That’s pretty much nearly commercial media in this country. Radio and TV. It’s a poor attitude fuelled only by the desire to squeeze every last drop from a dying industry, killed by its own ineptitude.
A good local station should serve the people that it is licensed to serve to the fullest extent - not being a glorified relay of MMM or 2Day or Fox. If not, they should be made to turn over the license. The spectrum can be used for other services and to be honest, there will come a time when their relevance and reason for existing will be questioned. And if that means SCA has to die off, so be it.
I like the SCA stations from a content and production point of view. Whether is Orange or the Gold Coast is sounds and feels professional, not half baked like Ace or Grant.
SCA has a major problem with not giving stations enough breathing room to seriously cater for their respective markets. The fact that Newcastle can’t take a higher ratio of rock is hurting KO, The sane as not being able to cater individually for Hobart.
But the music is repetitive and boring, I hear more new stuff on KO than 80’s.
The music should be locally logged from an I diviual playlist, those who like the Gold Coast log can stay with it if they wish.
October garage session last night, did anyone go? I know AJ, Bridge & Spida and Tanya & Steve we’re there so I wonder who hosted the event.
And are they broadcasting from Honeysuckle this morning?
And they do sound fine. I quite like Oldskool as a digital station. I can’t tell any difference between Ace, Grant or other stations to be honest. But there are areas where they are lacking.
Music should be left up to each station to work out what works for their particular audience, maybe with some national guidance, but largely left up to that station.
The branding is also sort of suss, as mentioned earlier. Local programming needs to be beefed up too, but it isn’t a SCA-only issue to be fair (see Super Radio Network).
I won’t be shedding any tears when SCA is sold off, broken up or closed down. I want my radio to reflect where I live - not where the management lives. I live in Sydney - when I go to Newcastle or Scone, I don’t want to be reminded of that. Sydney is a shit hole with rather shitty stations (along with other shitty things). At least Grant has done something different with 2NM.
Exactly. I live in Melbourne and much prefer to listen to the regional triple M’s as the playlists has so much more variety. The capital city stations all have such narrow playlist and when you like all types of music I find myself swapping stations all the time looking for variety.
I think the best station on offer that I have heard is Hot Tomatoe on the Gold Coast. Love it
Breakfast co-hosts Sarah King & Paddy Gerrard will be hanging up the headphones with 2GO.
Sarah departs after 26 years with 2GO and Paddy after 14 years with both 2GO and Sea FM.
Sarah was instrumental in the conception and success of Give Me Five for Kids, which has become a huge fundraising initiative for SCA. Paddy will be fondly remembered for his Gotcha Calls and also his fun larrikin sense of humour.
Leisa Wood, General Manager SCA Central Coast said, “Sarah and Paddy have been valued members of the 2GO family and Central Coast community over the past 5 years together. We wish them all the best for the future.”
A new breakfast show for 2GO will be announced in due course.
Probably due to a mixture of bad ratings & change in direction for the station. In the most recent Central Coast radio ratings released nearly 2 months ago, Sarah & Paddy only managed a 10.5% share in contrast to Sea FM’s Bree & Gawndy with 18.8% and Star’s Rabbit & Julie Goodwin with 16%.
Has it been a case of thinking, “if it’s not disturbed, it can’t be a problem right and let’s keep the contingency budget to a minimum?”
Why is this coming to light now? I’m sure Andrew Chapman who has many stints there and the engineers in between would have been over the building with a fine toothed comb, the amount of work done would surely have uncovered this?
SCA Toowoomba on air staff (4GR/Triple M & 100.7 Hit FM) are not enjoying a working holiday in Bris or GC, as the radioinfo article states, they working out of Denis House, 146 James Street known otherwise as the home of 4AK and 4WK.
Bill has spare studios and of course in times of engineering crisis, rivals are more than happy to help.
Not the first time this has happened, ABC Qld newsroom temp relocated to TVQ Mt Coot-tha due to a report on a cancer cluster at the old Toowong home of the ABC.
Former 2NM News Director & Morning announcer, Stephen Cenatiempo, will host a new talk program on 29 Triple M regional stations, which will air at 9pm to Midnight from Sundays to Thursdays from January 21. The program will be titled “Australia by Night with Stephen Cenatiempo”.
Agree, even city’s with 4 commercial radio station like Cairns, Mackay and Rockhampton will only have Talkback and Top 40 music to chose from at night.
You should’ve included Newcastle as well on this, where both KOFM & 2HD will air talkback at night, whilst New FM will be the only non-Top 40 station to be playing music at night. However, 4CA, 4MK & 4CC in their respective markets, as well as Gold Central Victoria in Bendigo (all of which are owned by Grant Broadcasters), do air music at night, so at least there is one option for non-Top 40 music at night, even though it’s on AM, which would be a bizarre situation to be in when you consider that an adult music FM station will air talkback instead.
I’ve said this before, but regional commercial radio in Australia is becoming quite boring to listen to, whereas about a decade or more ago, it was nearly as good as metro radio.
I thought 4CA, 4MK & 4CC had talkback at night. Last time I was up there a few years back they all had talkback at night.