Exactly. Classic case of ‘leaders’ not understanding their product.
It’d be different if they had a local GM. Peter Verhoeven knew how to add the extra 1% to KQ.
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Rest of the websites have now gone live (as of late last night).
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Not surprisingly, no change for Mix Canberra. Always the last cab off the rank
From Radioinfo:
Macquarie Media struggles in a difficult market
Macquarie Media Limited’s group revenue for the last financial year was down 3.3% to $131.8 million with the company stating that the NSW and federal elections, a subdued housing market and variable business and consumer confidence impacted on the year’s earnings.
Read more here.
Is this now the right time for Nine to buy or more bad news coming?
I wish they’d focus on this acquisition and not the small change of MRN.
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Mediaweek reports Nova Entertainment’s Perth commercial director Jamie Martinovich died yesterday after a short illness. He had been working at Nova for 15 years, taking over the role after Gary Roberts resigned last year.
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Very sad situation. Jamie Martinovich likely unknown by most beyond WA and like Gary Roberts, a powerhouse in Perth.
If you want top legal or medical outcomes, WA again proven as not the place to need help. This was no mystery virus, thorough medical practice expected of modern day hospital care would’ve identified this, yet Jamie is dead.
As posted in Triple M thread, former Austereo executive Sean Pickwell (husband of radio presenter Robin Bailey) died early this morning from cancer.
Former Austereo executive.
Thankfully Sean had nothing to do with the current era of mediocrity that besets SCA.
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According to an article from the AFR (via Vaaju) about James Warburton’s possible further deals for Seven in the wake of its takeover of Prime Media Group:
Combining Seven with outdoor advertiser or media FM radio network and music streaming business HT&E could be an interesting possibility and there are probably $30 million to $40 million in synergies that could be pulled out.
HT&E is the parent company of ARN, who owns the KIIS & Pure Gold stations. It also owns 50% of Mix 106.3 & Hit 104.7 in Canberra with SCA.
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Just copied and pasted from the AFR.
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(Siobhan) Siegert, currently head of Nova’s branded entertainment division CREATE (Perth and Adelaide), will take on the additional role of leading the Perth office and its local team of 50+ people.
(Nina) Santella and (Antonell) Doyle will become head of agency sales and head of direct sales respectively, leading the Perth commercial team with Siegert.
The new leadership structure will be effective from 11 November 2019.
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David McClung returns from their Sydney office as program director.
…with music a major focus in the always-on battle for market share.
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You are not going to win Melbourne by sharing a safe / stale / repetitive playlist between Nova 100 & Nova 96.9.
Here’s an idea taylor a playlist to each individual market like you do so well in Brisbane and Perth.
Nova in Sydney and Melbourne need to stand out from the pack. This won’t happen with the same 30 hits and throwbacks on repeat everyday.
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The answer is right in front of Nova. No.1 in Bris, Ade and Per. So what are they doing that Syd and Melb aren’t!?
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From what I am getting the Adelaide market skews older then Sydney and Melbourne so giving Adelaide the Sydney log was never going to work.
Nova 919 only took off when they starting taking the Perth log.
Nova 96.9 and Nova 100 are in extremely competitive markets, yes they have high cum but the share is low. It is the safe repetitive playlist that is a turnoff.
I don’t think the whole Nova 106.9 log is the answer for Sydney and Melbourne, certainly all the new music they play and a some of their throwbacks.
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