Can you please provide a link to that on either the ACMA website or legislation.gov.au please?
Classic Rock Radioâs Website has been updated⌠There is now a Contact Us, Complaints and Facebook/Twitter logos. So Maybe it is doing a comeback?
Is this something youâve seen that is official or are you like me, just hoping? According to my DAB+ radio, SEN+ is still going strong, unfortunately.
Thatâs the same website?
Yep, It hasnât been taken down since the changeover. It has been updated recently as it never had anything at the bottom of the page.
Itâs a shame about Aussie and KOOOOOOâŚOOOOL. They were my go to stations whilst tramming it around the culture capital. Now youâre like Sydney, I guess, but still with more trams.
Alternatives: if you donât mind a bit of newer rock mixed in, you canât go past Rebel. If pure classic rock is the only option Iâd recommend KCDX, but its stream is very intermittent. Your next best bet is MMM Classic Rock, but wall-to-wall advertising is now present in popular shifts such as breakfast and drive.
For Aussie, we have a shortwave station âOzy Radioâ, broadcasting all Australian music on 4835 kHz. The format is basically the same as Aussie Digital ran. It doesnât stream though, and reception is only possible in Melbourne in the evening.
And unlike Sydney, you donât have a commercial AM music station anymore, meaning you have 1 less commercial music station (excluding fortuitous stations from nearby 'fringe markets) than Sydney, and only 1 more than Brisbane.
Itâs a bigger shame about Classic Rock Radio! Too much chat on Rebel for me and I can never get KCDX player to work. Far too many ads on MMM Classic Rock and too many so called experts on classic rock shows e.g. Alice Cooper. I am listening to Absolute Radio classic Rock at present closest Iâve found to Pacific Star CRR. Classic Rock Florida is not bad either. I have my own Spotify CRR but Iâm addicted to radio.
I donât find SEN/PSN moves to be at all surprising.
They make sports content, theyâre not music broadcasters.
Content makers tend to specialise these days; Macquarie does talk and sport, SEN does sport. SCA does music and comedy. ARN does music.
Theyâre are attempts at crossover from time to time⌠SCA is certainly attempting some talk. Theyâve tried and failed before, but you never know.
Media companies these days tend to have corporate specialties and to try to work outside them doesnât cash in on what they know.
This happens in TV too. Almost all production is now outsourced to specialist production companies who by and large cater for specific genres.
The actions of Pacific Star and Macquarie Media to nobble stations into near-oblivion just makes no sense to me.
One option, Classic Rock on iHeartRadio, which like all digital channels there is commercial free.
PSN also did music until Hutchison ruined the company. 3MP was around long before SEN.
And Classic Rock Radio was a different format to the original 3MP.
And PSN was a remarkably unsuccessful media company.
Plus PSN today is Crocmedia⌠they are a sports broadcaster regardless of whether theyâve ruined the company or not.
My point being theyâre going to do what the do (or think they do) best.
And PSN has no association the success of 3MP in the past.
So? It was music. Previous management had no problems running sports and music. This idiot has no idea! Do those who support what Hutchison has done think itâs right to have the same programming on four stations? Itâs time The ACMA stepped in and directed them to sort out this mess.
SEN was probably more successful and had higher rating before Hutchison took over. IMO Crocmedia is a crock! I hope he falls in a heap. Hutchison, the Gordon and Murdoch of radio.
Fair enough⌠I donât actually have an opinion on the programming as such⌠although the point you made about multiple stations carrying the same content is valid.
My point in this discussion was that owners/managements are going to do what they think they do best and/or feel comfortable with. In the case of PSN today thatâs sport.
Whether theyâre doing it well or should be doing it all is another debate which I will leave to you
I agee. Have you contacted them regarding your concerns?
So!? Saying music is music regardless is silly, I guess youâre not a fan of MSR then given 1278AM was once AW and they werenât a 24 hour sports station either. Times change, business adapts or dies. Iâm saying that their main business is sport, so running a rock music station isnât part of that, so move on.
Iâm no fan of what Crocmedia have done to SEN, but bitching about it achieves zero.
No, have never thought it was right to have multiple stations, whether through the radio or digital, running the same programming at the same time. I guess their argument to the ACMA is that 2 are only online and arenât that different to networked programming. I would much prefer 1377AM to run timeshifted programming or something, who knows, it might end up with the SA programming on it? It does have the odd difference in programming but it isnât enough as yet for my liking.
This is probably my final post on this topic. I am not bitching about this @Glennc, it is very personal to me and hard to move on. 2017 was not the best year for me as I went through treatment for cancer. many long nights and early mornings were made just a wee bit better and easier by listening to CRR. I still have some sleepless nights and have found nothing yet to replace it. This is why I âraveâ on about this. I think itâs very wrong what has happened. The management of Crocmedia must be very poor if they cannot manage two genres of radio! Itâs not too hard to run an automated DAB+ station in the case of Aussie and Koool.
I have complained to both Crocmedia and ACMA. Reply from the former stating the usual garbage, not the latter as yet.
By the way why is it only me who is âaccusedâ of raving on about a topic? for example there are pages and pages of posters on this site âravingâ on about channel 10 logos and station names etc. I enjoy this site as I am âintoâ media but this negativity toward me is putting me off commenting on anything in future.
Didnât SEN switch several times from their 9429 open line number to a 1300 number and back to the 9429 number?
Can anyone else confirm or remember this?
It was around the time of the station struggling with SEN1323.