I don’t mind Zinc either, and will often listen in for the midday countdown to hear what is on that day. If I don’t like it, there’s always the Gr8ies on River 949 at the same time 
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I assume you’re referring to the “20-20 Retro Countdown”, which in my part of the world airs on 2ST (via 102.9 from Bowral) at the same time. The same program airs at 7pm weeknights on River 949.
That’s the one.
Enjoyable Way-Back Wednesday on River 949 today
10:15:58 Evie (Parts 1, 2 & 3) - Stevie Wright
10:16:27 The Riddle - Nik Kershaw
10:20:05 Bitter Sweet Symphony (edit) - The Verve
10:24:31 Science Fiction - The Divinyls
10:27:53 Wonderful Life - Black
10:32:34 Finally - Ce Ce Peniston
10:41:39 Dreadlock Holiday - 10CC
10:46:34 Way Of The World - Max Q
10:50:32 Wake Me Up Before You Go Go - Wham!
10:54:07 Slave - James Reyne
11:10:11 Can’t Help Myself - Flowers
11:13:11 Escapade - Janet Jackson
11:25:53 Love In An Elevator - Aerosmith
11:31:10 Get Set - Taxiride
11:34:36 Vienna (LIVE AID) - Ultravox
11:48:19 Better - The Screaming Jets
11:52:55 Cruel To Be Kind - Nick Lowe
12:05:30 To Be With You - Mr. Big
12:08:43 People - Mi-Sex
12:12:35 I’m On Fire - Bruce Springsteen
12:14:56 American Life In The Summertime - Francis Dunnery
12:21:21 Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles
12:24:33 He’s Just No Good For You - Mental As Anything
12:27:50 It Must Have Been Love - Roxette
12:32:09 Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
12:39:56 That’s Freedom - John Farnham
12:44:01 Waterfalls (EDIT) - TLC
12:47:16 Rock And Roll All Nite (studio) - Kiss
12:49:49 Breathe - Faith Hill
12:53:49 I Missed Again - Phil Collins
13:05:56 Wanna Be Up - The Chantoozies
13:09:32 Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
13:15:40 Father’s Day - Weddings, Parties Anything
13:19:33 Message In A Bottle - Police
13:26:41 Boom Boom Boom(Let’s Go Back To My Room) - Paul Lekakis
13:30:24 My Hero - Foo Fighters
13:34:31 Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
13:38:18 Blue - Fine Young Cannibals
13:45:24 Live And Let Die - Guns N’ Roses
13:48:18 Take A Chance On Me - ABBA
13:52:04 We Didn’t Start The Fire - Billy Joel
14:04:29 Runaway Train - Soul Asylum
14:08:36 Gloria - Laura Branigan
14:12:42 Cry In Shame - Johnny Diesel & The Injectors
14:17:18 Constant Craving - kd lang
14:24:49 Blinded By The Light - Manfred Mann’s Earthband
14:31:48 Chain Reaction - Diana Ross
14:36:00 Can’t Stop This Thing We Started - Bryan Adams
14:40:11 Working For The Weekend - Loverboy
14:47:38 If I Could - 1927
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Why can’t we listen to River 94.9 for 1 week in our rotation of radio stations at my workplace?
I miss being able to listen to them
Why not, is it because of reception?
Fairly safe playlist except for a handful of ‘unflogged’ songs. Not what it used to be.
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It’s because everyone has to be listening to the same station
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I thought by “we” you meant everyone.
Given the recent discussions about 2GO on the relevant threads (particularly the “Central Coast Radio” thread) on the wake of Sarah & Paddy’s axing, I thought it be worth unearthing some of the past 2GO logs that I’ve done from the days of when they had its own music log & dominated in the local radio ratings, both overall & in the 40-54s. I’ve originally posted those on the old MS forums back in the day, which are now inaccessible, so I thought it’s worth sharing again for historical purposes of what the station used to sound like.
Below are some of the logs from 2007 & 2008.
