Yes you’ll be spoilt for choice as others have pointed out Zinc is another good option that’s a bit different.
Believe it or not, depending on where you are in Noosa you might also be able to pick up Breeze 102.5 and Rebel 106.7 from Wide Bay. The signal makes it to Gympie and reportedly some Breeze listeners are in Noosa. I’m guessing they might be on a hill but you could give it a try.
Yeah, from my experience with Noosa, you would need to have a good line of sight to the north/ north west to get Breeze and Rebel and be a bit elevated.
Have received 74 tapes of Coodabeen episodes from 80s and 90s.
Will be digitising and each episode will be placed on my ROAR PODCAST
A new year and new attempts by Sydney’s music stations to boost the listenership of the breakfast shows. So many stations will go down the road of forced fun, big laughs, crazy stories and compulsory random bursts of fake laughter. Yet it’s interesting to note that most of the No.1 breakfast shows throughout the decades did not rely on this formulaic and rigid approach to programming. A quick look at how “being different” seems to win over Sydney listeners:
I suspect that when Sydney’s next big breakfast show emerges it will not be the prefabricated “by the book” show that is favoured by the networks. Goodness knows, 2DayFM have proven this is not what’s wanted. It will be a show with a difference. The questions is – what will give it that edge? What will be the difference?
look forward to hearing them soon Rhett!
imagine if they just download the song from youtube and played it in full… (this is how a few stations like 91fm in Vietnam could play some lesser-known tracks, like they’re gonna playing a song that struggled to be on spotify and only have some like few hundred thousands of views on youtube)
I landed in Noosa a week ago. I decided to do an experiment. I wanted to see how long it would take for me to see an ad for a radio station. I have been watching local TV (MAFS), reading tourist brochures and websites and driving local roads. I have been bombarded with ads for local restaurants, shopping centres, car hire businesses and even wine and gin bars (so good).
After one week I finally found a mention for a local radio station. It was on an electricity hub as I left the national park. I suppose it’s a sign that radio is less and less relevant, especially for tourists.
It’s probably a bit too early in the year to be seeing ads for radio on TV in general.
They generally only run when surveys are about to commence.
(ps. I like that MixFM logo though… noice).
Been listening to Snow FM on lava.net.au/stations and have heard two Mimi Webb songs in the past two hours - “Ghost of You” at around 8:40pm (local time) and “Red Flags” (her latest hit) about an hour later.
Only just found out about this website this week - and I love that there’s a dashboard with all the stations and what songs they are playing at the present time!
Snow fm and Eagle fm are both great radio stations, and probably the closest thing in Australia to a true CHR station.
They also play quite a bit of Australian music that you would not here on Nova.
Quite a good listen.
Ditto.
The 92.7 MixFM logo is one of the best new logos out there at the moment.
IMO the different colours represent the different variety played.
Well done.
Not sure the same can be said about the SeaFM Sunshine Coast logo. It is a wannabe old Today Network logo. And I cannot figure out why they need the “!” in their tagline, “Sunny Coast Hits!”
which in itself was a terrible logo 
what do we realistically have to do to increase the variety of formats on broadcast radio? we have such a narrow range of formats here, as opposed to overseas.
IN new york for example, there’s an all Broadway station, a hip hop station, an all 90’s station, an LGBTQ station, Reggae and Jazz.
DAB in london is another example - LGBTQ, Arabic, Musicals and more
Now i get some of these will not work in australia - an all broadway station would be very niche, but surely we can do better than what we have here - its all very samey and i feel like somehting needs to be done otherwise people will migrate to streaming where they are better served
What’s wrong with 100 different decades channels?
Who doesn’t want 4 90’s stations?
New York metropolitan area alone has a population of 20m. That’s almost as much as we have on our entire country.
i get that, but sureley some of the formats on air in NYC or London could work in australia
as a secondary DAB station, possibly. I share your frustation that the mix of DAB stations are mostly just variants of existing analogue formats.
I agree with you.
But I’d just be happy with a soft AC and a proper rock station (like Rebel) on FM in Brisbane for example. Having to rely on fringe stations for such basic formats in a major metro market inducates a complete failure of the regulatory environment.
There isn’t a proper full time rock station on FM in Sydney or Melbourne and that’s a complete joke too.
The country doesn’t have a BBC R2 format despite R2 being the most listened to station in western Europe.
I could go on, but it’s depressing…
In Australia we don’t even have the mainstream formats covered, let alone niche formats.
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