The ratings listed are cumulative audience - the number of people who listen to a station over a week (I think it is for at least 8 minutes). So the station totals cannot be added together because a listener can be counted in more than one station (but only once for the city total).
The company that runs the survey cannot place 96.1 in the Sydney survey because itâs licensed to Katoomba, so the listening figures are funnelled to The Edge on DAB+ instead.
I loved the old Take 40 promotion song from the 80s would loved to hear it againâŚ
Promotion song?
How did that go?
I only recall some sweepersâŚ
âCoast to Coast now, Take 40 Australia!â (female voice)
or
"Rockin around the nation, on your favourite station " (male voice)
Thatâs the one but in the mid eighties I remember there was a jingle that went for a minute or so, if I recall right part of it was Take 40 Australia rockin across the nation to you take 40 Australia on your favourite station for you⌠It has been along time so I could be a word or two out but the full promo was brilliant!!
I havenât heard any from the 90âs. Iâve only heard a few from the Noughties.
Nothing from the 80âs.
Theyâve been posting about it on their Facebook.
Thats my dads old stereo early 70s vintage. It was very old in 2008. They need to play something the early 70s when using a photo of that good old stereo.
https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/pioneer/sx-440.shtml
This countdown might do. https://youtu.be/cn1J42V1caE
Though itâs misleadingly labelled as âStereo AMâ, which as we know didnât arrive until 1985.
Was at JB Hi Fi Garden City at lunchtime. Lots of DAB radios in stock - Sony, Sangean, Bush.
Though there donât seem to be many new models coming on the market though.
But I did spot this one which I donât think Iâve seen before:
The main attraction with this one to me is the rotary dial to select stations on both Digital and FM, which would be preferable to buttons.
Only Bing Lee seem to stock it, seems like it could be a good buy at $99.
Only downside I can see so far is there doesnât appear to be any RDS on FM.
Itâs not a bad radio. But that model has been around for a few years.
EON Sports Radio is no more.
Announcement and final minutes can be heard here
https://twitter.com/EONSportsRadio/status/867898027033280513
Very strange - even the announcers werenât sure what was happening - start at about 2:15
Right now they are just airing TalkSport out of the UK.
Not surprising really. As much as it was a niche format with limited content, it was never marketed properly and promises of content they made when they launched were never kept. Almost no one knew the station existed - which meant next to no one was listening, but also potential advertisers had never heard of the station and therefore didnât know/trust who they would be giving their money to. It also didnât help that the website was just as vague as to who the station was and how to contact them.
Yes thatâs a problem generally with Digital Radio. There is zero promotion of digital only stations. Nobody knows they exist.
Actually itâs worse than that. Thereâs a huge chunk of people who arenât even aware Digital Radio exists and whatâs available!
I canât for the life of me understand why thereâs no promotion. Particularly stations like Smooth in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth on DAB only. Theyâve got the no.1 FM format on Sydney and Melbourne, so why arenât they promoting the s$&t out of it in the other capitals?
Kinderling Kids Radio is still going after a couple of years. I wonder what the future is for it?
i would guess it could involve selling out to a bigger company - someone like disney for example. they would be in trouble though if ABC did a full time kids format (which it suprises me they have not)
I guess thatâs possible.
In the US Disney Radio sold all but one of their stations in 2014/15 to become an on-line streaming station, but a year or so later signed up with CBS Radio and other networks to put Disney on HD Radio subchannels.
At least a closure due to lack of listeners is a better argument than closing Classic Rock because it had too many.