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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I agree in that the ARN stations that have/do use 32 kbps at some point like WSFM 80s sounded awful… Coles does sound better at 32 kbps than WSFM 80s did.
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And even that is a stretch. Nova in Brisbane is at 48kbps and sounds horrid. I think they are over processing to compensate for the low bit rate but it just ends up making it a muddy mess
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Yes, WSFM 80s doesn’t sound good at all, yet The Edge sounds much better, both using 48kbs.
That’s interesting. In Sydney the Nova stations all sound very good, Nova 96.9, Smooth and Maria are all on 48kbs and have excellent quality sound. Even Smooth Relax, Nova 10s (40kbs) and Coles (32kbs) sound decent.
Isn’t this thread supposed to be about Nine Music?
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I deleted and posted it here.
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It is about Nine Music as well as DAB+ bit rates. There’s nothing wrong with comparing bit rates between different networks whilst discussing future possibilities for Nine Radio.
is that person’s username @TheRealBecHope by any chance?
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Is it possible that Nine aren’t pushing 2UE that much yet because it might upset SCA?
Its also affecting Magic 1278
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