I guess that’s what happens when radio stations have such narrow playlists and start sounding like each other musically.
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Most stations, even across different networks follow fairly similar clocks in terms of approximately where news, traffic and ad breaks will be. It’s like an unspoken rule so that listeners can’t change stations during the ad breaks and avoid listening to the ads which make them all money.
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I am aware of this, my work requires me to monitor aus media for spots etc and I’m just stating that MMM and Mix Perth seem to have an even more coincidental unintended synchronicity than usual.
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Except in the case of Nova 106.9 and the old 973 FM. They used to alternate their playlists so that one would have ads and the other music and vica versa, during the non-networked parts of the day. They did this to try and keep listeners on both stations and not switching to MMM or B105. I’m guessing it’s a very different situation now in Brisbane though.
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They do realise they’re an audio medium and this would do nothing to gain listeners?
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Theatre of the mind … that’s what radio does best.
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WTF?
here’s something interesting (at around 16:37) - a 92.9 ad with the Today network-style promo, BUT with the pre-Today network logo at the end!
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At this point in time, 92.9 was aligned to the Today Network. 2Day, Fox, B105, SAFM, NXFM and 104.7 had rolled out the new logos in late 2004/early 2005, but 92.9 didn’t switch their logo until Em & Wippa were the breakfast team (circa January 2006).
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Also at this time I believe 92.9 had “The Freq Club”, a concept which only other Triple M’s were running.
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Some incredible rare ad variations from Ajax Spray and Wipe and Harvey Norman id not heard in years in there. Absolute goldmine!
Have been extracting and resorting 90s-2000s theme tunes lately with AI. Nostalgic af
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Just more proof of how different the landscape is in Perth. He’s had so many second chances and blown it every time before. I hope for his sake this time will be different, but he wouldn’t get a look in over east these days.
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Obviously you have know idea.
Benny has been at 7 Perth for over 2 years.
Presents the sport 3 days a week on the Morning News.
Has a weekly spot with Adrian Barich talking Afl
On the 6pm News
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That really just emphasises my point. He’s got a history longer than most of drugs, domestic violence, jail time and relapses, yet the Perth media continue to laud him as a hero. If he’s got his life on track now, good on him, it’s fantastic when a past offender can successfully be rehabilitated.
He, and anyone else with his record, wouldn’t even get an interview anywhere else. 7 clearly aren’t too keen to roll him out onto their AFL coverage, which he’d arguably be an excellent candidate for, because they know what the reaction would be outside Perth.
However, my point isn’t to have a go at Ben. It’s to highlight that this is an example of how the media landscape is vastly different in Perth compared to the rest of the country, something which is often highlighted in discussions about how descisions made in the East are generally not well aligned to the Perth market.
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Obviously we aren’t going to agree!!!
it’s hard to agree with someone that hasn’t even expressed their opinion
good chat
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I think WATV’s use of the term “Obviously you have no idea” demonstrates that he disagrees with everything you said.
Cousins is also currently competing on Dancing with the Stars, so I guess that means Channel 7 over east have given him more than an interview everywhere else.
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So it’s now controversial to suggest that different markets react differently. Isn’t that media/politics/etc 101?
Might as well pump Kyle and Jackie O in and be done with it if I’m wrong on that statement.
Hardly. Just another criminal who Kerry Stokes has decided to give a rebirth to. Tucked away in his Dalkeith mansion he’s hardly got a grip on what Perth think, let alone the rest of the Australia.
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On the show each morning this week, one lucky listener was plucked from the standby list and chauffeur driven to the vault for a chance to win $1 million. After chatting with Fifi, Fev and Nick at the millionaire’s lounge next door, the listener walked to the vault and picked a random number envelope, which was then verified by a government official, and then opened live on air by the hosts.
According to Fifi, Fev and Nick’s Instagram page, the first four people all missed out on the million dollar prize and instead won a few thousand dollars. I missed this morning’s show so didn’t know if the big prize went off.
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