Back to 96fm, from Radioinfo:
Russell Clark will be joining the on-air team at 96FM in afternoons, each weekday between 1pm - 4pm with his appointment completing 96FM’s new on-air line-up, along with Botica’s Bunch which launched this morning at 5.30am.
Read more at: https://www.radioinfo.com.au/news/96fm-finalises-their-line-changes-russell-clark
What is the music sounding like with the new position on 96FM?
Listened for a few hours today… IMHO sounding a lot closer to how it used to be. Notably they played Stairway to Heaven and I don’t think I’ve heard any Led Zeppelin on 96fm since the takeover (should point out I have been listening to the station very little).
Fred made a point of playing the first and second tracks ever broadcast on the station so I think there is a definite intent to win back the old audience - ie why did they stuff it up in the first place?
Here’s the complete playlist from today: 96fm - Monday 8th July 2019 - 6am-4pm AWST
Alternatively: https://radiovolna.net/en/402580-6now-96fm.html
As you can see, as @royaldave pointed out on the above post, they played “FM (No Static At All)” by Steely Dan at 6am this morning as a homage to its heritage, in which it was the first song ever played on the station when it first went to air nearly 40 years ago.
Yes, 96fm is turning 40 in August next year! 
I think it’s great to see 96fm return to ‘real music’ and try to recapture their success of recent years - before ARN ruined it.
But with the music and style of the station now so far removed from “KIIS” stations in Sydney and Melbourne what’s the point of the KIIS network?
Why have a “network” when each station bears no resemblance to the others? It’s just dumb.
The stations are all so different, even 97.3 and Mix 102.3 are totally different to KIIS in Syd/Mel.
Disband this farcical “network”. Same goes for Pure Gold. 4KQ and Cruise should form the basis for a classic hits brand.
Maybe it’s my OCD but ARN has no idea.
Mate, I could not agree more 
Why does ARN largely position their main stations as being part of the KIIS and Pure Gold/Classic Hits Networks? Possibly because it’s easier from a national advertising perspective and because it likely doesn’t cost as much to have a common logo design (with the only difference being the text for each station) across the four or five key stations in each “network”.
I agree that it’s stupid, but the same can be said about the strategies of most major commercial radio networks in this country.
I read a article on the weekend where 96fm would be changing their music format to Sold gold music 
Good luck with that.
ARN is going for a 25-54 brand that’s 18-39 friendly, at a guess. Let’s hope they don’t fuck it up this time.
Edit: just had a look at the log from Monday - they’re skewing older than I anticipated with that, very much on par with Gold Melbourne with some older throwbacks (eg. The Beatles) and newer recurrents (eg. Imagine Dragons). One to keep an eye on.
Completely agree. Similar at Hit network where they have varied the brand too much in some markets.
It’s the Brad McNally/Graham Mott position. Worked well for them.
A fact him and Gary Roberts would know well.
If only The Airhead website was still running, hilarious comments to be read I’m sure.
Agree. As usual, the lack of commonsense from the bean counters and sales rule the roost.
Seen on Facebook this morning…
Great opportunity for 96fm to relive this. Most of these bands on the 96 playlist. Not the whole concert again but a feature tomorrow on the Classic Cafe. Must listen. Great to see the station acknowledging the artists as they play them this weekend too.
Former Breakfast Host at 96fm brad fitzgerald doing traffic report for Sunrise today
Will and Woody will be on 10’s Celebrity Name Game next Tuesday (July 30).
Looks like there’s now a local version of the iHeartRadio Countdown for 97.3 Brisbane if their website is anything to go by
Good, it was needed. Attention to detail amongst the networking introduced to 973, beginning with drive and then night blocks displacing live (virtual) and local content sadly.
Herald Sun reports today that KIIS 101.1 breakfast co-host Polly “PJ” Harding will fight AFLW star Tayla Harris in the boxing ring in North Melbourne on September 5, to help stamp out online bullying.
There has been for a while now, I remember hear it throughout the course of last year too with Louise at the helm. Usually it’s the same music guest as the Kiis version however, which makes me think the interviews are conducted fairly generically and the presenter just adds local drop-ins to questions.
