Not that I know of!
They usually seem to wait until the Monday that their breakfast stars are on deck.
Still just over 2 hours to go until we know for sure.
Not at midnight.
iHeartâs 90s Hits B107.3 flipped to 80s Hits Rewind 107.3 at lunchtime today.
Meantime 106.3 WOVO is still playing around with its formats, having a grand old time as it switches from HOT AC to seemingly âanything BUT HOT ACâ, as radioINSIGHT suggests:
After running Christmas music as âNorth Pole Radioâ, Seven Mountains Mediaâs newly acquired 106.3 WOVO has begun a âWheel of Formatsâ stunt running blocks including Classic Rock, All-Elvis, Classic Country, Television Themes, and âHippie Nonsenseâ.
The station is including sweepers redirecting WOVOâs former Hot AC audience to new sister station CHR 107.1 All Hit WUHU, as well as promoting new formats for 106.3 as well as Country Beaver 96.7. The âBeaverâ brand will relocate to 106.3, with 96.7 flipping to Classic Country as âBigfoot Country Legendsâ.
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Well with WS being flipped to GOLD, that now leaves 2Day/Fox as the only one of the 6 commercial FM stations in Syd/Melb to not share the same brand.
Wonder if/when weâll see those stations adopt the same brand?
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Didnât they already try that? 2Day was going to become Hit until they found out it wasnât popular with listeners.
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Well theyâve got different names, but arguably the same âbrandâ. Definitely the same branding. Bit like how Countdown and Woolworths shared the same branding. But yeah, I guess in the end itâs easier just to go one name across the board. Sounds like a Hit!
Well, I guess they only half tried it⌠FOX was never Hit 101.9 or anything like that to my knowledge?
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Forget about Hit! Iâm thinking SCA may still have the IP to âEagleâ. Hence why they still have this billboard (in order to maintain their trademark). Howâs that for a network name?
Melbourneâs number one hit music station, EAGLE 101.9
They did try something like that in Perth⌠Austereo (now SCA) bought 6IX and changed itâs callsign to 6GL and IDâd as âThe Eagle 1080â with a view to getting an FM conversion in the late 1980sâŚ
That didnât work out, got sold, and went back to 6IX.
Edit: Looks like that pic above was the Perth one.
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The listeners thought it was s-hit. 
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I remember that 2Day was promoting themselves as âSydneyâs number one hit music stationâ as a way of transitioning to Hit.
So, Nova 96.9 then started promoting themselves as âSydneyâs favourite hit music stationâ. 
Well SA FM, B105, FOX, 2DAY, they were all notionally part of the âTODAYâ network⌠prior to the Hit! experiment.
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100% correct, and I have a Frankster aircheck to prove it (listened the other day). The format was pretty much the same as 6IX, standard oldies/classic hits for the time.
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Seen on Netflix, nice dashboard display while driving in Guadalajara Mexico with real radio station XHABCJ-FM.
I wish I was in Tiajuana
Eating barbequed iguana
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On the nose. 
Or Johnnie Walker.
Walker always retained a rebellious streak. He left Radio 1 in the 1970s after complaining about having to play the Bay City Rollers; he was sacked from a station for expressing satisfaction at Baroness Thatcherâs resignation; and on another occasion he was suspended after a red-top newspaper photographed him taking cocaine.
Did he consume a lot of his namesake?
I love how Hughesy and Abbey get a mention there.
Sorry⌠who? And didnât Abbey leave radio?