With these comments in relating to New FM & comparing it with Hot Tomato in response to the latest Newcastle radio ratings that was released this morning:
I thought I’d take a look at how New FM compares to Hot Tomato (or any ARN Regional station for that matter, given they’re on the same log).
105.3 New FM - Newcastle, NSW “Newcastle’s Best Music Variety” Friday 14th August 2026 - 9am-12pm AEST
9am
Artist
Title
DNCE
Cake By The Ocean
Taylor Swift
I Knew It, I Knew You
Goo Goo Dolls
Slide
Milky / Mall Grab
Just The Way You Are (Remix)
Train
Drops Of Jupiter
Miley Cyrus
Midnight Sky
Temper City
Self Aware
Jennifer Lopez
If You Had My Love
Harry Styles
As It Was
Bruno Mars
I Just Might
Bon Jovi
Bad Medicine
Cherry Bomb
You Oughta Know
Savage Garden
Affirmation
Noah Kahan
The Great Divide
Pink
Never Gonna Not Dance Again
The Offspring
Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
Anne-Marie
2002
10am
Artist
Title
Martin Garrix / Ed Sheeran
Repeat It
John Farnham
That’s Freedom
Justin Bieber
Ghost
Sonny Fodera/libianca
Let Me Be In Your Arms
Tom Walker
Leave A Light On
OneRepublic
I Ain’t Worried
Jet
Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Josh Fawaz
Like A Prayer
Go West
King Of Wishful Thinking
Alex Warren
Fever Dream
Lil Nas X
That’s What I Want
Panic! At The Disco
I Write Sins Not Tragedies
Ella Langley
Be Her
Cold Chisel
Cheap Wine
Olivia Dean
Baby Steps
Lost Frequencies / Calum Scott
Where Are You Now
Adele
Rolling In The Deep
11am
Artist
Title
Taylor Swift / Sabrina Carpenter
The Life of a Showgirl
The Rembrandts
I’ll Be There For You
Bruno Mars
24K Magic
Ariana Grande
Hate That I Made You Love Me
Teddy Swims
Mr. Know It All
The Kid Laroi
Thousand Miles
Pat Benatar
All Fired Up
Harry Styles
American Girls
Robyn
Dancing On My Own
Post Malone
Chemical
G Flip
Bed On Fire
Jonas Brothers
Sucker
Madonna
Holiday
102.9 Hot Tomato - Gold Coast, QLD “The Gold Coast’s Best Music Variety” Friday 14th August 2026 - 9am-12pm AEST
As promised over in the “Radio History” thread, as we are talking about C91.3’s early years due to it being its 25th birthday today, I’ve found the earliest log I’ve done of the station that I posted on another forum from back in the day.
Here it is.
C91.3 - Campbelltown, NSW “Rock, Pop And The Best of The Rest” Friday 25th May 2007 - 1-2pm AEST
“Into The Dark” Ben Lee
“Slide” Goo Goo Dolls
“The Sweet Escape” Gwen Stefani
“Spirit In The Sky” Norman Greenbaum
“Long Day” Matchbox 20
“7 Seconds” Neneh Cherry feat. Youssou N’Dour
“If You Don’t Mean It” Dean Geyer
“Listen Like Theives” INXS
“Selling The Drama” Live
“Beautiful Liar” Beyonce feat. Shakira
And as a bonus, here’s a log from sister station i98FM from that same hour.
“Talk” Coldplay
“Suddenly I See” KT Tunstall
“Too Fast For Me” Cruel Sea
“Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is” Jet
“Predictable” Delta Goodrem
“This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race” Fallout Boy
“Golden Years” David Bowie
“Red Dress” Sugababes
“All Good Things (Come To An End)” Nelly Furtado
“Adam’s Song” Blink 182
“Waiting On A World To Change” John Mayer
That was around the time when Wave FM went from an AC format to a ‘Jack FM’-type format with their “Playing Whatever We Feel Like” positioner, in which i98 responded by broadening its playlist to play a bit more older music from the 70s & 80s to block Wave.
Thankfully, the music on C91.3 and i98 has improved a great deal since 2007. It would be interesting to see a comparison from a playlist taken now for both C91.3 and i98.
As promised, here is an hour of C91.3 from its first day in 2001. DJ was Byron Webb.
They were giving away ‘10 000 T-shirts in 10 000 days’ to celebrate the launch. I wonder how many C 91.3 shirts are kicking around Campbelltown these days? I also remember that they handed out bumper stickers at Glenfield station, thanks to my friend at the time (they probably also did it at the other railway stations in the area).
C91.3 - Campbelltown, NSW “The biggest variety of rock and pop” August 13 2001 (launch day) ~1255 to 1355 AEST
I like this catch phase as didn’t limit them to any decades of music. I also like pop and rock music. Cranny classic nine at nine had great memories of that show even though it made its name on Triple M back in its day.
Perhaps I mostly heard classic rock in Cranney’s 9@9, skewing my perception of the overall format a bit. I think it was the only time I consciously tuned in to C 91.3 (and it wasn’t an every day occurrence, either). Being only 15 at the time I was mostly besotted with Nova and Triple M
I didn’t really get into classic rock until I heard Radio Hauraki on a trip across the ditch in 2004. That was when I heard Jethro Tull for the first time.
