That was before the newtroking. 2UE also had that but they seem to have abandoned that now.
Like playing Adele, Kelly clarkson, Ed Shearan? They are doing that.
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But that is what they are doing, given that the playlists of all 3 stations are now identical.
Last night on Magic 1278, Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida” from 2008
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17 years old, it fits the “classic hits” theme. As long as they still play music from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s I have no complaints about that.
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I think it’s good they are shaking it up, 70s only felt excessively hoary to me but I do wonder at what year they’ll cut it off
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It was never 70s only. Not sure why you would listen to a classic hits station if you want recent hits.
Personally that’s exactly what I want - classic hits from the 60s onwards, with a sprinkle of recent hits. Exactly the Breeze FM format.
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I was listening to Sunday night 70s on Magic last night. Disappointed that the music was predictable and safe and stuff you hear every week. Where are the rarities that never get played. (eg) Hello this is Joannie, Beautiful Sunday, Music by John Miles, We belong to the Night (Ellen Foley), She Taught me how to love again(Lindsay Bjerre). Given Magic’s ratings they should be a lot more adventurous particularly during the evenings.
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They’re all over at Vintage FM and their 70’s Sunday night program. From memory last night, they played -
Miguel Rios - Song of Joy
Jackson Browne - Loadout / Stay (The full song)
The Doors - Get Up & Dance
Chain - Black & Blue
Brothers Johnson - Strawberry Letter 23
The Sweet - Hell Raiser
..and as I was switching off for the night, a song from Royal Scots Dragoon Pipes & Drums Band (I can’t remember which song).
Much better variety than what 2UE (and others on the network) give us on a Sunday night.
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Does anyone know is there anyway for ACE to bring back back 2ch and 4kq as DAB only stations?
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Yes, if they can find a licensee (eg Nine, ARN, SCA) who will lease them out say 48 kbps of DAB spectrum in Sydney and/or Brisbane.
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I am not sure why they would/should? ACE already has 2UE and 4BH? And 4BH is doing very well. And as we’ve seen in Melbourne, ACE having 2 stations tends to have the effect of just splitting the audience between them.
Also the 2CH and 4KQ call-signs still belong to SEN.
Yes, I doubt ACE would want to fragment the 4BH audience in any way. It’s going great.
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They could just rename 4BH 4KQ.
Since they stopped having an announcer it seems to have gone downhill.
not sure why they could
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I highly doubt they could, given SENQ’s official callsign is 4KQ.
Anyway why would they? 4BH is doing as well as 4KQ ever did, and 4BH arguably now has more heritage value than 4KQ. It’s been around longer actually.
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2026 - SEN gives 1170AM back to Ace who revive the brand and format of 2CH
It could happen! Thinking of 3MP and 3GL. Keep the dream alive!!!
“2CH…EEEEEEEEASY 1170”
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Ace in Melbourne clearly can’t work out how to position two AM music stations in a market, can’t see Sydney or Brisbane being different.
There’s also the flexibility that not having the baggage of living up to the expectations of the 2CH or 4KQ formats means for them. I still think it’s their biggest problem with Magic in Melbourne - people don’t think of a fairly up tempo classic hits station when they hear the name “Magic” in Melbourne - they think of the dreary station their grandparents listened to, “hits and memories” to fall asleep to…
4BH being blown up by the Magic rebrand, frequency swap and the Talking Lifestyle/MSR experiments left them a pretty clean slate on what that brand means in the Brisbane market, and 2UE has been talk for so long that any music format was novel and unique.
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