I’m a fan of SCA regional stations. Both Local works and HIT. I get the playlist is networked from the Goldy but I do like the stations.
Me too, I know the programming is networked from the Gold Coast 99% of the time especially on the Hit network, but the music variety on the stations is pretty good. I am at the age where I am finding myself listening more often to the LocalWorks stations rather than the Hit network. The one thing I believe lets the Hit network down is way too many repeats of the current hits & not enough Old School songs especially from the 90’s.
The Greatest Years In Music did a 3 hour tribute to Bowie last night, with memories from listeners and former band members of Invertigo (Christian’s band way back) who had experiences with Bowie. It was an excellent program.
Sounds like it is safe to listen to 92.7 Mix FM again as they’ve ditched the Gold Coast playlist during the day. They’ve just played Another Brick In The Wall Pt1, Happiest Days Of Our Lives and Another Brick In The Wall Pt2 
Bianca Dye will be doing local drive on Gold FM Gold Coast, starting from Monday February 1.
Source: Radio Today
I just heard a promo on 2MC (I’m currently in the Mid North Coast) that there are changes happening to the station & presumably the whole “Greatest Hits” network, which will take effect on Wednesday.
On a related note, it’s interesting to hear that 2MC don’t use the whole “Greatest Hits from the 80s to now” positioner on-air unlike KO & 2GO, despite using the same GC log as those two & many others in the network.
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While switching between Star FM & 963 5SE this morning, I heard that from this Wednesday January 27, 5SE will be changing to a Classic Hits format, not sure if it just some stations or all of them in the network that will be changing to Classic Hits.
2MC will be the “Mid North Coast’s Classic Hits”
I wouldn’t be surprised if both 2GO and KOFM will continue with their current “Greatest Hits from the 80s to now” branding and music format.
And I’m guessing 5SE will be the Limestone Coast’s Classic Hits!. I wonder what exactly will change with the Classic Hits format, will they just play Classic songs only from the 70’s & 80’s, no more 90’s or 2000’s music?, will see come Wednesday I suppose.
probably - 2MC already has the positioner on their website.
it’s getting ridiculous - in KO’s case, if it goes ahead with Wednesday’s change, it’s 4 positioners in 1 year:
“Newcastle’s Greatest Hits”
“Newcastle’s Real Music Variety” (after survey 1 last year)
“The Greatest Hits from the 80s to Now”
“Newcastle’s Classic Hits”???
The SCA regional network needs to get real and get it all sorted and fast.
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Too bad that I’ll be going back home to Sydney tomorrow, so I won’t be able to check it out. 
However, at least I can get 2GZ from Orange at home, who would also be adopting the “Classic Hits” format, especially if 2GO keeps their current “Greatest Hits from 80s to now” format. 
Any thoughts on formats for 4GR or Mix FM Wide Bay? I can’t imagine that Gold 92.5 FM will change.
With the Toowoomba and Warwick licence areas being so large, I’m surprised that 4GR or 4AK haven’t had a chance to convert to FM. On that subject, instead of having repeaters at Dalby and Warwick, surely a directional transmitter up at Mt Mowbullan would have been a better idea for 100.7?
It’s just been announced on 2MC that from Wednesday, along with a format change, its local afternoon program will now air from 2-6pm weekdays. Its (soon to be) previous timeslot was 12-5pm. That probably means “Merrick & Australia” would no longer air on early evenings, if at all, at least for that particular station.
I think that would be difficult to engineer to make it powerful enough to cover Toowoomba adequately (as the ABCs are 100kw) without causing overspill into Kingaroy, given that is a separate market.
Once again this is a case of there not being enough frequencies available in SEQ.
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Agree and the ABC covers the area by having 100kw in the northern downs and 80kw for the southern. I don’t think either of those transmission footprints align with the licence are for commercial stations.
That’s excellent news, hearing that 2MC FM will be “live and local” most of the daytime hours on weekdays.