IIRC, when AFL Nation first started through Crocmedia (before Hutchy bought SEN) then supplied their call to regional stations for free, but made their money through the ‘in commentary advertising’.
They had a lot more things sponsored than 3AW’s calls, thus many of the early complaints of AFL Nation. But again, that allowed for the call to be given to regional stations for free, while 3AW charged a fee.
Listening online through BRock FM…Some great 90’s tunes rarely heard being over the long weekend - although this afternoon, it sounds like Dave Wright voice tracking, with voice tracks in the wrong place (back announcing wrong songs)… and just now… totally random, a local news bulletin is going to air which appears to be recorded last Thursday.
In another movement at SRN (following The Novo’s sudden departure yesterday), it looks like SRN’s Afternoons announcer Pete Davis has been replaced with Dave Cochrane.
Mind you, I feel Dave is a much stronger announcer than Pete and this change should’ve happened when the new 2SM line-up was launched.
Can anyone confirm if Pete Davis has left the network? Or just this role? He’s been with them for years.
As for NewFM Drive - any word on what programming they’re taking now? Can/will NewFM still brag about being live & local for the drive home?
I love live radio.
Doesn’t say much for the quality of the roofing at 2HD if a possum can fall through like that.
A shame Dame Edna isn’t still around to do mid dawns on SRN.. she would have taken that in her stride.
Doesn’t the guts of the building still date back to when 2HD first moved out to Sandgate?
Time to spend some dough and move into something more safe. And modern.
Wouldn’t have happened under Billy… maybe a chance under George and Despina.
Had a good listen to 2BS and B-Rock today on a trip to Blayney and back.
B-Rock was local until noon. The locally produced show was still mostly rock with a bit of pop rock thrown in like Ed Sheeran- Castle On The Hill. Generic networked shite from 12 onwards; confirmed by //with 92.7, 93.9 and 95.5.
2BS was a little better, locally programmed until 1500, then into Talkin’ Sport. I was driving through the lofty Black Springs at 1500; odd to be listening to SRN crap whilst in snow country.
Agreed Good progress for 2SM/SRN with this positive change in Afternoons. Now to finally replace those boring sport farts in 3-6pm with a proper Drive show.
Step one would be to make Dave Cochrane from midday-4pm and have sport 4-6pm. Then leave Sportsday back to SEN only. Either have Talk Tonight from 6pm-midnight, or have an early evenings news-based program from 6-8pm.
Doubt any of the above will happen.
Have a Western Sydney-focused program between 6 and 8pm. No one else does it in the commercial sector.
But that would mean breaking away from the network to do something locally focused in a off-peak timeslot. Despina and George won’t do that.
A 6pm-8pm news program, with a world focus should work. Europe is starting their work day, and reporters/producers in the US are starting to wake up.
Fill it with four long indepth interviews. Throw in a few phone calls, and you’ve got a nice tight little show. Would suit the whole AM Network nicely.
Round out the 8pm to 12am slot with a “Remember When” type show.
That’s great, should’ve gone until 6pm though not 5pm, then I could listen all the way home for work in Sydney, well most of the way, 2HD’s AM 1143 reception is good enough from the start of the freeway at Wahroonga if you don’t mind a little bit of noise, can actually get it all the way from work at Artarmon, but there pockets of real bad electrical interference on the way up the Pacific Hwy.
It’s just a shame that Newcastle is cutting into an already Newcastle-produced show for this.
Why does Newcastle get all the programming?
Why can’t Sydney be the one allocated the resources to have a Sydney local afternoon show rather than taking the network feed?
Talking Sport is a 2SM show networked from Sydney, it doesn’t originate in Newcastle. I think its great 2HD has a new local afternoon show. Well done!
2HD always stayed local for 3-4pm after the rest of the network took talkin sport from 2SM at 3pm, this is only an extension by 1 hour until 5pm but IMO it should go until 6pm & drop Talkin sport altogether.
Agreed. I was referring to the Afternoons 12-3pm shift. If SRN can afford a dedicated Newcastle-only Drive show, surely Sydney can afford a local Afternoon show, solely dedicated to Sydney.
Talkin’ Sport at Sydney (networked) Drive is a whole different argument. I think we all agree in the forum that TS needs to be shortened, and that Sportsday needs to be removed.
Too much sport on 2SM Drive & Evenings is disrupting listeners wanting to switch between 5:30am-12pm weekdays.
I tuned in via an SDR online (might be someone here). Was expecting Brett to do one extra hour on 2HD. Good news they have a local show now.
Now they need to do a deal with SEN to move Talkin Sport and recruit a drive host. Stuart Bocking would be a good candidate .
Recruit someone like George Moore on Saturday and Sunday morning.
Agree about George Moore for weekends if he’s interested in a return to radio.
I’d like to hear Stuart back on the airwaves but I think he’s happy as the CEO of Coal Australia
https://www.coalaustralia.com/media_release_coal_australia_appoints_stuart_bocking_as_chief_executive_officer