This morning on GOLD 101.7 80s and KIIS 80s they’re running iHeart 80s (same on the rest of the network).
Incidently, KIIS 90s is running iHeart ‘90s unlimited’
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 IHeart80’s and Gold80’s same with IHeart90’s and KISS90’S?
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 ‘Sydney’s Hottest Country 2SM’ and came out the other side hearing ‘Continuous Easy Favorites GOLD 1269’.
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.
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.
All 4 of them in the Sydney metro license area. 
GOLD 101.7 line up this week
6-10am Bill Weaver
10am-2pm Ugly Phil
2-6pm Rob Duckworth
Looking forward to hearing what songs will be on the ‘Summer 500’ countdown from tomorrow… certainly earlier in the countdown we should hear more of the rarities.
wonder if thats when online/socials will change over…
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
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. 
That looks neon green
Joney and her Armada. New team? 
First name Groove?
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 ‘Western Suburbs’ identity of the station put to rest.
WSFM has always been marketed and sold to advertisers as part of ARN’s Gold network, but now the name change is intended to cement that national image. But not everyone is happy.
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?
My wish?
That 2WS be reborn on 96.1 playing classic hits from the 60s to 80s as a true western Sydney station, complete with the original news themes.
Sadly the classic 2WS jingles wouldn’t work with 96.1 in place of 1224.
Won’t happen i know, but one can dream!
This is what you get when you blow your load over 2 talentless hacks.
They’re probably happy running CADA on the smell of a oily rag, knowing they get away with breaking the 2 to a market rule because we have a deadshit of a regulator and pollies who do not have the balls to make them do anything.
CADA needs to be sold or shut down. It’s not serving its license area, which is not Sydney.
Probably the best way for them to pay K&J the money is to shut CADA down in Katoomba, what’s the point of having an FM radio station in the area that’s mainly Sydney-centric? If a radio listener wants to listen to something Sydney-centric, they’ll go over to the main Sydney stations. Doesn’t CADA have a very niche amount of listeners in Katoomba?
I know and I understand it’s licensed to Katoomba, but ARN are simply breaking the rules by being a Sydney station on FM and not a Katoomba station (do they even have regionalised Katoomba ads on there anymore or is it just mainly Sydney metropolitan ads on the Katoomba station now?). There are already 2 ARN stations licensed to Sydney on FM, Gold101.7 and K&JO 1065. If they don’t wish to serve Katoomba anymore, just give up, simple as that. Either that or just get the ACMA to march down to ARN’s North Sydney office and terminate the CADA Katoomba FM license.
Sorry for going on with this massive rant, but I felt like I needed to mention something here regarding this. BTW, isn’t CADA already receivable in Katoomba (from Sydney) on DAB+ Digital? 
(Paging @tvcl and @VK3SWL)
