They don’t sound very local on the socials.
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Yes Herbie has been covering the shift solo, amazingly still with a fair bit of talk.
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What happened to Josh?
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According to his LinkedIn he’s left the industry to work as an online content producer for a betting app.
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Have the regional Triple M’s changed their format once again? 
I was talking to a mate last night and he said they have gone back to that pop feel good format.
I’ll have a listen once I get back to SCA county 
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Quite possibly, I did hear a couple of songs in the last few days I wasn’t expecting to hear, but didn’t listen for long enough to get a true gauge.
If so, they seem to be changing formats almost as often as I change my underwear!
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Not wrong there mate
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I can only speak for Triple M Hobart, but it does seem very ‘listenable’ at the moment.
I am smack bang in the middle Triple M’s core demographic, 42, Male and a tradie…
At the moment its a bit of an odd mix of Rock and Greatest Hits, maybe its a bit bespoke for Hobart, but seems quite listenable.
Hobarts running ‘Triple M Good Times and Greatest Hits’ ID’s too.
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I haven’t noticed too much of a change in recent weeks.
It’s been “Good times and greatest hits” for most of 2022. Still skews towards rock but certainly more “poppy” than the metro stations.
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Definitely better than the Feels Good incarnation, but still too much Harry Styles (yes, really) for my liking.
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Could formats possibly returning to pre-covid days? B105 is sounding much better lately on the odd occasion that I tune in.
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I am notorious for flicking stations the moment I hear a song I don’t like during my personal time, but I have been sitting this evening listening to the Saturday Night party mix on Hit Emerald via the Optus D3 Sat for the last hour or so and have only reached for the remote to turn the volume down for the commercials and back up when the music returns.
As for during the workday the mix on Hit Toowoomba/ South QLD ain’t to bad I guess, but very repetitive during the day and the same songs day in and day out…
I also find the RnB Friday’s needs a refresh so it ain’t the same shit every week.
As for Triple M, I can’t listen to 4GR AM Toowoomba as whatever has been touched in the past 6 months the audio is very thin and harsh and lacks audio bandwidth so in turn hurts my ears to listen to so don’t really know what the format is like.
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Same here re changing stations when a song comes on and trying to listen to music on AM.
A couple of questions
- What made you listen to Hit via satellite rather than FM?
- Is the sound quality on sat as good as FM?
- What exactly is “Hit South QLD”…. Is this just the 4RGD relays in Warwick, Stanthorpe and Dalby? As I heard a “South QLD’s Hit” ID on 97.9 Stanthorpe when I was last up there but I think Toowoomba gets it’s own “Toowoomba’s Hit 100.7” ID instead? I think otherwise all are the same ads, music and announcers? I noticed there is no “Hit South QLD” stream on Radio App or LiSTNR. Not sure what Kingaroy has though.
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Cause I have the equipment to do so and happened to be playing around with all my Sat Stuff when I decided to relax and listen to some music.
Not quite as it appears to be a backup feed of some sort I was listening to and was only a Mono AAC feed
Yes local commercials for toowoomba, and local Toowoomba ID, but voice breaks and Facebook are IDed as “Hit South QLD”
Guess instead of doing seperate voice breaks for Toowoomba, Kingaroy, Dalby etc they just do the one break for the whole area I am assuming
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This pan regional approach is a big shame. Nothing local for Toowoomba nor the other Toowoomba/Warwick RA1 translators.
When Macquarie Bank merged DMG regional and RG Capital, retaining RG Capital staff as management (who in turn let Kyle and Jackie go it must not be forgotten), they unwound the Townsville hub moving Roma to be an outpost of then 4GR/CFM Margaret St Toowoomba, some 4hrs drive away.
RG had form on this as they bought the Kingaroy duopoly from APN and completely destroyed the entirely local 89.1 Power FM. Entire CFM programming subbed with local ads etc.
Warwick ads on 91.9 differ from 100.7 whenever travelling and can receive both. Likewise, Warwick ads seem same to Stanthorpe translator.
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I didn’t notice any difference in ads, but that’s not to say there isn’t any.
The only differences I saw/heard were
Toowoomba: RDS Hit100.7 with ID of “Toowoomba’s Hit 100.7”
Warwick and Dalby: Both with RDS of just Hit with ID of “South Queensland’s Hit”
Stanthorpe: RDS Hit97.9 with same ID as Warwick/Dalby.
Kingaroy had Hit89.1 RDS and “Hit 89.1” ID.
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Zetta for Hit feeds warwick stanthorpe and dalby, then a separate ads feed to tbar, with zetta its just setup with multipul stations on the one computer
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His last day on air will be on Friday 23rd December.
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Looks like a simple case of swapsie.
Gabi has gone to Mix106.3 Drive and Bronte has gone to Hit QLD Breakfast.
I wonder if there’s more to this story?
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Have to say I am not disappointed, I couldn’t stand her when she was here in Toowoomba on Hit, not only did she annoy me on air but was very demanding off air around the station when they were in the building at 4AK
Then she ended up doing a statewide breakfast show 
Either all the best with what she gets up to next
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