A brief background: In those days, 2GO & Sea FM were owned by Macquarie Regional Radioworks (later Macquarie Southern Cross Media, after it merged with Southern Cross Broadcasting in mid-2007), which as the name suggests, focused on regional markets, with no assets in metro markets, unlike under the current SCA ownership. Therefore, 2GO wasn’t part of the Triple M network. Rival station Star 104.5 had a rock format back then & was rating way behind 2GO.
107.7 2GO
"70s to Now & Everything in Between"
Thursday 26th July 2007 - 10-11am AEST
“Computer Games” Mi-Sex
"Chasing Cars" Snow Patrol
"Don’t Change" INXS
"Somebody’s Crying" Chris Issak
"Dream Police" Cheap Trick
"Keep Holding On" Avril Lavigne
"Invisible Touch" Genesis (part of Phil Collins’ doubleshot)
“In The Air Tonight” Phil Collins (part of Phil Collins’ doubleshot)
“Watching The Detectives” Elvis Costello & The Attractions
"How Far We’ve Come" Matchbox 20
107.7 2GO
"70s to Now & Everything in Between"
Monday 10th December 2007 - 10-11am AEDT
“You Might Think” The Cars
"God Told Me To" Paul Kelly
"Bennie & The Jets" Elton John
"All Star" Smash Mouth
"Six Months In a Leaky Boat" Split Enz
"Straight Lines" Silverchair
"Dreamer" Supertramp
"Town Called Malice" The Jam
"Into The Night" Santana feat. Chad Kroeger
"Somebody To Love" Queen
107.7 2GO
"70s to Now & Everything in Between"
Monday 18th February 2008 - 10-11am AEDT
“Pink Houses” John Cougar Mellencamp
"Hey There Delilah" Plain White T’s
"Reelin’ In The Years" Steely Dan
"All I Wanna Do" Sheryl Crow
"Talking In Your Sleep" The Romantics
"Steer" Missy Higgins
"You Took The Words Right Out of my Mouth" Meatloaf
"Jump" Van Halen
"Pictures of You" The Last Goodnight
"Rocket Man" Elton John
"Need You Tonight" INXS
"Photograph" Nickelback
As you can see, back in those days, 2GO played plenty of 70s & 80s music, and wasn’t as reliant on the ‘90s-now’ compared to today under the network log from the Gold Coast that is present on most Triple M regional stations.
It’s little wonder why regional commercial radio stations are not as interesting now compared to what it was a decade ago. 
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Thought I should take a listen to the station (somewhat) formerly known as ‘The Edge’, now streaming again under ACE Radio ownership, and…
Edge FM 102.1
"Maximum Music Weekend"
Saturday, December 2nd, 2017 - 11am-12pm AEDT
“Got My Mind Set on You” - George Harrison
"Running" - Evermore
"Coming Home" - Sheppard
"Can’t Stop This Thing We Started" - Bryan Adams
"Wildest Dreams" - Taylor Swift
"Sign Your Name" - Terence Trent D’Arby
[Ad break]
“I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)” - Sandi Thom
"High On Me" - Guy Sebastian
"I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" - Aretha Franklin & George Michael
"Always A Winner" - Pete Murray
[Ad break]
“Rise” - Katy Perry
"Break My Stride" - Unique II
"Come Undone" - Robbie Williams
"De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" - The Police
…yep.
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What more do I have to say 
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Yep - It’s got worst and is still very female skewed.
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I can see why they are losing listeners.
