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[TV-Expert]

@Radiohead

Up in Coffs, noticed 2HC is taking Brent Bultitude from Newcastle on afternoons again.
This was their local content slot last time I listened.

As @Laoma recently posted, 2PM Port Macquarie still has afternoons as their local content program, mostly music still, but the music selection isn’t bad at all, and a refreshing change from the repetitive playlists on Hit/Triple M.

When I was up in Coffs Harbour for a few days back in June 2018, it was the opposite, in which 2HC had a local afternoon program, whilst 2PM was taking Brent Bultitude from Newcastle on afternoons.

[Mechsta]

@Radiohead

Up in Coffs, noticed 2HC is taking Brent Bultitude from Newcastle on afternoons again.
This was their local content slot last time I listened.
I assume that has been moved to breakfast?
They don’t appear to have an active website for me to check

As @Laoma recently posted, 2PM Port Macquarie still has afternoons as their local content program, mostly music still, but the music selection isn’t bad at all, and a refreshing change from the repetitive playlists on Hit/Triple M.

I think 2HC’s afternoon host, Denise Anderson, may be on holidays.

[Laoma]

@djpower

Looks like River1467 has lost Sen programming. No Sportsdays on at the moment and they mentioned during off the bench that River (as well as other grant stations 3BA and Gold) would no longer taking the show and pointed them to the Sen App.

I wonder if BOG will lose the Crocmedia shows too. Someone listening to Talkin Sport called in to stir the pot a bit and mentioned a new sports channel was on air. Grahame Hughes deflected him as he didn’t want to go there which is fair enough.

[crankymedia]

@Laoma

Grahame Hughes deflected him as he didn’t want to go there which is fair enough.

No, it’s not.

They should’ve been prepared with a witty comment when the inevitable called in.

[crankymedia]

@nick_ca

I think there was an uplink in Melbourne and Sydney that could be used,

They had diversity uplinks with the DMGRR acquisition back in the MMG days.

Albury to Bendigo and Townsville to Charters Towers which of course should’ve been agreed to shift out when the Dobson & Morris couples bought Charters Towers.

Unsure of Bunbury had an alternative uplink site as it was from Rural Press days.

Also Gold Coast as an uplink site from RG Capital days.

So did SCA decide to not to invest in the upkeep of the regional sites?

[Paul_Covo_Covington]

Coffs Harbour 2HC announcer Denise Anderson is off on personal leave at the moment. The local content will be back soon.
IP sat backup is getting closer too!

[webguy]

@crankymedia

So did SCA decide to not to invest in the upkeep of the regional sites?

The SCASat system rendered those regional sites redundant.

[crankymedia]

@webguy

SCASat system rendered those regional sites redundant

Wow, what a waste. Good on SCA, spending lots of money to replace systems of which lots of money had already been invested.

[bacco007]

NBN Television

UNAUTHORISED 2HD RADIO POLE TAKEN DOWN | NBN News

[Laoma]

Are BOG a multinational company? I justed listened to the NBN news.

Where to now? Where can 90.5 FM go? I know 2RPH are on Sugarloaf. Can they be directional there and low power and point to the problem area? (Although is the westside of Lake Macquarie doesn’t have good coverage from Sugarloaf.

Or better still share the community radio station tower Lake Macq FM?

[webguy]

@Laoma

Are BOG a multinational company? I justed listened to the NBN news.

Not as far as I know. Looks like the councillor was trying to make sure they didn’t sound like some poor Aussie battler company.

[Radiohead]

The obvious spot for it to go is on the Belmont North Comms tower near the southern end of Violet Town Road… its where the local UHF repeaters are, and where it should have gone in the first place.

It’s less than 1km from the unauthorised site that it was on.

[crankymedia]

@Radiohead

its where the local UHF repeaters are, and where it should have gone in the first place.

It’s less than 1km from the unauthorised site that it was on.

But that would cost more money than this botched cost and we know Bill is an aficionado at being miserly.

[Radiohead]

In the long run, yes, it would have cost more, but given there would have been significantly higher set up costs in erecting his own tower, power supply etc, I wonder how long would have it taken him to offset his installation costs against the higher rental costs on the existing approved Violet Town Road tower?

And by the way, I drove past the illegal tower on Sunday, the tower itself is still there, but the FM antenna at the top had been taken off.

[matt86]

@Radiohead

And by the way, I drove past the illegal tower on Sunday, the tower itself is still there, but the FM antenna at the top had fallen off.

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[matt86]

@matt86

@NRN11

The satellite downlinks for 2LM, Radio 97 and 4WK are struggling with this afternoons thunderstorms. Lots of dead air followed by broken bits and pieces of programming.

Same thing happened yesterday with 2DU and Zoo (I’m currently working in Dubbo). A period of very heavy rain kept both switching to their back ups. The satellite feed would momentarily come back only to drop out again so songs chopped constantly. Triple M seemed to be OK with their network content.

A fairly decent storm just went over Dubbo and the exact same thing happened again. Not for as long this time with the intense rain lasting about 15min. Back on again now. Triple M was fine, parallel to 105.1. Great lightning show!

While in this thread I’ll mention again that I enjoy the 80s to now mix on zoo and the SRN FM regionals. Have been defaulting to it over triple M while working.

[tamago_otoko]

Agree about the SRN FM music, one of the better music mixes, and a hell of a lot better than their AM network talk

Dubbo is quite lucky to have Triple M and Zoo now, the two together provide a bit of variety and choice

[Radiohead]

Agree, better now that Dubbo has Triple M than Hit, as the two have playlists that are a bit more different, as ZOO doesn’t play much rock.

I will be interested to see how Triple M rates in the provincial and regional markets next year, given how they struggle in metro areas generally. They’ll probably still outrate NEW FM in Newcastle (you could have Big Dog doing karoake on MMM and it would probably still outrate NEW…).

[nick_ca]

I have read on Dean Mackin’s Facebook page that he will be filling in again on the network from 20 December for a few weeks over Christmas - thought I would mention it here

[thesub1]

That’s a surprise. I thought he ended on a bad note with the network?