Jackson is in LA and Matty works for Triple M.
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Why is Brandon trying to go back to Coast FM? Who’s told you that? From what I gather on social media, he went to Sky News not long after leaving ARN and New FM.
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Considering I’m the tech at CoastFM so know what’s going on there & it was the Chairman & backup Content Director at CoastFM told me Brandon is wanting to come back.
Yes I do remember he’s at Sky News now it’s been mentioned, maybe he misses radio & what he’d be able to do at CoastFM that he can’t at Sky News.
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What’s matty doing at MMM, on air or back end? What is Jackson doing in la?
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I believe Matty is ops manager at Triple M Sydney, and panelling drive? Brad has completely dropped off the radar since becoming a dad a few years back.
I think Jackson is working for a media company in LA.
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After last nights severe storm that went through Newcastle with a few very close lightning strikes to the Belmont North DTV & 2HD Translator site, including a short power outage from one said strike, 2HD on 90.5 is dead as a Dodo this morning, all DTV is working though.
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Triple M taking network regional feed this morning. Lazy programming.
Meanwhile NEW is live and local.
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If only being local meant having a decent playlist/format.
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Must be the first time Newcastle has taken the Albury feed in quite a while?
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I’ve been thinking about that. We took it during the cricket in 2017/18 as I was panelling it locally (we didn’t trust the feed because not everyone was on Zetta so we had panel ops for cricket and football until they were). Yes, I pulled faders down for breaks etc.
We were told cricket would commence at 10am on the feed but when we went to ABX it was music until 1030. So we adjusted and joined network at 1030 from then on 
They took network after Nix locally this afternoon as well.
I have so many funny stories I could tell about the footy and cricket panelling - maybe one day.
One I will tell - after network NRL 2MMM was supposed to send music to network until next top of hour, but often (quite often) they didn’t.
One night I waited 10 seconds, no music, so started playing songs off hotkeys. I was minding my own business when Put Down That Weapon came flying over the network feed (which I left faded up) scaring the absolute SHIT out of me. After that, I had the fader on Preview all the time
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Any next moves in Newcastle radio for you? Would you jump over to help BOG there?
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While I would never say never, I was offered a full time role in the aged and disability sector a few weeks before being sacked from MMM.
If there is a weekend role somewhere in the region I’d be happy to chat, but my preference has always been to be “behind the scenes” because I’m quite pedantic with getting everything perfect.
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Programming seems to be getting lazier every year at SCA unfortunately.
I remember last year Triple M Newcastle were local from sun up to sound down over this period.
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It seems like there’s been a slight change to NewFM’s positioner. They’re now saying, “Newcastle’s Best Music Variety”.
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Not bad, they could branch it out to also include Newcastle’s Best Variety of Breakfast Show Hosts - damn they have a lot of people in and out.
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Lots of comments asking to bring Nick back, not sure if they will be deleted soon.
Also I wonder how different the show will be being broadcast across the state.
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Not going to happen. The place has cut almost half of its staffing level since 2020.
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For the record on this forum, the reggae pirate station on 89.3 FM is broadcasting from very close to 161 Maitland Road Tighes Hill, somewhere very close to that vicinity.
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