SEN Track 1593 was clear into Canberra tonight, and surprisingly so was 1539. Very mediocre content though.
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SEN2 in Melbourne has been renamed on DAB+ to âSEN Fanaticâ though no reference to that on their website or in the app, and the Live Sport Guide only mentions SEN2.
The guide also mentions an âSEN Geelong A-League Radio channelâ - exclusive home of Western United calls? How do you even access those things? Weird.
Another thing I noticed looking at that guide - why are some of the calls taken onto the Hit network radio stations into WA and others on Triple M?
And finally, they seem to be really intent on pushing the limits of Narrowcast - apparently putting a call of the Eagles v Suns onto SEN Track Perth - which is about as broadcast as you can get. Surely thatâs got to ruffle 6PR/Triple M?
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They really need to improve the functionality of the guide in the SEN App so you know whatâs on where and when. Itâs very hard to know whatâs going on at the moment, and I actually find that a disincentive to searching for something I want to listen to. They need something like the BBC Sounds app or ABC Listen app. Or something like Sirius XM in the US.
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This was discussed (in part) in the AFL Coverage thread over the weekend.
AFL Nation carriage on Triple M in WA (the ex-RadioWest stations) plus Shepparton in VIC is a result of Sports Entertainment Network holding national rights to the AFL. From memory these stations take one game a week from AFLN and the rest from 6MMM/3MMM.
Canât seem to dig up this post, but I did some reading up on this a few months back and, so as long as the House of Hutchy is careful with how many hours of non-racing related content is being broadcast across their HPONs and LPONs, they should be fine.
I would suspect SEN benefits also by having relationships with the two broadcasters in question (Nine and SCA).
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That reason is why the SEN Track stations which carried SENâs coverage of the Australia v India test series during Summer only aired the final session each day rather than the full dayâs play like the âmainâ SEN stations did
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I wonder if SENZ will have its own website for their NZ listeners?
Unfortunately the following website addresses are already taken.
www.senz.co.nz
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The latest in SENTrackâs growing footprint of âchasing , pacing and racingâ radio stations launches in the LaTrobe Valley this week with SENTrack 91.9 FM hitting the airwaves for local racing and sports fans.
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Replacing Kids FM. There was a bit of confusion earlier in this thread over whether they had bought 91.3 Leongatha or 91.9 Latrobe Valley. Or have they bought both?
SEN have indeed bought both.
91.9 Latrobe Valley (Driffield)
91.3 Leongatha
Theyâve also added several more licences:
LPON 88.0 Kingaroy, callsign 4Q196
LPON 87.6 Nanango, callsign VKG226
HPON 90.7 Darwin
HPON 96.3 Kingaroy
MF-NAS 1611 Devonport, callsign AXN432
MF-NAS 1611 Hobart (Lauderdale)
MF-NAS 1611 Launceston (Abels Hill)
MF-NAS 1611 Bicheno
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Itâs a shame in South Australia they donât have a separate Track station as there is far too much racing on SEN SA. I am not sure if they own any licenses that they are not using.
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More SEN track stationsâŚ
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Took them a while to get on air in Griffith - the HPON there was one of the first they acquired from Gumnut Nominees/Rete Italia last year.
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The former KFM licences in Kingaroy and Nanango have had SEN on them as the former operator/owner packed it in as soon as Craig signed the cheque.
Iâm curious to know what if anything are on the Tassie licences? Are they all active or just Hobart a former Rete Italia station?
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Must be waste having SEN on (I assume) two frequencies in Kingaroy, the LPON and the HPON.
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How long before Ace, Capital, RSN 927, Tabcorp, Caralis or any of the non SCA licensees who havenât got or sold a HPON to SEN trigger an ACMA investigation that SEN Track is in fact not narrowcast?
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I thought SEN Track has actual calls of the races. But I havenât heard a race call in the past hour on 1539. They watched the 5:05pm race at Doomben on television, then mentioned who won. There was nothing much else about the race. Itâs just a long discussion about what horses they are betting on in the races they are going to watch on television, then they give a few results. It is not a racing service with race calls - it is racing entertainment. And it is a shambles.
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âEntertainmentâ's a stretchâŚ
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It still sounds very niche though. What actually are the conditions of the license?
Is there a difference between the HPON and LPON FM licenses they have? Do the off-band AM licenses have different conditions again?
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Itâs very niche, and itâs difficult to see what purpose it serves. You would really need to be watching Sky Racing as they are to know what they are talking about. But as I wrote, itâs not a racing service, so as @crankymedia asked, is it narrowcast?
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Is that just that all the race calls are tied up with the âofficialâ outlets like 4TAB/2KY/RSN?
SEN Trackâs digital ratings should be enough to prove they are very much keeping in the spirit of narrowcast.
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