Great log!
Why did they play 21 songs when it’s supposed to be 20?
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No idea - it was an actual countdown as well, but I didn’t listen to what numbers they were saying at the start.
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Because they always play one song that ‘sits outside’ the 20/20 countdown. Usually a popular song that was played a lot on the radio but had poor sales etc
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Either I missed a song or Triple M can’t count 
Tonights Cold 30 from 1980
- Four Walls - Cold Chisel
- Kiss On My List - Hall and Oates
- Everybodys Got To Learn Sometimes - Korgis
- Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd
- Shaddup Ya Face - Joe Dolce
- I Got You - Split Enz
- Whatever You Want - Status Quo
- Call Me - Blondie
- Just Romeo and Juliet - Mental As Anything
- Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
- Rock Lobster - B52’s
- Woman - John Lennon
- Refugee - Tom Petty
- Turning Japanese - Vapors
- Shandi - Kiss
- Romeos Tune - Steve Corbitt
- Hells Bells - AC/DC
- Echo Beach - Martha and the Muffins
- State Of The Heart - Mondo Rock
- We Can Get Together - Icehouse
- Master Blaster - Stevie Wonder
- Talk Of The Town - The Pretenders
- The Boys Light Up - Australian Crawl
- Babooshka - Kate Bush
- Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan
- Wedding Cake Island - Midnight Oil
- Girl U Want - Devo
- The River - Bruce Springsteen
- Walking On The Moon - The Police
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Maybe Zinc pinched one of their songs? 
Another good log there too.
Still on the topic of Zinc & somewhat inspired by this post made in “Random Radio” thread…
…I’ve decided to survey a typical hour of Zinc 96, which can be seen below.
Zinc 96.1 - Gympie/Sunshine Coast, QLD
“Classic Hits”
Tuesday, 19th September 2017
11am-12pm AEST
“Proud Mary” Creedence Clearwater Revival
“Say You Won’t Let Go” James Arthur
“US Forces” Midnight Oil
“Slow Hands” Niall Horan
“I Can See Clearly Now” Jimmy Cliff
–“17 Minutes of the 70s”–
“Lady D’Arbanville” Cat Stevens
“Love Really Hurts Without You” Billy Ocean
“The Joker” Steve Miller Band
“Hard Rock Cafe” Carole King
“You Are The Sunshine of My Life” Stevie Wonder
–End of “17 Minutes of the 70s”–
“Treat You Better” Shawn Mendes
“If A Tree Falls” Bruce Cockburn
“Let’s Stick Together” Bryan Ferry
As you can see, the station is not too heavy on the new music compared to many other regional adult music stations, including Mix FM Sunshine Coast. It’s also interesting to see that Zinc plays more 70s in a single hour (including 5 in a row part of their “17 Minutes of the 70s”) than WS/Gold (in markets where there’s more commercial FM stations) does in 2 hours! 
By comparison, WS are more likely to play four 90s songs in a row rather than from the 70s these days.
If I’m up on the Sunshine Coast, I would probably listen to Zinc the most over most of the other stations. 
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huh
That’s what I love about the station. 90% classic hits 10% new music. Surely people don’t want to hear 100% classic hits and no new music at all. I certainly don’t… I reckon that’s part of Smooth’s success too. Classic hits radio formats these days are so hung up on not playing any new music but that’s a totally new concept. In the 70s and 80s and even into the 90s adult music stations were mostly like this and included a smaller % of new music.
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I don’t mind Zinc either, and will often listen in for the midday countdown to hear what is on that day. If I don’t like it, there’s always the Gr8ies on River 949 at the same time 
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I assume you’re referring to the “20-20 Retro Countdown”, which in my part of the world airs on 2ST (via 102.9 from Bowral) at the same time. The same program airs at 7pm weeknights on River 949.
That’s the one.
Enjoyable Way-Back Wednesday on River 949 today
10:15:58 Evie (Parts 1, 2 & 3) - Stevie Wright
10:16:27 The Riddle - Nik Kershaw
10:20:05 Bitter Sweet Symphony (edit) - The Verve
10:24:31 Science Fiction - The Divinyls
10:27:53 Wonderful Life - Black
10:32:34 Finally - Ce Ce Peniston
10:41:39 Dreadlock Holiday - 10CC
10:46:34 Way Of The World - Max Q
10:50:32 Wake Me Up Before You Go Go - Wham!
