I think they’re both awful to be honest.
IMO it’s not that they’re too broad, it’s just purely song choices. You can have a broad playlist that’s not so jarring.
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Given the comments about Hit 107 in Adelaide in the “Metro Radio Ratings - Survey 6, 2019” thread, I thought I would look at a typical hour’s playlist of that station & compare it with Mix 102.3 & Triple M in Adelaide.
These were taken yesterday (Monday 30th September 2019) at around 1-2pm ACST.
hit107
"More Music, More Variety"
“Beautiful Day” U2
“Someone You Loved” Lewis Capaldi
“Rhythm Is A Dancer” Snap!
“Uptown Funk” Mark Ronson / Bruno Mars
“Slide Away” Miley Cyrus
“Caught Up” Usher
“Flashdance…What a Feeling” Irene Cara
“Beautiful People” Ed Sheeran / Khalid
“4 Minutes” Justin Timberlake / Madonna
“Let’s Talk About Sex” Salt ‘n’ Pepa
“How Do You Sleep?” Sam Smith
“Murder On The Dancefloor” Sophie Ellis-Bextor
“High” Lighthouse Family"
“Truth Hurts” Lizzo
Mix 102.3
"Adelaide’s Widest Variety of Music"
“I Love You Always Forever” Betty Who
“Choir” Guy Sebastian
“Born In The USA” Bruce Springsteen
“Just Like A Pill” Pink
“Sucker” Jonas Brothers
“Daughter” Pearl Jam
“Royals” Lorde
“Never Really Over” Katy Perry
“Footloose” Kenny Loggins
“Price Tag” Jessie J
“Dusk Till Dawn” Zayn / Sia
“Two Princes” Spin Doctors
“Shout Out To My Ex” Little Mix
104.7 Triple M
"Rock’s Greatest Hits"
“Homosapien” Pete Shelley
“Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing” Chris Isaak
“A Kind of Magic” Queen
“A*@hole” Denis Leary (I censored the title myself)
“Valerie” Steve Winwood
“Mrs Robinson” The Lemonheads
“Young Turks” Rod Stewart
“Only Happy When It Rains” Garbage
“Rain” Dragon
“Cradle of Love” Billy Idol
“Easy Lover” Phil Collins / Philip Bailey
“She’s So High” Tal Bachman
“The Unguarded Moment” The Church
I wanted to include Nova 91.9 on the comparison, but Lava didn’t record the playlist for that particular hour. They would’ve taken the same log as Nova 93.7 in Perth.
Anyway, this gives us a bit of an insight of what 3 of the 4 commercial FM stations in Adelaide are sounding like at the moment. 
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With news that Spirit & Red FM in WA have been sold to SCA, here’s what the playlists on both stations look like at present. These took place on Thursday afternoon, the day before the sale was announced.
Spirit Radio Network
"Classic Rock & Today’s Hits"
Thursday 17th October 2019 - 1-3pm AWST
1pm
“Tumbling Dice” Rolling Stones
“Jumper” Third Eye Blind
“Tabloid Magazine” The Living End
“Tell Me Why” John Butler Trio
“Hot In The City” Billy Idol
“Get Out Of Your Own Way” U2
“Dancing In The Storm” Boom Crash Opera
“Just Can’t Get Enough” Depeche Mode
“Jeremy” Pearl Jam
“We Built This City” Starship
“Live Without It” Killing Heidi
“Lifening” Snow Patrol
2pm
“When The River Runs Dry” Hunters & Collectors
“Borderline” Tame Impala
“The Honeymoon Is Over” The Cruel Sea
“Every Rose Has Its Thorn” Poison
“Hold Your Nerve” Boy & Bear
“Crazy Little Thing Called Love” Queen
“Times Like These” Foo Fighters
“You’re So Vain” Chocolate Starfish
“Refugee” Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
“Cocaine” JJ Cale
“Chained To The Wheel” The Black Sorrows
“11th Dimension” Julian Casablancas / The Cassettes
“Misery” Maroon 5
Red FM
"Western Australia’s Best New Music"
Thursday 17th October 2019 - 1-3pm AWST
1pm
“The Greatest Mistakes” Birds Of Tokyo
“Can’t Hold Us” Macklemore / Ryan Lewis / Ray Dalton
“Torn” Ava Max
“Somebody’s Talking” The Preatures
“Castles” Freya Ridings
“Midnight Homie” British India
“Over Drinking Over You” Busby Marou
“Breakapart” Polish Club
“Barbra Streisand” Duck Sauce
“The Real Thing” Client Liasion
“Zombie” The Cranberries
“Dance Monkey” Tones And I
“Room To Breathe” You Me At Six
2pm
“Hurts 2B Human” Pink / Khalid
“Rise” Jonas Blue / Jack Jack
“Falling Asleep At The Wheel” The Reubens
“In The Night” The Weeknd
“Straight Back Down” Dean Lewis
“Father Of All” Green Day
“I Think I’m Okay” Machine Gun Kelly / Yungblud / Travis Barker
“Jealous” Nick Jonas
“Flake” Fidlar
“19/2000” Gorillaz
“Lampshades On Fire” Modest Mouse
“Señorita” Shawn Mendes / Camila Cabello
“Hey Mama” David Guetta / Nicki Minaj / Bebe Rexha / Afrojack
“House Of Glass” Cage The Elephant
“Lean On Me” Illy / Robinson
“Dr Love” The Bumblebeez
As you can see, the playlists of both stations are very adventurous, probably up there with Rebel & Breeze.
