C91.3 Campbelltown just did a plug for Maserati, "“available from $149,990 - visit their showrooms at Waterloo or Artarmon” (also well outside their licence area)…
Given that region has some of the lowest incomes and house prices in all of Sydney, that seemed to be a peculiar piece of advertising.
Aiming for the nouveau riche in the area, I take it ?
Listening to Sydney radio overnight and have to say that Nova96.9 had the better choice of music over the others. Artists like Jarryd James (Do You Remember) and Sigma (Nobody To Love). These are the “variety of old school” songs which I think Nova needs to play across the day as well. Credit to The Edge for keeping the party going well beyond the other stations who wrapped up their Friday night party playlists to return to normal. KIIS reminds me of 2DayFM pre-K&J departure with their dance music on Friday nights. It’s a shame Nova doesn’t push its weekend dance programming anymore. Theirs used to be for the more serious dance lovers.
On the AM dial it was a battle between 2GB/TL/2SM for entertaining talk. I found I was listening longer to 2SM overnight as my mind couldn’t handle Govt. bashing and talking about taking care of your cats at that time of the morning. It’s good that Sydney AM radio still has an unrestricted talkback station.
No pre-roll adverts on Radioapp today! 
And Newcastle. Isn’t Gary overnight in Newcastle?
I agree with you on this. It makes some regional commercial radio stations that are not owned by SCA a bit more interesting.
Going down the Hume to Melbourne earlier this year on the way to Tassie made me think of what regional commercial radio along the way used to be when I first went to VIC (based in Ballarat) back in December 2003/January 2004. In those days, DMG owned regional stations in Young (now owned by BOG), Wagga, Albury & Bendigo, which all shared the same music logs. Star FM was a good listen with its mix of music from the 80s to Today (now covered by the heritage station), whilst its Heritage stations (2LF, 2WG, 2AY & 3BO) had the “Best Songs of All Time” format from the 60s to Today.
Albury & Shepparton had stations that were owned by RG Capital, with The River in the former market having an AC format covering the 70s to Today, whilst over in the latter market, 3SR had a Classic Hits format, whilst Sun FM had a pop/rock format. Of course, in between those two markets, there’s 3NE & Edge in Wangaratta, which were independently-owned.
A little over 13 years later in 2017, all of the commercial stations are mostly owned by SCA, with the Wagga, Albury, Shepparton & Bendigo stations all carrying the same branding of Triple M & Hit with the same music logs (of those Triple M stations mentioned, only Wagga has a Classic Hits format, whilst the others have the “Greatest Hits from the 70s to Now” format), whilst 2AY, 3NE & Edge are now owned by ACE.
It was quite a relieve when I started to receive Melbourne radio past Seymour & likewise on the way back, when I started to receive Canberra radio near Yass. 
There is nothing wrong with having one brand across a network of stations… there is also nothing wrong with having a variety of names for a network of stations.
The difference with the two is HOW it is executed.
BOG are a network however don’t treat the sound of their stations as a network. You either commit to unifying stations or you do not.
At the moment you don’t know what you’ll get when you listen to a Super Network Station. It depends where you’re listening that will determine the quality.
At least SCA have a consistent sound across the board.
Again, the audience wouldn’t be arriving in a market and knowing that it is a Super Network station. Audience with things on their mind other than radio would not have any knowledge of it, nor do they need to.
Also, most audience are not travellers encountering this, you need the locals in the town won over to your station. If you provide that with a semblance of independent branding and they like it, then good.
Quality would necessarily improve with networking, requires leadership, focus on the elements that need improving and so on. They might have other priorities in that market or simply not be up to using that station to its potential. Again each to their own, if they wish to run it that way and it keeps people employed, so be it.
As I predicted last week, it’s Sydney turn to have their music crossovers on radio stations analysed: https://www.radioinfo.com.au/news/sydney-radio-crossovers
Pair-Ups:
It’s interesting to compare the Smooth vs WS with Smooth vs Gold 104.3 in Melbourne, in which there’s a slightly bigger crossover between the two stations in Sydney than in Melbourne with Gold, as well as WS having a lower percentage of unique tracks. This further proves my point that WS sounds more closer to Smooth than Gold is.
It also proves how narrow Nova’s playlist is compared to 2Day, with the former playing more songs that are also heard on 2Day than not.
I agree with you for the most part. That being said, there are still some regional commercial stations that are worth listening to such as Rebel, Breeze, River, Zinc, 2GN/2XL/3GG & 2CA.
In the Central Coast & Wollongong, you would be better off listening to the Sydney stations if you want to listen to a commercial station that isn’t “Top 40-heavy”.
Plus, one of my favorites - Spirit Radio Network in WA 
My weekday drive time habits have been the same for three years:
5pm: PM on Radio National
5.30pm: ABC 702
Now that it’s summer I have ditched the ABC. I now tune to KIIS for “Non-Stop Hits” at 5pm. There is nothing better than driving on a hot summer afternoon and listening to music.
Doesn’t matter if it’s summer or winter for me 
Nor should it. You live in Brisbane after all.
With the 3rd Ashes Test starting tomorrow at 1pm,I’ll have to change from Triple M or turn off my radio.I have to be in the mood to listen to cricket😕
For me to listen to cricket I would need to be lacking a pulse.
FOX FM and former Nova 100 announcer Sarah-Maree Cameron has been appointed breakfast co-host on KRock Geelong with Tom Lewis.
https://radioinfo.com.au/news/new-breakfast-co-host-k-rock-geelong
Forget fresh hits. Forget pure gold. Forget RnB. Forget best rock. Forget an easy place to relax. Forget easy hits. Forget classic rock. Forget classic hits. Forget best music mix. Forget better music and more of it. Forget old school.
Can someone in Sydney please start up a dance music station?
You know the deal - the best new dance with the best dance from the last decade:
4 million people. 6 commercial FM stations. No dedicated dance music station.
Dance music is contagious and it would really wake this city up.
There is a narrowcast…
RAW FM
Though not available in all areas of Sydney.
Radiohead - could you please give us more information on narrowcasting?