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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Iāve 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, itās on a par with Dance Hits and NovaNation across the ditch.
Mai FM also sounded much better. Theyāre not just playing new R&B, but some reggae (Bob Marley) and a lot of old skool from the 90s and 2000s which I havenāt 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 Iām 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 theyāve tried outā¦
Tom Sainsbury
Chris Mac (Six60)
Jayden King (ex-The Edge)
Roger Farrelly (The Rock)
Leigh Dolbear (General Lee/George FM)
Mike McRoberts
Suzanne Paul
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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 thereās enough to be made of leasing the south tower, canāt they gang up and offer to buy the second site?
For those not in the know, hereās 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 thereāll 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 Paperās Pastsā 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 wouldnāt allow them too. Flava / iHeart canāt transmit at a high power because there isnāt 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 donāt think thatās 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 theyāre 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 donāt specify this though, so itās up to the companies that own those frequencies - which is why say flava doesnāt 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 Waikatoās The Sound however thatās 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 thereās other reasons why this is the case, or if Iām completely wrong but this is my understanding)
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Casey Sullivan has finished up as content director of The Edge this week. Looks like Adrian Brine is taking over that role.
Sad to hear about sports journalist gary ahern who passed away at 75
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I asked this here before but no one really seemed to know - what ended up happening with The Radio Vault?
I was going through some old tapes of radio I had the other night and remembered Iād sent some to the previous guy (Duane?) until he went all weird and stopped talking to me because I disagreed with him on something.
Then a new guy named Dan took over so I rejoined the group and they started posting audio again.
Then they started asking for donations. While some people did donate, the donation request rubbed some people up the wrong way as they had contributed audio and/or their own time to the site.
Then it just disappeared with no notice, no warning, no nothing, and I understand any e-mails sent to the address just bounce back now.
What happened to it? Where did Dan go, and (more importantly) what happened to everyoneās donations, which Iām sure were made in good faith towards the upkeep of the site? Did anyone who made a donation get a notice they were shutting down?
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Not sure if you were posting here then - but they had a meltdown here too and then deleted all their posts. Around when they closed the donation site.
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Huge shame too - still dearly miss that 2XS Millennium aircheck they had on there
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I may not have been - was this when Duane had his meltdown (I searched back and found that one), but that was some time ago? I was meaning the new ownership under that guy Dan Magill(?); unless I missed it I never saw him post anything here?
Thanks for the clarification. I was concerned about the monetary donations and what had happened to those under Danās running of the show, where did they go to, I wonder?