Thanks, I had wondered whether the processing / mixing was done centrally given there are multiple hosts.
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For SCA I think they give their presenters a Mic, a Tieline ViA Codec & Zetta2GO, they can then use a laptop or even their mobile phone, & control everything playout from that, the Tieline is essentially only to get the Mic audio back to the studio.
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FMD
Looks like weâll have to get radio news from Jocks Journal now.
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This quote from the article fascinates me:
âWhen DAB+ was first introduced, some FM operators were concerned that it offered AM stations a free kick by leveling the playing field in terms of sound quality. Stations such as 3KZ, now Gold104.3 in Melbourne, had paid in excess of $30 million to convert from AM to the FM band. The station also managed to promptly drop from #1 to #5 after the conversion. But thatâs another storyâ
Why did 3KZ mess up the conversion so badly? what went wrong?
I know when 2WS moved to FM in Sydney they did get a boost in the ratings. 2UW much less so with the Mix branding.
What was the issue with 3KZ?
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The issue with 3KZ was that they continued their âhits and memoriesâ format (with a football call on weekends during the AFL season) as KZ-FM from 1990-91. It was when they changed to a pure âgood time oldiesâ format that ratings improved.
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Iâm glad to see Radioinfo acquire Radio Today. The current owners never gave it their full attention.
Vivienne Kelly gone is a relief. Her hippie/alternative editorial opinion was pitching to a market that doesnât yet exist in great numbers in radio and may never. She would do well at The Guardian.
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If Iâm not mistaken, Radioinfo was (hopefully still is) a really good source for news on the Australian radio landscape while Radio Today was a bit average?
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I donât think 2WS really changed their AM format much at all upon moving to FM, yet they didnât drop like KZ did.
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ABBAâs new songs have been poorly received on hit radio. With the expection of Nova (because TikTok), theyâve fared better on Smooth-type stations and SCA refuses to play them.
Letâs hope that the follow-up single (out Friday), âJust A Notionâ fares better. Itâs apparently an unreleased track from 1978, which sounds exciting. Theyâve thrown this sort of stuff on recent releases for a while, but none of them have hit the charts.
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Hit radio format stations are not entitled to play new releases if they donât fit the playlist / demos.
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Correct. Radio Yesterday was often that, behind the times or factually incorrect. I may be Gen Y, but I never liked the Gen Y approach Radio Today has. The podcasts are worse, extreme and unrealistic political views.
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I never picked up that, it was just two random people gossiping and not providing any factual details. They just speculated based on not much for ages and often got it wrong.
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Radio Todayâs website has much better design than Radioinfo, which was pretty basic (before the latterâs overdue makeover a couple of months ago).
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it was a prettier design but the full-screen pop ups to urge me to subscribe to updates whenever I visited were a turn off, so I stopped going back. Radioinfo has at least had something of a tweak so itâs a bit more attractive then it used to be. It will be interesting to see how long they maintain the two separate brands for. Will there always be a temptation to bring them into one?
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who is 3BT here in ballarat?
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isnât it RSN on relay from Melbourne?
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Yes itâs a RSN relay
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On 1314 AM, 3BAs original AM frequency, now an RSN relay as others have said.
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