I just hate those call trees that will jump to promotions/advertising - so there’s always a few seconds of confusion when an actual person answers thinking you’ve just been switched to another ad.
I don’t think I’ve ever encountered it being done well. The Centrelink hold music is probably the most effective tool the Government has ever deployed for encouraging people to obtain full time work.
I called some company not long ago (cannot remember who) who had Triple M as their hold music. So my hold time was spent enduring the end of Barnesy’s ‘Working Class Man’ followed by 10 minutes of ads for Marto, Ed and Robin…
100%. That classical music when you’re placed in the queue really shits me in the infrequent times that I need to contact Centrelink. But when you get through and are put on hold again by a human operator, they have this really funky music which is very nice to listen to. I think I’ve heard it when on hold at another place, but I don’t remember where exactly. I don’t think there’s any doubt that the music they’ve selected at Centrelink is designed as part of some scheme to piss you off enough that you look for work instead of continuing to receive a payment.
I recall that Centrelink had a call-back service many years ago when I first started getting Youth Allowance as a teenager. Of course they canned that several years ago probably because it made it too easy to call Centrelink. I never received engaged signals from Centrelink a few years ago when I started receiving Youth Allowance, but when I was applying for a payment about 9 months ago (as I had lost my job), I had to resort to an autodialler app in order to actually get anywhere (and even then it took 30 minutes to reach the IVR menu).
The year was 1988 and FM104 had a studio at the Riverstage…
Great times indeed… Bill Healy in AM drive (with Mr T), the no repeat workday and two-for-Tuesdays, bogus bulletins and this track:
Great times indeed. I still miss them.
Switched thread, as this has become more general than 2DAY fm focussed:
Sorry, my bad explanation of my simpleton logic. Step 1: demographics affect what sort of music formats a market can support. Step 2: the relevance of the announcers will affect what share an individual station will get. If you get both right, you maximise the audience. Would it be appropriate to interpret your comments another way - what is relevant for each market is different and hence each market is unique.
As for Melburnians turning off something Sydney based regardless of content more than vice-versa, I feel sad, because it should be the content that wins, but take your guidance having lived in both cities. Presumably, the more a show has general “water cooler” type topics - the harder it is to be relevant without revealing the city you are in. If you can’t talk about “the event” in town (eg Clipsal500 if you’re in Adelaide), sport or weather, you can quickly run out of topics…and relevance. Fine if you’re more music Smooth FM (with a focus on minimising talk), but a lot harder if you are Triple M (Metro).
It’s like how Melbournians make a huge deal about being better than Sydney whilst Sydney-Siders don’t really care.
Melbourne’s great, but it can have a chip on its shoulder
I’ve only been listening to Triple M at work for one week,No complaints so far except they are flogging some songs and now that the breakfast team has returned too much chit-chat in the morning.After this week though I’m off work for 5 weeks taking long service leave so now I’ll be able to listen to whatever I want to😊
This headline has irked me a bit. Referring to an online radio station (channel? stream?) as a ‘digital station’, while technically correct, is somewhat of a misnomer in that it confuses the concept with (DAB+) digital radio - at least to me.
The last paragraph sounds like it’s an online station only, there’s no mention of it being available on digital radio.
I’d seen the station pop up on iHeartRadio a few weeks back, but the phrasing of “digital station” is what threw me off.
So is there anything to the talk that Christian O’Connell (Absolute UK) is coming to Australia?
yep announcement in a few minutes UK time - there’s a belief that ARN has signed him for GOLD Melbourne breakfast. Not confirmed.
Perth has a special event temporary radio station on 106.5 licensed from 29 Jan - 4 Feb
5 watts from Broadcast Site Matilda Bay Swan River PERTH
What event is it for?
I thought 6PR were supposed to be using that frequency to launch north/south translators ala 6IX as they apparently weren’t happy with the coverage on 882 even after it was upped from 2kw to 10kw.
According to Radcomm - Western Australian Yachting Federation
http://websites.sportstg.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=1-10100-0-0-0
Thanks!
I should have thought to check Radcomm.
Wonder what it will be called?
Sail 106.5 has a good ring to it.
Following on from my posts in the MRN thread, this might work a treat for the SoundDec signals at the cricket, or anywhere else SoundDec is being used. Also covers SportsEars.
Depends if the ump freqs are narrowband 12.5KHz FM or 6.25KHz FM. This radio seems to be designed for 250KHz FM which is normal FM radio.
Wouldn’t 250khz be considered Long Wave?
Or do you mean Mhz?