The Australian is saying that on-air shifts have been axed in Dubbo and the Fraser Coast. They will be replaced with network programs. The story doesn’t say who has lost their jobs. Staff have also been made redundant in Newcastle and Sydney.
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Looking at both the Triple M & Radioapp apps, it appears that Triple M Coffs Coast has changed to the Hobart log, which is also being used on the neighbouring Mid North Coast station only 400kHz away.
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Idiots. So now they think diversity of programming isn’t necessary?
Both markets should have their own MD, scheduling music based on research within each market. The financial justification is there.
Can confirm that was the case Sunday arv, in the Clarence Valley and tropo enough for both Coffs and Kempsey commercial sets to be received.
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I can imagine having each station running its own individual log would cause network issues though, because songs and artists playing on local vs networked programming have to have adequate separation…
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Between SRN and SCA there is a lot of spectrum (and a decent amount that overlaps) dedicated to broadcasting the same content
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Same for Grant, particularly between Wave FM Wollongong & Power FM Nowra, who recently shared the same log, as well as some of the same network programming, even though both stations overspill into each other’s markets by a fairly significant margin.
Thankfully, Grant realised this & changed Power FM Nowra to taking a different log instead.
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I’m guessing this is local daytime shift, not breakfast. Triple M Fraser Coast will probably take the networked Al Shield from the Gold Coast.
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And this is why they shouldn’t be networked in at least daylight hours and in larger markets until midnight.
Exactly!
Correct. Bevo did after bfast.
SCA have strange decision making processes to hire Bevo a few mths ago, still in probation? and then dump him so soon after.
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Just in September SCA filmed him for a television commercial.
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Oh, the waste of it all.
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SCA have confirmed their 2020 line-ups for its Wagga & Griffith stations.
Bronte & Sam will move from hit99.7 Riverina MIA (Griffith) to hit93.1 Riverina (Wagga) for breakfast. Claire (Humphrey) & Brando (Brandon Disson, current workday announcer for 963 Triple M Riverina MIA) will be hit99.7’s new breakfast team.
Current hit93.1 breakfast announcer, Dane McGuirk, will take over the afternoon shift on Triple M across both Wagga & Griffith.
Source: Radioinfo
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They’re doing a WIN on the radio audience, merge before cutting altogether.
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Lol! At least they can’t do a mappy on their listeners.
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Regional simulcast of Concert in the Clouds now featuring Fleetwood Mac. Young 16 year old cousin in the car on Hit 102.3 singing loudly and not stuffing a lyric up.
There’s hope for the young generation yet.
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I can only hope so… because heaven help us all if we have to listen to the likes of Taylor Swift for “classic hits” in the 2030s and 40s.
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I love the hourly intros to Concert in the Clouds. Starts with “On FM radio”. Yeah, except 14 of those Triple M stations are on the AM band.
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I’ve noticed that some Triple M regional stations, specially in NSW and QLD share the same log. Does anyone know where it originates from?
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I believe the network log, which also goes out to its VIC stations, originates from the Gold Coast (whilst the GC station has its own log), whilst the slightly-older log, which is heard in Hobart, Central Coast, Mid North Coast, Coffs Coast, Wagga, Griffith, Toowoomba, Mt Gambier & Regional WA, originates from Hobart.
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Burton not doing it from Toowoomba?
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