I tend to agree. This Rocks greatest hits format to me translates as trying hard to be Gold/WSFM with triple the ads. It’s amazing how they will play Kate Bush but no sign of Bush the rock group 
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Kate Bush is getting heaps of radio airplay only because of her song Running Up That Hill’s association with Stranger Things. In the same way Faith No More’s Easy is played to death just because it featured in a Foxtel ad.
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Faith No More’s cover of Easy (it was originally a Commodores song) has always been played to death, before the Foxtel ad.
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Triple M’s current logo feels too blokey.
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Ok, maybe not ‘blokey’, but it does have a certain look to it.
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It’s because of the protracted ‘eeeewwww’! I always loved turning the radio up as a kid when that came on 
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I agree. To me it looks blokey and kind of outback, like you need be driving a Ranger or Hi Lux
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An aircheck of FM 100.3 Armidale from circa 1998, as received at Tuross Head via tropo.
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Wow. A great snippet. Completely different these days.
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Another 90s aircheck from a regional commercial FM station, this time B-Rock Bathurst from December 1997 as received at Tuross Head via tropo.
Back then, B-Rock could be heard into Sydney, as 2NSB Chatswood wasn’t broadcasting on 99.3 at the time.
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Indeed. Pretty much always a hissy stereo signal on my Sanyo M7024…if you laid the antenna dead on its side as I recall.
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I remember picking up B-Rock in Richmond in mid 1997. Very scratchy reception but it was there. In Windsor it was a lot better.
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And that previous B-Rock logo was cool.
In saying that, 2BS and B-Rock have got the two best newest regional radio logos at present. Better than the new logos that other BOG stations are producing.
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Would have been around 1997 when I discovered B-Rock. My grandma lived in Kelso; I usually listened to FM 105.9 Orange when out there but found the Rock Of The West one day. I had the bright idea of trying it back home in Oatley and was shocked to get it quite clearly. I didn’t know the transmitter was on Mount Ovens back then; I assumed Mount Panorama.
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Same for me, I received it back then too in Oatley on my old Sony FHB711 mini hifi with the t cord fm antenna stuck to the ceiling. It was hissy stereo but quite listenable.
I use to receive it in hissy stereo at my current location in Stanhope Gardens with my dx setup, that was until 2NSB updated their transmissions.
It’s a pity Brock is not on a clear frequency unlike 2BS.
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I know this has been on YouTube for a while, but it’s a good flashback to early 90s radio and when 2DayFM moved towards the Top 40 and killed off Triple M as the dominant force in Sydney radio. This was a station with a “genuinely upbeat sound”. I loved Kieth William’s voice as it’s so much better than the squeaky male voices on radio today. I remember “Home Free” and it was an hour of non stop music between 5 - 6pm every weeknight. What more could one ask for on the drive home?
I do laugh at the sweepers “Better Music and More of It”. There are so few new ideas in radio. We are still using the same slogans and positioners from 30 years ago - and these probably came from the States anyway.
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I just love that 2DAY aircheck; played it again the other night purely coincidentally. So much energy and takes me right back to when I first listened to radio in 1990/1991.
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Another 90s aircheck from a regional commercial FM station, this time of 94.9 Power FM Nowra from around 1997-98 as received at Tuross Head. This was during the Bacon Boys breakfast show, fronted by Pete Brandtman (now at sister station 2ST).
Like B-Rock, Power FM could be heard into Sydney back then, albeit a bit weaker than Wave FM & i98, which transmit from the same tower at Knights Hill between Wollongong & Nowra. Because of that, it was considered a de-facto 3rd commercial radio station for Wollongong, getting ratings around 8-10% in 1998-99 (i98 was rating in the mid-20s, whilst Wave was in the high-10s/low-20s).
Nowadays, it’s impossible to receive it there, but it now carries the same playlist as Wave FM anyway (which gets into Sydney well), so not really a big loss there.
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You are right about the energy. Music is music. But radio has the power to add energy to the music.
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