Digital Radio

I think it is identical.

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And 4BH in Brisbane.

Identical, 6GT takes the same log on a 2 hour delay.

I think they play less 60s/more 80s depending on the time of day. Can’t confirm this but it certainly sounds like it to me.

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Oops sorry. I spotted the double 2XX stations so correctly assumed one would be the music, I didn’t spot the same for the 4XX stations.

In fact I notice there are only 4 main capital cities and all have News Talk + Magic Music (for want of a better name!): Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth. Perth came late because 6GT is exclusively DAB+ (and had to change ownership to even get there).

What about Adelaide? Who owns their talk back radio station (Answer to my own question: 5AA owned by Nova … interesting).

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2UE’s text stuck on “Now playing - Elton John - Daniel”. Not sure when it got stuck but has been at least 24 hours.

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Same in Melbourne

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2GB needs to update their DAB+ slideshow.
Still showing Jones & the wrong schedule for Bill Crews is showing Saturday instead of Sunday.

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Problems with 4RPH on DAB in Brisbane - no data stream at all. The muliplex has it listed but there’s nothing there.

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Web stream doesn’t work either, is it working on AM?

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Yes 1296 AM is working for 4RPH

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Still 10 months on, and doesn’t appear to have been much change. Dance Super Digi still repeating the same daily playlist - but not sure about the others as playlist information to Lava has stopped feeding through. No web presence or web-streams either except for Gorilla’s website which has a placeholder which has been there for a while.

Are these stations still on-air in Sydney? And is James Yelland who was placed as Content Director of the stations still with the network?

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Fun and Gorilla are dead air, Dance and Zoo are still playing content.

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2SM purchased an extra 64kbps in the excess spectrum auction back in 2009. If it’s not being used then maybe they could sell it to other stations such as WSFM and KIIS106.5 (if that’s allowed) who would use it.

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FUN has been dead air pretty much all year, possibly since late last year.

Not FUN at all. A shame because their music wasn’t bad at all really.

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Went through Yass and up to Crookwell on the way back to Sydney (from Wagga) today.

Canberra DAB for commercials / community reception has definitely improved in car with the increase to 20kw.

Was able to get in car reception through most of Yass (whereas previously they would drop out around Murrumbateman). It was only in the town centre which is in a bit of a gully, that it dropped out.

Up/down from Crookwell, there were extended periods of stable in car reception in the upper reaches (closer to Crookwell). Closer to Goulburn, not so much.

Wasn’t game to stop anywhere in/near Goulburn to try it there following @RFBurns report on the Mt Gray transmitter works wreaking havoc with car remote keys! (as my car has a proximity fob).

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Yes he is still with the network based in Sydney at 2SM… He is John Laws label op

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4RPH Digital is up and running with full service again today.

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Thanks @TV.Cynic, 4RPH was on digital when I checked at 10pm last night. Whole/close to full day outage?

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Has anyone actually contacted 2SM to see what’s happening with their DAB stations?

From what I can gather it’s only Zoo that’s being updated daily?

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I reached out to them about the situation and also offered to work with them to fix the issue even revitalise Gorilla, but no response as of yet, if you know anyone there pass my email daniel@itsdan.net on and I would be 100% down to do something amazing with them and there digital channels.

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FUN is back on air!
No song info though.
Looks like the 486 has been rebooted at last.

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