That’s only if I hear a song which IMO felt out of place on a particular radio station (as is one recent case when I heard “Messy” by Lola Young on the Triple M Network).
Speaking of which, at 8:20pm this evening I heard “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen on GOLD 104.3.
Hearing that “Starlight” song on Christian station fits that bill to me, unless it’s one of those pseudo commercial stations
Gee, I detest that song..
Oddly, I still prefer that to 90% of other music released in the 10s.
I’ve heard Aloe Blacc - Wake me up on Gold 101.7 this year, I almost couldn’t believe my ears!
Yeah, the 10s was a really bad decade for music IMO.
The worst in my lifetime.
The 20s have been non existent for rock and indie but there has at least been some decent pop, dance and R&B.
Seems that some of the ARN regional stations have changed up their log somewhat. I first noticed it on 5RM as the ident now says “80’s, 90’s and 2000’s”, whereas last week and before, it was 10 years back (70s through to 90s). I haven’t checked the logs of the other regional SA stations, but I do know in Victoria at least, River 1467 is still playing the older years (classic hits?)
KISS FM Melbourne is currently running a campaign to raise money to help it stay on the air.
The narrowcaster in Melbourne, was a pioneer of dance music in Australia, when it launched on various LPONs in Melbourne in 2005. Before that, they were an aspiring community radio broadcaster, who lost out to SYN on 90.7 and Joy on 94.9, in 2001.
The campaign is to raise $85,000 to help keep the 87.6, 87.8 and 87.9 frequencies on the air and upgrade their signal strength, and operations.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/kissneedsyou
https://radioinfo.com.au/news/campaign-to-keep-narrowcaster-kiss-fm-on-air/
In order to embrace the challenges brought on by 2025, and to address the new interference some listeners are now experiencing with our signal in some areas, it has become necessary for us to update the network of transmitters and supporting technical equipment to meet our broadcasting licence requirements. Plus, due to the theft of transmitters and increasing transmitter site maintenance costs, the station needs to raise substantial funds to keep the sites compliant with the broadcasting authority’s requirements.
To meet these challenges and requirements, KISS FM is now turning to its community - its friends, DJs, listeners and members to raise $85,000.
This $85,000 will return our broadcast signal to the ‘clean sound’ that it was in 2024 and, in many places, make it even better. A small portion of funds raised will be invested in updating our Membership system so we can grow and remain independent, plus some funds will help modernise the website and our phone apps.
It’s just weird there’s a KISS FM and a KIIS FM in Melbourne.
Six transmitters were thieved? Is the Geelong one included in that? If so, that’s a big win-win for Faith FM in Norlane whose station is now wiping out Kiss FM from Ceres on 87.8 FM in parts of Geelong (particularly Belmont and surrounds). Interesting.
I found this interesting. The top 10 most listened to stations in the US. The majority being classic hits or AC formats.
I also like how stations in the US often retain their own individual branding, even if they are the same format and owned by the same operator. Eg. Audacity’s classic hits stations WCBS and K-Earth retain their own names and brands.
It’s Audacy we’re talking about here, which let’s be clear, don’t have a nationally branded music network. (Nothing like iHeart’s KISS for instance.)
And WCBS will rename itself in 2037, so watch out for that.
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Doing a general band scan this afternoon and noticed that the 2 Noosa relays for Mix and See FM on 102.5 and 103.3 are both running about 5 seconds ahead of the main stations on 91.9 and 92.7. Seems strange. I could understand if there was a slight delay for the relay stations. Zinc on 96.1 and 100.5 seems synchronised.
From the Sydney Morning Herald (Monday 20 June 1988), this is apparently how radio did it’s music research back then (in Sydney at least).
Great article. Thanks for posting. I was working at 2UE at the time and the music the station played, about three songs an hour, were chosen by the music director. The on-air talent could choose to not play a song but they couldn’t add a song to their given playlist for their show. However, John Laws could play what ever he wanted.
1988 was when 2SM switched to Lite’N’Dreary. 2UW was Classic Hits, 2WS was Hits and Memories and 2Day was still “In Tune with 2Day”. The solitary station for Top 40 music was MMM, although it’s real focus was rock. It was weird that a city the size of Sydney had no genuine top 40 station. Today it has three - 2Day, Nova and KIIS. I think we have gone from too little too much.
Very true! It still amazes me how much FM radio seems to have shifted from an older audience back then to a younger audience now, particularly when the younger ones today seem to prefer the internet eg. TikTok or streaming for it’s music… the shift in focus probably should have been the other way around!
I think FM radio mostly caters for an older audience. Gold and Triple M play mostly old music back to the 80s. Smooth goes all the way back to the 70s. Nova has many throwbacks from the 90s/00s. 2Day/Hit was all about classic hits until recently. None are really targeted at solely younger listeners.
Yeah Brisbane went through a similar period in the late 80s with no Top 40 station when Stereo 10 flipped to Lite and Easy. It was weird at the time, I recall the stations playing the most new music were nearby 4SS and 4AK! I could get 4SS in the car in Brisbane on AM in those days. 4BK was a hits and memories, but didn’t really play that much Top 40. Although I didn’t really mind as I absolutely loved FM104 at the time - they played some new stuff of course, but it had to fit the smooth rock format.
Yeah I find it weird too. North America seems to be going the opposite way, with FM stations chasing the growing AC, classic hits and classic rock audience. I don’t really think the Australian approach is sustainable longer term, they need to focus where the audience is, at least on FM
