I feel sorry for Mark Allen and David Schwarz, who were picked up by MSR after they were sacked by SEN from their popular drive slot. I can’t see the duo returning to SEN though, just hope they won’t be lost to radio.
https://www.sportsradio.com.au/
Nothing about MSR on the offical site
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It seems like from that statement that MSR will (at least during Summer) operate like NTS whereby outside of its cricket/Premier League commitments, it’ll just air sports segments from 3AW/2GB/6PR & Nine + rely on TalkSport simulcasts
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Oh well there goes Mark Levy’s twitter accounts lol
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And here is me saying we will have a new classic hits station with sports. Nevermind 
. Just simulcast 3aw into Sydney and Brisbane, & 2GB simulcast into Victoria when there are no sports.
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Goodbye local content, hello talkSPORT and 3AW/2GB simulcasts!
I dont think the ACMA will allow Nine/MML to simulcasts anything
Remember 3mp tried to simulcast their 1377 am siginal on 693am but the ACMA stopped them and forced them to create a whole new station. Magic
I think a classic hits staton in melboune playing the 50s-70s wiil do better than a nts staton
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SEN and SEN+ in Melbourne simulcast for most of the time. But whether ACMA allows that to continue we will have to wait and see.
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Hope not
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Told’ya so “insert MSR fan boys here”
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Statement from Russell Tate;
“ Contrary to a report in the Daily Telegraph reports that suggests Macquarie is pulling the plug on its all-sport network, a statement from Macquarie Media Limited chair, Russell Tate, says the station will continue to broadcast sports coverage over the summer.”
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Wouldn’t surprise me if they air some of the 9Podcasts shows on Macquarie Sports Radio such as Six Tackles with Gus and the video they have on NRL on 9 with James Bracey, Peter Sterling and Andrew Johns talking about NRL.
Nine have more than enough personalities within their media empire they could find enough people to fill any of the time slots between live sports over summer while they decide what to do with the network.
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really suprised they did this now. i would have thought the best plan would be to hang onto the MSR format until after the cricket is done and than put a bullet in it’s brain. are they that cash strapped they can’t go another 3 months?
Out of interest what lasted longer EON or MSR?
MSR.
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I still wonder just who would bother listening to their coverage of the cricket. I for one just listen to the ABC radio coverage of watch on television however I do realise they cover other games.
Whatever they decide to do with the network it’s pretty clear sport is not the answer. Although the missing niches are different in each market (eg. Classic Hits in Melbourne and Easy Listening in Brisbane) I think they’ll probably stick with the network approach.
If this is the case I still think BBC Radio 2 is the gap in the Australian radio landscape. For the music component they could straddle Classic Hits and Easy Listening to satisfy both Brisbane and Melbourne gaps and throw in some new music. Basically something like the Breeze FM playlist with maybe the odd newer song.
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yes agree with this. I assume it will only be a “sports” podcast being on in downtime? No Alan Jones/Ray podcasts (unless sports related).
Radio Sports does have the overseas rights to the English Cricket (overseas) Winter Season maybe it can pick that up too.
They just announced it on air. It might be called Nine Wired World of Sports. . At least they had a sense of humour which is nice.