Fleetwood Mac- Seven Wonders
Fleetwood Mac- Family Man
Roachford- Family Man
Sly & The Family Stone- Everyday People
Arrested Development- People Everyday
PM Dawn- Set Adrift On Memory Bliss
Spandau Ballet- Gold
Klaxons- Golden Skans
Cut Copy- Hearts On Fire
Machinations- My Heart’s On Fire
Nick Lowe- Heart Of The City
Pet Shop Boys- Suburbia
Inspector Gadget Theme (gap filler)
1400-1500
Huey Lewis &The News -Hip To Be Square
Adam Ant- Goody Two Shoes
The Rubinoos- Revenge Of The Nerds (Wrong Song)
Kraftwerk- Computer World 2
Tina Arena- The Machine’s Breaking Down
Metric- Speed The Collapse
Bucks Fizz- Making Your Mind Up (request)
The Reels- Quasimodo’s Dream
Allniters- Love & Affection
The Dugites- In Your Car
Steve Miller Band- Living In The USA
Damn Yankees- High Enough
Sesame Street Theme (gap filler)
Sorry- didn’t get the show off the logger as nobody was around to show me how! Will have to get that sorted, or use dar.fm for next week. Have just unearthed my XHDATA D-318 BT radio and recorder so might use that instead; saves dicking around with webstreams and the logger. So you should have a genuine off air recording for next week.
With the recent change of 94.9 Power FM in Shoalhaven/Southern Highlands going from CHR to Hot AC (taking the 7HO log), I thought I would look at how the Illawarra/Shoalhaven commercial FM stations are sounding these days.
Tuesday 29th September 2020 1-2pm AEST
Wave FM 96.5 "The Illawarra’s Best Music" Owner: Grant Broadcasters
Zedd / Maren Morris / Grey - The Middle
Justin Bieber / Quavo - Intentions
Fun. - Some Nights
TLC - No Scrubs
Mabel - Don’t Call Me Up
Ganggajang - Sounds Of Then
Kygo / OneRepublic - Lose Somebody
Fergie - Big Girls Don’t Cry
Joel Corry / MNEK - Head & Heart
Marcy Playground - Sex And Candy
Post Malone - Circles
i98FM "Feel Good" Owner: WIN
Freya Ridings - Castles
Topic / A7S - Breaking Me
New Radicals - You Get What You Give
Surf Mesa / Emilee - ILY
Powderfinger - (Baby I’ve Got You) On My Mind
Taylor Swift / Brendon Urie - Me!
Jason Derulo - Take You Dancing
Cold Chisel - Khe Sanh
Dua Lipa - Don’t Start Now
Maroon 5 - This Love
Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky
Taio Cruz - Dynamite
Guy Sebastian - Love On Display
94.9 Power FM "The Shoalhaven & Highlands’ Best Music" Owner: Grant Broadcasters
Joel Corry / MNEK - Head & Heart
The Chainsmokers / Daya - Don’t Let Me Down
U2 - Vertigo
Maroon 5 - Memories
Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
Taio Cruz - Dynamite
Marshmello / Halsey - Be Kind
Cake - Short Skirt/Long Jacket
Eves Karydas - Complicated
Sam Smith - Stay With Me
3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
Pink - Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely)
Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy
Hozier - Take Me To Church
Interesting to note that in that particular hour, Power FM was playing more 80s than either Wave or i98.
WTF going on here? Surely the audience that would like those tracks right up against each other must be so small? Nevermind that all the stations sound EXACTLY the same.
Yeah I don’t get the Wollongong market. As per some other posts in the 2CH thread, it seems that prevailing mindset is the only way for an FM station to make money is to target the younger audience. Ironically , in my opinion this is very old fashion thinking especially i98s roots was a classic hits station back in the 90s.
Grants could do well flipping Wave to classic hits or even a rock format. As you mention everyone seems to think that they should target the same audience because it hypothetically will make the most money. But there can only be one market leader.
Power FM is licenced to Nowra, whereas i98 & Wave FM are licenced to Wollongong. But still, given that all 3 are transmitting out of the same tower, it’s a valid point.
What saddens me the most is that Wollongong used to be diverse with its commercial stations musically, in which Wave FM targeted an older audience than that of i98 & Power FM, due to Power FM actively competing in the Wollongong market as an unofficial 3rd commercial station.
To be fair, a lot of competing regional markets are not nearly as diverse musically as before, especially since Hit has skewed older, which make it sound more similar to a rival station that has a similar music format.
I agree. If you look at the Wollongong radio ratings over the last few years, i98 is #1 by a long way ahead of Wave FM. When Wave FM targeted an older audience, it was rating more closely behind i98, and was even #1 in late 2002/early 2003.
I thought you Brisbanites would appreciate ‘Welcome To The Boomtown’.
American Life In The Summertime is such a great radio track; immediately puts me in a good mood whenever I hear it (not often these days).
If you want to hear the show in full you’ll need to request to join my private Facebook group. The boss has let me upload the show but ‘discreetly’, so I’m not publishing the link on a public forum.
I do remember at one stage within the last twenty years Wave fm did have a rock / classic rock format, but they still weren’t able to make any ground on i98 so they went to the current format.
Maybe they could try the Power rock format again.
If you look at the playlists of all the Illawarra region stations, i98, Wave, Power and 2ST there is overlap, but not as much now 2ST has gone to the classic hits format.
Wollongong listeners also have fortuitous reception of the Sydney fm stations in most parts.
Ideally Wollongong should have another community fm radio station that targets the youth, similar to Fresh / Radio Metro. That would shake up the market.
