Weirdly nope I haven’t, matter of fact never stepped foot in Sydney… Tho i reckon that will change with my current job, no doubt i will end up in Sydney at some stage and break my lack of Sydney in my life 
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Never been to Sydney at all? Or just not for work?
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Nope never been to Sydney, crazy I know lol
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Unfortunately, I think that the more the Australian music industry pushes radio stations to increase pay for their music, the less music the stations will play in general. Soon we’ll see spaces where music was normally played in day parts being replaced by pop in podcast pieces or other talk segments. If every station replaced one song every hour with five minutes of audio instead, imagine how much less the music industry both here and overseas would earn.
The other aspect of stations like smooth, 96fm, WSFM and Gold that I don’t think has fully been articulated is that while I feel like people, particularly people aged under 25, aren’t using radio to discover new music anymore, they are, intentionally or not, using it to discover old music.
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Remember when record labels would PAY radio stations to play their music because that’s how people would find it?
I still use radio to find new music (maybe that shows my age). Spotify is great but I find I tune out if there are too many song I don’t know and I don’t really connect with a song until I’ve heard it a bunch of times. With radio that’s easy - you start liking songs once they’ve been flogged for a short time (but before it gets truly repetitive). With Spotify you hear it once and it’s gone as you move through the algorithm.
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From CRA
COMMERCIAL RADIO ANNUAL AD REVENUE HOLDS STEADY IN A CHALLENGING MARKET
While annual broadcast radio ad revenue was down 4% in 2023, radio is still performing consistently well in a tough media market, according to annual and quarterly figures from the industry body Commercial Radio & Audio (CRA).
Broadcast radio ad revenue for 2023 across the five major metropolitan markets was $673.252 million, compared to $701.402 million in 2022.
Ford Ennals, CEO of CRA, said that: ‘‘Overall commercial radio ad revenue remains broadly stable despite a challenging market, with sustained strong broadcast radio revenue and record levels of growth in digital audio revenue in 2023.”
Metropolitan radio broadcast advertising revenue results exclude digital audio streaming and podcast revenue, which reached record levels in 2023, up 27% for the year.
“Radio is consistently out-performing other media, and our annual broadcast ad revenue was actually up 1.1% from 2021, but clearly there are pressures on the broader ad market,” Mr Ennals said.
“Ad spending in the travel and automotive sectors is encouraging and we are positive about radio’s performance for the year ahead.”
Quarterly broadcast radio ad revenue ad revenue fell 6% in the fourth quarter across the five metro markets, with Q4 2023 broadcast revenue at $173.915 million, compared to Q4 2022’s $185.062 million. Digital audio ad revenue was up 31% for Q4 2023, compared to the same period last year.
“Radio remains the medium where agencies can get value for money when budgets are tight. We expect to see investment to continue at similar levels this year, as agencies and their clients recognise radio’s capacity to deliver,” Mr Ennals said.
The quarterly and yearly broadcast radio ad revenue figures were compiled by media data analytics company Milton Data.
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Another opinion piece by Jen Seyderhelm.
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Amensalism - Meaning & Examples of Amensalism.
There’s a definition for the word in the closing par. Jen’s lack of plain English writing. Most of the radio industry will dismiss her articles as being over their heads, intellectualising.
…speakers and in cars.
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The APRA music royalty fees are probably the main stumbling block given some stations still don’t stream at all (yes Mr Caralis, I’m looking at you).
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…regional and remote communities and result in a further reduction of local media content.
“If multinational record labels are allowed to hike up radio’s music fees it would harm the sustainability of stations – particularly in regional and remote communities where local media has already diminished,” says CRA Chief Executive officer Ford Ennals.
“Radio is already paying almost $40 million a year in fees – any increase to this would hurt radio, which in turn hurts music. Radio plays an important role in promoting and supporting Australian artists and music and we want this to continue.”
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Not even those dodgy AM presets can frighten a Triton it seems.
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This looks like an updated version of the interface of my former car ,my 2016 Mitsubishi ASX touchscreen
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That Triton may have been bought in Nowra (before 2022) and then transferred to Warragul Victoria, going via Cooma.
Just a random bit of info
River949 gets into the top of Mount Mowballan WIN TV site very well, RDS decides within a few seconds
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I think they’re the default factory settings, with one at each end of the dial, one in the middle and 603 being an odd one. Probably a bit of a coincidence that 2 of them are/were Nowra stations.
Probably one or two others as well, unusual for a radio to only have four presets, usually have at least five.
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