I agree. I don’t think most listeners would realise 4BH isn’t live and local most of the time. The only show that even sounds “packaged” is Gavin Miller and even then I think it sounds ok. It does sound a little different.
One difference between Gavin Miller and the old 4KQ is that his music history and trivia are more generic Australian and not specifically about the music charts of Brisbane. You could always count on 4KQ to highlight differences between songs and acts that charted differently in Brisbane to elsewhere.
Has Gavin ‘‘moved’’ to Brisbane as he seems to have left Magic, where he was doing 9am-1pm, other than to present the lunchbox for an hour and the Classic Countdown Sunday mornings?
Yea, you’re right. There seems to be 2 spots of local station name callout that I’ve noticed listening back more carefully, before the ~12:40pm ads and like you said, before the ~12:55pm ads leading into the 1pm news.
I love her pop songs like ‘How Will I Know’ and ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ but yes, her ballads such as that one … yessss… it is an instant station changer.
They say “don’t speak ill of the dead” and I don’t, I should have said “I dislike Whitney Houston songs intensely”, including the pop ones you mention. Pleased I changed stations though, MMM Classic is playing Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”, so thanks Magic.
4BH had a few occasions of dead-air this afternoon at 5pm and 6pm. Seems the news either didn’t play, or there was no news (sourced from 4BC who was on NRL at the time).
The regular news theme played, went to 30 seconds of dead-air before back-up tape fired both times. Sweet - Fox on the Run was the leading song each time. Only heard the backup on AM though, as DAB+ was silence. Everything resumed a few minutes later with traffic and weather as normal.
Meantime, they are in the midst of their Easter 500 countdown this weekend. They’ve published the list 500-11 here. Top 10 to be revealed Monday from 6pm according to this afternoons presenter.
They usually take a different well at least 2UE here and I assume 4BH is the same they still take the news as per normal even if 2GB is taking abroadcat of the NRL. Maybe it was a timing thing as the news is normally taken precisely on the hour.
Yea, I noticed this today too. Heard them play Fox on the Run at 5pm on AM and the silence at 6pm on streaming. Was a little amused. I had assumed that because it had happened at 5pm that someone would have been onto it so it didn’t happen again, but then it did at 6pm. Ah well, Easter Holidays I guess haha.