It’s working fine for me.
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Great interview with Jamie Dunn… absolutely worth a watch
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another nail in the coffin of radio
As Radioinfo puts it.
no real winners for all parties involved in the stoush. Not the PPCA or APRA AMCOS, despite a 38% increase in royalties paid when commercial radio plays music. Not Commercial Radio and Audio (CRA), despite no change to the 1% statutory cap of industry advertising revenue that limits the amount of royalties payable for those sound recordings played. Not for burgeoning Australian musicians who are likely to see little of the extra royalty payments, and not for those working in the broadcast industry whose annual radio awards night, the ACRAs, was a casualty of the costs of the CRA being part of this legal dispute.
Good job guys, everyone is screwed over now.
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That Radioinfo article was impossible to read. I wish they’d stop trying to blend opinion into their news pieces - give us the straight story and editorialise over it later.
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Well V4 of YachtRockAM.com switched on tonight.
Gemini TTS voices are powering the hourly news, as well as the voices for the Breakfast show and Drive program.
Rest of the shifts (except Sunday night) are ElevenLabs voices.
I’ve been helping a guy in the US known as the ‘RadioDJ Dude’ craft a News AI program, but I’ve beyond his RSS feed version (to be launched soon) and am experimenting with Gemini 3 and Google search grounding to create news bulletins.
Suno is now better at making short 4-5 second radio jingles/bumpers and the funny thing is, anything under 5-6 seconds, Suno thinks it made a mistake and refunds your credits! So, bumpers for free!
Testing today with the Breakfast saw the host lose accent a few times, so I’ll need to look into that.
Using a self made program for the Breakfast and Drive shows, where I can have three (or theoretically more) voices in a conversation, where Google’s own program is limited to two.
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Is this station online only or is it available on the AM band?
I remember hearing about experimental test transmissions on 1080kHz.
it’s on their website:
Yes, we shamelessly promote “1080 AM” on-air, but before you spend your afternoon desperately spinning the AM dial in Melbourne, know this—the transmitter operates at a mighty (read: minuscule) 100 milliwatts. That’s enough signal to cross a basketball court… but not exactly the Bay. If you want to actually hear us, grab your nearest internet-enabled device and stream away.
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Would it be safe for a Melbourne station to broadcast on 1548kHz without interference?
It would get obliterated by ABC Capricornia at night. That thing gets out across the entire country.
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99.7 FM, the Australian Open station from the top of Tennis Australia’s admin building, is back on the air.
But… if you listen on a mono radio, all you hear are sound effects from the courts, juddering.
That’s because the commentary is totally out of phase. You can only hear it on a stereo receiver and it sounds all wrong of course. And it’s messing up the audio processing on the effects when the commentators speak.
Wonder how long it’s been like this?
EDIT: Still not fixed as of Tuesday morning. I sent them a message via their web page telling them specifically it was for the tech team. Probably was ignored. As in WTF does this have to do with tennis?!
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It’s a conspiracy to force you to listen online, I tell ya!
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What radio stations in Melbourne do you think should go DAB & online only?
There are about 30 stations that are already DAB & online only?
I am talking about stations in Melbourne currently on AM or FM becoming DAB and online only.
Well it certainly won’t be commercial or ABC stations, and I doubt whether many community stations would be interested in switching off their AM or FM signal?
Even some of the narrowcasters in Melbourne are investing in upgrading their FM transmitters.
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Maybe DAB only for major stations like KIIS, GOLD or Smooth will be exclusive to Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.
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Now AO (Australian Open) radio isn’t even on the air as far as I can tell. 99.7. What a disaster. They don’t even promote it anywhere around Melbourne Park or on the web site.
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