Where does it transmit?
@Sarah_C Welcome Sarah, thanks for going to the effort to join.
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Beamed to South Asia from the BBC Far Eastern Relay Station, Kranji Singapore.
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just noticed a station in BNE called 90’s soft pop. is this new? anyone know who runs it?
edit: ive had it on and it’s a Lisner steam
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Yeah it’s been around a month or two. I’ve got it on my car DAB presets but I’m finding it a bit under-whelming. Ok sometimes.
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It was on air in Sydney as well for a week. It is run by SCA as one of their LiSTNR streaming stations.
They have 3 in Sydney (Croon, 80s New Wave, Indie) and 1 in Melbourne (jazz) as well as a whole bunch in Hobart.
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Certainly Carnival 2 didn’t make sense to me. Neither would the main Carnival station most of the time, but they do use it for extended coverage, at Spring Carnival time obviously, and possibly some other major Saturdays. Wouldn’t be surprised if it eventually gets pushed out in favour of a Racing.com simulcast down the track, but there are complications in that, mainly in the industry’s joint venture relation with Tabcorp.
Sky Sports Radio in Sydney had a similar alternate stream but I never heard them use it; it ended up useless when the third stream started simulcasting Thoroughbred Central off the TV, and now doesn’t exist.
Maybe the TAB Lounge channel is being retooled for Cup week at this point. Doing a Google search revealed a show of that name as an end-of-day thing during last year’s carnival, and a small segment on their Saturday morning preview show. The old “in-venue Sky audio” stream that was on the channel was probably made redundant given venues aren’t open during lockdown…
I wonder what value 48 kbit/s in Melbourne would be on the market these days - might almost be the value of RSN itself right now. 
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In Melbourne 3mp or magic should have a station that plays just 50s or sixties songs i think it would be cool
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There’s Swoon and Croon on the Listnr app playing 50s and 60s
Speaking of the Listnr app, I was on Easy 80s Hits on DAB in the car and they were promoting the app. They were spelling it out “T-n-r”.
Sorry, if you’ve got actually spell a name of something out to people, that’s a branding/marketing FAIL!
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Don’t knock it! It is only app which appears on my Google TV (alongside TuneIn Radio). I notice Google TV apps have to be reengineered with a simpler interface than their Android counterparts, very few bother and rely on Chromecast from the smartphone. Listnr has gone to the next level (that even the almighty iHeartRadio app has not ventured into yet).
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Not sure how long it’s been back on for, but Christmas Hope has returned to Sydney DAB+ for another festive season…just under two months before the big day itself.
48kbps for those interested in bitrates.
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looks like inspire is off air in brisbane and replaced with a DAB simulcast of 96.5
edit: turns out i’m wrong and inspire and 95.5 are both on DAB. i suspect ther 96.5 stream will become Christmas Hope
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LightChristmas is back as well, which means Light now have three stations - a simulcast of FM, “LightMIX” and now Christmas.
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Do Light temporarily get additional bits for LightChristmas? I don’t see them impacting the bitrates on LightMix (32kbps) and Light899 (40kbps)? Do other community radio stations get access to bits for events or seasons like this?
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I would have thought allocations would be fixed year round, the only way would be to lower bit rates on your other stations if you want to squeeze in another one.
The community stations are far more flexible in their allocations. They all share the same capacity and each station definitely doesn’t have an equal share.
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Not really. Permanently giving Joy access would be the main other thing - there’s been very few popups otherwise, not that many of the others are in a financial position to do much.
The bits basically come from shuffling around the error correction - 3MBS dropped from EEP-3A to EEP-3B, VA IRIS dropped from 3A to 4A - which makes the space to squeeze in Light Christmas.
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Speaking of spare bandwidth and community radio, Vision Australia Radio have two DAB+ stations in Melbourne - VA IRIS Melbourne and VA Radio Melbourne, and as far as I can tell, they have the same programming, only VA Radio Melbourne is delayed by a few seconds compared to VA Iris Melbourne. Surely there’s a spare 32 Kbit/s?
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Hmm - I’ve usually found they were playing alternative content - at least previously. Iris would usually have more music content or reading different things, rather than the newspaper reads of the main VA Radio station.
Maybe Covid hassles mean studio time is more difficult or something?