That’s a good log, surprisingly good actually for Star 104.5.
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Agreed. I find it interesting that they’re able to combine tracks released 40+ years ago with contemporary hits, and it still sounds decent.
I bet there were no stations in 1981 playing “the hits from the '40s to now”. Imagine mixing songs from the Ink Spots and Andrews Sisters together with Duran Duran and the Human League 
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Fire and Ice, along with Shadows of the Night, are my two favourites. But there are a lot of good ones.
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I remember 3SR in Shepparton in 1981 used to play songs from the 40s and 50s (alongside 70s and 80s hits) on the breakfast show with Ray Kennedy, these songs were announced as “mouldy oldies”, Johnnie Ray’s “Cry” comes to mind. They even had the Dad and Dave serials, I used to listen to it on the way to school.
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For the XS80s recommended from @TV-Expert
Here is a playlist.
Coming Up:
George Michael - Freedom 90
Don Henley - The Boys Of Summer
Previously Played Songs: (NZ Time)
19:46 > Paul Carrack - One Good Reason
19:43 > Quarterflash - Harden My Heart
19:39 > Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty - Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around
19:35 > Laura Branigan - Spanish Eddie
19:30 > Fabulous Thunderbirds - Powerful Stuff
19:26 > Real Life - Send Me An Angel
19:22 > Chas & Dave - Ain’t No Pleasin’ You
19:17 > Icehouse - Crazy
19:14 > Deborah Harry - I Want That Man
I have submitted a couple of requests, they played within 30 mins. It is a really cool online station.
Edit: My request just got played. “Charlie Dore - Pilot Of The Airwaves”. Maybe its a good Friday song @dxnerd 
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Inspired by a couple of posts in the Survey 5 ratings topic about the music played during Marty Sheargold’s show, I thought that I would share a log of the first two hours of Sarah Maree Cameron’s music shift from last Thursday. It would allow for a point of comparison to occur between the music played during the breakfast show and the typical daytime playlist.
Even though the log was taken a week ago, not much has changed. At the moment, they are playing songs from ‘the randomiser’ (a concept they have used on and off for a while) chosen by Triple M Club members. And these picks have lead to some interesting stuff being played.
Triple M Melbourne
’Rock’s Greatest Hits’
26/8/2021
9:00am - 11:00am (AEST)
Don’t Speak - No Doubt
Dreams - Van Halen
Hotel California - Eagles
Minority - Green Day
You Little Thief - Feargal Sharkey (randomiser) 
Helping Hand - Screaming Jets
Making a Fire - Foo Fighters
Great Southern Land - Icehouse
Love Rears Its Ugly Head - Living Colour
(Baby I’ve Got You) On My Mind - Powderfinger
Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N’ Roses
Rush - Big Audio Dynamite
Higher - Creed
Industrial Disease - Dire Straits (randomiser)
Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
Missing Piece - Vance Joy
Jailbreak - AC/DC
Easy - Faith No More
Bad Medicine - Bon Jovi
Seven Nation Army - White Stripes
The Dire Straits track was my personal highlight. A song you almost never hear.
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Good to make a comparison here. I almost fell out of bed when I heard Tears For Fears in breakfast this morning - glad that the workday playlist fits the MMM brand much better.
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With the Townsville ratings out today, which shows Triple M having a big decline in the ratings, and getting nearly beaten by Power 100 in the 40-54s, I thought I’d have a look at the playlist for the Townsville’s commercial FM stations.
