Those Wollongong logs are awful!! I’d be streaming if I lived in the ‘gong.
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Me too. Hopefully the Sydney stations come through too.
Luckily, the Sydney stations can be heard into many parts of the Illawarra region well, with reliable in-car reception all the way to Kiama, which is about 100km south of Sydney as the signal flies.
After all, the Sydney stations are listed in the Wollongong radio ratings, with Smooth the most popular Sydney FM station in the Illawarra, and is ranked 5th in the 65+ (behind ABC Illawarra, 2GB, Wave FM & ABC Sydney).
How community radio in the gong? Is 105.3 still country music? 106.9 FM?
Yes. It’s known on-air as Kix Country.
A general community station (Vox FM) that airs a variety of programs. It doesn’t have a consistent music format like SWR 999, Coast FM or 2NUR throughout the weekday, hence why it’s not really a viable alternative to the local commercial stations.
Pulse 94.1, which is a local Christian community station, has a more consistent music format throughout the day, mixing Christian music with mainstream AC music, the type of music that Wave FM used to play.
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With The Wave in Mandurah launched yesterday as an FM conversion of 6MM, I thought it would be good to compare 6MM with The Wave, thanks to their playlist page on their website.
Here is 6MM’s playlist from last Friday, when it was still an AM station.
1116 6MM - Mandurah, WA
Friday, 28th September 2018
11am-2pm AWST
11am
“Underneath The Radar” Underworld
“There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back” Shawn Mendes
“Magic” Coldplay
“Blaze of Glory” Jon Bon Jovi
“Mr Mysterious” Vanessa Amorosi
“All Loved Up” Amy Shark
“Zoom” Fat Larry’s Band
“Diamonds & Pearls” Prince
“Fireflies” Owl City
“The Impression That I Get” Mighty Mighty Bosstones
“Meant to Be” Bebe Rexha and Florida-Georgia Line
“Help Is on It’s Way” Little River Band
“Can’t Feel My Face” The Weeknd
12pm
“The Middle” Zedd and Grey and Maren Morris
“Sing It Back” Moloko
“Happier” Ed Sheeran
“Evie (Part 1)” Stevie Wright
“Ho Hey” The Lumineers
“Before Too Long” Paul Kelly & The Coloured Girls
“The Story of Us” Taylor Swift
“Twisted” Keith Sweat
“Most People I Know Think That I’m Crazy” Billy Thorpe
“Edge of Glory” Lady Gaga
1pm
“We Will Together” Eurogliders
“Dusk Till Dawn” Zayn & Sia
“Superheroes” The Script
“ABC” Jackson 5
“Back To You” Selena Gomez
“No Lies” Noiseworks
“The Rising” Bruce Springsteen
“Can’t Get Enough of You Baby” Smash Mouth
“Right Here Waiting” Richard Marx
“2002” Anne-Marie
“The Horses” Daryl Braithwaite
“Way Down We Go” Kaleo
“Cold” Maroon 5
And here’s The Wave from today.
91.7 The Wave - Mandurah, WA
Tuesday, 2nd October 2018
10am-2pm AWST
10am
“Baby, I Love Your Way” Big Mountain
“Out of Mind Out of Sight” Models
“Black Fingernails Red Wine” Eskimo Joe
“A Change Would Do You Good” Sheryl Crow
“Pride (In The Name Of Love)” U2
“Don’t Tell Me The Time” Martha Davis
“Close To You” Maxi Priest
“Let’s Dance” David Bowie
“Use Somebody” Kings Of Leon
“Walking In Memphis” Marc Cohn
“Is She Really Going Out With Him” Joe Jackson
“Faith” George Michael
“Smooth” Santana & Rob Thomas
11am
“Hungry Like The Wolf” Duran Duran
“Only Wanna Be With You” Hootie & The Blowfish
“Would I Lie To You” Eurythmics
“Escape” Enrique Iglesias
“Last Kiss” Pearl Jam
“Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone)” Glass Tiger
“Rock ‘n’ Me” Steve Miller Band
“Club At The End Of The Street” Elton John
“Ghost” Ella Henderson
“Can’t Help Myself” Flowers/Icehouse
“One Headlight” The Wallflowers
“Freeway Of Love” Aretha Franklin (RIP)
“You Ain’t Thinking About Me” Sonia Dada
12pm
“Heaven Is A Place On Earth” Belinda Carlisle
“Cool World” Mondo Rock
“Love Is The Drug” Roxy Music
“Chained To The Wheel” Black Sorrows
“Something Got Me Started” Simply Red
“Let’s Stay Together” Tina Turner
“One Night In Bangkok” Murray Head
“Paper In Fire” John Cougar Mellencamp
“Dance Hall Days” Wang Chung
“I’m Gonna Getcha Good” Shania Twain
1pm
“Learning To Fly” Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
“Second Chance” .38 Special
“Clocks” Coldplay
“My Island Home” Christine Anu
“While You See A Chance” Steve Winwood
“As The Days Go By” Daryl Braithwaite
“Mr Jones” Counting Crows
“Relax” Frankie Goes To Hollywood
“The Most Beautiful Girl In The World” Prince
“Ebony Eyes” Bob Welch
“Everywhere” Fleetwood Mac
“Lets Groove” CDB
You can see more of The Wave’s playlist here: https://www.917thewave.com.au/on-air/played/
As you can see above, 6MM as an AM station played more newer music than The Wave does as an FM station, which is quite ironic. Then again, since The Wave now has an equal advantage with sister station Coast FM by broadcasting on the same band, there’s little point on having too much overlap in the music between the two.