No doubt that it will be replaced by the generic Triple M & Hit regional logs (as well as branding) once SCA settles down on owning the stations (as well as selling off Spirit 621 in Bunbury). 
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Great playlists TV-Expert 
Spirit has been one of my favourite radio stations musically.
The narrow minded programmers at SCA need to look into both music formats on Red and Spirit and bring both formats across to the regional Hit and Triple M stations.
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or you could tell us your experience in programming successful commercial radio stations compared to their 8 music directors working across the group
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Gee that’s a snarky comment. Are you suggesting the 8 music directors at SCA have experience at programming successful commercial radio stations? I would disagree. Of course they are winners in the markets where they don’t have any competition if that’s what you mean…
Maybe you could tell us your vast experience?
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I wouldn’t call any of the SCA regional music formats that fits all success stories would I? Like that narrow female skew music format on the regional MMM’s.
Have any of the 8 music directors been to different parts of Australia where SCA stations are (Not just the GC) and ask people all walks of life in these region areas what they want to listen too? (Not just the 25 to 54 year old grocery buyers)
I work in many areas in regional Australia where SCA and Redwave are. I have not heard many positive reports about the M’s since changing from The Greatest Hits. A lot of people have said both Hit and Triple M music is very repetitive, while people love the Spirit and Red music playlists.
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I find Spirit and Red to be a bit broad with their sound, musically. I can understand that they have a MUCH higher TLH than stations in other markets, but I think they need to give the stations’s a bit more of a consistent sound. Tighten up the music categories a bit, and do shades of black and white, not black into white so much…
I think that change will come with the ownership change…
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Change will come…Ill guarantee that. As what someone said above let’s hope they don’t mess with the music to much, but then again it SCA
Could you imagine the miners listening to that boring female skew music format on Spirit radio day in and day out…I think not Lol
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Noticed that Triple M Hard n Heavy have quietly finished up its All Metallica stunt, so a first look at a regular format music log taken from this afternoon (via Lava):
Triple M Hard n Heavy
Hard Rock and Heavy Metal
Saturday 26th October 2019 - 3-6pm AEDT
| Time | Artist | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 15:01:31 AEDT | Judas Priest | Diamonds And Rust |
| 15:05:26 AEDT | Iron Maiden | The Number Of The Beast |
| 15:09:46 AEDT | Machine Head | Is There Anybody Out There? |
| 15:13:35 AEDT | Alice In Chains | Down In A Hole |
| 15:19:16 AEDT | Rammstein | Deutschland |
| 15:24:56 AEDT | AC/DC | Back In Black |
| 15:28:49 AEDT | Skid Row | Quicksand Jesus |
| 15:34:33 AEDT | Dokken | Tooth And Nail |
| 15:38:17 AEDT | Fear Factory | Invisible Wounds (Dark Bodies) |
| 15:42:07 AEDT | Black Sabbath | Iron Man |
| 15:47:43 AEDT | Metallica | Master Of Puppets |
| 15:55:20 AEDT | Rage Against The Machine | Sleep Now In The Fire |
| 15:59:07 AEDT | Bad Wolves | Killing Me Slowly |
| 16:03:17 AEDT | Disturbed | The Sound Of Silence |
| 16:08:52 AEDT | The Smashing Pumpkins | Ava Adore |
| 16:12:32 AEDT | Judas Priest | Lightning Strike |
| 16:16:28 AEDT | Megadeth | Holy Wars… The Punishment Due |
| 16:22:36 AEDT | Nine Inch Nails | Hurt |
