Soft AC could work in a number of markets, particularly the likes of Maryborough/Bendigo and Mildura - my aim was more to reshuffle what exists already rather than go too heavily into “what if” territory
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Some great ideas there. River 94.9 would go great with classic hits on FM. That’s when the station (and Star 106.9/QFM) were at their best - when they filled a niche that wasn’t available on FM.
Ideally I’d go soft AC rather than classic hits for River though, but either would work. I think the only problem with classic hits is the 4KQ effect. It really is a powerhouse even though it’s on AM/DAB. River would somewhat be wedged between 4KQ and 4MMM.
I also think a proper rock station would work in Darwin, perhaps Power 104.9 combined with Hot 100 (Hot AC/CHR). Although personally I’d brand it Rock 104.9 and also use Rock 100.7 in Townsville too.
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I heard they were going to call it Rock 100.7 before they changed it to Power100. I don’t know why they changed their mind.
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Territory FM serve the rock community OK in Darwin. If I had a rock station up there I’d call it Croc Rock or Top Rock.
Croc Rock- Music With Bite
The Rock Of The Top End.
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What Station are you on @dxnerd? Would love to hear the show live! (providing they stream?)
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Braidwood FM and yes, we do stream. I’m on 1900-2100 on Tuesday nights, plus I do a countdown show on Wednesday’s at 1300.
You can actually ‘listen again’ to the show by joining the Facebook group; the boss does not want the show links public though, which is why I don’t post them directly on here.
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Cool, I’ll give it a listen. Really love some of your music logs, so different:)
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My Christmas show log:
1900-2000 [worst covers]
Aaron Carter- Surfin’ USA
Rob & Fab- I Want You To Want Me
Groovegrass Boyz- Macarena
Los Del Rio- Macarena Christmas
Crazy Frog- Ice Ice Baby
Crazy Frog- We Are The Champions
William Shatner- Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Woofers & Tweeters Ensemble- I Saw Her Standing There
William Hung- I Believe I Can Fly
Vanilla Ice- Play That Funky Music
Cartoons- Witch Doctor
Ethel Merman- There’s No Business Like Show Business (disco version)
Mi-Sex- Castaway [Wolfie Powerplay]
2000-2100 [special+ a few Christmas songs]
Alan Parsons Project- Tales Of Mystery & Imagination [full album]
Weird Al Yankovic- Christmas At Ground Zero (Mechie Powerplay)
Wesley Willis- Merry Christmas
Sheb Wooley- Santa Claus Meets The Purple People Eater
Pretenders- 2000 Miles
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Listened to the show on demand from the facebook group… I love it… Old School sounding radio in the modern era… you sir are a dying breed of quality broadcaster
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Cheers- that’s actually one of the best compliments I could hope to receive. I hope to sound as good as the old FM104/EON jocks or the current Radio Caroline ones, though I’m a long way from that level of fluency at present.
BTW- the Christmas show was obviously not representative of the normal show; I have posted my ‘normal’ shows above for your perusal.
Make sure you listen to a few other shows in the same vain; The Mechie Show on 2BBB, Paul’s Powerzone on Mixcloud and Vinyl Shop Valves/Inphase on SWR/Mixcloud are a few suggestions. Plenty of quality on community radio if you know where to look.
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A log today from Triple M Melbourne. The playlist in summer seems different to how it is during the year. It appears that the Sydney and Melbourne playlists today are the same, with the Brisbane playlist one hour behind Sydney and Melbourne (of course due to no daylight savings for QLD).
