Jamie Row was made redundant last week. Mel only workday announcer now.
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What about Adam and Maddie?
@JPA are you trying to like every single post on this forum or something?
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Mel on in Brisbane today 9-2. Same last week at least on thursday
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Yep sounds like national workdays again. Cheeky to have not announced this. This makes Hit the only hit music station with local presenters.
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First KIIS, now Nova have replaced their daytime presenters (bar Mix 102.3 in Adelaide).
Do SCA stations (Hit and Triple M) still have local daytime presenters?
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Yes we still have Mitch on MMM and a few different local ones on B105
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Our very own @EllieAngel is on B105.
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Yeah I forgot sorry @EllieAngel
Would Melâs hosting have been pre-recorded given sheâs currently on holidays? She was absent from The Cheap Seats this week.
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Thatâs okay! Maddy is on holidays
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So she wasnât let go from Nova?
Maddy has the Aus Music Show in the evening.
Which is a shame because Nova have really been pushing the Melbourne stuff this year and the local content, especially with Jase & Lauren. Itâs one of the reasons I stopped listening to KIIS and pretty much converted to Nova. It definitely gave Nova an edge over KIIS.
Are we sure that itâs permanently this way? It is strange timing too as Mel was off the Cheap Seats and looking at her Instagram, it looks like sheâs been in Bali this week.
I wonder what they will do when Jase & Lauren do Hide & Seek again (which Iâm sure they will as it was very popular). They might just convert to a Melb only feed those few days.
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Had ARN kept local KIIS workdays, I doubt we wouldâve seen Nova axe its local workday programming.
Just because ARN did it, Nova sees it as being acceptable.
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Not having local announcers in capital city shifts highlights the drive to cut costs in every area. In the 80s and 90s I worked at a few Sydney stations and during the workday there was a real buzz around the station, you knew there was a studio with a live broadcast taking place. It was exciting. It was âhappeningâ at your workplace.
Imagine working at Nova in Melbourne or KIIS in Sydney and you realise that every studio is empty. No actual local broadcast is taking place. Itâs so sad.
I canât even fathom working at KIIS in Melbourne during the breakfast shift. No buzz. No excitement. Just a feed from Sydney, 1000 kms away.
As for the regionals, I imagine the stations may be close to empty most of the time.
I reckon the television shopping channel - TVSN - which broadcasts live each day from 8.30am to 9.30pm has more of a buzz than most radio stations.
Radio in the 20s - a shell of itâs former self.
Nova 100 - Playing Sydneyâs Favourite Music
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Quite the opposite in fact considering Mel is based in Melbourne.
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Nova 100 Melbourne??
I believe Melbourne is currently their biggest output.
They currently have their own breakfast shows, Mid morning show, lunchtimes, 2pm National afternoon show, drive shared with Sydney and now Late drive from 6pm.
KISS in Melbourne is the opposite and it shows in their current ratting report.
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Imagine working where almost everything is broadcast fromâŚ
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Sorry, I didnât check my facts.
I just find any radio station with no âon airâ studios to be quite sad. Iâm not talking about listening to the station, but to be working at the station.
Itâs like a night club with no DJ. A trivia night at the pub with no host. Itâs the aftermath of a Swans game when they donât win - a âno vibeâ zone.
But I understand itâs the reality of commercial radio in the 20s.
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