Off topic, but they did use it subtly for Holey Moley
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The West Australian reporting that Fred Botica is finishing up at 96FM this Friday, with Dean ‘Clairsy’ Clairs joining the show from Monday.
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Looks awful.
Time for 96 to move to Pure Gold alongside Gold and WS. Bring KIIS to Perth on DAB
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Good appointment by 96FM with Clairsy one of the most-loved breakfast radio presenters.
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From December 10 last year. Not to blow my own trumpet or anything, but NAILED IT!
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Yeah that’s the logo they’ve been using on outdoor advertising. Definitely seems official now. 
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Always expected it will happen when Botica retires for the 2nd time.
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Is this the second time Clairsy has taken his role?
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He was on Mix 94.5 until last December and his first retirement
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clairys restraint period ended today
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Mix move Fred and Lisa to drive and Clairys Shane(late),Kimba took over breakfast.
By memory Fred took long service leave and may have come back for week then left mix after 25 years
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96 logo looks alright coloured in the KIIS lips, reminds me of the Coca Cola logo on a bottle lid. But is terrible in just white.
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Urgh! Just awful! I understand what they’re trying to do, but I think this is a huge fail!
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A fairly reasonable attempt at incorporating 96FM’s heritage logo in the KIIS style, but one in the Pure Gold Network logo style (especially since ARN’s sole Perth station seems to be much closer to WSFM/Gold than KIIS musically) would be much better.
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I really like this logo… gives off a kind of KISS the band feel… rather than KIIS.
But I completely agree 96FM should be in the GOLD network… such a better fit.
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That being said, how well do the KIIS shows rate on 96fm? I wonder if the KIIS shows are rating well to justify’s ARN’s decision for 96fm being a part of the KIIS network
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So there was what I think was a very interesting change on 97.3 FM this morning.
It appears they’ve replaced the “97 minutes of nonstop music” that they’ve done every weekday at 9am (so ad free music from 9am to about 10:40am) with this “Ad Free 50s” concept of 50 minutes of ad free music each hour throughout the workday.
I’ve listened to 97.3 FM breakfast for about 15 years now (Robin, Terry & Bob FTW 
) and “97 minutes of nonstop music” has ALWAYS been there straight after the breakfast show. I don’t know this, but I suspect it’s been there since the station launched in 2001, it’s definitely been there since 2005 which is my first real memories of listening to the station (I was too young to remember before that).
So yea, I find it interesting that it’s now gone (shall be interesting to see if these Ad Free 50s appear on the weekends too). I assume the Ad Free 50s thing is a KIIS thing that’s being transplanted in.
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As far as I can tell (old versions of the 97.3 website via the Wayback Machine), the 97 minutes of nonstop music probably began in Early 2005.
During the early years of 97.3FM Brisbane, their breakfast show seemed to run the 8am More Music Hour: I suspect that segment had been running since the station launched in October 2001…and was lifted from Mix 106.5 Sydney who’s own brekky show had 8am as the More Music Hour in the Early 2000s.
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