Triple M Melbourne
’Rock’s Greatest Hits/Triple M Rocks Summer’
31st December 2020
2:00pm -3:00pm (AEDT)
Every You Every Me - Placebo 
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Superblood Wolfmoon - Pearl Jam (they’ve flogged this song for months)
Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
Urgent - Foreigner
Rollover DJ - Jet
3AM (acoustic version) - Rob Thomas
Bloody Well Right - Supertramp
Love Bites - Def Leppard
Shot in the Dark - AC/DC
Loser - Beck
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Traditional New Year’s Eve playlists time, where this year it’s all international. Starting as is now customary across the ditch in New Zealand
The Rock, 90.2 FM Auckland
31/12/2020
No Announcer
Approximate NZDST times
9:34: Johnny Cash - Hurt
9:37: Green Day - Hitchin a Ride
9:40: Chevelle - Take Out The Gunman
9:44: David Bowie - Heroes
9:47: Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
9:50: AD BREAK
9:52: P.O.D. - Boom
9:55: Muse - Starlight
9:59: Queens of the Stone Age - The Way You Used to Do
10:03: Sublime - What I Got (Long Beach California band who basically disbanded after their vocalist died of an overdose in 1996, this was released a year later)
10:06: AD BREAK
10:10: Kings of Leon - Fans
10:14: Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
10:22: Ben Harper - Ground on Down
10:26: Shihad - I Got You (Split Enz cover that’s been getting play on the MMM network)
10:30: RETURNING BREAKFAST/DRIVE SHOW PROMOS
10:31: Faith No More - Easy
10:34: Everclear - Santa Monica
10:37: Nirvana - In Bloom
10:41: Alabama 3 - Woke Up This Morning (Sopranos song)
10:45: Audioslave - Show Me How To Live
10:49: Dragon - Are You Old Enough
10:53: Guns n Roses - Civil War
11:01: AD BREAK
11:05: Highly Suspect - Little One (Massachusetts band)
11:09: Th’ Dudes - Bliss (local song, 50th best NZ song of the 20th century according to a 2001 APRA list behind the 1969 song Nature by Wayne Mason. Don’t Dream It’s Over was number 2, Loyal by Dave Dobbyn made the podium, rounding out the 10 was Counting the Beat, Six Months in a Leaky Boat, Sway {Bic Runga}, Slice of Heaven, Victoria {Dance Exponents, 1982 song}, She Speeds {1987 song by Straitjacket Fits} and April Sun in Cuba. The original I Got You was 11th)
11:13: Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
11:18: Foo Fighters - Shame Shame
11:22: ANOTHER PROMO FOR RETURNING SHOWS
11:23: Hole - Celebrity Skin
11:25: Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
11:29: Incubus - Absolution Calling
11:33: Marilyn Manson - Third Day of a Seven Day Binge
11:37: Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
11:47: Supergroove - Sitting Inside My Head (local funk rock group of the 90s)
11:50: AD BREAK
11:51: Oasis - Little by Little
11:55: Metallica - King Nothing
Happy New Year New Zealand
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Can’t recall ever doing one from this station ever at any time, certainly not on NYE, but given its the same timezone as Perth it’s convenient to do a log on NYE for a Singapore station.
Gold 905, 90.5 FM Singapore
31/12/2020
“Night Flight with Mr X”
Approximate times SST/WST
Theme is Number 1 songs
8:55: Brotherhood of Man - Save Your Kisses For Me (1976 Eurovision winning song)
8:58: station promos
9:00 NEWS (Happy New Year NSW/ACT/VIC/TAS)
9:02: Milli Vanilli - Baby Don’t Forget My Number (always find their songs easy to sing at karaoke for some reason…)
9:06: Janet Jackson - Black Cat
9:11: Erasure - Stop!
9:14: Back announcement, plug for a FB competition with a $S300 prize which is about $A280
9:16: AD BREAK
9:17: The Housemartins - Caravan of Love (UK #1 1986)
9:20: Aerosmith - I Don’t Want To Miss a Thing
9:24: ABBA - Fernando
9:28: Back announcement, announcer fills time with some philosophy and health advice (Makes sense with the moderation message, although not many will agree if this was on the Twitterverse)
9:31: Station Promos/Ad break (Happy New Year SA)
9:33: WHAM - Everything She Wants (same A side as the song of Whammageddon, Last Christmas)
9:38: Seal - Kiss From a Rose
9:41: Beatles - Love Me Do
9:43: Back Announce
9:45: AD BREAK
9:48: Monkees - I’m a Believer (tonight’s “gold mine”, background to song followed this)
9:54: Bee Gees - Love You Inside Out
9:58: announcer does a “today in history” rundown
10:00: AD BREAK, Happy New Year QLD
10:03: Patti LaBelle/Michael McDonald - On My Own
10:07: K-Ci and JoJo - All My Life
10:11: Rick Springfield - Jessie’s Girl
10:14: back announce, nostalgia trip, little filler dribble about a “Thatcher Illusion” on their FB page
10:16: ad break
10:17: The Human League - Human
10:20: Celine Dion - Because You Loved Me
10:25: Elton John - Philadelphia Freedom
10:30: Happy New Year NT
10:33: weather update (raining)
10:34: traffic update (reasonably busy roads at that time of night)
10:35: Madonna - Crazy For You
10:38: Craig David - 7 Days
10:42: Nelson - (Can’t Live Without Your) Love and Affection
10:46: reminder of school returning soon, actual school not virtual, staggered return to avoid congestion
10:49: Gloria Estefan - Anything For You
10:53: Gary Barlow - Forever Love
10:57: Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now
11:00: Fireworks display at locations around Singapore start, usually at Marina Bay this time they’re scattered in order to prevent congregations
11:03: New Kids on the Block - I’ll Be Loving You Forever
11:07: Lou Bega - Mambo No 5
11:10: Chrissie Hynde/UB40 - I Got You Babe
11:17: Patti Austin/James Ingram - Baby Come to Me
11:20: Spice Girls - Mama (song interrupted to bring details of an accident on one of the motorways)
11:23: Tony Christie - (Is This The Way To) Amarillo
11:27: Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes
11:30: Timmy T - One More Try
11:34: Dionne Warwick - I Say a Little Prayer
11:39: Bryan Adams - Please Forgive Me
11:44: Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
11:49: backannounce to get a plug for scarecrow burning in Ecuador, really wanted to know that amongst other things that apparently are happening around the world on NYE.
