The countdown will occur on Saturday 14th March.
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Tame Impala’s The Less I Know The Better has been voted Triple J’s Hottest Song of the Decade by listeners.
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The count was very interesting, I’m surprise we’re not hearing any controversy over the charting of certain mainstream acts like Adele (especially considering the past controversy related to Taylor Swift).
The Top 10 was pretty solid but the Top 100 was extremely biased to the last couple years, which has happened with all-time and decade counts before.
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Was wondering how the ABC manages the daylight savings transition flawlessly. Turns out they don’t:
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I have always wanted to check how it works when the time changes, and it would be relatively easy here given I can listen to both NSW and QLD triple j. But it’s not worth being up at 2am on a Sunday morning and having to listen to ‘House Party’ or whatever awful dance music they play at that time of morning
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House Party wraps up at 1am and the music returns to normal these days.
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Shows how long it’s been since I listened to triple j after midnight 
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At a guess it’s probably an easier technical change for the Qld output: simply turn the delay unit off.
SA would remain 30 minutes behind the NSW/ACT/Vic/Tas feed, whereas in WA and the NT you’d have to add and subtract 1 hour delay at the start and end of daylight savings respectively
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So what fills the extra hour when the clocks go forward down south? Does QLD get the same hour of music repeated?
Usually yes
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Does this make us all old farts now?
Personally, I value getting up early for run on Sundays.
Thanks @NRN11 for confirming the gap filler procedure. This is what I love about this forum, we have the answers to the most intricate of discussions.
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I stayed up when DST ended down south , Im in QLD , I two thought radio/tv delays ended at 2am sharp but no , It seems that the radio delay stays until 6am where the person doing the overnight just plays until 6am and qld joins then and we just loose an hour of what was played to put us in line, If u catch my drift 
, RAGE was different , we came in live with the southern states at 4am , Rage played saturday mornings 1 hour of programmed music that gets played between 10am-11am sat morning then it gets played again too fill that extra 1 hour between 3-4am in random mode for nsw then at 4am we all come back in line, I always thought triple j and rage would come back in line at 2am but was never up too listen, not sure how it all happens the other way, also with the darwin looping had me a bit of an lol moment when i read about it then listened too the skit haha
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Thanks for the very detailed information, really appreciate it. I guess it does make logistical sense to just run the same program overnight and catch it up when the program changes first thing in the morning. They do the same on Hottest 100 day - because the countdown starts an hour ‘earlier’ (11am local vs 12pm in NSW) we just lose the last hour of lead-up programming. Again not sure how they put us back on delay there - I’m guessing just repeating an hour that night or something similar
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Being a national network, it is disappointing JJJ, RN and Classic don’t run live. Their audiences would appreciate it.
Perth and NT being 3 or 1.5 hrs behind during DST would benefit most.
Those who are welded to the clock could listen to a delayed webstream that could be run.
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The ABC have offered time delayed web streams for Triple J, Double J and Classic since 2018
For a full week, every song you hear while the sun’s up will have been requested by a triple j listener.
Absolutely loving Requestival - some completely out there song choices, and things I’d never thought I’d hear on the J’s. I hope it comes back! It sounds like a lot of fun without completely selling out.
As for the DST changeover, a couple of years ago I was up early enough to hear the start of the delay into Queensland. The announcer said goodbye to NSW, Vic, SA and Tasmania and played more music and basically courted texts etc from Queenslanders for an hour (because it was only live to us) before joining the weekend breakfast show on the hour delay.
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Hearing the Antiques Roadshow theme yesterday on the drive home had me in stitches. Only bettered today by the Bill Nye Science Guy theme.
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