You were not funny the last time and youâre not funny now.
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I agree. My comment was in bad taste.
RIP 4TO.
In other news Townsville Cty Council has announced it will be renaming Rowes Bay as Bondi. The move will make tourists from Sydney more comfortable when the visit the Queensland city.
News Corp will also be renaming the Townsville Bulletin as the Sydney Morning Herald as of next Monday. The move is to assist advertisers in realising that the Bulletin is a newspaper.
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Does this all mean the Hit Network is all just Adelaide-based baloney?
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This got a mention by Luke Bona at the start of his show
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4TO were a part of my childhood from 1975-1980.I used to like listening to them in the 70sđThere was also 4AY the other commercial station back then -now HIT 103.1.also a SCA owned station
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Just curious, what were 4TO and 4AY like during that time? Was 4TO a bit older skewing than 4AY? I seem to remember 4AY used the same jeans zipper logo as 4IP so I assumed they were a bit more Top 40. Then they converted to 4RR?
During the same period '75 to early/mid 80s I was listening to 4MB now sadly also a bland Triple M :(. Unless I was at my grandmotherâs beach house where I was forced to listen to 4BU.
The hip station in the early 80s was 4GY for me 
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My understanding is that 4AY was based in Ayr, but used a loophole (the same one 2WS and 3MP used in Sydney and Melbourne) to move into Townsville, when they changed to 4RR, around 1986-87 I think? That also came with a change in frequency from 936 to 891.
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IIRC 4AY always had some aspirations to target the Towsnville market and when they were allowed to increase power to 5kw and install a directional array (as other stations did at the time including 4IP) they IDed as â4AY the rhythm of Townsvilleâ.
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What did he say of it?
I do remember 4AY using that zipper logo,I remember having a sticker on my wardrobe,also remember seeing this sticker on cars.The music from both stations back then was much the same from memory.4AY used to have their studio in Flinders ST (the Main Street in Townsville)in the 70s as did 4TO
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Welcome 4TO Townsville you are now Triple M or something like that, I was in bed trying to sleep when I heard it.
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From tomorrow there will be no more 70s/Now and 80s/Now logs on SCA regional.
All stations bar Classic Hits will be Music That Makes You Feel Good
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How many more female skewed stations do we need in regional Australia 
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The consultants and programmers believe this simple philosophy these days - win the women and you win their men by default. As said last week, itâs bulldust.
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What about music that makes you feel like shit? 
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Iâd neck myself if I had to listen to it ⌠thankfully Iâm on the Ms in Sydney
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Didnât SCA have consultants fly in and analyse all their competitive markets and determine that the best approach was 3 or 4 different flavors of their greatest hits log?
Looking at how their stations are performing anyway, it does look like something needs to be done to fix them.
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I agree, I had a listen this morning and the 80âs stuff was ok but there is way too much new music and 90âs pop crap. Why cant they leave that crap for Hit FM.
Bring back the 70âs to Now log or something similar to the Brisbane Triple M to have have a good point of differences to the other stations.
I think it is very similar to the old â80âs, 90âs to Nowâ log. Going by the ratings in Cairns, Triple M dropped a fear bit with a similar log to todayâs âMusic That Makes You Feel Goodâ log, so I canât see its doing to well in all places.
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Then on Kennedy Molloy on 95.3 Triple M this arvo they are using the Rock Variety metro Triple M log. The female skewed âMusic That Makes You Feel Shitâ log just seems out of place for the programs that Triple M uses.
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âŚThis is what I have been hearing today. I donât think it is going down well with some stations
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