Radio Stations - Music Logs

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Both crap

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Both horrible.

I don’t get their music strategy at all. Surely in a duopoly market like Launceston it’s a no brainer. One CHR/Hot AC station and one older AC/Classic Hits station. Why serve up that mess?

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Evidently not, as the same thing has been happening in Wollongong for years. Geelong too.

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I can excuse Wollongong because the 2 stations have different owners. I can (almost) excuse Geelong because of the Melbourne overlap and having to differentiate themselves from the Melbourne stations. There’s zero excuse in Launceston.

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The Hit / Triple M stations have better logs, as does XLFM / Eagle.

The Grant logs in monopoly & duopoly markets sound way too conservative and boring IMO.

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My pick of the logs is the Eagle / Snow fm log for a CHR station.

LA fm could either go on the 2ST log or the Power 100 log if they really want to go rock.

I agree the one music log for their Hot AC stations is problematic look at the overlap markets of Wollongong and Nowra.

The previous CHR format that Power Fm Nowra and Krock had was pretty good it was basically 90’s to now.

Grant should produce

  1. CHR log 90’s to now but mostly 2000-2021 for Power Fm Nowra / Krock / similar to Eagle / Snow fm, or Power 100 log for Krock if they decide to go back to it’s rock heritage.

  2. Hot AC - 80’s to Now for Wave, Hot Tomato, Ho fm etc

  3. Rock-Power 100

  4. Greatest Hits -2ST, LA fm etc

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Agree they are conservative and boring, but also just don’t seem at all “curated”. Just a jumble of songs that often clash. It’s a widespread problem in Australian radio. Music playlists don’t ‘flow’ like they do on most US or UK stations. It’s like they can’t shake off the “Jack FM” format of 20 years ago.

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It’s doubly weird as in Burnie/Devonport you get the same log as Chilli on the Sea station, but then 7AD/7BU has a different format to LAFM/7SD, which is a more classic hits skew, though still not amazing.

Seems like a better two station market fit for no extra effort. It’s not exactly a great music format either, but it’s at least different.

But even if they kept their current weird positioning - the Hit/Mix Canberra split from above shows how two fairly close formats can still differentiate themselves well enough.

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Actually, they carry the 7HO log (on weekdays), which is different to the one heard on Chilli.

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Here is one for 2UE I did re-sort the songs (as did it from DAB text and it is bit messy) so not in “playing order”.

Air Supply - All Out Of Love
Bachman-Turner Overdrive - You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
Bee Gees - Massachusetts
Bette Midler - The Rose
Bonnie Tyler - It’s A Heartache
Boston - More Than A Feeling
Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle
Brotherhood Of Man - United We Stand
David Essex - Rock On
Elton John - Crocodile Rock
George Harrison - All Those Years Ago
Hall & Oates - Rich Girl
James Blundell & James Reyne - Way Out West
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Dancing In The Street
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
Otis Redding - Dock Of The Bay
Rod Stewart - Downtown Train
The Lovin’ Spoonful - Summer In The City
The Monkees - Last Train To Clarksville
The Partridge Family - I Woke Up In Love This Morning
The Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue

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It would provide a nice alternative for Sydney and Melbourne, but in Brisbane most of those songs are played on 4KQ. I still think 4BH needs a softer playlist.

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It’s a good playlist, good variety of classic rock and soul/Motown.

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878

Hey @Laoma - thanks for the nod. I run and program XS80s.

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I know you have to have a subscription if one wants to listen to apple music, but is there any way of just getting their current playlist of a particular station without a subscription. Would like to get updated playlists of their station “Made for good times”. The sample playlist on the station’s front page of Apple Music is the same songs that were on there six months ago. Would it be listed on something similar to band it?

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With ACE set to take over operations of Nine’s music stations 2UE, 4BH & Magic 1278 early next year (with Nine still owning the stations), here’s a sample of an ACE Heritage station in Regional VIC, which is the same across all of its stations.

3NE - Wangaratta, VIC
“Only The Hits You Love”
Wednesday 27th October 2021 - 2-3pm AEDT

“Electric Blue” Icehouse
“Heartache Tonight” The Eagles
“Allentown” Billy Joel
“The Horses” Daryl Braithwaite
“How Will I Know” Whitney Houston
“Lookin’ Out My Back Door” Creedence Clearwater Revival
“Hurts So Good” John Cougar Mellencamp
“Keep It Comin’ Love” KC & The Sunshine Band
“Tucker’s Daughter” Ian Moss
“Emotion” Samantha Sang
“Moonlight Shadow” Mike Oldfield / Maggie Reilly

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Not bad. I think 2ue push the envelope a bit more today with its logs especially in the evenings ( a lot of lost 60s hits). I probably prefer 2UE’s current playlist because of this as you just hear different stuff (it might be crappy sometimes but that is ok).

