He’s a producer at smooth 95.3, previously on air at Star 104.5.
I’m guessing Ty Frost is on holidays so they’ve done some shuffling.
Yeah I know what you mean.
I would actually prefer them include some brand new music that suits the format, rather than the lame 90s and early-2000s shockers they are playing. BBC R2 does this well and thinks nothing of playing ABBA alongside selected current hits that work (even the likes of Harry Styles and Bieber). The late 90s and early-2000s was just a shocking period for soft pop.
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They may as well share logs between smooth95.3 and Star104.5 these days.
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If they going to share logs might as well rebrand star 104.5 to smooth 104.5 as well
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Given they’re moving further and further away from their original “easy” format, I’d go with Star95.3.
Highly doubt it’ll ever happen.
I preferred it when smooth was “easy” and Nova was new/alternate.
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That’s where I’ve heard the name before. Thanks.
What Spice Girls song was it? If it was 2 become 1 that’s kind of Smooth?
Couldn’t agree more. By the sounds of the Sydney right now Smooth / WSFM / 2DayFM are all fighting for the same audience. Something has to give eventually.
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Both have quite repetitive playlists too.
But hey - at least smooth isn’t playing that “ABCDE-Forget You” song every couple of hours 
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Paparazzi by Lady Gaga currently playing on Smooth.
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I haven’t heard Lady Gaga on Smooth yet. But I’m hearing Amy Winehouse Back to Black right now. That’s a song I haven’t heard on radio in a very long time.
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how smooth has managed to flog the same library of 800 or so tracks for the last 8 years and now position themselves as Sydney’s favorite music station in the ratings is beyond me… oh well
guess if it selleys it works 
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It’s the same reason that I find it annoying to listen to any limited format without at least some new music. No matter how great the songs are, they do start to wear a bit thin after a while.
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This Saturday will mark 10 years since Smoothfm was launched.
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Does it also mark 10 years since Smooth Stars was launched (and is also still running) 
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It was a very innovative format at the time - at least for Australian radio. There were a lot of overseas stations doing it very successfully well before that though, stations like CHFI in Toronto spring to mind.
I think the disappointment for me is that over the last few years it’s started to stray too far from the Soft AC beginnings. At the start they played more new songs and more old songs. Now it’s narrowed so much and become much more generic sounding.
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I tuned in to Smooth the other day and it was playing some heavy Bon Jovi track and I thought this is the exact opposite of what “smooth” is.
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Yeah there’s quite a number of those tracks playing on Smooth these days. They’ve gone heavier and narrower in years.
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I’ll fix that for you. This Saturday marks 10 years since the brave Vega FM talk/music format was dumped in favour of yet another easy listening music station. Should’ve persevered with it a bit longer and marketed it better. Would’ve been interesting to see how it fared in the Sydney market after Nine dismantled 2UE.
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“Yet another easy listening music station”? At the time it was the only one of its kind on FM. It was indeed quite a bold move for an FM station in this country at least.
I agree the Vega thing could probably have worked if they had persevered and done a better job of it. But they abandoned it well before they launched Smooth. They tried Classic Rock which again was executed very badly and could probably have worked also.
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Gee I wish Smooth would copy the Smooth FM UK playlist.
It’s more like it sounded at the start.
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You need to jump on iHeartradio and stream Hot Tomato Gold. More upbeat than both Smooth’s, and it’s now my go-to listen when driving or at home during the day. At night I’m on WS
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