I think CBAA manages the Alexa publication for community radio. Might be worth pinging them and asking them to add more keywords.
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In a regional area, if you could have only one live and local 3 hour shift (which is all most regions get since thatās all commercial stations are required to do), what timeslot would be your personal preference?
Breakfast 6-9am
Mornings 9-12
Afternoons 12-3pm
Drive 3-6
Nights 6-9 (or maybe 7-10)
My personal preference would be afternoons or drive since thatās when Iām most likely to be listening.
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Breakfast
breakfast because they can discuss the local happenings. i lived in rural new south wales and we needed to know things like the rainfall forecast for the day, if the school was closed etc. on a state wide breakfast show it can feel like your little town is just forgotten
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100% itās breakfast for me. Especially if it is a FM radio show. Workday FM music stations can get away with being all the same.
Mind you, I could easily run a regional station on 2-3 on-air staff if need be:
- 6-10am: 1x announcer at brekkie (bringing in a workday jock for bouncing off if need be)
- 10am-3pm: 1x workday announcer (if music station)
- And if allowable, 2pm-5pm 1x workday announcer. But going to networked programming (like what SCA does with Carrie & Tommy, Marty Sheargold, etc. from 3pm) isnāt too bad.
But definitely local 6-9am (or 10am if possible) for regional markets. This is what I cannot understand about SCA/Hit Network being local 9am-midday. What a waste. At least give them 9am-3pm local hours.
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I think because breakfast is usually 2-3 hosts (a ācrewā as they like to call them), but they can get away with a solo announcer in other shifts, so itās cheaper. So thatās why theyāve done that.
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Thereās limits on how long announcers can be on air/recording shifts for - even though I guarantee most jocks can voicetrack a 3 hour music shift in a third of the time it takes to actually be broadcast
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Yeah, itās 6 hours, so 1 announcer could do a 9am - 3pm shift live on air no problem.
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Someone had changed the radio in the RSPCA laundry room to Triple M.AS I was too busy to change it(Iām flat out in there especially if Iām by myself)I listened for a while.
Apart from now IDāing as āGood Times and Great Hits ,the music is no different to when I last listened to them a few years ago.Same old,same old.
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Weāre (TXA) doing some minor renovations to the Artarmon Transmission site & are going to make a history wall in the reception/waiting/lunch room & weāre looking for some high resolution historical station logos for the commercial FMās of 2Day, Triple M, WSFM & MIX 106.5 as it was in the beginning.
I have some, but also have some that arenāt very good quality, we want to be able to print them out & frame them to hang on the wall.
Not sure whether to do a 2WS 1224 AM - 101.7 2WS FM timeline with them or not, & same for 2UW to MIX 106.5?
If youāve got any post them here so I can download them, Iāll post a photo here of the wall/s when weāve finished the works.
Thanks guys, all will be much appreciated.
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Continuing from the Newcastle Radio thread, just wondering, do any Sydney/other metro stations still do surf reports?
I remember 2DayFM used to have them in the 90ās/00ās during breakfast.
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Thatās the last time I remember them too. Tim Bailey use to do Surf and Snow reports at Breakfast and at 3pm weekdays on 2day fm. Triple M back in the 90ās with Reggae Ellis.
Sea fm use to do Surf reports before they rebranded to Hit.
In the Illawarra Power fm / 2ST use to have surf and snow reports, but I have not heard one since ARN took over.
I have never seen a surf report on Sydney tv. 7 Brisbane / Gold Coast did have them until they made Paul Bert redundant. So I assume only Newcastle and Gold Coast SCA still have surf reports?
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Heās still around, chasing the ever diminishing snow at Thredbo. I donāt think his reports are taken by any radio stations, though.
Apparently WIN take a few of his reports.
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I have seen his snow report videos on Mountain Watch, but never seen his reports on WIN Wollongong but I donāt watch the 5:30pm local news.
Interestingly even Snow / XL Fm have scaled back their snow reports, from each resort producing their own detailed report to a shorter report read by Adrian Budgie Baker.
I think this all came about after Perisher stopped providing Snow reports.
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His on once a week at the end after the weather i believe.
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I am assuming it is Friday night, and most likely Canberra edition??
Would be awesome to see something similar at the TXA at Mount Coot-Tha
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Isnāt it interestingā¦ the two active chats (right now) are to do with KIIS973 and 2DayFM. Two stations whose format is not aligning locally v. nationally.
It just goes to show, the big networks do really need to treat each market & each station as an independent station, rather than, āpart of the KIIS/Hit Networkā.
KIIS973ās ratings have been declining since āKIIS-ifyingā the station. And there is no doubt 2DayFM couldāve been in a much better spot, had they not needed to conform to the Hit Network format immediately post-K&J deflecting.
Brisbane is a market already catered for with B105 and Nova106.9.
Sydney couldāve easily had 2DayFM take the spot where Mix106.5 left, instead, this left all ex-Mix listeners to switch to the now successful smooth95.3.
Surely, there is a way to categorise each station as āpart of a networkā on the back-end for agency sales, but does this need to involve the same music & programming format on-air?
Localism doesnāt necessarily have to mean local announcers 24/7. But it should at least mean a localised programming & music strategy to remain competitive in markets that are clearly different to each other.
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What format do you think would work for 2DayFM, considering the current selection of stations already available.
My idea was Dance (A bit like Fresh 92.7), high energy like Kiss UK or NRJ, or go Urban, and have Mike E and Emma as the flagship to push the format across.
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Given the flop that is CADA, Iād love to see 2DayFM return to a CHR format, with a slight urban/old school RnB edge.
Ideally, return to its previous Hits & Old School format. To me, this is a more youthful way of saying, āThe hits you love from then to nowā (which was a horrible tagline).
Essentially, just lift the overall tone & mood of the station. No daggy 90s (or 80s) hits. And ease up on the 00s a little too.
2DayFM needs to make KIIS1065 sound old & daggy. And they can do this - as they have no announcers on-air at 2Day in their 50s.
The name 2Day means today, so I feel the station needs to play todayās biggest hits.
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Brisbane stations do surf reports - even ABC local radio has ābeach reportsā on Saturday mornings.
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