I don’t really know why no “mainstream” stations have copied these formats (for music). Maybe these stations are smaller have less red tape and they can be more flexible with music?
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I don’t get it either. Breeze FM would be number 1 in Brisbane if it was a mainstream station and available to the whole metro area. Rebel is a bit more niche but still think it would rate well.
I think Rebel Media should be trying to get onto DAB in Brisbane somehow. I don’t think they’ve got much chance getting onto FM in Logan they’d be better off trying to do a deal with someone to get on DAB. Or petition the ACMA to open up DAB to new entrants.
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Bungendore is on the boundary of the Goulburn and Canberra licence areas…we got your tropical weather last week, so it’s only fitting that our radio deserves a rebellious streak.
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I do like the suggestion that the creation of a new Logan commercial radio licence area (which I daresay won’t happen) would require an auction, potential pushing Rebel out of the game.
And in the end, Grant Broadcasters would most likely get the licence anyway, at least if it’s only 1 station.
Grant Broadcasters have never won an auction. Their style is to let other people splash the cash and then buy the remnants when they fail.
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I read it as extending the licence area, not creating a new licence area.
If Rebel propose to extend their licence area, other licensees may also ask for extensions into the remote area of theirs or Gold Coast to Brisbane and vice versa?
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Yes you could be right. They already market Rebel and Breeze as Logan’s Breeze 92.1 and Rebel 90.5, differentiating them from the Gold Coast stations.
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In Maryborough at the moment and it’s great to hear Breeze FM Wide Bay on air @AJ1 Reception is great in the car.
Good to hear a few ads from Bundaberg and Childers too amongst all the Biloela ads. I reckon 90% of people from the Wide Bay (myself included) have never been to Biloela 
Small price to pay though to have both Rebel and Breeze in the Wide Bay. Desperately needed.
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I mentioned this a few years ago, but if they’re trying to get into metropolitan areas, is there a reason why they can’t set up a transmitter in the area just north of Wisemans Ferry to get their service into Sydney? Their licence area (highlighted in yellow) directly abuts the Hornsby and The Hills local government areas:
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tvcl as networks and their influence at CRA has grown over the years, the ACMA have changed how they plan services, for the worse. They tend to automatically reject proposals from commercial independants in low density markets that result in any notable unavoidable overspill. If we put in a proposal that serves an additional 2,000 people in our market, but unavoidably overspills to 8,000 people, the ACMA typically reject it, and those 2,000 people never receive any of their licenced commercial FM radio services. We have a number of areas like that with small communities sadly missing out.
We have not applied to the ACMA for transmitters in the area you mentioned, as they would likely be rejected. We had one proposal in another area where over 99% of the geographic signal coverage would serve 8,000 km2+ in our licence area and the ACMA rejected it because of unavoidable overspill to an area only 10 km2.
Flow FM have encountered much the same problem. So we work within the ACMA limits, as independents don’t have the influence to fix this situation.
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Here’s me being the idealist:
ACMA should have some kind of formula based on both population (raw number or %) & land coverage (raw number or %) in an existing commercial Local Area Plan for overspill that both does not significantly impact an existing commercial radio operator whist providing a radio service to a remote community by a remote commercial operator like yourself. Surely, to pluck some figures out of the air, overspill of 5-8% of population into another area & eg 15% land area should be considered acceptable by ACMA. I would have thought it a-must given that the economics of justifying the economic outlay of initial tx installation & running costs to service some of these remote areas, that there be a small fraction of overspill.
Also surely the (small) size of population of the existing serviced area in the remote
area should also be taken into account re a formula or a if/then situation by ACMA.
Noted a difference for The Breeze frequency outlet listed on The Breeze website as 95.5, whilst ACMA records show as 99.5MHz for the Theodore outlet.
Surely a typo by ACMA or station webpage design?
@AJ1 or anyone know which frequency is correct from travels or monitoring?
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Thanks for raising this. 99.5 MHz is the Theodore Breeze frequency. The website has been updated.
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It will air at 11am to 1pm Saturdays.
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Recently added Breeze and Rebel to my iHeart Radio favourites. Strange thing I noticed was that the iHeart Radio streams are a couple of seconds ahead of the broadcasts. Both for Logan and Gold Coast stations.
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This logo looks a touch familiar…
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Not sure what is ‘new’ about this. Also the claim to be the “only commercial FM station that jointly services Maryborough, Bundaberg and Hervey Bay” seems odd given the presence of sister station Rebel on 106.7
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