I’m pretty sure that Modern Rock went off air in Adelaide at the same time that Classic Rock ended in other markets.
With the Triple M-branded DAB+ stations, I personally I think they’ll go for an approach like the old Classic/Modern Rock stations where different cities get different stations. SCA will still want people listening to the main Hit & Triple M stations first and foremost, so I think they’d make sure that their DAB+ offerings don’t clash with their FM stations.
Finally, does anyone here want to predict how long this latest DAB+ strategy from SCA will last for? Personally I think we’ll probably come back in about 12 months time to hear about another restructure of SCA’s digital offerings!
The above news will mean that Melbourne will have two Classic Rock stations on DAB+: Triple M Classic Rock Digital & Classic Rock Radio, which the latter is also available on 1377AM & was launched just over 3 weeks after Triple M Classic Rock Digital was axed the first time round.
If that’s the case, then it would be an ironic situation to see a Triple M DAB+ station being more “classic hits” than what WS/Gold is sounding like these days.
Just heard a promo for Triple M Greatest Hits on OMG! - now, where is Modern & Classic Rock going?
Yep - they also broadcast IRIS Digital, which used to run a separate schedule to the 1179AM schedule but I think is currently a simulcast (thus renderring the separate ‘VAR Digital’ stream redundant)
Here in Sydney at least, 2DayFM and Triple M are currently use 88kbps each. Aside from The Range at 32kbps, the other SCA stations (if Kinderling counts, add them too) are 48kbps.
Cutting the bitrate of the main stations to 64kbps would allow for an additional 48kbps to be used for another station. We’re not so likely to see the bitrate of Kinderling to 32kbps, with one of the new or relaunched SCA streams getting 48kbps.
Well all my friends are get married was the last song played on OMG. It was cut off halfway through… Now Live and Let die is the first track by Paul McCartney.
No slide show on MMM Modern and Classic Rock which is good since it essentially wastes bits for a small number of receivers. The slide show of OMG still show in Classic Hits that is playing just Paul McCartney for a week?