The Fresh Mix dot Com
Chart Mix Rewind - 1991
Monday 24th August 2026
10:00 am to 11:00 am
Aired on internet stream
01 - Eurythmics - Sweet dreams (are made of this (Giorgio Moroder 1991 remix edit)
02 - Hall and Oates - Starting all over again
03 - Will to Power - I’m not in love
04 - Susanna Hoffs - My side of the bed
05 - Cathy Dennis - Just another dream (12 inch mix)
06 - Gloria Estefan - Can’t forget you
07 - Crowded House - Fall at your feet
08 - Pete Wylie - Don’t lose your dreams (with Yah)
09 - Baby Animals - Early warning
10 - Tony Christie - Come with me to paradise
11 - Audrey Landers - Seven days
12 - Debbie Gibson - Anything is possible
13 - Keith Urban - Only you
A different form of music log today, based on Lava.net.au - song plays on Melbourne commercial radio from 6 am to 6pm with Dolly Parton. The surprise to me was that Fox rather than 3MP was leading this charge with Smooth up there, as expected. Similar to 3MP, I found Gold 104.3’s efforts a bit disappointing - not interested after the C O’C show. The high proportion in breakfast (being 19 of the 43 plays) probably partly due to the immediacy of the news and I suspect that outside breakfast many stations are reluctant to break network logs (or the downside of voice tracked shows).
Station - The Fresh Mix dot Com
Date - Sunday 30th August 2026
Time - 16:00 - 17:15 hrs AEST
Format - Rewind special on Dolly Parton
Playout - Internet stream
01 - 1973 - Dolly Parton - Jolene
02 - 1974 - Dolly Parton - Love’s like a butterfly
03 - 1977 - Dolly Parton - Here you come again
04 - 1978 - Dolly Parton - Baby I’m burning
05 - 1979 - Dolly Parton - You’re the only one
06 - 1981 - Dolly Parton - 9 to 5 (single version)
07 - 1982 - Dolly Parton - Do I ever cross your mind
08 - 1983 - Dolly Parton - Save the last dance for me
09 - 1983 - Kenny Rogers - Islands in the stream (duet with dolly parton)
10 - 1985 - Dolly Parton - Real love (duet with Kenny Rogers)
11 - 1986 - Dolly Parton - Think about love
12 - 1987 - Trio (us) - To love him is to know him (ronstadt parton and harris)
13 - 1987 - Dolly Parton - The river unbroken
14 - 1988 - Dolly Parton - I know you by heart (duet with Smokey Robinson)
15 - 1988 - Dolly Parton - Make love work
16 - 1994 - Julio Iglesias - When you tell me that you love me (with dolly parton)
17 - 1997 - Dolly Parton - Peace train (original album version)
18 - 2000 - Trio (us) - After the goldrush
Would have loved to have nerded out on the same statistics for Michael Jackson back in 2009. As I related on the deaths thread, literally nearly every station on a bandscan that morning was playing him.
Station: The Fresh Mix dot Com
Date: Sunday 6th September 2026
Time slot: 16:00 to 18:00 hrs Sydney time
Format: The Audio Attack (random mix)
Playout: Internet stream
01 - Bruno Mars - On my soul
02 - Weeknd - In your eyes (featuring Doja Cat) (remix)
03 - Wallenstein - Jo jo
04 - Dire Straits - Industrial disease
05 - Michael Jackson - Billie jean (2022 MFSL master)
06 - 100 Ton and a Feather - It only takes a minute
07 - Andy Surdy - Gunfire
08 - Shadows - Foot tapper
09 - Ritchie Family - American generation (euro 7 inch edit)
10 - Pinups - Call me babe
11 - Lisa Nemzo - I don’t wanna fool with love
12 - Grace Pool - Awake with the rain
13 - Ed Sheeran - A little more
14 - Rick Springfield - I get excited
15 - Alvin Stardust - I won’t run away
16 - Kylie Minogue - Love at first sight (ruff and jam us radio remix)
17 - Michael Stanley Band - He can’t love you
18 - Shower Scene From Psycho - I’m into something good
19 - Hipsway - Long white car
20 - Hall and Oates - Downtown life
21 - Nice and Wild - Obsession (money can’t buy you love)
22 - Bulldogs Allstar Goodtime Band - Miss september
23 - Shalamar - Make that move
24 - Ned Miller - Do what you do (do well)
25 - Erasure - Stop
26 - Tommy Shaw - No such thing
27 - Whitney Houston - Love is a contact sport
28 - Kristy McNichol - Hold on (2007 lighting vinyl master)
29 - Shauna Jensen - Send your love
30 - Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons - Hit and run
31 - Dollar - Who were you with in the moonlight (1992 castle mastering)
Great, thanks for the thumbs up. I think we have things together enough now that we’ll be doing this every Sunday arvo now from 16:00 hrs (sydney time) for the forseeable future, thinking of calling the show the 1600 Sunday Club. Just planting a seed and seeing where it will go from there. I gave up on doing shows at midnight on 2000, as I would be half asleep every time I would present; I know there is podcasting and pre-recording, but when a show is not live, most of the magic is gone.
Track 04
Dire Straits, ‘Industrial Disease’
This is what I ended up with after nearly 40 years of working in manufacturing
Track 27 : a not so well known song from the late Whitney Houston
