Nine could easily buy a digital radio for all the 5 people who fall in the category of Sydney residents wanting to listen to a radio call of an AFL match instead of just watching TV, but have no other means than analogue AM to listen to it.
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If you want to listen at the ground, analogue is the only way to go. DAB and streaming is too far behind.
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Most people have smart phones these days, they can listen on that.
They are pretty much essential.
And that the AFL is a minor code in Sydney, it doesn’t warrant a “premium” spot on analogue up here (except for the Grand Final).
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As Frankie just mentioned, not at the ground. I’ve tried and it is not technically feasible to have the play by play line up with the actual play.
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It was an away game for the Swans last night anyway.
And you can get Sports Ears at the ground for that.
My point still stands about the Swans not being deserving of analogue radio coverage in Sydney anyway. And if you do it for them, you’d have to do the same for GWS as well.
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Not for AFL. They ceased that in 2019.
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Ah well, too bad then in my books.
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They can always buy 2SM or use SEN Track…
Triple M’s rights deal does have some flexibility when it comes to how games are broadcast in Sydney. This weekend is a perfect example of how it works. Last night’s Swans v Lions game aired on FM which was fine since Triple M doesn’t cover Saturday night NRL games (+ pretty sure they’re contractually obliged to air a Saturday night AFL game anyway). By contrast, today’s GWS v St Kilda game is only airing on Triple M DAB so it doesn’t interfere with NRL coverage on FM.
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Ray Hadley’s countdown is now on 2ue on Sunday nights at 10pm. He did briefly say it was where he started his career at, for 19 years.
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It’s been a while since I turned to 6GT, but they just played a message at 10:20 this morning disclosing they are part of the ‘Nine Corporate’ group.
How long have they been doing this, and do the other Nine owned stations do this?
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Yes, I’ve heard it on 2UE.
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Hopefully Hayley will work on NTS and evolve into something worth listening to.
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Indeed. A music station would be ideal. There are plenty of options that Nine could choose from: modern rock, pop, rhythmic CHR, noughties, 80s or 70s.
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Personally, I’d much prefer to have quality rather than quantity from Nine Radio.
Although given that everyone is obsessed with having multiple stations, I won’t be holding my breath!
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It’s refreshing to have reasonably high quality audio on 2UE (72 kbps), when everyone else is seemingly in a race to the bottom with the lowest bit rates.
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They could still have high quality audio on 64kbs or even 48kbs. Nova do a good job with the sound quality on their stations and they are only using 48, 40 or 32 kbs.
No, no and no.
32 kbps is never good enough for music.
48 kbps is the bare minimum for music on my opinion.
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It depends on the operators. Some stations sound fine on 48 or 40 and some still sound terrible. I agree, 32 is not ideal but my point was that Nova seem to make it work as Coles radio sounds better on 32 than some that are on 48.
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