From the perspective of an avid radio listener in Perth, there’s now a good adult music alternative on commercial FM in contrast to Mix 94.5 & 96fm.
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That’s a great log from 91.7 The Wave. I haven’t heard that Sonia Dada track on commercial radio since the 90s.
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I don’t know if this has been mentioned before but RadioApp keeps a log of all the songs played on each station. You can access this log by adding to the following url: http://harry.radioapi.io/services/nowplaying/
Examples:
http://harry.radioapi.io/services/nowplaying/broadcastersnamehere/stationnamehere/onair
http://harry.radioapi.io/services/nowplaying/capital/3gg/onair
http://harry.radioapi.io/services/nowplaying/sca/3bo/onair
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Great post. But who is Harry?
I tried to get into the parent directories to make searching easier but as usual got the 403 Forbidden error. One would have to find the Triple M stations by trial and error (none of ‘2CS’, ‘MMMcoffs’, ‘MMMcoffscoast’, ‘TripleMcoffs’, or ‘TripleMcoffscoast’ worked).
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I’ll look through the Radio app files again. For now you might just have to do it by trial and error. And No I don’t know who Harry is… Maybe Prince Harry?
Maybe because Fred has it and not Harry!
http://fred.aimapi.io/services/nowplaying/sca/2csf/onair.json
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Here’s the file containing the Streams and the Logs if anyone wants it.
I’ve just noticed that the current log I get for 2CA Canberra is wrong.
Yeah, it’s been stuck since August last year.
Thanks to streaming, here is a music log of a station which I don’t believe has been covered before:
947 - Johannesburg, South Africa
"If you love J’burg, 947 loves you!"
Monday, 26th November 2018 - 22.40pm - 00.10am AEDT
- “Meant To Be” - Bebe Rexha Ft. Florida Georgia Line
- “Running Wild” - Pascal & Pearce Feat. Jethro Tait
- “Alone” - Alan Walker
- “1, 2 Step” - Ciara Ft. Missy Elliott
- “Better Now” - Post Malone
- “Feel It Still” - Portugal The Man
- “Trip” - Ella Mai
- “Rejoice” - Bucie Ft. Black Motion
- “Gettin’ Jiggy With It” - Will Smith
- “Without Me” - Halsey
- “What About Us” - P!nk
- “Solo” - Clean Bandit Ft. Demi Lovato
I also recorded the station as I was listening to it, so I will upload a radio aircheck of the station sometime tomorrow. 
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That station used to (maybe still does?) have a fair bit of boundary advertising at the Wanderers in Joburg. Perhaps you could do the wonderfully named Jacaranda FM next?
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I was planning on recording/listening to Jacaranda FM tonight actually, so I will make sure that I do a music log of the station as well.
In case you or anyone else is interested, here is the radio aircheck I recorded last night of 947 FM.
I’ll have to listen to see what I can pick up next year when I’m back in the Republic. Cape Town and Durban on the agenda so I’ll see if there’s localised or networked programming compared to Johannesburg.
I’ve just noticed on their websites of each Grant-owned station that if you click on “Open Player”, you have the list of the last 10 songs that have been played on a station.
Here’s Wave FM Wollongong for example: http://player.listenlive.co/61031/en/songhistory
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2MMM "Rock’s Greatest Hits"
28th December 2018
1-4pm
AMERICAN PIE - DON MCLEAN
CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVA - OASIS
WHO MADE WHO - ACDC
LIFE IN THE FAST LANE - EAGLES
ARE YOU GONNA BE MY GIRL - JET
HOT IN THE CITY - BILLY IDOL
CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION - TREX
MYSTERIOUS WAYS - U2
FREE FALLING - TOM PETTY/HEARBREAKERS
BLINDED BY THE LIGHT - MANFRED MANN
RUN TO YOU - BRYAN ADAMS
PRISONER OF SOCIETY - LIVING END
BAT OUT OF HELL - MEATLOAF
LAND OF CONFUSION - GENESIS
NUMB - LINKIN PARK
REELING IN THE YEARS - STEELY DAN
DREAMWORLD - MIDNIGHT OIL
LOSING MY RELIGION - REM
I SEE RED - SPLIT ENZ
SOUNDS OF THEN - GANGGAJANG
ALL OVER YOU - LIVE
SLAVE TO LOVE - BRYAN FERRY
JUMPING JACK FLASH - ROLLING STONES
LITTLE LION MAN - MUMFORD AND SONS
ORIGINAL SIN - INXS
SATURDAY NIGHT’S ALRIGHT FOR FIGHTING - ELTON JOHN
LONGVIEW - GREEN DAY
CALL ME - BLONDIE
COCAINE - ERIC CLAPTON
BEST OF YOU - FOO FIGHTERS
THROW YOUR ARMS AROUND ME - HUNTERS/COLLECTORS
Not many female artists but great music all the same!
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