I think that both these presenters are good operators. It feels like the 90’s again. The great battle for night time radio might be returning.
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I like this, not rushing into it. Learning from SCA’s mistakes hopefully.
Where did you get it?
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Sooo, I’ve been thinking a lot during the last week about the news that 97.3 FM is going to adopt the KIIS naming. I can’t say that I’m stoked that it’s happening, mainly because I worry that adopting the KIIS naming will open the door to 97.3 FM becoming more like KIIS 106.5 Sydney and KIIS 101.1 Melbourne - and to me that is a not a good thing.
In my mind I group the major Brisbane radio stations into the following list:
- Nova & b105 are the new music stations
- Triple M is the rock/sport station
- ABC Brisbane and 4BC are the talkback stations of various flavours
- Triple J is the youth alternate music station
- 4KQ and 4BH are the older music stations (with 4KQ obviously doing the classic hits and 4BH now settling back into easy listening again)
- 97.3 FM is almost like this bridge between the older music stations and the new music stations (their whole positioner being 'Brisbane’s Widest Variety of Music from the 80s to Now).
I mainly listen to a combination of 4KQ (on DAB+ or streaming) and 97.3 FM (especially the breakfast show which I’ve been listening to for over 15 years, mainly for Terry Hansen). I also don’t mind listening to 4BH and River949 Ipswich sometimes too. Nova & b105 are basically non starters for me.
So while my main diet of music is from 70s to 90s, 97.3 FM has been a way for me to discover newer songs because I sort of use 97.3 FM as a filter - all the new songs start off on Nova & b105 but the new songs that aren’t terrible (mostly) end up filtering down to 97.3 FM after a few months. I can turn on 97.3 FM knowing that most of the songs played I’m going to enjoy and I might occasionally discover a new song that I like without sitting through hours of songs I have no interest in. Not every new song 97.3 FM chooses is a song I like, but I know that even if there’s one not so great song on the next song is likely to be an 80s or 90s song that I do like that’ll make up for it.
This is a sample of the music logs (via Lava) from 97.3 FM and KIIS 106.5 from last Tuesday night from 9pm to 11:15pm AEST
97.3 FM Brisbane
18/01/2022 21:03:39 AEST Taylor Swift Mr. Perfectly Fine
18/01/2022 21:08:19 AEST Green Day Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
18/01/2022 21:10:41 AEST Lady Gaga Born This Way
18/01/2022 21:14:20 AEST Mr Mister Broken Wings
18/01/2022 21:19:00 AEST Whitney Houston / Clean Bandit How Will I Know
18/01/2022 21:22:20 AEST DJ Sammy / Yanou / Do Heaven
18/01/2022 21:26:21 AEST Olivia Rodrigo Good 4 U
18/01/2022 21:29:22 AEST Goo Goo Dolls Iris
18/01/2022 21:37:03 AEST Eric Prydz Call On Me
18/01/2022 21:39:44 AEST Adele Oh My God
18/01/2022 21:43:44 AEST Belinda Carlisle Heaven Is A Place On Earth
18/01/2022 21:53:05 AEST Melanie C / Lisa Lopes Never Be The Same Again
18/01/2022 21:56:25 AEST The Four Seasons December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)
18/01/2022 21:59:04 AEST Shawn Mendes Treat You Better
18/01/2022 22:06:25 AEST Leonardo’s Bride Even When I’m Sleeping
18/01/2022 22:10:27 AEST Mark Ronson / Miley Cyrus Nothing Breaks Like A Heart
18/01/2022 22:13:46 AEST Bon Jovi Livin’ On A Prayer
18/01/2022 22:17:47 AEST Taylor Swift Message In A Bottle
18/01/2022 22:21:07 AEST Kelly Clarkson Since U Been Gone
18/01/2022 22:24:27 AEST Conan Gray Maniac
18/01/2022 22:27:07 AEST Alanis Morissette Hand In My Pocket
18/01/2022 22:35:49 AEST Train Drops Of Jupiter
18/01/2022 22:40:30 AEST Jessica Mauboy Glow
18/01/2022 22:43:09 AEST George Harrison Got My Mind Set On You
18/01/2022 22:52:30 AEST Coldplay Clocks
18/01/2022 22:55:50 AEST Jewel Foolish Games
18/01/2022 22:59:50 AEST Daft Punk / Pharrell Williams / Nile Rodgers Get Lucky
18/01/2022 23:03:51 AEST Sam Fischer / Luca Schreiner This City
18/01/2022 23:06:31 AEST Wilson Phillips Hold On
18/01/2022 23:10:32 AEST Meghan Trainor Lips Are Movin’
18/01/2022 23:13:12 AEST Bill Medley / Jennifer Warnes (I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life
KIIS 106.5 Sydney
18/01/2022 21:05:18 AEST Justin Bieber Ghost
18/01/2022 21:07:19 AEST Jessica Mauboy Been Waiting
18/01/2022 21:11:19 AEST Glass Animals Heat Waves
18/01/2022 21:13:19 AEST Rumor Running Away
18/01/2022 21:16:20 AEST Meghan Trainor Lips Are Movin’
18/01/2022 21:19:40 AEST Cxloe New Trick
18/01/2022 21:22:41 AEST Eminem / Rihanna The Monster
18/01/2022 21:26:41 AEST Gayle ABC (Nicer)
18/01/2022 21:29:41 AEST Galantis / Throttle Tell Me You Love Me
18/01/2022 21:39:44 AEST Niall Horan & Anne,marie Everywhere
18/01/2022 21:41:44 AEST The Veronicas Everything I’m Not
18/01/2022 21:45:04 AEST Acraze Ft Cherish Do It To It
18/01/2022 21:47:04 AEST Justin Bieber What Do You Mean?
