Ash London will be covering for Meg Mansell on The Edge breakfast when she goes on maternity leave in a few weeks.
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Iâve had a listen online recently to Mai and George on the Online Radiobox app.
I am really surprised at how good the music has become, especially on George. More mainstream dance and garage from the past 30 years. From what I heard, itâs on a par with Dance Hits and NovaNation across the ditch.
Mai FM also sounded much better. Theyâre not just playing new R&B, but some reggae (Bob Marley) and a lot of old skool from the 90s and 2000s which I havenât heard on Mai before.
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I work for 1 of the major telcos and the volume of calls ws got it about it was huge was staggering to see what the cause of the outage was usually its a damaged cable by contractor of some degree but a warship is a new one
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must say I enjoy the new afternoons show on ZB. Matt & Tyler were a good choice
https://archive.ph/W7DF7
I do actually listen to National Radio on AM at my place (FM can be a bit scratchy but Iâm working on it), however this sounds similar to what happened at Titahi Bay where everything was moved to one AM transmitter to replace the old 220m tower with a newer one. Just a pity that Radio New Zealand sounds to be playing hardball here.
So far theyâve tried outâŚ
Tom Sainsbury
Chris Mac (Six60)
Jayden King (ex-The Edge)
Roger Farrelly (The Rock)
Leigh Dolbear (General Lee/George FM)
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I think that article has appeared in the papers today (at least it did where I live). If those broadcasters reckon thereâs enough to be made of leasing the south tower, canât they gang up and offer to buy the second site?
For those not in the know, hereâs a rundown: RNZ have two AM transmission sites in Auckland, both are well past their maintainable life. Most of the local high-powered AM radio is transmitted from these sites. RNZ are proposing to replace just the north tower, meaning thereâll be less capacity. Unless RNZ replace both towers, some stations will have to find somewhere else to transmit from, or stop AM transmissions. Said stations are a tad upset.
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NZ Radio Record 1927-1939 & The Listener 1939-1959, are now on Paperâs Pastsâ Magazine page. Click below for hours of endless entertainment!
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals?snippet=true
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NZME have started running ads this week for iHeart Country on their other stations. Heard them on ZM and Hauraki promoting the 91.7fm frequency in Christchurch.
If they boosted the freq people would probably listen on FM. Dunno how any of that work but more power would be good for them and Flava too
We heard it on coast the other day
RSM wouldnât allow them too. Flava / iHeart canât transmit at a high power because there isnât enough spectrum in these regions to enable this.
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2 reasons I can think of:
- stations cannot be spaced close together due to bandwidth needed for FM - the closest you could get would be 0.2MHz of each other and I donât think thatâs recommended.
- The four colour theorem here - basically you can use at most 4 colours to colour subregions in a map without adjacent regions sharing the same colours. This also applies to frequencies.
Both of these constraints are the reason stations are normally spaced 0.8MHz apart in a region, with an offset so adjacent regions have at least a 0.2MHz difference.
Some of the bigger regions (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch) are able to get away with having 0.4MHz spacing is because theyâre assigned multiple bands that happen to overlap, though their purpose was to be used as an infill station rebroadcasting the same program of station already operating rather than a new station. These licenses donât specify this though, so itâs up to the companies that own those frequencies - which is why say flava doesnât transmit from the same transmitter as say ZM and with a fraction of the power.
The only exception I can think of is The Sound in Auckland, which shares the same frequency as Waikatoâs The Sound however thatâs due to both transmitters being synchronized. Not too sure if you can notice the FM capture effect as you drive between the regions or not?
(Not 100% sure if thereâs other reasons why this is the case, or if Iâm completely wrong but this is my understanding)