Ahh the old variation of Triple M Newcastle’s “Good Luck Hino Truck” of years gone by… and I’m sure other stations had their own variations prior to that even.
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Power and 2ST are owned by the same company… Coke and Pepsi are not. I see a big difference here and I don’t see an issue with it.
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This was launched a few weeks ago.
The “special announcement” from yesterday appears to be a song sang by the on-air team
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Why radio stations fail, good to see the consulting boffins have realised the same reasons we’ve known and discussed freely here for years.
They’re the same problems facing all stations lacking a market specific programming approach.
These stations are not at their full potential whilst programming and music is applied as a one size fits all.
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What is happening at 91.9 SeaFM Sunshine Coast?
It has been months - and they have still not filled the breakfast co-host & workdays role.
Surely there are applicants who’d love to join the station…
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Interesting observation I came across today.
Surfing the FM band in Bendigo this morning and stumbled onto a stereo signal on 89.9 FM. Turns out it was an image of two separate FM stations: Gold Central Victoria (98.3) and Phoenix FM (106.7). Both allocations are multiples of 8.4 MHz away from the imaged station.
I’ve heard images and harmonics on AM and FM before, but never two signals clashing on the same frequency. Both services transmit from the Specimen Hill site, about 2.5km as the crow flies from my location at the time.
Given this, is it plausible that 98.3 has the potential to interfere with 106.7 (and vice versa) - perhaps closer to the transmitter? Or, would the high power of both services block this out?
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I watched Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Christmas Cabin Fever) last night, at one stage the family were driving in the car through the snow & the radio was tuned to 96.5 FM to which they then changed it to 103.9 FM, I’ve been trying to work out what stations they might actually be (why those frequencies were chosen)?
Given this series of books/movies are based on the writers childhood/family, I though they may be stations where he grew up around Washington D.C. but nope, no luck there.
We only ever know the street wimpy kid lives on (& it’s different in the books to the movies & online) I don’t think we ever have known the city/state where he lives, a bit like the Simpsons.
I know this is going to drive me nuts for a few days, trying to figure it out.
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I dont think there’s any logic to it? They are probably just randomly chosen frequencies.
Often they don’t even use a real frequency in movies or TV shows eg FM 120.4.
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Yep, there’s probably nothing to it & they’re not on 800KHz spacing, but the USA doesn’t adhere to that like we do, & I have found a station on 96.5 & 103.9 in Rochester NY, there may be others, but I haven’t found them yet?
And yes often they do use fake frequencies in Movies & TV shows, this one isn’t a movie with real actors & radios with a CGI screen though, it’s an animated cartoon, so they’ve specifically drawn these frequencies on the radio.
They’re random, but just seem a bit too random to me for that purpose?
A bit like the checkout scanner in the Simpsons, what’s written on the screen when Maggie’s scanned seems random, but it’s actually not.
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Amateur radio – transition to class licence and supporting arrangements
The ACMA has established new arrangements for amateur radio licensing, qualifications, call signs, charges, accrediting examination assessors and overseas visiting amateurs.
For most amateur operators, no action is needed in the transition to the new arrangements.
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From the new Apple + movie The Family Plan
Fairly close to a Chicago area dial though there are some mistakes e.g. 93.9 is Lite FM but not those call letters etc. And the ultimate station chosen is an outdated callsign for a non-Chicago station. Plus of course there are are a few AM stations on the FM station list (though WBBM has a simulcast)
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Yes it’s pretty close.
I’d say they mean WXRT not WRXT? XRT is a great station.
I can program my station list presets with AM, FM and DAB stations so it’s a mix of all of them too.
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Yep, absolutely love that station. I discovered it, when we were over there visiting my wife’s family.
I really loved the music variety. They mainly play rock music with a bit of blues, new wave and pop/rock thrown into the mix.
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Yes and no. For instance, WRXT is indeed “Spirit FM” and 90.3, but is in Roanoke, VA - some 500 miles from Chicago. 
WVAZ is a sister station of Lite FM (WLIT-FM) in the Chicago market - it’s an urban AC format on 102.7.
And WSCR’s name is very slightly off on reality (“670 The Score” vs. the odd word order they used - that said, the logo reads the way they put it!).
So they’ve tried to make that maybe 70% credible; that’s fair enough, they aren’t playing to radio geeks here 
The station ultimately picked is a complete fabrication though - 92.9 is off plan for Chicago, unlike the other commercial channels listed (ie. above 92 - WXRT is 93.1) and certainly no-one has ever named their station that, so.
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I have never seen a radio station ad on tv on the coast. And the days of tourist radio are long gone.
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4SS used to be all over the coast, adverts galore in tourism publications. Same for Radio 56 as it then was (4GY).
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Flow FM have finally reintroduced a stream on their homepage and have a new website coming in 2024. I think it’s the Victorian feed on the stream, news was at top of the hour AEST
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Their broadcast on 106.3 FM is dead air more often than not these days. They’ve got some serious technical issues as of late.
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Direct link for peoples media players:
(https://21333.live.streamtheworld.com/FLOW_FM.mp3)
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