Your talking about them changing their playlist? I don’t think it’s that irrelevant.
Back in the day on Super Request maybe and to a lesser extent on Good Nights nowadays, but that isn’t how it works in a general sense.
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Requestival returns next week, starting from Monday 26th September & concluding on Friday 30th September.
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Hopefully it’s more like the 2020 edition (genuinely good music) and not the 2021 version (which had too many old kids TV themes for my liking)
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I did hear a Play School song on there, but quite a few of the songs played are throwbacks that Nova would play, or Classic Hit you would hear on WS / Gold / Smooth. It seems the Triple J audience is aging.!!!
IMO it’s seems to be heading slightly more in the mainstream direction.
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Agree, i heard them play Britney Spears (Toxic) and Tears For Fears (Everybody Wants To Rule The World) earlier in the week.
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Yes very much Classic Hits Triple J this morning, but still most of them are better then what the Sydney commercial fm stations play.
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Listening to JJJ the past week just proves there’s a good playlist in there somewhere if only they loosened up a bit. Genuinely been loving how the playlist can switch from obscure indie track to a Mariah Carey hit and no one will blink an eye. The variety is nice.
I get JJJ need to play upcoming artists and showcase Australian music.
But you actually need to have listeners to showcase that to. And going by what the audience has been choosing for Requestival, a lot of listeners are ignoring a lot of the music genres JJJ has been pushing of late in favour of indie rock, pop and soul. And I think that feedback is important. I think the music selection of late feels a lot more like JJJ dictating to audiences what they should listen to, rather than the station responding to the audience. I don’t think it should go full-on Nova, but somewhere in between.
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Totally agree, if this was the regular Triple J playlist I would listen more often.
I have said this before if they weren’t so rigid with their playlist and also played mainstream music like BBC R1 they probably would rate higher.
The format this week is a bit of a hybrid between Triple J / Double J and BBC R2.
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And the ABC don’t want to be seen to be too mainstream… Id be interested to see what happens if the Js were to adopt something like this for say a year, would they take significant numbers of listeners off the commercials and how that changes the ratings.
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I would think Triple J will have to change overtime if the younger listeners continue to abandon radio, and get their new music from Spotify / Apple Music etc.
Where would the aging audience go, ABC local Radio, RN? Double J?
Maybe in the future the ABC may merge the formats of Triple J and Double J together, or move it closer to the format of BBC R2, considering the overwhelming number of older songs featuring in Requestival.
Unfortunately lack of fm spectrum means there is not enough room for both Triple J and Double J on the Fm band.
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This years requestival has been ok, 2020’s was far more adventurous but I have still enjoyed listening this week.
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What about a few oddities to go with the older music and yes these are not all of the oddities.
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Typical gatekeeper, woke style of JJJ to attempt to dictate what music they should listen to rather than letting the audience guide them and grow a larger audience.
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For all it’s faults, at least Triple J is unique worldwide. Radio 1 has always been the CHR/Alternative station in the uk purely because commercial radio there has always been secondary to the BBC.
In the US, they’re all one genre (or format) with exceptionally high burns & no personality.
I couldn’t imagine a harder job to programme to an ever evolving demo & the digital aspect to go with it
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I would agree with this. Requestival is great and proves that the JJJ listeners also enjoy some mainstream music too and not just the back catalog of Lime Cordial / Spacey Jane.
They don’t want to go too mainstream and upset he commercial fm stations.
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Thanks @Ant5476, you view sums up my opinion well.
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What I don’t understand is why are they so worried about upsetting the commercial fm stations when it doesn’t seem to be a problem for ABC Local going head to head with the commercial AM talk stations? It’s illogical.
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Are they really a direct competitor to Nine radio (2GB, 3AW etc) though? I can see some similarities but the ABC is more laid back and less in your face.
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I think they are. The news/talk audience is pretty much split between commercial and ABC. Yes they take different approaches but still direct rivals, particularly at breakfast. Even RN is targetting a similar audience. My point is really that ABC Local seems to have no problem competing with, and often outrating their closest commercial rival. So why should Triple J have a problem going after a bit more of the commercial FM audience say with a more alternative-skewed Radio 1 apprach? What do they think would happen if they started outrating Nova or Hit? The sky shouldn’t fall. Just as ABC Adelaide is recently beating 5AA.
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