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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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Not everyone has a digital radio receiver or a computer.
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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