I agree, if you want to listen to new talent nowadays it’s Triple J I feel.
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I was in the backyard most of Saturday and for a change had Nova on all day. It’s almost unlistenable for longer than about an hour at a time, was wondering if they were taking the piss at one point as the playlist is on such high repetition it made my ears bleed.
Looking at the lava logs, on Saturday they played that Cavlin Harris tune Miracle no less than ten times, Ed Sheerhan got played 26 times, and that cover of Fast Car got played nine times. Whoever does the programming on that station has the easiest job in the world as its mostly just copy and paste.
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They really need to open up their options as to what music is available to them, also check out what’s trending and charting worldwide, especially in the UK and USA.
One song I would request them play is “I Wrote a Song” by Mae Muller. Like Rosa Linn last year, Muller featured in this year’s Eurovision but I think she placed second-last or something in the final.
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I’m assuming this is why select Northern Hemisphere stations are available on Lava (as well as plenty from NZ). They can mine community radio as well.
This has been going on since the dawn of ratings-driven radio of course: there’s plenty of stuff that could and should get played but doesn’t. More power to community radio.
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That is why there ratings are shit house in any market that is slightly competitive.
Their programmers are one trick ponies, same music policy, shit ratings, same recycled contests, Shit ratings.
Nova was the once cool and adventurous, now just bland and repetitive.
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Yeah I really like that song. She didn’t do well in Eurovision with it, but I think it was mainly because she’s not actually very good live. The recorded version sounds 100 times better than the performance unfortunately. In any case, it’s good song and Nova should be playing it. It charted very well in UK and gets a lot of airplay there, even on BBC R2!
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What they really need, is a new music director. As has been well-documented here, the music they’ve been playing has been quite repetitive and tiring, and they rarely play any new music that may have been released immediately (Becky Hill’s “Side Effects” being one notable exception).
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I reckon Smooth do as well. Definitey not what they used to be either! They used to play easy listening from the 60s right up to present day when they first started. Now there’s few if any newer songs, less older songs too. They seem to just play an extremely narrow band of mid-80s to mid-90s. It’s repetitive and boring. What’s going on at Nova?
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Quite surprised by this. I didn’t think she would want to keep working there after being dumped by Nova as on-air talent.
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I thought going by the rumours that she was originally offered a programming role when she was axed from the Fitzy & Wippa show, but did not accept?
Maybe this role is a holding position, until Kate’s contract is up, and then she can rejoin the F&W show?
There is so much wrong with Nova, music recycled competitions. The station is completely unlistenable, cut and paste music and competitions.
Compared to KIIS there is just no energy, at Nova, even the listeners they put to air sound bored. KIIS listeners that go to air are completely over the top.
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The music playlist is the worst thing about Nova. I rarely tune in now but whenever I do I switch within one or teo songs.
I’m still listening to the podcasts and it’s very telling that the hosts are continually taking shots at the music being played on Nova. It’s almost constant.
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I don’t listen to Nova at all now.
The station is complete rubbish.
If the hosts are shit talking the music, that does not put much confidence in the product for the listeners.
Kyle gives Nova shit quite a bit and their lack of ratings.
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Nova has no point of difference.
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These days, you could say…
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I’m off the Nova topic, but the UK is still suffering at Eurovision becomes of BREXIT. The decision to leave the EU is still fresh in the minds of many Europeans.
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That didn’t stop Britain coming second last year at Eurovision and hosting the show this year. If Ukraine hadn’t received the sympathy votes, Britain probably would have won last year.
This year’s song was rubbish and it’s no wonder radio in Australia doesn’t play it. In fact, radio in Australia rarely plays any Eurovision. They act like they are too good for it.
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I agree with all of that, except I quite like the UK song this year, but the live performance was bad. As you say, last year the UK song basically won.
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Rosa Linn says otherwise.
I did say “rarely” not “never”. That’s one in 67 years of Eurovision. 
In the history of Eurovision I’m sure Abba, Bucks Fizz, Brotherhood of Man, Sandie Shaw, Cliff Richard, Domenico Modugno and a few other famous pop songs were played on radio back in the day. But generally, Australian radio doesn’t play them.
A lot of Eurovision music does make the charts in the UK and Europe and is played on radio.
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