Hit Network

No, it was “Good Times & Perth’s Best Variety”. They subsequently dropped the “Good Times” and now just have “Perth’s Best Variety”.

I honestly don’t understand why Perth has such bizarre music formats. Back in the 90s, 96.1 Triple M had a “Today’s Best Music” CHR format, aligning it with the Today stations in other cap cities.

Austereo then purchased PMFM and 94.5FM. They rebadged 94.5 as Mix94.5 with a Today-style logo, but maintained the oldies format. Meanwhile, PMFM was rebadged as 92.9, with a Today music format, but with AFL games being broadcast.

Eventually, Mix94.5 received a new orange and black logo and aligned more closely with the Triple M network (Triple M-lite essentially, because they still played a lot of 70s and 80s pop) and 92.9 received the full Hit Network CHR treatment and logo (finally).

96FM in the meantime, rebadged as a KIIS station, and while they tried to go a bit hotter/poppier with their music, they never fully went there. They eventually chickened out and reverted to an oldies/semi-rock format (albeit broader nowadays), more in line with the Gold format (but still sporting a KIIS style logo).

Meanwhile, 92.9 suddenly relaunched as Triple M, but they have an early Nova/Triple J hybrid music format (dance, urban, alt-rock), and Mix94.5, which is the Hit branded station, has a bizarre “trying to be something to everyone” format.

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