especially when they tried to pass off the Grant Goldman breakfast show as “local” 
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Rural news a real treat today:
“Deciminated”, try decimated.
“O.R.D region”, try Ore. It’s not an acronym.
“Nooose”, try news, this isn’t the US.
Plenty more clangers, that was within the thirty seconds it took to find a new station in the car.
Least they’re consistent.
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I didn’t have the misfortune of hearing the beginning, but likely was her, I recall an excruciating evening bulletin of hers some weeks ago and again on a weekend afternoon.
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Yeah she is in training mate, she is slowly getting better as she gains more experience
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Blimey that is sad.
I try not to be ageist but surely if they just got a semi retired newsreader who was a bit older to come in and read the news? They could run a class on English grammar and Australian and overseas place names during the breaks…
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today I finally found and fixed the issue with 4AK where the previous tech had mono-ed out the audio leaving the 4AK studio… So as of 15:45 today, 4AK is Stereo in Stanthorpe on FM 99.5. It is also stereo right to the input of the audio Processor at the 1242 AM Site pending the reinstall of a AM Stereo Exciter and the Orban 9100A should when and if we decide to go back to AM Stereo on 1242.
Reports welcome from Stanthrope if someone beats me to taking a trip through there 
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Yeah guess it is what happens when you love what you do for work 
A report would be awesome @crankymedia
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Yeah its great to see your passion, it great to see.
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Fantastic news, I might be out that way in a month or so, I’ll check it out then
Selfishly speaking, I would love you to get 1242 back in stereo, that signal gets to me here a lot better than 4WK does, and the fact you play much more music on that station makes it even more appropriate too
While I’m thinking about it too, is the below photo just my tuner playing tricks on me? Something is triggering the red stereo light on 972 pretty regularly after dark here. Does it in both narrow and wide mode
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We are hoping to put it back in stereo just a matter of getting the required gear working and tuned up… 4WK was easy as it was just a stereo card in the BE and a AM Stereo processor…
4WK is the talk network, 4AK is basically the SRN FM network but on AM here in the darling downs
nah Radio 97 is not Stereo 97 anymore must be a false trigger likely from two stations coming together, i get that sometimes with ABC 747 at night here in Toowoomba if I have a weak signal… the JX-220A is a multi system AM Stereo Receiver so would be triggering one of the systems
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Thanks, I figured it was probably a red herring, but thought I would ask just in case
Lovely to see the old tuners still at work. Good luck with 4AK too - keep us posted, though I’ll keep an ear out from here too
And good to see you’re staying hydrated on the job 
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Both of them are actually my personal units, the old 4AK Realistic TM-152 that Jim Vassey had but in the 80s is now in the manager’s office so he can listen to 4WK 963 in AM Stereo
Actually it’s water for the soldering iron, I mainly run on Coffee hehe
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Triple Z Lismore is live twelve hours/day throughout the holiday shutdown that other networks observe.
Kara is live in the Lismore Media Hub broadcasting drive. Population of holiday towns in the region increases by many multiples, all potential audience for clients.
Should add, ZZZ running timely happy new year messages, good to hear.
I know we often have a laugh about Uncle Bill’s stations, today what I heard, this station is sounding good for its market size.
Tonight:
Interesting driving north, listening to the 2SM talk network, summer nights 6pm - midnight is filled by Marcus Paul who has had a lot of callers, gone through more than “Gilbert’s grannies”.
At least among the calling audience, there’s a different audience there. Good use of the theatre of radio to move callers on and add to the impression that there’s demand for air time.
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As 2HD’s Belmont North translator on 90.5 is not on air yet, it was interesting to see on a drive of Lake Macquarie where 97.5 from Port Stephens was receivable.
Pretty much everywhere.
Sure, signal would fade in south facing locations with obstruction to the north, but would soon improve.
Amazing how far 250 watts will reach.
I’m thinking that with the water tower location at Belmont North, the 90.5 service will cover much of the urban Newcastle are very well from at least within the car.
On an overcast day, even at elevated, south facing locations with Sydney digital services available, Alive 90.5 was not.
As we discussed at the time of the proposal, plenty of other locations in the licence area that are further from the TX and could do with an FM translator.
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If anyone has Graham Gilbert on their log, listen to just prior to 2320 Monday night, Gilbert spelt ‘colour’ as calour multiple times. Strange.
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Listening to a variety of BOG FM stations recently, I must commend each of them and their programmers (not their owner) on their individualism.
I noticed that stations including MaxFM, FM104.7, NowFM, RealFM and 92.9 are all local right throughout the day - way longer than SCA stations. I wouldn’t say all of them are live, as some simply put a playlist on and go announcer-free all day, still giving a solid illusion that the station is live and local. It also shows a big “F.U.” to the wayyy to broad and all-over-the-place NewFM network playlist.
It was great to hear a bunch of radio heads putting together some semi decent production and putting their twist on the 80’s to Now network wide format.
Points must be deducted from MaxFM though. Within an hour I heard at least 4-5 ad breaks! The station would play two songs, then around 2mins of ads… then two songs, ads, etc. Very annoying over time as you were unable to get into the feel of the station and its music. In saying that, MaxFM and FM104.7 did play some great tracks.
Well done SRN regionals. Independent radio lives.
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Well it’s as close to independent radio as you can get without actually being independent (as they all have the same owner).
And I think Bill Caralis deserves some credit for allowing some free reign on the FM stations. He could very easily insist that Newcastle or Sydney provide an FM hub service from 9am onwards and that all stations have to take it (I sincerely hope he is not reading this!).
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I would like streaming to be available for these stations and I hope he reads this!
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