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Here is the Smooth Relax list. Someone mentions its a bit like 2ue. Whilst it does overlap a bit, I do believe 2ue is still different. Smooth relax is more safer, 2ue does dig into more variety of hits from the 60s/70s hits. I hope Ace radio will give 2ue some more love but keep the broad playlist.

I Knew I Loved You by Savage Garden
Honesty by Billy Joel
Somebody’s Crying by Chris Isaak
Hello by Lionel Richie
Anything For You by Gloria Estefan
Maybe I’m Amazed (Live) by Paul Mccartney
You’ll Think Of Me by Keith Urban
At This Moment by Billy Vera / The Beaters
All I Have To Do Is Dream by The Everly Brothers
Making Love Out Of Nothing At All by Air Supply
Baby Come Back by Player
Home by Michael Buble

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Even though it’s most likely that ACE will use the same log for it’s classic hits stations in regional Victoria for Magic/2UE/4BH, I really hope they use a unique log in the metros with mostly 70s & 80s classics with some soul, motown and disco.

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Very 70s and 80s heavy

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Given the recent conversation about Wollongong radio of late in the relevant thread, I’d thought I take a look at how the two stations are faring at present.

Monday 8th November 2021
11am-12pm AEDT

Wave FM 96.5
"The Illawarra’s Best Music"

“Never Seen The Rain” Tones & I (2019)
“Beggin’” Maneskin (2021 - originally released in 2017)
“Marry You” Bruno Mars (2011)
“Dreams” The Cranberries (1992)
“A-O-K” Tai Verdes (2021)
“Healing Hands” Conrad Sewell (2018)
“The One I Love” REM (1987)
“Hold On” Justin Bieber (2021)
“Lose My Breath” Destiny’s Child (2004)
“Shivers” Ed Sheeran (2021)
“All The Small Things” Blink 182 (1999)
“Love Not War (The Tampa Beat)” Jason Derulo / Nuka (2020)
“I Said Hi” Amy Shark (2018)
“I Want To Break Free” Queen (1984)

i98FM
"Music That Makes You Feel Good"

“Stay” The Kid Laroi / Justin Bieber (2021)
“I’ll Be Missing You” Puff Daddy / Faith Evans / 112 (1997)
“Iko Iko (My Bestie)” Justin Wellington / Small Jam (2021 - originally released in 2019)
“The Greatest Show” Panic! At The Disco (2018)
“Keep On Movin’” Five (1999)
“Shivers” Ed Sheeran (2021)
“Don’t Start Now” Dua Lipa (2019)
“Summer Of '69” Bryan Adams (1985)
“How Will I Know (Remix)” Whitney Houston / Clean Bandit (2021)
“Ride Wit Me” Nelly / City Spud (2000 - released as a single in 2001)
“Two Princes” Spin Doctors (1991 - released as a single in 1993)

And here’s a bonus from a station just up the road, which can be heard in much of the Illawarra region.

"The New" 104.1 2DayFM - Sydney, NSW
"The Hits You Love From The 90s to Now"
Monday 8th November 2021 - 11am-12pm AEDT

“Iris” Goo Goo Dolls (1998)
“Let’s Get It Started” Black Eyed Peas (2004)
“Dreamlover” Mariah Carey (1993)
“She Will Be Loved” Maroon 5 (2002 - released as a single in 2004)
“Heaven Is A Place On Earth” Belinda Carlisle (1987)
“Hate That I Love You” Rihanna / Ne-Yo (2007)
“That Don’t Impress Me Much” Shania Twain (1997 - released as a single in 1999 as a dance-pop remix)
“Can’t Stop The Feeling!” Justin Timberlake (2016)
“As The Days Go By” Daryl Braithwaite (1988)
“Ride Wit Me” Nelly / City Spud (2000)
“Give It Up” Cut ‘N’ Move (1993)
“Chasing Cars” Snow Patrol (2006)
“Straight Up” Paula Abdul (1988)

It’s interesting that “The New” 2DayFM sounds more like an adult music station than either of the two Wollongong stations. However, not a new song was played in that particular hour.

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