if any stations have love letters, music dedication programs like in Vietnam, that would be a big happiness to someone and anyone here my friends
(most of radio stations here in VN sound very like SRN in the kangaroo land. What makes people keep listening to it is the strong interaction with listeners and music dedications, and great topic to talk to. The remaining stations simply lost listeners because they don’t even have live programming or just simply relaying VOV1 at the moment)
Would love to day-part.
9am-6pm 70s
6pm - 9am EDM
70s is huge at the moment. EDM is timeless.
How about a dose of the Minefield?
It would be nice to have a station that was like triple J’s Requestival, where listeners could request what songs are played [TBH that sounds like something triple J would do themselves, i wouldn’t be surprised if the ended up doing that one day]!
That has been tried, about 12 or so years back with ‘Choose The Hits Jelli’. This was mainly online but did make it to DAB briefly iirc.
A bit of a strange idea, but On Demand Radio - if you want a song to be played, tell the song to the station, three random songs will get picked and voted on, that song is played.
A bit like this:
with Call in being when you submit songs, Voted on is when you vote on songs by either calling or going to the website, and Played being, well, the song with the most votes.
There were some internet stations like that, one in NZ but I found the songs I could select from from artist like Toto was limited, just the normal wsfm songs. Isn’t it sad the “WSFM term” for a flogged song will be obsolete soon , the “GOLD song” doesn’t work for me as it lacks something. Maybe thats why they are going to call it Gold , its people like me give the name WSFM the “baggage “. 
Mr Inphase on SWR uses the 2ws song term often too when he throws a 2ws classic into the mix.
ABC Radio
Double J Rebrand
Turning Double J into a full FM station, nationwide for 30+ adults, playing edgier/slightly indy adult contemporary music with a heavy focus on Australian artists of the 90’s and 00s. ABC can’t give up on music listeners when they age out of Triple J, it also adds more variety for regional listeners.
ABC Classic FM switches to DAB and online only, Double J takes the FM frequencies nationwide, as well as on DAB and online.
An example weekday schedule could be (the type of talent that would suit the station used as examples):
0500: Double J Early Breakfast (Probably a recent JJJ graduate could present)
0700: Kitty and Dave (Kitty Flanagan and Dave O’Neil)
1000: Myf Warhurst
1200: Lunch with Myf and Zan
1300: Zan Rowe
1600: Drive with Sammy J
1900: Nights with Linda Marigliano
2300: Late Nights
0200: Overnights
Someone’s been listening to Radio 2! 
I’m surprised your idea’s never been done actually, it’s exactly like Radios 1 and 2 in the UK.
Radio 2 is a perfect idea for a national ABC station. But I highly doubt ABC has the skill to pull it off. They can’t help themselves and would go too niche and too alternative. The beauty of Radio 2 is it has the perfect mix of mainstream and alternative. And the mainstream stuff they play is often of the rarer kind, but it’s still mainstream enough. I doubt ABC programmers could do it.
It’s not an original idea, for sure. But it’s something Kim Williams should be thinking about, as they are losing an audience once they age out of Triple J. They’d be meeting their legislative ideals by offering an extra alternative for regional Australia, and for Australian music.
Yeah it could be messed up, but they have a lot of new HOD’s these days from the commercial world, which helps. They should heavily lean into Australian music - but they should be a mix of artists from indy to Killing Heidi. It should be mainstream to an extent.
That’s very true. And I totally agree. But even if we took an Australian version of Radio 2’s playlist, and played it wall to wall… it wouldn’t work.
The beauty of Radio 2 is the unabashed personality. Talking between every song. The warmth that comes from ‘more talk, less music’. For years I used to listen to Vanessa Feltz and hang on her ever word. And sure the music is important, but it’s the way it’s packaged together. I’ve listened to plenty of obscure tracks on Radio 2 that I otherwise wouldn’t listen to, but because Vernon Kay tells me it’s good, tells me about the artist, gives it a backstory… I listen and enjoy.
Rod Quinn when he’s doing a classic album is probably the closest thing we have in Australia to creating that ‘warmth’ and love of music.
Yes agree the personality on BBC R2 is a big part of it. And they manage to be completely apolitical, which I doubt ABC would be able to do. Sadly, I think ABC would struggle with both the music and the personality if they tried to do a Radio 2.
I actually found the new additions to the Spotify DJ to be better than 99% of Aussie radio. it now gives weather and plays news from your favourite source at the top of the hour.
Agree, though I wish it was a bit more customisable… eg I hate the voice they use…
But as AI improves, I think these kinds of stations will only get better in the future eg. you say “Play me a Top 40 countdown from the Year XXXX with news and weather updates with a female presenter” and away it goes.
Hmm that sounds good! Do you know if YouTube Music has this as well?
not from what I can see
Thank you. I shall give it a try. I wonder if they can play bulletins at :55, I like to hear my news before everyone else.
Yes indeed. Couldn’t agree more.
But do you think the issue is just with the inability of the ABC to pull it off… or do you think possibly even if we did have an ABC Radio 2, it wouldn’t rate well because of the audience we have here in this country?
I like it already, specially as DJ X is prepared to push the boundaries and play me new music (which is the whole reason why I still listen to the radio).