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[Radiohead]

Victoria is the only state where we will see this unfortunately.

WA used to have rego plates in the format of eg. 8HA-900 but ceased in the late 1990s (I think?) when they switched to the current 1xxx-999 format.

[Moe]

@tonks8526

The current format of the Victorian number plates (1AA-1AA) provides an opportunity for both old and current AM radio station call signs to be printed.

I’ve looked up a few of the future general issue plates - to see if I could get one of the call sign ones - all the ones I tried were not available.

Hopefully someone got ‘3SM-2XY’.

[webguy]

@Moe

Hopefully someone got ‘3SM-2XY’.

So far the they’re only issuing plates that have 1 as the first number - even for future general issue plates anything with a different starting number will show as invalid/unavailable

[Moe]

@webguy

So far the they’re only issuing plates that have 1 as the first number - even for future general issue plates anything with a different starting number will show as invalid/unavailable

D’oh.

[Radiohead]

And at the rate VIC are going, it will be about another 20 years before they get to the 3X series.

As 1A came out in mid 2013, 4.25 years on and they are still only up to 1L series.

[mubd]

Holy fuck. I just noticed that this morning when I was looking at a rental car’s number plate. What are the chances of this thread popping up at the same time?

@Radiohead

Victoria is the only state where we will see this unfortunately

No. NSW has a similar layout for the last three characters on the plate.

2HR before it became 2NX?

[Radiohead]

True, but the 2 and HR are not together like they are on VIC plates.
Its spaced out more and it’s just not as intuitive to make that connection.

[hatdj]

Didn’t 2HR become 2NM Muswellbrook and not 2NX in Newcastle ???

[crankymedia]

How much was the rental? Must’ve been cheap with the age of that car?

[RFBurns]

@hatdj

Didn’t 2HR become 2NM Muswellbrook and not 2NX in Newcastle ???

No, 2HR moved from Singleton to Lochinvar, then moved the TX to Bolwarra (Maitland) to serve Newcastle, after Hunter Broadcasters bought it, & it became 2NX.

2CK Cessnock went to Muswellbrook & became 2NM.

It’s confusing on face value, because the stations went in the reverse logical direction to what you’d think.

Logically, you’d think, 2CK Cessnock/Maitland to 2NX Newcastle & 2HR Singleton to 2NM Muswellbrook.

[mubd]

I saw a rental car with Victorian plates while driving around in Sydney and noticed the radio station callsign thingy.

I got the photo of that van from Carsales.

[TelevisionAU]

I did see a “3DB” the other day though I didn’t have the urge to photograph it

[nickatnights]

It’s only ten weeks until summertime for Sydney. I wonder if any of the music stations are going to make use of the long, hot days and smash out some summer branding?

I lurve this Triple M ad and branding from 1993 as it is 100% Summer, 100% Sydney and 100% Triple M.

I can never understand why a station in Sydney would not want to associate itself to the best three months of the year.

WS - Pure Summer
2DayFM - The 104 Days of Summer
KIIS - Summer Hits
Nova - Love Summer Love Nova
Triple M - Summer Rockin’

[mubd]

I’ve recently noticed on three or four different occasions over the past few weeks that two identical songs were being played perfectly in sync on WSFM and Smooth 95.3. I initially thought that my preset buttons had glitched out the first time it happened, but then it happened again twice, and then again last night at midnight.

Surely it can’t be a coincidence, can it?

[Radiohead]

Maybe because summers are too hot and humid these days, and people don’t have the same fondness for summer anymore?

Personally, I prefer autumn and spring these days.

[nickatnights]

No way! Nothing beats summer - its school holidays, Christmas, New Year’s Eve, BBQs, wearing shorts, hanging out on your friends’ balconies and in their backyards. Most of all - it’s that smell of the grass when you leave the house in the morning.

And if you live in Sydney it means you can also excited about the new 2DayFM breakfast show that starts in January. There’s also a lot less hate in the air as Alan Jones is on holidays.

[TV-Expert]

@mubd

I’ve recently noticed on three or four different occasions over the past few weeks that two identical songs were being played perfectly in sync on WSFM and Smooth 95.3. I initially thought that my preset buttons had glitched out the first time it happened, but then it happened again twice, and then again last night at midnight.

Surely it can’t be a coincidence, can it?

Well, it is said somewhere in this forum (particularly by yours truly ( )), that WSFM & Smooth’s playlists are practically quite similar, particularly on the softer songs. You could also say that WSFM sounds more like what Mix 106.5 used to sound before it became KIIS.

According to Online Radio Box’s playlists for WSFM & Smooth, the song they played simultaneously at around midnight on 11-12th September 2017 was “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” by Tina Turner. You can find other examples by clicking on the respective stations & compare between the two.

[tamago_otoko]

Southern Cross Austereo (Regional)

I guess one thing that helps Mildura and is obviously a major issue for Geelong is overspill from adjacent areas. There is very little of it into Mildura and a lot of it into Geelong from Melbourne. Yes, 1341 would have been good for a 3rd commercial licence. The ACMA did consider allocating 96.3 as a 3rd commercial licence in the early 2000s, but it ended up being a community licence.

This was getting OT for the SC thread, but I agree using 1341 for a Geelong-based station would have been ideal, though I don’t know that another commercial station would work. Way too much overspill from Melbourne - just look at the last ratings from Geelong where the local stations returned pitiful figures…

In all honesty, 1341 would be better used as a local ABC station. The mind boggles that so many smaller areas have their own ABC station yet still after 10-15 years of discussion Geelong still does not. The Chinese HPON could find another home, maybe more suitably in Melbourne, and the ABC could utilise a frequency and transmission location that has served the Geelong area well for many decades

[TV.Cynic]

@nickatnights

It’s only ten weeks until summertime for Sydney. I wonder if any of the music stations are going to make use of the long, hot days and smash out some summer branding?

Is Rocktober still a thing?

[nickatnights]

I think it morphed into Movember in the early 2000s.