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And interesting URL is www.2nowfm.com.au

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Yes that’s likely it

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Those two are the only ones it’s really a step back.

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Is 2HD doing anything today for their 100th birthday?

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It appears 2BS and B-Rock have an external company handling those sites, so SRN may have to wait until those contracts expire before they can transition to the new layout .

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Judging by their socials or their website…no. Which is a shame because making 100 in anything is something not to be sniffed at.

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From the 2BS (and I’m assuming also the B-Rock) Facebook page:

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Sounds like they’ve really pissed off their audience, otherwise they wouldn’t have needed to post a message like that. A tad of arrogance though on the “standing by their decisions”. Wasn’t really necessary. Seems like it’s off to streaming for a lot of people.

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I’m quietly confident that the former B-Rock format was more popular than NewFM’s JackFM format.

B-Rock could’ve easily outrated NewFM. Not to mention, B-Rock sounded more slick, with better programming.

A shame. And a bunch of silly excuses in that post.

Now… when is 2BS going to drop its “Local Voices” tagline?

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4KZ are also going down the same path with a few complaints on their Facebook page.

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I think they’ve now taken it down

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Here’s B-Rock’s program guide:

B-Rock Program Guide | 99.3 B-Rock FM

Local till 12pm (I think). Unless “Workday Playlist” is automated music until 4pm? Can anyone confirm this?

UPDATE: I just streamed B-Rock and it sounds like the BOG FM feed from midday weekdays. RIP B-Rock and Rock of the West.

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Yep, confirmed via Es a few weeks ago. Babinda 102.5 was playing 2SM networked garbage.

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I highly doubt B-Rock and 2BS got a say in the matter. It was probably the best run regional in the country.

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If the Caralis kids keep doing what dear old Dad did, they’ll piss off more people than they expected.

You can’t stop doing live and local radio for that long. Especially in a country like Australia and with the environment (both physical and punter-related) we have.

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Bill did keep B-Rock in particular as a separately formatted station but it seems the new breed didn’t seem to agree with that and (sadly) got rid of it.

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From a Facebook post.

B Rock, your current music playlist is woeful and you have listeners leaving daily, which also equates to advertising dollars. With this current music format, you have totally missed the mark for the demograph of your listeners. I suggest you read the comments on the Bathurst group pages to understand just how many people are turning off from the station due to the music. B Rock had probably THE best playlist of any station in NSW. Changing to what you are playing now, your listeners don’t like it, don’t want it, and are moving away to other stations and music preferences. Do some research. Read the negativity and act on it before the station sinks. Understand who your target audience is…it isn’t who your current music playlist is catering to

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Sadly, management (ie head office) doesn’t care.

We all know NewFM and B-Rock would smash it if they shared the same rock playlist.

Not anymore. Mediocre is ok for the Bathurst owners.

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They talk about a rock format becoming niche. What about the crap talkback format they have on the am regional radio station.

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Sub niche? :grin:

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