Looks like they we’re taking votes, but I can’t imagine many would have messaged through the app. I’d guess Facebook messages and emails may have been counted too.
Interestingly it looks like Magic 1278 is the only station with a functioning Facebook page.
Yea, I think they’d finished the countdown for the day then - they’re doing 100 songs per day. The news only seems to be suspended while the countdown is on.
That Magic 1278 Facebook page is so weird. The fact no other station has one but they do shows it mustn’t be nationally endorsed.
I doubt the whole network is run from the Magic studios anyway.
C’mon people, there was no listener feesback on the countdown and I highly doubt there is on any big countdown like this. It doesn’t really matter I guess as long as the person compiling it has good taste.
I thought it was just me that thought that big countdowns like this are faked.
They may include a few suggested songs but with a big countdown like this there’s no way they get enough votes to make up the whole thing. Not that it’s a bad thing as I think I’d rather have the majority of the countdown picked by a good programmer than Mavis from Melton requesting ‘Sweet Caroline’ for the millionth time 
Steve Jacobs does his shows from 2ue/2gb studios since he is Sydney based
Livinia Nixon does her shows from Magic 1278/3aw studios since she is Melbourne based
Its not live.
They’ve now published the entire countdown as a list on their website for those interested in the full list: https://www.4bh.com.au/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time/
Some great songs there, and great variety too!
I had the misfortune of listening to the 4BH news update at 7.30 this morning. What the hell was that? It sounded worse than a Super network news update. Huge gaps between sentences, like really long. And the headline talked about warnings for Norfolk Islanders to stay out of the water but didn’t actually say WHY. In fact even when they got to that story they ran an interview clip with a local cafe worker on the island and STILL hadn’t mentioned there was a tsunami! I was thinking sharks, cyclone? Geesus who writes this stuff?
I had assumed that the news bulletins aired would be the same ones airing on 4BC (or 2GB/3AW/6PR in those cities), so that’s surprising.
That’s what I was wondering - is this going out on 4BC too? It was dreadful. It sounded like they lost the script and were trying to almost ad lib in parts.
2ue had a strange news bulletin at 2pm and 3pm, instead of news it was the AFL. Then after 3 minutes it was back to the greatest hits.
Tonight I tune in , it had the AFL on 2ue. But in an ad break they said if you don’t like sport download the 2ue app to hear the music. At least evidence of better attention to detail rather than ignoring the main target audience who would tune in for music.
Nine Media should of put the AFL in Sydney on NTS (News Talk, SPORT) instead of 2ue
Whats the point of having the NTS station if they not going to use it right?
I think it’s the dumb contracts that Nine (and Triple M too) sign with the AFL that force them to air the AFL on an AM or FM frequency in non AFL markets (ie. DAB or streaming only not an option).
They both should be telling the AFL to go jump.
Maybe they should do an SEN and keep the music on 2ue dab and play AFL on 954 and NTS. I think it is the same coverage on SEN 1170?
Not everyone has a digital radio receiver or a computer.
