it’s quite appropriate really that the studios are located on the edge of a swamp then!
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Meg’s social media popped up on Friday. It’s a shame for her that she found the work environment so bad.
At least she’s giving radio another go and hopefully in time, she’ll progress at Nova when a further vacancy opens up.
When you think of Newcastle radio, two commercial employers, one govt, one community (2NUR, others may be voluntary. To have at least one unavailable due to workplace culture and lessening employment opportunities at the other commercial employer and similar at the govt funded broadcaster, it’s a poor state of affairs.
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Firstly, please excuse the language here.
As one of several good people recently let go by SCA after years of service and I reckon hundreds of hours of free service (especially during covid), I find it absolutely galling that 102.9 and 106.9 are running those SCA recruitment ads that say “at SCA we are always on the lookout for the best” or words to that effect, urging prospective employees to get in touch.
What a fucking joke.
102.9 couldn’t even get the simple things like news openers right over the break, often running the theme twice and continuing to do so even when notified it was happening.
Quality has dropped immensely because they are all now running on minimal on air staff that have far too much to do already.
You reap what you sow.
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Genuine question: what staff members that have now moved on from 105.3 NEWFM have positive views/experiences/things to say about the station and network as a whole. I am genuinely interested to hear that side, if there is that side of course. Anyone?
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I heard them the other day and thought of people like yourself and had to laugh. It’s actually infuriating what SCA have done since 2020 as a “covid measure” which certainly hasn’t reversed back and instead has resulted in more cost cutting measures. You can tell that the quality has dropped to that of a station in the sticks run on a shoestring budget.
I mean if you told me that SCA Newcastle would be networking weekend announcers from Albury 10 years ago I would’ve laughed.
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1029 treating their listeners like mugs again. Promos for Tanya and Steve say “back Monday January 15” but it’s Ryzy doing “Best Bits” until next week.
A joke.
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wow I didn’t know this!
ps. How did 1069’s new breakfast sound now that it’s state wide? Did they have local talk windows? Or was it a lot more generic? I’m guessing they don’t mention they are broadcasting out of newcastle
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Did the CD get the axe too? Falls back on them to get this right.
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I could be wrong but I don’t think it starts until Monday.
It’s an awful lot of pressure on Jess who has a newborn baby… Unless her baby is a perfect sleeper, she’s going to be tired woman.
Do they have any additional resources?
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I assume the staff at New are still running the network as well right? How does the workload compare at SCA? I assumed the on air guys at SCA had it easier? From what your saying it doesn’t sound that way though…
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JR, Sarah and Nix also formguide etc and VT shifts in addition to on air work. So can get quite busy.
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There are very few stations nowadays, if any, that don’t have their on air team doing dual roles.
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Just saw an ad for NEW FM during the afternoon news in Newcastle.
Good to see they are doing some advertising. Ad looked okay, nothing special though.
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Listened to The novos over the last couple of days, Ari seems to be fitting in quite good. Also heard them mention Krivo is expecting his first baby so no doubt he’ll be on paternity leave in the near future.
Do you think they’ll just keep Steven and Ari?
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Is she a permanent? Or still just helping out casually whilst juggling her WIN commitments?
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Is triple M Newcastle doing their own call for knights games this year?
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Power outage at Sandgate this afternoon has been playing havoc with the SRN stations, NEW FM keeps going off & on to transmitter back up tape, which is very low in audio volume & plays an old Michael Jackson song at the start, 2HD AM was also off at the same time, first time I heard the issue, 90.5 seemed to have something on which sounded like it may have been normal program but at extremely low volume & I’m not sure how that program would’ve got to site/air if the 2HD studios were off, I couldn’t receive 97.5 to see if anything was happening with it, but assume it was off too?
First thing I thought was the Studios had lost power & the generator hadn’t started up (both NEW FM & 2HD AM were off air) & it seemed like a long delay before coming back on air, 2HD transmitter was totally off as it’s powered from the studios over the road, but then later I heard NEW FM was off air again but 2HD was still on air, so I don’t know why if it was only a studio power failure, both should’ve been either off or on, not one on & one off? All started about 4:35pm.
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2HD 90.5 Belmont North is off the air this afternoon, don’t know how long it’s been off, but it’s been dead as a dodo for about 30 minutes now, radio scan doesn’t pick it up so the transmitter is off, not just the audio & being dead air.
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Hopefully a sign for the better where they might be doing much needed maintenance, eg improved audio, reactivation of RDS etc. 
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