They can’t make material changes for the first year which is a common clause of takeovers/sales.
After that, I suspect you’re right…local breakfast show, racing shows/trackside and whatever Aussie stuff they want given it’s included in the sale and they’re not paying hosts.
And if it’s not the banks it will be the inevitable ban on gambling advertising.
Skase’s, I mean hutchys house of cards will fold soon and hopefully we will get classic hits 4KQ back when it goes
Paul Sawtell must’ve been hiding his talent each time I tuned in. He sounded so bereft of talent I very much doubt he could manage a traffic report.
Once TAB lost the ever nasal Salty back to 4BC in 2020, it was a gradual decline of the 4TAB breakfast show.
Is the 1611 TX site also at Metricup or where?
Looking forward to reading through the DX thread for that discussion.
I believe 1611 transmits from a site a bit closer to Margaret River.
It kind of amazes me that sports radio doesn’t work in Australia - I don’t think there is any realistic expectation that it would be topping the ratings, but I’d have thought that it wouldn’t be a list clogger.
SEN’s major issue seems to be that it’s a somewhat eclectic collection of stuff - ditch the sports teams and perhaps some of the SENtrack licences and focus on building a decent product.
Hard to justify getting rid of the SENTrack services when they appear to be the only ones making money.
The regular variety SEN narrowband stations? Absolutely. Hard to imagine SEN Kalgoorlie is setting the world on fire.
Even SEN Spirit - surely ARN would be a possible buyer.
Even if they were, how are people supposed to discover them? Being off band is already a big negative, but it’s so hard to actually find out what programs are on.
SEN’s website is still awful for finding content - there’s a state picker, but then just the drop down menu with an entire country’s worth of stations just slammed out there, to the point where the SEN Track menu doesn’t fit on my screen.
The SEN Broadcast Guide tells me there’s an SEN Geelong - it’s not in the menus on the site, and even then I’d need to check each week, scroll through to find if there’s a unique show, and then tune in at the right time.
It should be as simple as putting in a postcode, getting a customised guide, selecting my favourite teams and sports and getting a home page customised to me - even if that means slamming me with sports odds, make it a useful hub to discover the SEN content, tell me when things are on, give me the podcasts for the team/sports specific shows, and don’t make me look through a spreadsheet to work it out myself.
Maybe the app is better, but I don’t remember it being great the last time I used it.
Along with SEN Bendigo, Ballarat and Gippsland which appear to just be SEN Melbourne with local ads.
Glen Hawke of ground announcing fame was hosting SEN afternoons on 1170 did a great job I thought, hopefully we hear more of him on radio in the future.
Bit like how Tony Schibeci (voice of the MCG) used to be on 1116 prior to the Hutchy era.
Just noticed SEN has started replaying Big Bash games on most of their stations (with the exception of SENTrack & NZ) during the wee hours of the morning.
Interesting and something I welcome as both a cricket lover and insomniac but wonder if this is a cost cutting measure (as IIRC they used to have an overnight show).
Unsure if The Overnight Crowd has been scrapped, No active socials but something was posted on the podcast yesterday.
BBL replays in the schedule for tonight as well.
Perhaps the overnight show is off during the Christmas/New Year period?
Probably not on during summer, but even so, when they had an overnight show in Melbourne last year it usually wound up at about 1am or 2am anyway (usually it started at 11pm), with best-of-daytime-show replays filling in between then and the 5am tradies hour.
Normally on Saturday nights into Sunday it’s their live EPL coverage (with SEN Hosts), but considering there was no EPL (FA Cup was on instead), perhaps they decided to go to recorded programming?
Something to watch next week.
Hardly worth having an overnight show really. Like 12 people listening. Maybe 100 if you’re lucky.
It’s been cut back a bit - It used to go from 11am-5am. Tradies Hour either not on during summer or that’s also been scrapped, not in the schedule anymore.
It’s actually not a bad idea. If not replays of the days matches, then it’d be nice to hear replays of past Grand Finals, momentous sporting occasions, etc.