18/01/2022 21:49:45 AEST The Rubens Waste A Day
18/01/2022 21:53:44 AEST Zedd / Foxes Clarity
18/01/2022 22:03:46 AEST Coldplay / BTS My Universe
18/01/2022 22:07:06 AEST Ed Sheeran Lego House
18/01/2022 22:09:47 AEST David Guetta / Sia Flames
18/01/2022 22:13:06 AEST The Weeknd Sacrifice
18/01/2022 22:15:47 AEST Taylor Swift Style
18/01/2022 22:19:47 AEST Sheppard The Reasons Why
18/01/2022 22:23:09 AEST Westlife Uptown Girl
18/01/2022 22:25:48 AEST Becky Hill / Topic My Heart Goes (La Di Da)
18/01/2022 22:27:48 AEST Jessica Mauboy Wake Me Up
18/01/2022 22:38:29 AEST Lil Nas X That’s What I Want
18/01/2022 22:40:30 AEST Rihanna Don’t Stop The Music
18/01/2022 22:44:29 AEST Vance Joy Missing Piece
18/01/2022 22:47:09 AEST Meghan Trainor / John Legend Like I’m Gonna Lose You
18/01/2022 22:57:10 AEST Adele Oh My God
18/01/2022 23:00:30 AEST Guy Sebastian / Eve Who’s That Girl
18/01/2022 23:04:31 AEST Taylor Swift Mr. Perfectly Fine
18/01/2022 23:10:32 AEST Neiked / Mae Muller / Polo G Better Days
97.3 FM has a bunch of good older stuff in there including '(I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life, Drops Of Jupiter, Got My Mind Set On You, Heaven Is A Place On Earth as well as some good newer songs from artists such as Taylor Swift, Jessica Mauboy and Olivia Rodrigo. The KIIS 106.5 playlist is mostly unrecognisable to me - there’s a few good songs I recognise in there, but not the majority. To me, KIIS 106.5 strongly fits into that same Nova/b105 category of new music station that I wouldn’t listen to.
So that’s my worry, that the KIIS branding is going to open up 97.3 FM to move more towards the KIIS 106.5 Sydney/KIIS 101.1 Melbourne playlists and therefore effectively cease being that bridge station and just become another Nova/b105. With the sale of 4KQ also coming up sometime in the next year or so, I’m worried Brisbane is going to lose 2 good stations.
The three things I hang onto as some level of hope is:
- The statement to the media said “97.3 is Brisbane’s #1 station and listeners will continue to hear all of the things they currently love about the station but now with a touch of vibrant KIIS energy.” - hopefully that means what it means and isn’t just empty marketing talk and that the station won’t really change
- That the fact that 97.3 FM was the number 1 station in Survey 8 of 2021 means they don’t want to muck with success too much.
- The fact that there’s already Nova & b105 taking the role of new music station and so why would you want to crowd into the well filled space.
Anyway, not long now, we’ll see what happens I guess.
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The fact they have kept a more mature breakfast team is a sign that the changes will be minimal. They might slightly tweak the music, but I don’t think there will be any huge changes.
I dunno if Kip is enough of a draw card to pull some of Nova’s older listeners over. I can see them freshening up the imaging a bit (making it sound less daggy, a bit hotter), perhaps adding some songs with integrated/produced sweepers, but I can’t see them being CHR. Most likely hot AC with some KIIS production elements.
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I feel like it’s just a way of selling ads. Nothing more and 97.3 isn’t much of a name anyway so tacking on KIIS doesn’t do much.
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My theory is that they’ll move River into being that bridge with a Gold playlist skewing older, along with KIIS97.3 eventually skewing newer to avoid their own two stations directly competing.
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How are they identifying themselves on air?
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Jeez the show sounds super provincial. Sounds like something out of Geelong or Ballarat. Is this a regular thing in Brisbane?
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Ninety Seven Three, so far. Sounds very Hot AC music wise.
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The morning hosts for 97.3 in Brisbane are still calling the station as “97.3 FM” & not “KIIS 97.3” yet, even though their sites are branding it as such. As some have said, this does feel like a gradual shift towards KIIS. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens.
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Comedian Eddie Bannon is the new addition. He has appeared on Ali Clarke’s breakfast show on ABC Radio Adelaide before.
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I don’t like how they name the show just after one person when there is other co-hosts
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A Sandilands as a producer, nepotism, or an unfortunate last name?
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My understanding was that they are distant relatives, but a RadioInfo article says otherwise.
Regardless, Shaun has worked for ARN in Brisbane since before K&J moved over.
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Like the Marty Sheargold Show? Moonman in the Morning? The Christian O’Connell Show? It’s nothing new. It usually means they are the draw card (or have the biggest ego).
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Interesting, Ali has been popular and Mix is a strong station so this should go well.
I suspect they are paying alot of money for Clarke and have been for Phillips so expectations will be high.
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@AustralianAerial is that a mock or by ARN?
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Looks to be official from ARN - https://www.973fm.com.au/
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