I find 00s/10s at least get a bit too pop for my liking, they sound out of step with the mix on the main station. I suppose you hope they go to album tracks and rarer songs rather than go far out of the rock zone.
If I’m ever listening to the decades stations I find myself flipping a lot, while I can listen to the main station for long periods without.
I suppose killing Soft Rock for 80s would be the next step?
Assuming they’ll move to doing the lower error correction levels, 6IX do that to my understanding to squeeze in a bit more.
Yes I admit I haven’t listened much to the 00s/10s streams so you’re probably right. I agree on the main station, I can listen to that for long periods. I also think they hit the mark with the 80s though
Yes that is why I end up listening to either Smooth, 6GT or The Wave rather than iHeartradio 80s (my favorite decade for music). That is because decades format will play different genres, and really we listen to music based on genre and style that fits our mood or preferences, and this cuts across arbitrary decades boundaries. However I do admit that restricting to particular decades (as The Wave does) can get the best of both worlds, a full variety format (from 70s to 00s) has the cross-generation problem (which decade were you in when your music preferences and memories were made, usually from your late teens to early 30s?).
Yeah that’s right, we get Country, Classic Rock and Soft Rock. I wonder if they’ll kill one one of the Hit stations (Buddha, Easy, Oldskool, Urban), and/or drop hit92.9/mix94.5 from 48kbps to 32kbps?
Noticed that “Little Fox” is listed on the hit website - the Fox branding seems to be national for it, as it is listed like that even when it lists the other stations as ‘Hit’. Seems to be their own version of Kinderling now that ARN carry that?
Clearly some tinkering going on - the Fox and Little Fox pages are the only ones that appear to be loading on my end. Looks like Dubbo and Gippsland listings have disappeared too, understandably
Triple M Greatest Hits Digital has now flipped to Triple M 90s.
Icehouse (Flowers) - Can’t Help Myself was the last song on MMM GHD. Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song is the first song on MMM 90s.
First 30 minutes of music on MMM 90s:
Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song (1994)
Ben Lee - Cigarettes Will Kill You (1998)
Dinosaur Jr - Feel The Pain (1994)
Blur - Song 2 (1997)
Garbage - #1 Crush (1995)
Soundgarden - Pretty Noose (1996)
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping (1997)
Cracker - Low (1993)
Urge Overkill - Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon (1992)
None of these things happened. MMM 90’s launched at 32kbps, all the other stations we already have still exist, and the FM’s are still at 48kbps.
Either they had spare capacity up their sleeve they never used, or they’ve done something with error correction. My radio doesn’t show error correction information unfortunately.
Kinderling previously used SCA bandwidth before moving over to ARN’s a couple of years ago, but other than that I’m pretty sure the station is independent from either broadcaster ownership/operations wise.
Yeah, I think “Little Fox” might be a Melbourne-only thing.
One wonders if there’s enough demand in the marketplace for three kids stations on DAB+.
Nah, Kinderling is still there, just further down the list, as it’s with all the ARN stations on 9B. So yeah, three Kids stations on Melbourne DAB now.
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