I actually quite like the footy but not sold on them needing to cover cricket over summer which use to be their maximum music season over late December/January. At least there are some of the digital stations to fill the void
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Yep. Instead of a Triple M Garage Session free concert in Manly with Thirsty Merc, weâre now treated to Triple M Rocks Cricket.
I wish Triple M would rock Music rather than rock Sport.
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I would prefer them stick to music. I canât see why they donât move sport to DAB
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Easy. The sports content is heavily sponsored, with all sorts of different paid elements. It makes more money for them than a music shift.
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Yes you can add Menulog mentions during a VB sporting commentary call that you just canât do with music brought to you by OâBrien Glass. It will really piss off the Coles listeners if you drop in sponsors names during songs. Thatâs my Bunnings Warehouse opinion.
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If that was the case every second traditional ad wouldnât be for their self produced podcasts which probably would make as much as I would if I used a copyrighted song on a YouTube video.
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Thereâs nothing to stop Triple M from having a âheavily sponsoredâ well produced music show⌠and you wouldnât have so many talking heads to pay for.
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No thereâs not, but itâs harder to weave in and itâs not destination content.
Brands want to be aligned with sports - easier to sell the McDonaldâs Scoreboard or whatever than the Music fact of the day, if you get what I mean.
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Dont you mean the Bunnings Trade Pass Power Opinion?
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Major problems in Melbourne or very inexperienced engineers, callers to MMMâs talkback show, Luke Bonaâs The Nightshift report the 3MMM program is on 101.9 and the 3FOX program on 105.1.
Would never have happened when SCAâs predecessors ran separate broadcast infrastructure for each metro station. Yet now in the IP world of cost cutting, itâs all built together.
What a shambles. Disgraceful SCA.
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Sounds about normal for them⌠they did that in the first days of DAB on the Gold Coast. Sea FM was on Triple M and Triple M was on Sea FM for 5 days
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This happened once while Dangerous Dave was on-air about 5-6 years ago and he swore on air trying to work out why 3FOXâs music was going through his panel. - âWhatâs this shit music?â
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isnt that just a normal response to SCA stations playlists 
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its a weird thing though. the sorts of people who would turn the cricket on the radio all day would already have a station preference - probably the ABC. I donât know the ratings of the cricket, but i suspect its not fantastic
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Youâd be surprised. The average punter switches to AM and scans the dial aimlessly until they find the cricket. Obviously likely to miss Triple M by switching to AM but in recent years theyâve been likely to find Macquarieâs former coverage or SEN (as well as the ABC).
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Had a listen back - it sounded more like RF issue than IP. So potentially an issue at BA? -shrugs-
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Sorry. Send me off to the Dare Ice Coffee sin bin.
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Might have been, going off callers to MMM Nightshift reporting dead air and swapped programs on the SCA Melbourne frequencies.
Itâs still a problem that shouldnât happen and wouldnât if such a profitable network invested in engineering staff and owning their broadcast path end to end as much as possible.
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I get your point. But it was the middle of the night so no doubt could have been some planned maintenance that went wrong.
Also keeping in mind they did just move locations in South Melbourne. So it could have been a final migration of master control and the primary STL from Clarendon St to Moray St.
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