Yes their wonderful new jingle the most unannoying of all time, sounds great in stereo.
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Has Talking Lifestyle actually updated their jingle?
I don’t know if they’re still using this but that “Talking Lifestyle’s Talkin’ About It” jingle (used from the September launch here in Sydney) would probably annoy me quite a bit if I had to listen to the station for an extended period of time!
I should of removed “new” for sydney listeners, its not new anymore. It is a little bit of an ear worm.
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Citizen band radio users no longer required to upgrade equipment
Citizen band (CB) radio users will no longer have to replace their older-style 40 channel equipment following a review by the regulator of a prohibition that was to have taken effect from 1 July this year.
Following extensive national consultation, the Australian Communications and Media Authority has decided to allow continued use of 40 channel equipment alongside the newer 80 channel equipment.
In 2011 a number of changes were made to regulatory arrangements for the Citizen Band Radio Service, to reduce and prevent congestion and interference in the 400MHz band.
The ACMA has also identified the potential for interlinking of CB repeaters to provide significant benefit to CB users, particularly in regional and remote areas. The ACMA has come to the view that these benefits outweigh potential interference from interlinking repeaters in some circumstances and that there are sufficient alternative regulatory mechanisms to deal with potential interference problems when they arise.
‘Following monitoring, surveying and consultation, the ACMA has removed the time limit on the use of 40 channel 25 kHz equipment and removed the limit on the use of CB repeaters for interlinking,’ said acting ACMA chairman Richard Bean. ‘The prohibition on the supply and sale of new 40 channel equipment will stay in effect, with continuing CB user uptake of the 80 channel equipment expected to further reduce congestion into the future.’
‘Congestion in the band is at a low point and manageable through ACMA’s routine monitoring and enforcement measures,’ Richard Bean added.
Commonsense prevails.
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Amazingly, Townsville, with a population of just over 200,000, have 4 commercial FM stations, including a rock station (Power 100) that doesn’t take any talk-based or live sport coverage (with the exception of Sportsday at 7-8pm weeknights). They also have an AC station (4TO), CHR (Hit) & Hot AC (Star). However, on the flip side, they don’t have any AM commercial stations, which is what Brisbane, Adelaide & Perth have.
In fact, between 1999 & 2005, Townsville had more commercial FM stations than Brisbane, Gold Coast & Sunshine Coast. Not only that, even Cairns & Mackay had more commercial FM stations than Bris/GC/SC between 1999 & 2001! 
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Very true. And highlights how illogical and protectionist ACMA is.
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Brianc68, I can’t understand them and I don’t think many can mate. 
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Townsville still has more stations than Gold Coast and Nambour even after both of those areas got new licenses in the early 2000s.
The only argument I can consider in response is that Townsville is a far more isolated market with less spillover/overlap from adjacent metro markets. Good portions of the Gold Coast and Nambour markets receive a listenable signal from Brisbane
Of course, the Gold Coast in particular has grown immensely in recent years and has a population more than double that of the Townsville market, so even taking fortuitous reception into account it seems hard to justify that discrepancy to the far northern cousin
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Gold Coast 624k vs Townsville 180k
More than THREE times the population, and still 1 fewer commercial radio station. Though you could argue Radio 97 is the quasi 4th…
I think spectrum is the biggest issue here, not overlap.
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As I said once before, I could never understand why Darwin has only 2 while Townsville which is around the size of Darwin has 4.
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It probably would have been 3 in Darwin had the original owners of 8DN / Hot100 not been very naughty.
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Licence area populations are 130k for Darwin and 214k for Townsville.
But to support your point, Mackay has 135k and also has 4 stations - although that may not be 100% sustainable since both the SCA and Grants operations in Mackay are understaffed.
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‘understaffed’ - what a hilarious adjective to describe them.
Hit has the same minuscule staff number it had when it was Hot and Meech and Teegs were the bfast talent (now on ABC but having training this week whilst new studios installed).
Remember the cyclone just last month? Hot and Sea (Hit and MMM) combined program teams at the first emerg siren, the PD required to do 8 hr shifts and the others close to it. It’s not how radio should be. Equally as dire at Grants? Most likely.
Very interesting comments here re Grant management and Radio Today:
I don’t bother reading the site regularly due to the short sightedness of what seems to be former owners of RT. Thankfully they seem to have gone.
An interesting game changer for internet streaming of SCA stations across Australia, up there with iHeartRadio offering data-free streaming for Optus mobile customers.
OVO Mobile has signed an “industry game-changing” deal with Southern Cross Austereo to offer radio fans unlimited access to Australia’s largest FM radio networks The Hit Network and Triple M.
58 radio stations across the metro and regional Triple M and Hit Network are now accessible to OVO Mobile customers – totally free of data charges – via OVO Mobile’s innovative OVOPlay app.
Boasting exclusive entertainment and sport offerings with live streams from OVO’s myriad media partners – now including SCA – the OVOPlay web app is accessible free of charge and data free to all OVO Mobile subscribers.
More at: https://www.radioinfo.com.au/news/ovo-mobile-and-sca-sign-partnership-data-free-radio
My favourite telco.
Something different. Its not often you see MVNOs offer unmetered content, let alone content that isn’t unmetered by the network provider, in this case Optus
How much data does radio streaming involve?