11:52: Phil Collins - You Can’t Hurry Love
11:55: TLC - Waterfalls
11:58: radio hosts take it through to the new year countdown
12:00: Happy New Year Singapore…and WA
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Yesterday’s log:
1900-2000
Tourists- I Only Wanna Be With You
Blondie- Denis
Randy & The Rainbows- Denise
Clout- Portable Radio
Hoodoo Gurus- Less Than A Feeling
Boston- Smokin’
ZZ Top- Tush
Triffids- Bury Me Deep In Love (request)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Nature Boy
Mental As Anything- Mr Natural
Men at Work- I Can See It In Your Eyes (Wolfie Powerplay)
Southern Sons- Heart In Danger (request)
Zwan- Honestly
Gavin Rossdale- Adrenaline
Audioslave- Cochise
2000-2100
Aerosmith- Dream On (request)
Semisonic- Singing In My Sleep
Lit- My Own Worst Enemy
Manic Street Preachers- If You Tolerate This…
Gary Clail- Human Nature
Choirboys- Guilty (request)
Betty Hutton- Doin What Comes Naturally (Mechie Powerplay)
Butthole Surfers- Dracula From Houston (request)
Sleepy Jackson- Vampire Racecourse
Grinspoon- Just Ace
The Who- I Can See For Miles
Byrds- Eight Miles High
Reel Big Fish- Take On Me (request)
Cat Empire- The Car Song
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I’ve just found some old logs that I’ve done over on DTV Forums back in the day.
The following ones are for WSFM in Sydney & Gold 104.3 in Melbourne, as well as for Vega (now Smooth) from nearly 14 years ago.
Here they are. 
101.7 WSFM - Sydney, NSW
"Good Times & Great Classic Hits"
Thursday 1st February 2007 - 1-2pm AEDT
“Oh No, Not You Again” Australian Crawl (you’d hardly hear that on Sydney FM radio these days)
“Sweet Home Alabama” Lynyrd Skynyrd (ditto to the above, in fact you’d more likely hear “All Summer Long” than the original that it sampled from)
“Bette Davis Eyes” Kim Carnes
“Baby I Need Your Loving” Four Tops
“Don’t Change” INXS
“Angie” Rolling Stones
“Always The Sun” The Stranglers
“Oliver’s Army” Elvis Costello & The Attractions
“All I Need Is A Miracle” Mike & The Mechanics
“I Will Survive” Gloria Gaynor
“Slippin’ Away” Max Merritt & The Meteors
Gold 104.3 - Melbourne, VIC
"Good Times & Great Classic Hits"
Thursday 1st February 2007 - 1-2pm AEDT
“Sultans Of Swing” Dire Straits
“Tainted Love” Soft Cell
“Sorrow” David Bowie
“Jump” Van Halen
“I’m A Believer” The Monkees (the Smash Mouth cover would more likely get airplay these days)
“Walking On The Moon” The Police
“Blinded By The Light (Album Version)” Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
“Who Can It Be Now?” Men At Work
“We Are Family” Sister Sledge
“She’s So High” Tal Bachman
“Rock & Roll All Nite” Kiss
“Don’t Give Up” Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush
Vega 95.3 - Sydney, NSW/Vega 91.5 - Melbourne, VIC (now Smooth FM)
"70s, 80s & The Best New Songs"
Thursday 1st February 2007 - 1-2pm AEDT
“It Must Be Love” Madness
“Sarah” Eskimo Joe
“Moondance” Van Morrison
“Love Song” Amiel
“Let’s Dance (Album Version)” David Bowie (Vega played the album version, which clocked in at 7:37)
“Can’t Get Enough” Bad Company
“Great Southern Land” Icehouse
“Not Ready To Make Nice” Dixie Chicks (they now simply call themselves The Chicks)
“Sexual Healing” Marvin Gaye
“Make Me Smile” Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel (another song you’d hardly hear on Sydney FM radio these days)
“Only To Be With You” Roachford
“Highway To Hell” AC/DC
“Everything I’m Not” The Veronicas
So, this gives us an idea on what some of the adult commercial FM stations in Sydney & Melbourne were sounding like back then.
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I like the Vega list if only because it’s a bit different.
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I agree. 
Wonder how the Vega would rate in 2021 
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Awesome pick of songs there mate.
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Yeah I wonder that too. You can see they were trying to do a BBC R2. Maybe it just needed more time.
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I didn’t know that Gold were playing 90’s songs (a song that was less than 10 years old as well!) as early as 2007. She’s So High still gets flogged 14 years later, with no signs of slowing.
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