I think overnights Melbourne and Sydney problay be networked with the same music log and the stations will be ided as Gold FM just like Smooth is in Melbourne and Sydney thats my guess
WSFM is going Gold.
Mainly because of Kyle and Jackieâs platinum contract.
ARN are going full nuclear as they search for $20M a year as KISS 101.1âs ratings continue the slow burn downwards.
I suspect that at the end of 2025 the placings in the Sydney radio race will be:
Bronze: Kyle (based on his bank balance)
Silver: Jackie (based on her bank balance)
Gold: Smooth (as a very safe 101.7 fails to excite Sydneyâs Generation X).
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I wouldnât quite say thisâll be smoothâs race to win. Letâs not forget just how generic smooth has become since their launch.
The Sydney & Melbourne markets have become a FM battle of the vanilla stations.
At least AM stations are still battling it out - now that 2SM have a decent mornings offering against 2GB. Especially if 2SMâs Ron Wilson will be playing some music - hopefully a similar genre to what youâd hear on smooth95.3.
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This morning on GOLD 101.7 80s and KIIS 80s theyâre running iHeart 80s (same on the rest of the network).
Incidently, KIIS 90s is running iHeart â90s unlimitedâ
Now I know from time to time listening to KIIS 80s it does switch to iHeart 80s, but most of the time it has its own idents.
Does ARN need to run both IHeart80âs and Gold80âs same with IHeart90âs and KISS90âS?
The 80s and 90s stations are each the same just with different IDs inserted.
iHeart is used for the online streams, the DAB stations are Gold/KIIS/Mix branded according to their local FM brand(s).
When Wesgo owned both WSFM and 2SM, they decided to change 2SM from a country station to easy listening (as it was languishing at the bottom of the ratings). Interesting how they went about it.
On Friday afternoon May 6 1994. listeners went in to the 6pm news tuned to âSydneyâs Hottest Country 2SMâ and came out the other side hearing âContinuous Easy Favorites GOLD 1269â.
There was no warning and a barrage of country music fans phoned the station in disgust.
But something must have worked as apparently GOLD 1269 rose to a staggering 7.1% in survey 8 that year.
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Even more amazingly, it managed to outrate Mix 106.5 (now KIIS) by 0.2, who had just converted to FM a few months earlier from when it was 2UW.
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All 4 of them in the Sydney metro license area. 
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GOLD 101.7 line up this week
6-10am Bill Weaver
10am-2pm Ugly Phil
2-6pm Rob Duckworth
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Looking forward to hearing what songs will be on the âSummer 500â countdown from tomorrow⌠certainly earlier in the countdown we should hear more of the rarities.
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wonder if thats when online/socials will change overâŚ
i belive January 20 is the date is when Joney and Armada returns and the date when ws fm becomes full on Gold 101.7 and thats when the new Gold 101.7 site launches
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Time to go all Ministry of Truth on anything to do with WSFM.
Remember kids, 1984 is a work of fiction, not a how to guide. 
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That looks neon green
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Joney and her Armada. New team? 
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First name Groove?
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From Radioinfo:
WSFM callsign change angers past presenters
Some of that loyal fan base, including past presenters, have been critical of the move [rebranding WS to Gold], which will see the âWestern Suburbsâ identity of the station put to rest.
WSFM has always been marketed and sold to advertisers as part of ARNâs Gold network, but now the name change is intended to cement that national image. But not everyone is happy.
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Build a bridge (to the city)
They should tell ARN to focus CADA back on its licence area if they care about Western Sydney
Would rebranding CADA as a full Western Sydney station, still playing dance and RnB be such an awful idea?
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