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[TV-Expert]

Still on the topic of Zinc & somewhat inspired by this post made in “Random Radio” thread…

@Brianc68

Was up in Maryborough today and listened to Zinc 96. It’s basically a local station and sounds just as strong as Triple M. A great listen as ever and it reminded me of US stations common in smaller cities over there. It’s basically a rock based classic hits station that also plays selected new songs. It’s 80 or even 90% classic hits from 70s, 80s and 90s with the rest new music that fits the audience. They were pretty heavy on the 70s too which surprised me. Loved it. Don’t know why the likes of Gold/WS don’t sound more like that.

…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.