Digital Radio

[Vidiot]

@Moe

48kbps on 9A in Melbourne.

Has the launch of MMM Country taken bits away from other SCA stations in Melbourne? Or was there spare bandwidth available?

[Jonesy72]

MMM Country is now up and running in Sydney with a few audio drop-outs.

It is at 48kbps on 9B.

A little frustrating that my car radio DAB list now doesnt have all the Triple M’s together as the rest are on 9A.

[SydneyCityTV]

Interestingly, the Sydney broadcast of Triple M Country Digital doesn’t have the DAB+ slideshow images at the moment although there is “Now Playing” data (typically seen as scrolling text on many radios) being transmitted.

Also I’m not sure if it has anything to do with getting MMM Country up and working, but “Zed” (which previously aired content from a few Melbourne community broadcasters) has gone silent.

[LeighF]

Triple M Country

[melbournefan]

@SydneyCityTV

Also I’m not sure if it has anything to do with getting MMM Country up and working, but “Zed” (which previously aired content from a few Melbourne community broadcasters) has gone silent.

That’s a weird one, but I don’t think that SCA would be doing that…

[SydneyCityTV]

Zed has since resumed with content. Since it’s flicked between content from a few Melbourne community broadcasters, I’m still trying to work out exactly who it’s from and what it’s for!

[Radiohead]

I would like to see a digital station called Triple M Variety.

This would feature a cross selection of tracks from GH/Classic Rock and Modern digital stations, but with an emphasis on lesser played tracks and with a large playlist.

[Moe]

@Vidiot

Has the launch of MMM Country taken bits away from other SCA stations in Melbourne? Or was there spare bandwidth available?

Spare bandwidth - there’s now 16kbps left.

[melbournefan]

@Radiohead

I would like to see a digital station called Triple M Variety.

That would be a disaster. Look how NTS came out to be, rubbish.

[LeighF]

It’s an interesting alignment of SCA’s country station with the Triple M brand as it’s known for primarily being a “rock” brand. I suppose they had to align it with either the Triple M or Hit.

SCA should’ve really made the launch a big thing and launched it at the Tamworth County Music Festival with a live OB.

[SydneyCityTV]

@LeighF

It’s an interesting alignment of SCA’s country station with the Triple M brand as it’s known for primarily being a “rock” brand. I suppose they had to align it with either the Triple M or Hit.

I think SCA chose to align the country station with the Triple M brand because a lot of country music sounds closer to a “rock” than a “pop” sound.

@LeighF

SCA should’ve really made the launch a big thing and launched it at the Tamworth County Music Festival with a live OB.

Even though Tamworth is a regional market that SCA doesn’t broadcast to (well they used to with TV, but not anymore) and Triple M Country can only be heard in the East Coast capital cities, on 91.5FM in Toowoomba & online.

[ozbark]

…the Sydney broadcast of Triple M Country Digital doesn’t have the DAB+ slideshow images at the moment.

Right now the Triple M Country [SYDNEY] DAB+ slideshow is present (must have fixed it later). Just the one slide.

[Radiohead]

Just had a listen to Zed … It’s back on 3RRR.

[crankymedia]

@TheStyles83

Or Kix Country might come to Adelaide.

On whose allocation? Very limited in Adelaide, Tattsbet would pay but there’s no room for them.

@SydneyCityTV

I’m not sure if that station has a slightly different format to The Range/Triple M Country, but you haven’t had access to ABC Country on DAB+?

ABC Country is not liked by many country music fans. It’s old style, narrow and doesn’t reflect the modern future seen on the cable music channel or the direction of the Golden Guitars.

@TheHomeOfMusic

Let’s hope this lasts longer than a month in Melbourne (where the Range was pulled not long after its launch a few years ago)

Dobbo finally got his act together? Another idiotic decision to remove country music from their multiplex earlier in the same way classic rock was removed.

Don’t know why they don’t use this format for Dobbo and Rex’s off band commercial station, Hot Country, could use the playlist and swap the branding.

@SydneyCityTV

Zed has since resumed with content. Since it’s flicked between content from a few Melbourne community broadcasters, I’m still trying to work out exactly who it’s from and what it’s for!

Don’t wonder, call the community broadcasters or CBAA and ask.

@LeighF

SCA should’ve really made the launch a big thing and launched it at the Tamworth County Music Festival with a live OB.

Please, have you ever seen them with any vision for this format? It’s a shoestring operation, Guy would barely ring his colleagues eg David Burton at his former station in Toowoomba to check on it. There’s no budget for it.

@ozbark

I wonder what is happening to those numerous ex The Range LPON & HPON FM frequency txers?

What does the group intend to do with the licences?

Does this deserve an answer? What happens any other time there’s a rebrand?

[LeighF]

@crankymedia

Please, have you ever seen them with any vision for this format?

SCA certainly seem to have more of a vision for a country station than what they have at ARN or Nova.

[crankymedia]

No, only more bandwidth to put a few more automated playlists to air.

[melbournefan]

@crankymedia

No, only more bandwidth to put a few more automated playlists to air.

Quite possibly to stop Community Stations from broadcasting on the mux by stealth.

[SydneyCityTV]

As far as I’m aware, all of the city-wide community broadcasters (regardless of whether they choose to simulcast the analogue station or run alternative programing) have spectrum on the DAB+ multiplexes.

[littlegezzybear]

@melbournefan

Quite possibly to stop Community Stations from broadcasting on the mux by stealth.

The commercial stations, and the community stations jointly, pay an access fee based on the bandwidth they have. There would be no broadcasting “by stealth”, (I think that would be impossible).

[Moe]

@SydneyCityTV

Zed has since resumed with content. Since it’s flicked between content from a few Melbourne community broadcasters, I’m still trying to work out exactly who it’s from and what it’s for!

As I’ve said before - there’s so many aspirant community broadcasters - they should be making space available for that - not piping up a Melbourne station.

@melbournefan

Quite possibly to stop Community Stations from broadcasting on the mux by stealth.

I can’t even comprehend what you’re suggesting. If community stations did anything on the multiplex ‘by stealth’ they would just be disconnected from the commercial station owned facilities that get DAB to air - no one’s risking that.