Southern Cross Austereo (Regional)

This all changed about 3 months ago. Andy Sichter from the Gold Coast does all the logs now and is helped by Chris Holland in Melbourne. Chris does the network nights Triple M shows like Rock Song Dedications and Bona

Jacqui Kassulke does Sydney and Network Drive
Mitch Braund looks after Melbourne
Vinnie Shannon does both Adelaide and Perth
Andrew Very handles Brisbane and Gold Coast

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Who is the regional drive announcer at the moment. Got a good voice. Goes my the name on Minty

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@Adrian Which network?

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Glenn “Minty” Mintern is in Townsville, great announcer. In Newcastle we have Piv a local announcer and I think Central Coast have Browney.

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David Burton was one of the 4 in Toowoomba to be made redundant

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I’m guessing there will be no more Classic Hits logs?

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Given that it was mentioned above that David Burton was doing the “Classic Hits” log out of Toowoomba and has been made redundant, it seems likely that it’s no more.

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Minty Currently doing 16:00 to 18:00 on the regional triple m whilst Kennedy Molloy are off. Victorian Triple Ms at least

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Townsville’s Glenn Mintern, he’s the Pricey of workdays, holding on through the numerous ownership and changes of management.

You can hear him on 102.3 as the summer DX’ing hots up, often far into Vic and SA beyond the coverage of Mix Adel.

Also a ground announcer, seen in Brisbane for rectangular field sports at Lang Park.

One of four! I knew it was high, that must clear out at least a quarter of the non sales staff.

Unless he’s happy being retired, should be back somewhere, he’s a great radio mind.

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More of the borked brand madness.

Sweep: “Triple M rocks summer” on the regionals then a soft, non rock ballad. After 10:30 or 11:30pm. A joke.

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SCA has revealed their Summer Breakfast line-up for the regional Hit & Triple M stations, to be aired for a week from Monday 6th January.

Cliffo & Gabi from hit103.1 Townsville will be heard on the regional Hit stations, whilst Mix 106.3 Canberra’s drive show, The Wilko Show with Courts, will be heard on the regional Triple M stations for breakfast.

Source: Radioinfo

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Did ARN approve this artwork?

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On holidays this week and regional Triple M is sounding much more listenable: Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra, then Killing Heidi - Mascara :+1:

Nah, who am I kidding. They played Post Malone - Circles in the middle :face_vomiting:

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Because it’s summer, the playlist is the same across all regional Triple M stations. That means the ones that normally took the older-skewing log are using the younger-skewing network log.
For example, Newcastle & Central Coast are sharing the same log whereas they normally take a different log from one another.

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Currently in 95.3 Goulburn Valley territory, so it wasn’t that much of a surprise (from memory Shepparton is normally on the younger skewing log). Guess I was too optimistic that the summer playlist would phase out some of those tracks better suited to Hit

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How disappointing that a company like SCA still changes music with the seasons. At least with BOG you know to expect the same rubbish all year round.

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They should have played Meatloaf’s “Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad” after that as that’s what you got there.

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I had a bit of a listen last weekend and every second song was a song that they play on Hit. I really feel sorry in the areas where they only have Hit and Triple M where they would be listening to the same crap over and over again.
I heard someone the other day in Rocky saying they are so over listening to Groundhog Day FM at work, I thought they meant Hit FM but they were talking about Triple M.

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Massive overlaps with regional Hit and Triple M. I can’t see why Hit can’t be CHR and Triple M be 50/50 rock & classic hits. Done.

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Off-Topic, but Capital Radio Network does this very well with their stations in Cooma & Goulburn, where there’s very little to no music overlap between XLFM/2GN & Snow/Eagle.

Perhaps SCA (& Grant in some markets for that matter) could learn a thing or many from Capital. :slight_smile:

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