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Welcome to the usual logs for New Year’s Eve around the world! This year I’ve gone a little different in that a couple of the East Coast logs are longer than the normal 2 hours leading into midnight. This has required me to listen to streams on my laptop and tablet as well as the local station through my phone at the same time. I’ve also added the odd comment that may or may not be agreeable, plus in the NZ log which is replaying a countdown there’s an explanation as to why a certain song was ranked inside the top 10. So without further ado…
THE ROCK FM NEW ZEALAND
NEW YEAR’S EVE
TOP 100/Rock 1500 (pronounced One Thousand Five Hundred) Countdown
APPROXIMATE TIMES NZDT
10:24: Linkin Park – In The End (No 15) [For Whom the Bell Tolls by Metallica was 16, November Rain 17, Walk by Pantera was 18]
10:28: Tool – Forty Six and Two
10:34: Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven
COMMERCIAL BREAK
10:47: Disturbed – The Sound of Silence
10:51: Metallica – Master of Puppets
Commercial Break
11:04: Highly Suspect – My Name is Human (Suspect this is a Kiwi band)
11:08: Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun
11:14: Foo Fighters – Everlong
11:17: Limp Bizkit – Nookie (A listener/DJ campaigned for this and it got to number 7, expect something similar in the Aussie 100 for MMM listeners on Australia/Invasion/Survival/What used to be Hottest 100 DAY. It was 829 in the previous year’s count)
11:22: Lynryd Skynyrd – Free Bird
11:32: Shihad – Home Again (Kiwi Band)
11:36: Linkin Park – Numb
11:39: Pearl Jam – Black (13th last year)
Commercial break
11:48: Metallica – One
11:54: Rage Against the Machine - Killing In The Name (and they even played the part where he says F-You I won’t do what you tell me)
HAPPY NEW YEAR NEW ZEALAND
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Except for Disturbed, that’s a awesome log. 
I’m hoping to be up about 5AM tomorrow morning (and given the weather here it’s a possibility, sweating buckets at 9:15PM) so I can do a couple of hours from a South African Rock Station, just for something very different.
MMM MELBOURNE (AND POSSIBLY OTHER CAPITAL CITIES)
PART OF 12 HOURS COMMERCIAL FREE ON NYE/NYD (6PM-6AM)
APPROX TIMES EDST UNLESS STATED
8:27: ZZ Top – Sharp Dressed Man
8:31: Everclear – Santa Monica
8:35: Madness – House of Fun
8:38: Led Zeppelin – Over The Hills and Far Away
8:43: Weezer – Buddy Holly
8:46: Police – Synchronicity II
8:50: Steve Earle – Copperhead Road
8:55: Blink 182 – What’s My Age Again
8:58: Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer
9:02: Australian Crawl – Louie Louie (Did Eddie slip this one in to ensure a final salute to Lou Richards who died in May 2017?)
9:07: Silverchair – Ana’s Song (Open Fire)
9:11: Gary Numan – Are “Friends” Electric
9:17: Guns n Roses – Paradise City
9:24: Billy Idol – Dancing with Myself
9:27: Live – Selling the Drama
9:30: Supertramp – Dreamer
9:34: Midnight Oil – Short Memory
9:38: Grinspoon – Just Ace
9:40: Simple Minds – Alive and Kicking
9:44: Thin Lizzy – The Boys are Back in Town
9:49: Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows
9:53: U2 – Gloria
9:57: Jimmy Barnes – Ride The Night Away
10:02: Billy Squier – The Stroke
10:06: Green Day – Hitchin A Ride
10:09: Stealer’s Wheel – Stuck In The Middle With You
10:12: Van Halen – Dreams
10:17: Mental As Anything – Come Around
10:20: Lemonheads – Mrs Robinson
10:23: Bryan Ferry - Let’s Stick Together
10:27: INXS – I Send A Message
10:30: Oasis – Wonderwall (one of the brothers I believe was in Melbourne over the festive period)
10:35: Bruce Springsteen – Brilliant Disguise
10:39: Rolling Stones – Paint It Black
10:42: The Killers – Mr Brightside (No Jack Riewoldt cameo)
10:46: David Bowie – Modern Love
10:50: Bon Jovi – Bad Medicine
10:54: Tonic – Open Up Your Eyes
10:57: Chumbawumba – Tubthumping (it will be 20 years in 2018 since the NRL used THIS song as their song for the reunified Rugby League competition. Didn’t quite hit the mark like Simply The Best or That’s My Team)
11:01: Toto – Hold The Line
11:04: Iggy Pop (feat. Kate Pierson) - Candy
11:09: Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet with Butterfly Wings
11:13: Electric Light Orchestra – Don’t Bring Me Down
11:17: Divinyls – Pleasure and Pain (when our footy team up here were sponsored by a certain pub every Saturday night when we wanted to relax over some beverages and watch some footy there would be ordinary karaoke starting up. The old windbag running it ALWAYS started with this song, then the reserves team manager of the time would ALWAYS follow up with Neil Diamond’s I Am I Said, sung ordinarily at best)
11:20: Australian Crawl – The Boys Light Up (just to tease those who resolve to give up the durries)
11:25: Faith No More - Epic
11:30: The Who - My Generation
11:33: Billy Idol - White Wedding
11:37: Pearl Jam - Daughter
11:40: Europe - Final Countdown (Earlier than normal, the sting before this advertised less than 30 to go, MMM Adelaide actually played the full intro to this on Saturday Night which is a rarity these days)
11:44: Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls
11:49: Boom Crash Opera - Onion Skin…interrupted by the traditional last 10 minute look at the year that was.