10:54:07 Slave - James Reyne
11:10:11 Can’t Help Myself - Flowers
11:13:11 Escapade - Janet Jackson
11:25:53 Love In An Elevator - Aerosmith
11:31:10 Get Set - Taxiride
11:34:36 Vienna (LIVE AID) - Ultravox
11:48:19 Better - The Screaming Jets
11:52:55 Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe
12:05:30 To Be With You - Mr. Big
12:08:43 People - Mi-Sex
12:12:35 I’m On Fire - Bruce Springsteen
12:14:56 American Life In The Summertime - Francis Dunnery
12:21:21 Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles
12:24:33 He’s Just No Good For You - Mental As Anything
12:27:50 It Must Have Been Love - Roxette
12:32:09 Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
12:39:56 That’s Freedom - John Farnham
12:44:01 Waterfalls (EDIT) - TLC
12:47:16 Rock And Roll All Nite (studio) - Kiss
12:49:49 Breathe - Faith Hill
12:53:49 I Missed Again - Phil Collins
13:05:56 Wanna Be Up - The Chantoozies
13:09:32 Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
13:15:40 Father’s Day - Weddings, Parties Anything
13:19:33 Message In A Bottle - Police
13:26:41 Boom Boom Boom(Let’s Go Back To My Room) - Paul Lekakis
13:30:24 My Hero - Foo Fighters
13:34:31 Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
13:38:18 Blue - Fine Young Cannibals
13:45:24 Live And Let Die - Guns N’ Roses
13:48:18 Take A Chance On Me - ABBA
13:52:04 We Didn’t Start The Fire - Billy Joel
14:04:29 Runaway Train - Soul Asylum
14:08:36 Gloria - Laura Branigan
14:12:42 Cry In Shame - Johnny Diesel & The Injectors
14:17:18 Constant Craving - kd lang
14:24:49 Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann’s Earthband
14:31:48 Chain Reaction - Diana Ross
14:36:00 Can’t Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams
14:40:11 Working For The Weekend - Loverboy
14:47:38 If I Could - 1927
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Why can’t we listen to River 94.9 for 1 week in our rotation of radio stations at my workplace?
I miss being able to listen to them
Why not, is it because of reception?
Fairly safe playlist except for a handful of ‘unflogged’ songs. Not what it used to be.
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It’s because everyone has to be listening to the same station
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I thought by “we” you meant everyone.
Given the recent discussions about 2GO on the relevant threads (particularly the “Central Coast Radio” thread) on the wake of Sarah & Paddy’s axing, I thought it be worth unearthing some of the past 2GO logs that I’ve done from the days of when they had its own music log & dominated in the local radio ratings, both overall & in the 40-54s. I’ve originally posted those on the old MS forums back in the day, which are now inaccessible, so I thought it’s worth sharing again for historical purposes of what the station used to sound like.
Below are some of the logs from 2007 & 2008.
A brief background: In those days, 2GO & Sea FM were owned by Macquarie Regional Radioworks (later Macquarie Southern Cross Media, after it merged with Southern Cross Broadcasting in mid-2007), which as the name suggests, focused on regional markets, with no assets in metro markets, unlike under the current SCA ownership. Therefore, 2GO wasn’t part of the Triple M network. Rival station Star 104.5 had a rock format back then & was rating way behind 2GO.
107.7 2GO
"70s to Now & Everything in Between"
Thursday 26th July 2007 - 10-11am AEST
“Computer Games” Mi-Sex
"Chasing Cars" Snow Patrol
"Don’t Change" INXS
"Somebody’s Crying" Chris Issak
"Dream Police" Cheap Trick
"Keep Holding On" Avril Lavigne
"Invisible Touch" Genesis (part of Phil Collins’ doubleshot)
“In The Air Tonight” Phil Collins (part of Phil Collins’ doubleshot)
“Watching The Detectives” Elvis Costello & The Attractions
"How Far We’ve Come" Matchbox 20
107.7 2GO
"70s to Now & Everything in Between"
Monday 10th December 2007 - 10-11am AEDT
“You Might Think” The Cars
"God Told Me To" Paul Kelly
"Bennie & The Jets" Elton John
"All Star" Smash Mouth
"Six Months In a Leaky Boat" Split Enz
"Straight Lines" Silverchair
"Dreamer" Supertramp
"Town Called Malice" The Jam
"Into The Night" Santana feat. Chad Kroeger
"Somebody To Love" Queen
107.7 2GO
"70s to Now & Everything in Between"
Monday 18th February 2008 - 10-11am AEDT
“Pink Houses” John Cougar Mellencamp
"Hey There Delilah" Plain White T’s
"Reelin’ In The Years" Steely Dan
"All I Wanna Do" Sheryl Crow
"Talking In Your Sleep" The Romantics
"Steer" Missy Higgins
"You Took The Words Right Out of my Mouth" Meatloaf
"Jump" Van Halen
"Pictures of You" The Last Goodnight
"Rocket Man" Elton John
"Need You Tonight" INXS
"Photograph" Nickelback
As you can see, back in those days, 2GO played plenty of 70s & 80s music, and wasn’t as reliant on the ‘90s-now’ compared to today under the network log from the Gold Coast that is present on most Triple M regional stations.
It’s little wonder why regional commercial radio stations are not as interesting now compared to what it was a decade ago. 
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Thought I should take a listen to the station (somewhat) formerly known as ‘The Edge’, now streaming again under ACE Radio ownership, and…
Edge FM 102.1
"Maximum Music Weekend"
Saturday, December 2nd, 2017 - 11am-12pm AEDT
“Got My Mind Set on You” - George Harrison
"Running" - Evermore
"Coming Home" - Sheppard
"Can’t Stop This Thing We Started" - Bryan Adams
"Wildest Dreams" - Taylor Swift
"Sign Your Name" - Terence Trent D’Arby
[Ad break]
“I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)” - Sandi Thom
"High On Me" - Guy Sebastian
"I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" - Aretha Franklin & George Michael
"Always A Winner" - Pete Murray
[Ad break]
“Rise” - Katy Perry
"Break My Stride" - Unique II
"Come Undone" - Robbie Williams
"De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" - The Police
…yep.
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What more do I have to say 
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