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Correct @Brianc68. The industry is in a race to the bottom with poor excuses of entertainment.
There’s an art of saying more with less, a real skill. The best announcers are those who practice this. Endless waffle about topics suited to the intelligence of a 12 year old isn’t entertainment that will be sustainable for the industry.
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Easy, their intelligence isn’t high. They have an aversion for new topics like they do new music. They hate change, liking their world to be safe, comfortable and recognisable. They are very conservative though most would not admit it.
Look at the covid scare campaign by state premiers. In Qld, so many flocked to back the 'Chook because these people who don’t think for themselves, preferring echo chambers of Facebook, Tiktok, Snapchat etc, thought a government would keep them safe rather than personal responsibility of making your own choices on what keeps you safe.
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The guy I usually work with was on leave this week so I wasn’t forced to listen to Triple M yesterday and today and could listen to my own tunes instead.Yay!!
The ‘Yap yap yap,from the ‘Big Breakfast’ show, just drives me nuts most days👎
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And they aren’t versed in the Socratic method either.
Why are they like this?
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It gives me no comfort to see 2UW back at the top of the ratings- in its current form.
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yeah its about a certain breakfast show they have. I suppose if 2uw remained on the AM band it would have not become a number one station unless it bought Alan & Ray.
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quite true
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You would be referring to River 94.9 from Ipswich, which is owned by Grant. The station used to be very adventurous in its music format, providing a clear point of difference to the Brisbane & Toowoomba stations. However, in the last year or so, it has gone quite safe, as its playlist is also being heard on Bay 93.9 in Geelong, 3BA in Ballarat, LAFM in Launceston, 7SD in Scottsdale, 7XS in Queenstown & Mix 104.9 in Darwin.
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A very revealing interview about Mal Less and Vic Davies of Club Veg:
I recall it didn’t end well for them, sad.
But wow, they were disappointed they weren’t moved from drive to bfast to take over from Denton and add Amanda Denton.
They were also disappointed their drive show wasn’t networked to other cap city MMMs.
At the same time, Mal says their relationship was drifting apart as he was a new father, is this to Matilda? Fatherly life ruled out the rock star life of late nights and hangovers they used to share (sounds charming).
Also very revealing, Club Veg were approached to host bfast on Nova, turned it down and then Merrick and Rosso were asked. Mal says in the article he regrets this.
Another regret of Mal’s is not doing any TV. I do recall they were regular guests on shows such as 11am, especially after they received notoriety after rating #1 mornings ahead of John Laws.
Now living on the Gold Coast with wife Lisa and daughter Matilda, local TV bulletins on both 7 and 9 are desperate for content, I reckon this is his time for TV.
Especially now that his PM drive time has freed up with Grant Broadcasters’ disgraceful penny pinching direction for Hot Tomato. Saving money, not renewing Mal’s contract late last year despite being the brains that kept HT #1 on Drive whether it be with Moyra Major and Simon Baggs at present or past male co-hosts, Paul Gale or the very long and successful run with Luke Bradnam.
Reminded me of so much from that article, 18 years on. Unusually good journalism from a newspaper writing about radio.
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It’s also heard in Hobart on 7HO River on DAB+.
Yes, along with a new callsign of 3BBS.
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Back to listening to Triple M again this week 
’Yap ,yap ,yap’ (and too many ads)
Occasionally they will discuss something interesting,for instance this morning they were talking about Expo 88 and what do listeners remember about it.
Margaux Parker said she was only 3 in 1988 ,made me feel really old when she said that😊
I remember how much better Brisbane radio was in those days and FM 104(Triple M ) was killing all the other stations in the ratings,was the only commercial FM radio station back then
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I just bought a new set of “cans” for listening to the radio. I do like them I can hear my surrounds so it serves its purpose well, all my other earbuds block a lot of the surrounding sounds out. Plus I do miss the 80s, the awesome 80s on SWR will sounds even better with these 80s style on ear headphones :).
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Looks nice!
Do they sound good?
I see it has an Comfort adjuster? I assume that loosens/tightens the clamping force on the head? Which is not something I’ve seen before, as only some BOSE headphones are ones that I can tolerate wearing for an extended period of time, as with most other brands, I find they clamp on the head too tightly.
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Yeah so far so good! The clamping thing I play with it loosens it a bit. For the amount I paid it was worth it so far (I literally just got them). It was 99 dollars so not too bad. The sound is good. I am do audiophile though. You can get a cheaper version without the mic but my guess the sound would be similar.
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Just had another thought…Why haven’t we got a national weather radio service? That would be handy thing to have. It would also be a handy emergency radio service too.
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Because internet services do a better job with visual aides.
I meant one established well before the internet and still going today.
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