HAPPY NEW YEAR NSW/VIC/ACT/TAS
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MMM LOCAL WORKS ROCKHAMPTON
NYE PARTY SHUFFLE
APPROX TIMES EST UNLESS STATED
AL from Greatest Years in Music DJ’ing
7:30: Jet – Are You Gonna Be My Girl
2 minutes of shout outs from callers
7:34: Bill Medley/Jennifer Warnes – I’ve Had The Time of My Life
7:39: Modjo – Lady
7:42: Sister Sledge – We Are Family
7:46: Imagine Dragons – CHUNDER (oh sorry, Thunder)
shout out from caller
7:50: Black Sorrows – Harley and Rose
7:54: Pseudo Echo – Funky Town
7:57: Walk the Moon – Shut up and Dance
8:01: Jimmy Barnes – Working Class Man
8:04: Stevie Wonder – Superstition
shout out from a lass climbing a roof like she’s done for Benaud (22) years
8:10: Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
8:13: Blues Brothers – Shake Your Tailfeather
8:16: Daft Punk – Get Lucky
shout out to emergency service people
8:20: AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long (REQUESTED)
8:24: Chainsmokers/Coldplay – Something Just Like This (Winner of the most played song on radio in Australia this year, top 10 in most overplayed song this year. Jessica Mauboy’s Fallin wins that category)
8:28: John Paul Young – Love is in the Air (it’s been 22 Years since we tried singing Ablett’s In The Air at the Grand Final……)
Pre-recorded shout outs
8:31: Maroon 5 – What Lovers Do (They’re fast becoming like Train, release decent stuff early and gradually become crappier and crappier which this song is)
8:35: Prince – Cream
8:39: Wild Cherry – Play That Funky Music
More shout outs from a Bendigo bus driver (HAIL TO THE BUS DRIVER BUS DRIVER MAN, HE STEPS ON THE CLUTCH AND THE TOILET GOES FLUSH, HAIL TO THE……SHUT UP!)
8:43: Katy Perry – Roar (There’s another word that rhymes with Roar that I could but won’t use to describe her recent stuff, it’s not really a family friendly word)
8:47: Katrina and the Waves – Walking on Sunshine
8:50: Bachman Turner Overdrive – Takin Care of Business
8:55: New Kids on The Block – You Got It (The Right Stuff)
Shout Outs from a Tigers fan, I’ll let them go because as a Doggies fan I was the same in 2016
9:00: Ed Sheeran – Galway Girl (2nd most overplayed song this year)
Another pre-recorded shout out
9:04: Queen – We Will Rock You (REQUESTED, and in a rarity played ON IT’S OWN rather than before We Are the Champions)
9:06: MC Hammer – U Can’t Touch This
9:10: The Clash – Rock The Casbah
9:13: Pink – Raise Your Glass (well I guess it took a couple of hours before this filth snuck in)
more pre-recorded shout outs, one from an older bloke probably waiting patiently for the crappy talkback programs that generally fill overnights
9:17: Bobby Brown – Every Little Step (now here is a LOST SONG if ever I’ve heard one, perhaps with good reason)
9:21: M People – Movin On Up
9:27: J.Geils Band – Centerfold
Shout out from Sydney
9:31: Bruno Mars – 24K Magic
9:35: Michael Semballo – Maniac
9:39: Young MC – Bust a Move
pre-recorded shout outs
9:44: Dnce – Cake By The Ocean (another top 10 overplayed song)
9:47: Starship – We Built This City
9:52: N Trance – Stayin Alive 95 (why did I think as a 12 year old in Grade 7 in Darwin that this was good?)
