All SRN has to do (and I’ve said this in the past), is stop relying on regional Newcastle talent to compete on a national (and metro) level.
They may be strong announcers for a provincial & regional market, but you need decent metro-sounding talent if you’re going to make any impact in a larger market.
You can have a regional hub from Newcastle… but you can’t have a network hub from Newcastle. SCA and ARN don’t do it, so why does SRN?
There’s a reason why we hear names like Tim Webster & Chris Smith coming from Sydney.
Just imagine what other talent would come from Sydney if SRN allowed them to?
I’d remove all the casuals at 2HD and replace with a less number of better permanents from 2SM (including a stronger weekend lineup).
I would listen to local talk radio, but even Sydney, Newcastle stuff is getting irrelevant, over the sandstone curtain we probably have a case for a local presentation, that is ,streamed.
I thought this would be a mess, 2el is overplaying multiple things, including the uncensored Kevin bloody Wilson’s “hello John “ you’d think if they had to get one thing right it would be lawsies state funeral. But no .
I’ve been switching between Cruise (AM), 2HC and the 2GB stream and one thing I have noticed is there is very faint music audio on the Super Radio Network coverage in the background. No such problems on the 2GB stream.
I got that pollution to,I thought it was an fm ghost but I couldn’t find it. It was very strange. There’s a spaghetti bowl of wires combined with a bog onaisse sauce of feed sources ,it’s often there when it’s quiet.
Thinking about the music in the background, is it possible that the Super Network send out the AM and FM feeds on one satellite channel, with AM on left and FM on right. Then, the music (or news) you heard was one channel bleeding into another (due to whatever tech set up they’ve done)?
Forgive me if this is old news, but I tuned into (what I thought was) Radio 97 on the Gold Coast today, and they don’t even ID as that anymore - the local guy on afternoons just referred to it as “104.1 Gold Coast and 103.5 Tweed Coast”. Amazing that the primary AM signal doesn’t even rate a mention on-air these days…
On the plus side, the music shift was really good, a mix of mainly older songs, but totally fit within the network style. It was a good listen until the networked talk recommenced later in the afternoon.