They are getting that way now!
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Thatâs what the ABC used to do a decade or so ago- Radio National became ABC Grandstand2 on DAB on weekends so that more live sports were covered nationally. Then it reverted back to Radio National on DAB during the week.
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Hardly. Itâs still mostly alternative and not many mainstream tracks get played.
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Every time I listen to it they play mainstream pop music, a look at todayâs playlist sees Blink 182, Tate McRae, Olivia Rodrigo, BeyoncĂ©, Genesis Owusu, Dua Lipa, Tyler The Creator, The Rubens, Post Malone, Doja Cat to name a few. Well at least they play the Smith Street Band who are all but ignored by mainstream commercial FM radio!
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Thatâs not much for a whole day. BBC radio 1 at least plays a good variety of alternative and mainstream music.
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I agree, Triple J needs to be a little more like BBC R1. It can still skew alternative.
But the real problem for me is Double J. I can barely distinguish it from Triple J most of the time, itâs so obscure. They should blow up Double J entirely and replace it with BBC R2, and somehow get that on FM across the country.
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Thatâs the giant problem with Double J, its target audience is people who used to listen to Triple J 15-20 years ago. It would be very difficult to attract new listeners because the playlist would be too obscure to the general audience.
They could make Double J more greatest hits like BBC R2 and shift Triple J more towards top 40 but keep the underground/indi stuff in the mix (or shift them to Unearthed).
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I have notice that there is a big area around the Colo/Putty road that is consider âremoteâ.
https://www.commercialradio.com.au/RA/media/General/Documents/Licence%20Area%20Profiles/nsw.pdf
Iâd love to Rebel/Breeze on FM there. Just thinking if a site (free frequencies will be another problem).
Ideally maybe a multi site to cover a portion of that area would be required. From Broke in North to Richmond/Windsor in the south (that might be out of area but I am thinking Rebel/Breeze in GC). Bucketty/Wiseman Ferry in the east. Perhaps at a stretch Kandos/Glen Alice in the west.
But I would be curious how a site below would cover that zone.
Another much higher site could be this one.
But I know the mediaspy community may want to chip on a valid site. Just for fun, it will probably never happen. I wonder what my reception would be like where I live in the Hornsby Shire. Studios could be located in Windsor.
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89.5 and 91.1 could be used for a Rebel/Breeze duo around St Albans/Wisemans etc. But I think our resident Rebel tech has already pooh-poohed that notion. A well placed tx would rimshot into NW Sydney though, much like the current rimshot into Brisbane and the GC, and the planned rimshots for Forster/Tuncurry and Port Macquarie.
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Does anyone know if Music FM 92.5 is still dead air?
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92.5 Music FM has been off air since around January as in the transmitter.
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âoverseas model shownâ 
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I think its just lazy that canât reshoot some aspects of the ad (like that) locally and repackage it.
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Donât know if this was quincidental, we just had one of our computer rigs completely reserviced last week, and of last night we hooked it all back up. Upon turning on the boombox used for the on air monitors, we found that the entire AM band was dead. I suspected some kind of electro-magnetic fluxing, but this was extreme. Anyway heard on ABC Newsradio this morning that there was quite a major flare incident on the sun last night, so this may explain all, it was rather all weird. Got my AM reception back around about 7:00 - 7:30 pm.
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Yeah it was causing havoc on the lower bands
Had my HF rig on earlier this morning and couldnât hear anything, couldnât even hear a scarrick of RNZ on 17MHz and usually it is S9+30db
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Last nightâs severe geomagnetic storm caused the âaurora australisâ or southern lights to put on a show over Australia.
The sun emitted plasma and solar flares in four ï»ż"coronal mass ejections", shooting magnetic particles towards Earth.
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Was visible in Melbourne with the naked eye. Bands and dull colours, though obviously captured much better with a camera.
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Hows the reception of Rebel and Breeze at Port Stephens from the Great lakes transmitter?
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Itâs never been on air (yet).
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