9:57: Prince – Little Red Corvette
Pre-Recorded Shout outs from a handful of ladies
10:01: Elton John/Kiki Dee – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
10:05: Robbie Williams – Rock DJ
10:09: Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (Just once I wish someone would play the version by the Muppets, just to see how the audience would react!)
Shout Outs after Al confirmed that this would have been delayed into Qld audiences, normally the overnight talkback snorefest comes on at 11PM Qld time
10:15: Mel & Kim – Respectable
10:18: Justin Bieber – Sorry (FOR INSULTING THE LISTENERS BY SHOVING THIS DOWN OUR THROATS???)
10:22: Aerosmith/Run DMC – Walk This Way (No Cameo from Moe and Joey still has his drumsticks hidden from Edna Krabbabpel)
Shout out from someone packing their belongings preparing for a move elsewhere
10:26: Dire Straits – Walk of Life (REQUESTED)
10:30: Rick Springfield – Jessie’s Girl
10:33: Justin Timberlake - Can’t Stop The Feeling
shout out from another failed New Year’s resolver
10:38: Daryl Braithwaite – The Horses (Well it took this long, and it was REQUESTED……)
10:42: Bangles – Walk Like an Egyptian
10:46: Snap! – Rhythm is a Dancer
10:50: Steve Earle – Copperhead Road
10:54: Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Murder on the Dancefloor (it was annoyingly stupid in 2002, and still is now)
10:58: Wang Chung – Everybody Have Fun Tonight
11:02: Madonna - Vogue
Shout outs now that we’re inside the last hour, one from a caravan park, all sound REAL enthusiastic….
11:07: Ray Parker Jr – Ghostbusters
11:11: The Swingers – Counting The Beat (THE Original commercially released K-Mart ad Song circa 1997, many have followed)
11:14: Maroon 5 (feat Christina Aguilera) – Moves Like Jagger (Refer to earlier comment regarding their music)
Another shout out from the "Kabba Crew"
11:19: Daryl Braithwaite - One Summer (REQUESTED)
11:22: Shania Twain - Man I Feel Like A Woman
11:26: Bee Gees - Stayin Alive (I’m with those who think this is strange considering they played a remixed version of this not more than 90 Minutes ago)
11:31: Jonas Blue - Perfect Stranger
11:34: Kenny Rogers - The Gambler (REQUESTED after a shout out to some people in a Holiday Park)
11:38: Powderfinger - (Baby I’ve Got You) On My Mind
11:41: B52’s - Love Shack (Well it took this long…you get the point)
11:45: Portugal.The Man - Feel It Still (another annoying song the regionals will have to put up with, trying to sound like Amiel when she did Addicted to Bass with that other bloke whose name I can’t remember)
Shout out from Al thanking his listeners, before the 10 minute look at the year that the metro MMM stations got.
HAPPY NEW YEAR QUEENSLAND, and a belated HNY to South Australia whom I’ve neglected to get a log from this year, simply ran out of devices to stream on.
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I was in Rocky a week back and the music on Triple M CQ and 4CC sounded the same. I found it hard to find a decent radio station in Rocky. I am finding the regional Triple M stations are playing a lot of that crap cheap daggy 80’s and 90’s Music lately.
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