I should have checked. Stupidly I googled for some reason 
Thanks 
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The show was only running four days a week last year as Smallzy had Friday nightâs off due to him doing workday afternoonâs. The inconsistency in the schedule probably gave KIIS a bit of a free ride here.
Novaâs programmers are the problem, they just donât get it.
They are going back down the same path again embracing the stale throwbacks, this has proven to be unsuccessful each time they have attempted it.
The Paul Thompson interview was a good read. Nova meaning a new Star with a short life span sums up the ratings success of the Sydney and Melbourne stations beautifully.
I wish they would just go back to focusing on new music like they did when they launched.
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They are heavily promoting Triple Throwbacks during the day now. Whatâs worse than Throwbacks all day long? Triple Throwbacks as well. 
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I stopped listening, since Marty left KTJ is crap, and the playlist is like listening to Mix 101.1 10 years ago.
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Same here I only listen to Fitzy & Wippa now and the rest of the time I stream BBC R1. Agree with your statements about the music. Nova has became the equivalent of Mix 106.5, very ordinary with similar ratings in Sydney and Melbourne to what Mix 101.1 / 106.5 had in itâs past life.
Management have totally destroyed the brand.
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LOL I probably wouldâve said that 2DayFM has become the current day equivalent of Mix 106.5! Remember how ARN struggled to establish a decent brekky show on Mix 106.5 for several years before poaching K&JO?!
But Nova isnât that great these days either. I think the only reason theyâre not rating worse is because 2DayFM and KIIS 101.1 are ratings basketcases in their respective markets!
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Very true, however 2day fm has beaten Nova in dayparts in the past, and probably will again in the next survey. This shows how bad the music programming is on Nova. Marty on KTM is what propped up Nova 96.9.
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Speaking of Novaâs âfreshâ âhitsâ ⌠this playlist from Apple Music seems appropriate. Really says it all about the current state of Nova!
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Kate, Tim and Joel were number one in Sydney though. I like KT&J and Fitzy & Wippa and a bit of Smallzy when Iâm driving around.
I no longer listen during the day except when I flick around the dial to find a song I like. It sounds like itâs being programmed to only appeal to middle aged women now throughout the day.
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The shows you list are all heavily skewed towards females aged 25-55 as well. Itâs totally programmed towards only women, while TripleM is programmed towards men with gambling addictions. Itâs a shitty state of radio.
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What a horrible list of songs, none of these are fresh hits!!!
This is why I find it so hard to listen to Nova for any extended time.
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I told my Siri HomePod to âplay some Novaâ the other day and this list came up. âFresh Hitsâ and when P!nkâs âBlow Meâ song came on first, I thought the same - hardly fresh.
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And here we have three or more radio stations in Sydney doing this it is a joke. This is why Nova has become as daggy as the old Mix 106.5. It is Dog eat Dog for this advertising pool and no one has got the balls to try something different.
CRA lobbying the government to prevent new entrants, and the mess that is dab+ coverage, and low bit rates is why Australian radio is in such a shitty state. CRA are doing such a great job of pushing people away to streaming services and overseas radio even though their propaganda says otherwise.
Is the solution to go down the NZ path and abolish the two station ownership limit. We then may have more choice of formats?
With declining revenues long term it maybe more viable to have two super companies owning all the commercial radio stations in the metro markets.
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This is something I have been thinking about for a long time. Look at Townsville for example. You have 2 Hot AC stations (Hit & Star) and 2 Mainstream Rock stations (Triple M & Power 100).
If they were owned by the one company, which they did for a short while 15 odd years ago and aloud to keep, guess all 4 would have different formats.
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In a way, the 4 commercial FM stations in Townsville were musically quite distinct from one another prior to the mid-00s, even with 2 owners across the stations, with 4TO (DMG) being Classic Hits, Hot FM (DMG) being CHR/Hot AC, Sea FM (RG) being Rock, and 106.3 Mix FM (RG) being AC.
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Yes I agree. Even Mackay and Cairns had choice back then. Hot FM being CHR/Hot AC, Sea FM being AC/Rock, 4MK/4CA FM being Classic Hits and the commercial AMâs being Soft AC.
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All this says to me is if Townsville can have four commercial FM stations, then places like Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra deserve more FM licenses to be released.
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This wonât happen as CRA and its members will continue to lobby the government for there to be no further licences issued. Look at the response to the suggestion of a new commercial radio licence for Nowra. CRA and its members threatened to declare war on ACMA!!!
The best we will get is extra dab+ stations from the incumbents with even lower bit rates across the board. This is why radio in Australia is in such bad shape.
Canberra is the most needed of a new commercial fm licence but CRA has brain washed ACMA and the government into making the existing commercial radio stations protected species. Also the Tuggeranong translators have eaten up all available fm frequencies in Canberra.
Sorry we are getting a bit off track here as this is the Nova thread.
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While not an ideal solution I have long thought that abolishing the 2 station rule would in fact result in more variety of formats on FM in the capitals. The 2 station rule means each operator has one of their stations targeting the same audience. The result is you have multiple stations sounding the same.
If an operator had 4 stations in a market they would tailor them to different audiences, as happens in NZ and North America.
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Yes exactly.
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