| 16:28:30 AEDT | Hellyeah | Perfect |
| 16:32:14 AEDT | Scorpions | Blackout |
| 16:35:55 AEDT | Pearl Jam | Alive |
| 16:41:33 AEDT | Blitzkrieg | Blitzkrieg |
| 16:45:23 AEDT | Overkill | Coma |
| 16:51:07 AEDT | Stone Sour | Song #3 |
| 16:54:56 AEDT | Deftones | Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away) |
| 17:00:42 AEDT | Halestorm | Black Vultures |
| 17:04:22 AEDT | Motorhead | In The Name Of Tragedy |
| 17:08:10 AEDT | Queensryche | I Don’t Believe In Love |
| 17:12:03 AEDT | Pantera | Walk |
| 17:17:53 AEDT | Alter Bridge | Wouldn’t You Rather |
| 17:21:29 AEDT | Guns N’ Roses | It’s So Easy |
| 17:23:37 AEDT | Linkin Park | One Step Closer |
| 17:27:10 AEDT | The Smashing Pumpkins | Today |
| 17:31:03 AEDT | Motley Crue | Shout At The Devil |
| 17:34:54 AEDT | Alice In Chains | Check My Brain |
| 17:38:41 AEDT | Dinosaur Pile-up | Back Foot |
| 17:40:36 AEDT | Onslaught | Blood Upon The Ice |
| 17:49:59 AEDT | Hole | Celebrity Skin |
| 17:51:55 AEDT | Ozzy Osbourne | Shot In The Dark |
| 17:55:41 AEDT | Saxon | 747 (Strangers In The Night) |
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and not one Australian (apart from AC/DC) act in amongst this log!
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Fun superdigi log this afternoon
I Can Dream About You - Dan Hartman
Jack And Jill - Raydio
Don’t You Forget About Me - Simple Minds
Would I Lie To You - Charles & Eddie
Too Late For Goodbyes - Julian Lennon
Kiss - Prince
Dr Love - Tina Charles
Carribean Queen - Billy Ocean
True Blue - Madonna
I Touch Myself - Divinyls
No Say In It - Machinations
One More Night - Phil Collins
Crush - Jennifer Paige
Come On Eileen - Dexy’s Midnight Runners
Easy - Faith No More
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Kiss You All Over - Exile
Too Young For Promises - Koo De Tah
When I See You Smile - Bad English
Montego Bay - Allniters
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How can I view past station logs, like those on radioapi sites? In the context of logs from the past, right?
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This following website is your friend. However, it requires registration if you haven’t signed up already, but it’s free.
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I signed up. Track start times are off for me, hence why I questioned that. I used it while questioning about the SuperDigi network
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Did you set your local timezone settings and preferences?
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My Spotify playlist/‘radio station’ just threw up a funny twofer:
PETER COMBE- Juicy Juicy Green Grass
PINK FLOYD- Jugband Blues
…the common thread being madness.
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For some reason (using Lava and a few other sources) non-iHeartRadio station logs for a few Triple M stations have become frozen in the past few days. For example, Triple M Sydney’s log is stuck on Two Princes by Spin Doctors since the 4th of December.
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The playlist log for Triple M Sydney still works fine on the Triple M app at least.
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Sample log from Rock Antenne- Soft Rock. It will be interesting to see how MMM Soft ©ock compares:
| 09:46 | Goo Goo Dolls - Name |
|---|---|
| 09:46 | ROCK ANTENNE - Soft Rock |
| 09:41 | Peter Gabriel - Red rain |
| 09:37 | Steel Panther - Community property |
| 09:37 | ROCK ANTENNE - Soft Rock |
| 09:31 | Rolling Stones - Wild horses |
| 09:27 | Boston - Amanda |
| 09:22 | Moetley Crüe - Home sweet home |
| 09:22 | ROCK ANTENNE - Soft Rock |
| 09:18 | Staind - So far away |
| 09:14 | Foreigner - Waiting for a girl like you |
| 09:13 | ROCK ANTENNE - Soft Rock |
| 09:08 | U2 - One |
| 09:03 | Santana - Samba pa ti |
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