Last year ARN had a listener-voted Australia Day countdown that I would assume will be back again. There was a dedicated iHeartAustralia channel as well the countdown was broadcast on GOLD FM and 96FM.
Additionally I’m sure 4KQ will have one of their usual Australian- themed weekends where you can here a lot more than 100 songs!
So nothing exclusive or innovative about Triple M’s countdown just an crass PR release that has offended a lot of people.
Yeah agree. And that’s exactly what they’re doing.
Appealing to the lowest common denominator and bogan. Just when I thought I couldn’t have any more contempt for them than I already do…
I wouldn’t look into it that much.
Let’s face it, if it wasn’t called Ozzest 100 it’d be called something else and still be an all Aussie countdown of some sort. Only difference is nobody would be talking about it.
IMO this is simply a PR move my the M’s. And a successful one at that.
Its created talkability.
This whole stupid thing just cemented the accuracy of this
Yes, one which has soured an otherwise commendable move by Triple J.
It’s nice that some here approve of Triple M gaining publicity by disrespecting Australia’s first people. I, on the other hand, think it’s a pretty low move.
The date was changed out of respect for our nation’s first people, and I would suggest the majority of JJJ listeners who voted to change the date did so for this reason.
Knowing using that line of reasoning is for some reason controversial in today’s ultra-partisan highly outraged society where everyone has taken to seeing who can scream at each other the loudest rather than mulling over an issue, JJJ seem to have gone down the line of ‘it was never glued to the 26th anyway’ which becomes confusing because they’re simultaneously getting and accepting credit for respecting our first peoples whilst also saying it has nothing to do with the debate around that.
Explain to me what this sentence even means. Wtf is virtue signalling?
Regardless, Hottest 100 was moved off the 26th as a mark of respect for the Aboriginal attitude toward the day, in that they see it as the day they were invaded and not a day when we should be all getting sloshed out of our minds. It was a respectful gesture and the right one. It will be held on the last Saturday of Jan instead.
Playing it on ‘some other random day’ is preferable to playing it on a day where it can cause offence. You might think gestures like this are weak or meaningless, but judging by the reaction of the Aboriginal community to MMM’s decision I would be inclined to disagree.
What the hell is going on in here?
I’ve deleted close to 20 posts out of here. It started off as a viable discussion point and descended into farce. If you want to continue the discussion, focus on the Radio element.
Rod Muir and Doug Mulray are rolling in their Penfolds Grange over this story.
Back when 2MMM was a great radio station.
29 in one hit. I’d be mad if that wasn’t so impressive from a moderation perspective.
Woah woah woah, is this the bashing of triple m forum, so many negative comments here all the time. Is there a forum on here that there’s any positivity on (what a dumb question)
There seems to be so many people with issues against triple m.
The only reason there is any issue is that there was a press release and it’s called the ozzest 100.
And I think you are all painting the triple m listener in a bad light, only “bogans” listen to triple m, they are the lowest common denominator, triple m listeners are low income filth etc.
I’m happy to say I am a triple m listener and I quite enjoy the stations content, I agree it could be tweaked and aspects could be better but does that mean I’m a bogan because I enjoy sport and classic rock?
+1. Not ashamed I like sport and classic rock either. Happy to say I’m not a “bogan” as a very regular Triple M listener.
I similarly listen to Triple J occasionally and I do not identify as being a “hipster” either. Both are stereotypes of both station’s listeners.
Exactly. If Triple M weren’t simply trying to cheaply commercialise and capitalise on some free publicity based on a very important national conversation it wouldn’t be an issue.
It’ll be all the same songs they play every day anyway. Triple M brought the controversy on themselves and they knew they would be. But hey, all worth it for free PR for a station pulling a 4.9 and 6.9 in the country’s two major markets, huh?
They have done a countdown on Australia Day before I think but don’t hold me on it.
But this further reiterated the issue that is Australia Day and we should be treating it differently by remembering what happened to the indigenous people and that we should have our celebrations on other days.
But Triple M was the one who perpetuated the stereotype of Triple J being full of hipsters and then politicised their Ozzest countdown and invoked controversy with their statement.
The email to Triple M subscribers reads:
I’m not defending them, I’m just saying I listen to both Triple M and Triple J and am neither “bogan” nor “hipster”.