Still open carrier now a day later.
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This seems to happen quite a bit sadly. A good station otherwise, plays some good music and covers local league and cricket matches.
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Whilst checking your web-server, I noticed Triple H is back on now.
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Nick Stephan 4ZZZâs new Station Manager
Alongside four months of celebrations in the lead up to the stationâs 50th birthday, Brisbaneâs 4ZZZ also has a new Station Manager in Nick Stephan.
Nick hosts Suffering Jukebox on a Monday morning, an eclectic mix of new music and some old favourites, reviews and interviews as well as putting his hand up for other station roles from reception to coordinating the Radiothon.
2RPH is down at the moment:
- The Eastern Sydney relay on 100.5 MHz is playing oldies music with a voiceover now and again stating technical difficulties: Vocaroo | Online voice recorder
- 1224 kHz is also playing music with a voiceover (but different music and V/O to the one on 100.5 MHz). Thereâs a buzzing present and loud clicking sound every few seconds: Vocaroo | Online voice recorder
- The Wollongong relay on 93.3 MHz is open carrier: Vocaroo | Online voice recorder
- DAB+ was silent
- The web stream wouldnât load
- Not sure about 100.5 Newcastle since I canât get that. Maybe @Radiohead can check (if itâs still down when he reads this).
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Silence on 100.5 Newcastle.
I did just hear Daryl Braithwaithe in nulls, so I must be getting a bit of Sydney East as well.
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Ah, same as Wollongong.
I wonder whatâs caused the failure â and also whatâs causing the interference on their AM transmitter.
Update: 100.5 Eastern Sydney is back on but AM and Wollongong still down.
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AM and Wollongong back on
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It was lower as the coverage via Nautel prediction is conservative and on quality receivers, the fringe reception was far less.
The fresh audience of 27yrs ago when GT was charting shouldnât be who Fresh are programming to now.
Bay FM Brisbane bayside have a similarly scripted laugh. Must be going around the community sector like a bad virus.
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Same way that 94.1 gets away in the same market (Gold Coast) with a commercial format that adds no complimentary content to listening choices on an uninterrupted TCBL that to the outsider, appears to be as permanent as the former formats of 92.5 that it imitates.
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Agree. But gee I wish Brisbane had a metro wide community station like 94.1. That would put the wind up the lazy and incompetent commercials, especially ARN and SCA.
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Had 94.1 on in the background the other day whilst watching the T20 from the Gold Coast (I like to pretend Iâm at the ground with a transistor radio). Itâs a good format but yes, very slick. But if they are providing something that the rest ainât, fair play to them.
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Yeah thatâs what I think too. If Triple M Gold want to play sport and talk and flog the same songs then at least people have the option of 94.1. Or Breeze or Rebel for that matter.
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They claim their community of interest is the older community, which given Gold FM wouldnât target anyone older than 54 is possibly justifiable. Theyâve been doing the same thing for over a decade or more now, so youâd think if they were breaking any rules or even flying too close to the sun that it would have been made an issue of by now.
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Agree, but it can be a fine line sometimes⌠I recall back in the late 1980s, 2GLA Forster had licence conditions put on them for being âtoo commercialâ.. that was when they IDâd as âFM101.5â and ran pretty much a Top 40 format, even though 2RE was more Hits N Memories and didnât have great reception in the Forster area (their FM100.3 relay didnât go to air until 1992).
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Which seems to also be catered for by 4CRB.
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I think we do but itâs on AM/DAB+
FM103 Goulburn was busted for that as well in the late 80s or very early 90s. Fiching at the Goulburn library or NLA might yield the full story.
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