Do you think theyâll see out the four years? Seems like they are committed, paying good money for cricketâŚ
Theyâre losing 3 million a year before even getting the cricket rights and my understanding is their sales/commercial team is basically a revolving door.
Theyâve also made some other cuts elsewhere I believe - some shows not renewed and I canât confirm but their nights show seems to have been replaced by an Aussie feed from 6pm onwards.
Thatâs not to say theyâll last the four years but it wouldnât surprise if it becomes essentially an Aussie relay station elsewhere apart from a couple of day parts. Might be wrong.
I heard somewhere that sport radio stations (ie, the former Radio Sport) donât generally attract many advertisers, if any. I donât know of any business who would advertise on a sports radio station unless the owner is a diehard sports nut.
As for Stuff picking up Tova, thatâs good news, I think sheâs a good political reporter. I knew there would be next to no chance of her staying on at Mediaworks, and Discovery probably wouldnât be interested either.
I would imagine that SENZ will probably end up being like Gold Sport, just have music around the sports coverage.
This is old news.
But conserning that Destiny Church will have a radio station to broadcast its foul propaganda around the country. Im guessing LGBT DJâs will be let go.
How much advertising does SENZ do to promote itself?
Iâve always believed that one of SENâs issues is they donât do much advertising to promote their stations/shows and seemingly think that listeners will come to them. While Iâm not suggesting that alone will turn around their fortunes outside Melbourne, the broader public being aware that a sports station which carries live commentaries is at least something they should ensure happens.
Theyâve got a wee bit of a TV spend here, as well as on-sites at some sports events and live broadcasts.
Yep youâre right re Nights. Mark Watson hosted his last show on July 5 and indicated the nights show Extra Time would be ending for the time being. The reason given was that thereâs tons of evening live sport on in coming weeks including the FIFA Womens, but cost is surely a feature I agree. SENZ marketing are leaning in to it to a degree, Ive heard adds last week with the NSW/QLD SEN drive show hosts welcoming NZ listeners to the tail end of their show when NZ drive show finishes. If the business reality means taking more programming from across the ditch in listener and advertising quiet patches for the station, as a regular listener Iâm up for that to be honest if thatâs what it takes to keeps the thing going
I wouldnât think so re music, I can see why that was the format for GOLD (and Magic Talk with Magic Music for that matter towards the end of that station) but as a network SEN has several live show options across Vic, NSW, QLD and the West it can pick and choose from to simulcast in NZ when theyâre not running domestic shows so that would seem to make more sense for them
bFM falls on hard times, looks to sell its record collection. But I thought the student stations were funded by the Government or the Student Association? At least, I think it was that way during the 90s.
I donât think bFM is a student station. Sure it targets students, but I believe that the student association sold it off in the 1990âs. Most of the student associations sold off their radio station then from what I understand.
Ah that could be the case. I was at Radio One from 1994-95 and seem to remember NZ On Air was involved in their funding in some way.
I remember when bfm had havoc and newsboy aka jeremy wells
Marcus lush was also a bfm product and now in tge case of
Jeremy and marus they are now commercial so bfm must have been a good training ground
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Counfdowm again for 2023âŚ
Just saw tonight that Brin Rudkin (ex-More FM, Today FM) is the new host of The Hits Nights. Also heard him on ZM breakfast news a couple of weeks ago.
Good on him. Nice guy and good talent
Good for him, I did wonder if he had taken over the breakfast news position for some of the NZME stations as he had been doing it for a few weeks. He was doing the drive news yesterday so it must be the same arrangement as Lee Plummer briefly had.
@Korero I donât know what Lee Plummer, who had briefly hosted The Hitsâ night show, is up to these days, as does Estelle Clifford. And speaking of Estelle, I wonder whatever happened to her?