Random Radio

[Radiohead]

Sea FM and Mix FM were approved for Noosa translators on 102.5 and 103.3 years ago but have never been switched on.

Sea and Mix can be hard to receive in Noosa since their transmitter is down the other end of the coast at Bald Knob (approx 46 km as the crow flies).

[dxnerd]

Given that it’s surprising the translators haven’t been switched on, particularly since the competition has done so. Noosa is a pretty popular holiday and seachange destination.

On the subject of translators, still no movement on the GN FM/Eagle translators at Braidwood.

[Radiohead]

Yes, I’m surprised they’ve done Crookwell but not Braidwood…

[TV.Cynic]

Both translators received in my eastern location fairly well with RDS.

[Radiohead]

Can you get 4NSA 101.3 Noosa or 4GCR 91.5 Gympie where you are?

[TV.Cynic]

Noosa 101.3 is strong

91.5 is marginal plus there are 2 other stations on the 91.5 Coffs and Toowoomba

[Brianc68]

@nickatnights

I am taking a three week break in Noosa. I was so surprised yesterday when I checked out the options for music radio. I was prepared for a Hit and a Triple M station, that although branded like the Sydney stations, they would sound nothing like them. I did not come all the way to Noosa to listen to MMM or a 2DayFM knock off.

To my surprise, I have two local options - Mix (with a logo I have never seen before) and Hot (also with a logo I have never seen)

This is great as I wanted to be on holidays and away from Sydney. I am now going to listen to the radio a lot!

I reckon Hot and Mix may be owned by operators that also broadcast in Sydney, but I don’t want to know. I just want to feel like I am in Noosa.

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.

[Radiohead]

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.

[rhettrospective]

Have received 74 tapes of Coodabeen episodes from 80s and 90s.
Will be digitising and each episode will be placed on my ROAR PODCAST

[nickatnights]

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:

• 2SM and Ian Macrae: Ian’s offsider was the Honourable Nick Jones (“you can call me hon”). Nick was a listener who once called into the show and then made it to air as Ian’s cohost. Different.
• 2UW and Rik Melbourne: Rik would talk to the 2UW staff during the breakfast show each morning. Unscripted conversations with colleagues like Lindal (the traffic reporter) and Roula (the Greek-Australian cleaner at the station) made up a big chuck of his show. Different.
• 2MMM and Doug Mulray: A man in his 40s on an under 40 station? This is why he was known as Uncle Doug. Different.
• 2DayFM: Wendy Harmer and Peter Moon: Let’s team up two people who do not like each other. The tension on air was often pulpable. Battle of the Sexes was a simple idea that worked because the duo were usually at war. Different.
• 2DayFM and KIIS: Kyle and Jackie O: This duo don’t try to be funny. They are personalities and not comedians. It is rare for either host to laugh at something the other says. Different.

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?

[TheHomeOfMusic]

@rhettrospective

Have received 74 tapes of Coodabeen episodes from 80s and 90s.
Will be digitising and each episode will be placed on my ROAR PODCAST

look forward to hearing them soon Rhett!

[theduytv]

@Radiohead

Yes as @Radio-dude says, on Saturday night I heard B.A.D’s ‘Rush’ in which they cut out the whole middle spoken bit eg. ‘I wish I could sing like that… rhythm and melody’…

WS also talks over the intro of songs for waay too long, and cuts off the end of songs waay too early.

Very annoying… they might claim they play ‘better music and more of it’ but we are hearing less and less of each song.

But then on Saturday nights, they are happy to play the whole 12 inch edit of some songs in full…

Go figure.

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)

[nickatnights]

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.

[Radiohead]

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).

[Avatar5991]

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!

[Ant5476]

@Avatar5991

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.

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.

[thesub1]

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!”

[TelevisionAU]

@thesub1

Not sure the same can be said about the SeaFM Sunshine Coast logo. It is a wannabe old Today Network logo.

which in itself was a terrible logo

[Tejas57]

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

[TVHead]

What’s wrong with 100 different decades channels?