). Nobody has the time or inclination to listen live at a set time these days.

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Omny Studio is one product which automates this. You can setup your program schedule, and it will record and publish each show automatically. You could also send triggers to start/stop recordings if you wanted to be fancy.

Once the full shows are in there, you can also use their web editor to create shorter clips.

CBAA can get community stations good pricing for Omny Studio. Quite a lot of stations have taken up this offer.

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Yes I have asked about this but being a small station, we’d rather keep costs down where we can. Plus it keeps me out of mischief :slight_smile:

Some of our programmes have a tendency to run past their allotted time as well, mainly at night when there’s no news/live programming to follow.

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ALERT: Some weird stuff is happening at the moment with 2NBC 90.1 FM Narwee, apparently there’s buzzing noises with dead air, then the first few seconds of some songs. Their online feed is also getting this.