On the topic of the “Greatest Decade of All Time”, I’m currently in Coffs Harbour for a holiday, and it appears during the feature that Triple M Coffs Coast is carrying the Classic Hits log in parallel with its Mid North Coast station, even when not doing the “decade vs decade” battle. During breakfast, Triple M Coffs was carrying the normal “70s to Now” log & still uses the “Greatest Hits from the 70s to Now” positioner on its sweepers.
And I can confirm for myself that Triple M Mid North Coast is heard across most of Coffs Harbour almost as clear as a local on 106.7 from Kempsey.
Yes, so good in that I originally thought that ROX FM was actually a Coffs Harbour station, transmitting from Mt Moombil, not a Port Macquarie-Kenpsey station.
The only thing that perplexed me back then is why their signal tailed off significantly north of Woolgoolga, fading to virtually nothing by even Halfway Creek when the other ABC stations from Moombil were still as clear as a bell.
At least for the duration of the “Greatest Decade of All Time”, yes.
Looking through its Facebook pages & the playlists on Radioapp, Triple M Central West has also gone with the Classic Hits log. Other stations that normally take the ‘70s to Now’ log in VIC & QLD (inc Fraser Coast, which recently flipped from ‘Classic Hits’ to ‘70s to Now’) has gone with the ‘80s, 90s & Now’ GC log for the duration of the “Greatest Decade of All Time”.
FYI, for today, the 60s was the winning decade on the ‘Classic Hits’ stations, whilst the 90s was the winner on the ‘Greatest Hits’ stations.
The Qld HOT’s did a rebrand also in 1998 - hot103 in Cairns and Townsville and hot100 in Mackay. They changed back to frequency-hotfm after about 6 months or so due to the start of networking and the plans of the hubs.
There’s two new weekend shows on air at hit104.7 in Canberra: starting last Sunday, @instacan (4-6pm) - hosted by mornings announcer Bethany Larsen with Big Brother season 11 contestant Jason Roses, and former 2DayFM afternoons jock Ellie Angel-Mobbs.
Also kicking off recently is music show This Week Tonight (6-8pm) with afternoon jock Gemma Maddox and Nic Kelly from SeaFM Central Coast, which is also taking the show.
For those who wonder where 91.9 Sea FM breakfast co-host Jess Eva has been in the past few months, she was in Melbourne competing in the new season of The Block with her fiance Norm. Did BarRat do breakfast alone during her absence or did anyone fill in for her?
I’m a bit late with this, but SCA Regionals were doing an 80s weekend last weekend as a “victory lap” for the 80s winning the title of the best decade of all time during the week (was there ever any doubt?!).
This related to a series of 2 way “battles” over the last few weeks whereby listeners were asked to vote for their favourite year eg. 1985 vs 1994 from that battle. Years from the 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s were included.
For the “Classic Hits” stations, they were doing a 70s weekend for the same reason (at least when they’re not airing NRL/AFL).
Now that the Greatest Decade of All Time is over, it appears that Triple M in Coffs Coast & Central West have gone back to the “Greatest Hits from the 70s to Now” log.
