No, someone needs to teach ARN how to spell itā¦
Hmm greatā¦ Weāll see if the music changes or if itās just a name change.
If they do change the music towards KIIS in Melbourne and Sydney then thereās a golden opportunity for Triple M as the only FM in town not playing Hot AC/CHR. They could seize on this opportunity by going wall to wall music aimed at 25 - 54 and playing up the FM104 heritage. Ditch the talk and networked shows and go completely local. But will they? Nope.
I think Mix 102.3 may have a change coming soon as-well. I donāt think if itās a whole rebrand to KIIS 1023 but they have been referring to the station as Mix 1023 without the point and their Fab Fifties has been renamed to Ad Free 50s which is a KIIS term.
May be looking into it too much though.
With Soda out of Mix and potentially Ali Clarke joining the team, as well as their ratings slowly falling in recent times I wouldnāt put it past then considering invoking the relaunch button.
The old ācopy and paste the media releaseā and miss a key bit of the storyā¦
With 97.3 and Mix Adelaide rebranding, I wish theyād rebrand 96fm to Gold network. It makes no sense as part of Kiis.
Kip did a Marty, used the excuse wanting to have a break away from radio, weāll he did for his 6 months non compete clause to turn up at an opposition radio station. Did the Nova playlist shit him so much to leave??
If 97.3 is going to become KIIS I find that a weird decision, 4KQ is top rating, and they are going to loose their Pure Gold station due to the force sale caused by the Grant merge.
I would have thought that it would have made more sense for 97.3 to become Gold 97.3. and join the Pure Gold Network. My bet is they will continue to use the 97.3 older log, and it will be just a name change only. A bit like like 94.5 and 2day fm skewing way older for the Hit network.
However if they take the KIIS Hot AC / CHR log there will be three fm stations targeting the same market in Brisbane.
Makes me think thereās all kinds of things happening in the background that we donāt know about. Iām very keen to hear how everything at ARN is going to fall (re: potential rebrands for 97.3 and Mix 102.3, new brekky teams, changes to The Edge, Grant stations, etc). 96fm certainly seems like the odd one out. I doubt they would rebrand the station to KIIS, and it definitely seems more suited to the Pure Gold network. So what happens? Do they just have no KIIS station in Perth? Is there more happening with Grant/Capital (6IX) and the FM conversion than we know about (could it become KIIS Perth), etc?
I agree!
If anyone from ARN is reading this, can you please tell us all of your plans. We promise to keep it confidential. We are very eager, kind, but a little impatient. So it does make sense to tell us first.
Thank you and kind regards
More movements on Jase & Lauren:
- Luke James has joined the show as Executive Producer and has replaced Caitlin McArthur who has moved to Gold 104.3 and The Christian OāConnell Show. James has previously been a producer at Sky News, Nova 96.9 (Fitzy & Wippa), SCA and KIIS 106.5 (Kyle and Jackie O) where he was known as Manchild.
- Mikayla White has joined the show as a Senior Producer and has replaced Jane Mackinlay. White has previously been a producer at SCA working on Triple Mās Danny Lakey Show and Mick Molloy.
The team commenced a daily podcast today and will return next month.
Itās terribly inconvenient of them not to advise us of all of their plans.
I do feel the current 96fm is temporary. Their new logo which combines the kiis and original 96 logo isnāt on the building at Hay St, Perth. Still the 96fm kiis logo.
Jase & Lauren is back doing ādaily wrapsā which is just a podcast they usually record after the show, but the actual show is not back. I donāt get why if they can pull together a decent podcast they canāt record the show from home.
Why do they need the national guys on the small stations. It will be fine if they change the name to KIIS or MIX
KJ HOP was 6-7pm nationally (except in Melbs where it went til 8pm because they didnāt want to air two hours of Jase and Lauren).
KJ HOP will remain at 6ā7pm nationally.