Townsville, QLD
Monday 20th September 2021
11am-12pm AEST
Power 100
"Rockin’ Townsville"
“Lost Control” Grinspoon
“Rearview Mirror” Pearl Jam
“Zombie” Bad Wolves
“Shimmer” Fuel
“Rollover DJ” Jet
“Creep” Stone Temple Pilots
“Unskinny Bop” Poison
“Making A Fire” Foo Fighters
“We Will Rock You”/“We Are The Champions” Queen
“Drive” Incubus
102.3 Triple M
"Townsville’s Greatest Hits"
“Master Blaster (Jammin’)” Stevie Wonder
“Holiday” Green Day
“Let Her Cry” Hootie & The Blowfish
“Love In An Elevator” Aerosmith
“Days Like This” Busby Marou
“Weir” Killing Heidi
“Dancing In The Dark” Bruce Springsteen
“I Heard It Through The Grapevine” Creedence Clearwater Revival
“Everyday Is A Winding Road” Sheryl Crow
“I Want To Break Free” Queen
Hit 103.1
"The Hits You Love From Then To Now"
“Beggin’” Maneskin
“Music Sounds Better With You” Stardust
“Holy” Justin Bieber / Chance The Rapper
“Fight Song” Rachel Platten
“Rumors” Lizzo / Cardi B
“I Like It” Enrique Iglesias / Pitbull
“What Other People Say” Sam Fischer / Demi Lovato
“One Kiss” Calvin Harris / Dua Lipa
“Good 4 U” Olivia Rodrigo
“Nothin’ On You” BoB / Bruno Mars
“Shivers” Ed Sheeran
“Chandelier” Sia
“Dreams” Jolyon Petch
Star 106.3
"Townsville’s Best Music"
“I Wanna Know” NOTD / Bea Miller
“Falling Up” Dean Lewis
“Style” Taylor Swift
“Zombie” The Cranberries
“Leave Before You Love Me” Jonas Brothers / Marshmello
“Symphony” Clean Bandit / Zara Larsson
“Who Can It Be Now?” Men At Work
“Didn’t I” OneRepublic
“U & Ur Hand” Pink
“Stay” The Kid Laroi / Justin Bieber
“Closing Time” Semisonic
“This City” Sam Fischer
“Castle” Freya Ridings
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The Power playlist is the best of the lot but still very safe.
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Personally I would pick the Power100 playlist over any of those. I find Triple M playlist is a little too old and safe for my liking.
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Yes Power is the best of the bunch for me too - but it’s no Rebel.
Star playlist is a bit weird. It sounds quite Hot AC overall but then they through in a Men At Work track. It seems weird but it kind of works. I’ve spent a bit of time in Mackay recently and have been mostly on Star - particularly on the weekend when Triple M is all football!
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This is spoken on air? In promos?
As bad as ‘the hits and songs we brought in from
home’.
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Indeed - have heard it here in Melbourne and on the regional network shift.
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Yes I agree. I would have that Star log any day over that Hit log.
I hope they don’t use that narrow Hit playlist in places like Roma, Emerald and Mount Isa, where they have little or no choice of radio stations.
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I’m afraid they do.
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Man that’s just insane in markets with only one FM station.
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The Power 100 log is very good. Grants should put that log on DAB+ on the Gold coast when it launches soon, unless Rebel can get on DAB+.
The Hit log isn’t too bad actually, it’s better than 2DayFms log. Star’s log is a bit all over the place.
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DMG days had the Tablelands station on a small town bfast shift, hubbed from Townsville. Charters, Isa, Emerald & Roma all lumped with that one show.
Hot originally was hubbed from Bunbury, a legacy of the Rural Press ownership prior to DMG getting the Albury and Townsville hubs running.
During the post DMG days, the SCA/predecessor names (all the same mismanagement lineage at exec level) have had varying ways of managing the smaller stations. The western ones have been combined with larger markets further east. Toowoomba supplies Roma with LCLC fulfilment, Cains does for the Tablelands.
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As a school aged @crankymedia, I visited Cairns, up to the Daintree and up to the Tablelands.
4AM and I think all commercials were still stereo AM and my parent’s car had an AM stereo radio.
4AM’s coverage was superb then. As was 4KZ.
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@TV-Expert & all, is the Star Townsville log the same rubbish inflicted on Hot 91 & Hot Tomato?
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