Not even in a major global city like Sydney.
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No need to if it can be pre-recorded. In 1975, radio also provided most of the information that your smartphone can today with the relevant app.
Apart from breakfast (for the rest of this year at least) it probably never will be again 
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Looks like we will hear more of Gold Melbourne announcers in Sydney over Easter long weekend.
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Wonder if it will be Totally 80s or some themed music programming over Easter too?
Yes Totally 80s from 12pm tomorrow until Easter Monday I heard it on the commercial today
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People need to stop thinking like itâs still 2SM/3XY in the mid-1970s. News, weather etc. can be accessed in seconds on your smartphone app and you can get sports scores in real time on them, too. Live and local is an anachronism. Especially when done from a purpose-built studio in a radio stationâs building.
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Itâs not that people are stuck in a 70âs/80âs/90âs mindset.
Itâs because radio companies are gutting the on air product, sacking talented people and piping announcers from other cities.
These are major cities by the way, if we donât have some sort of localism then whatâs the point of listening to the radio, you want people broadcasting from where you are listening or want to listen.
It shows in the ratings on most occasions too.
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No one listens to news on the radio, which is why every commercial radio station insists on airing news bulletins hourly (in most cases) during the day.
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I do, but not specifically for news.
What commercial FM radio should be able to do well is package the music, news, traffic, weather and DJ voice tracks (preferably live) with back/forward announcements of the music etc with useful music related trivia into an entertaining package⌠Thatâs something Spotify/Apple Music canât really do (yet).
Gold does this pretty well, but the music is a bit too repetitive for my liking.
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Says who? I do. I enjoy short news bulletins on music radio.
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Clearly the sarcasm didnât come across - my point was that if news wasnât relevant to audiences, stations wouldâve ditched it ages ago.
personality radio can beat Spotify. Dates and trivia cannot. Especially for retro music formats.
Not even sure what you mean by dates and trivia.
But even a well curated music radio playlist can still beat Spotify. Eg. Spotify is yet to impress me as much as a Rebel or Breeze playlist. Also these stations sound âaliveâ, which is also something Spotify or YT Music canât achieve.
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3DB/UZ/KZ et al had news bulletins late at night and overnight. Their FM successors today do not.
Likewise. A short 5 minute national news bulletin, with sport and weather at the top of the hour is perfect enough for me, followed by music.
SCA does this very well on most of its DAB extensions.
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A bit of a blunder on the Gold101.7 Shows webpage. It currently has the Gold104.3 line-up on the Show Schedule at the bottom (with Christian 6-9am). Maybe a sign of whatâs to come in 2026?
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Rebel FM still has news bulletins (albeit syndicated from Nine Radio) in overnight hours.
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They just changed it already 
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Agree. That is why 3XY was so good back in the day. They had one of the best news teams but kept it tight for a 3-4 minute bulletin then straight back to music.
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